The ARS Acronym/Terminology FAQ v3.5

by Martin Hunt
Stand: 22 Jul 2000
Quelle: alt.religion.scientology

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Wall of Clay,

the extensive clay demos of Plasticine (tm) done on the Pro TRs (professional training routines for auditor "therapists.") A whole chapter from a book needs to be clay demoed. It can take over a week of 16 hour days, if doing TRs (training routines) the hard way, according to SO (Sea Org) standards.

Wall of Fire,

the OT 3 incident with atomic bombs being dropped on our frozen souls on Hawaii. See Incident Two, OT 3.

WDC,

the Watchdog Committee. A high-level cult security arm designed to keep an eye on the other branches. Jonathon Barbera: "Senior-most management organization in the Church of Scientology. WDC Chairman is, officially, the head of the Church. In 1993 this post was held by the CO CMO INT somewhat secretly, but it may be policy for these two posts to be held by the same individual. This organization oversees large areas of Scientology such as OSA, WISE, SMI, SO Service Orgs, etc. and each one of these areas are overseen by a specific executive (referred to as WDC OSA, WDC SMI, etc.).

WDNE,

which does not exist. Used after ARSCC, as: "the arscc (wdne)" or tarsccdne. See ARSCC, TARSCCDNE.

White Glove,

a clean-up make-work done at the end of each week by Sea Org staff. It usually entails removing every speck of dust from a room with dirty grey rags and little or no cleaning supplies to a standard whereby a white glove wielded by the superior cannot pick up anything when wiped on various surfaces around the area involved. Of course, if a group is downstat, the cleanup takes longer; white-glove inspections can take many hours. "This is the sixth flunk on the white glove in this room; if I have to come back again if it doesn't pass next time you're all staying and working for another five hours to get your fucking stats up!"

Wholetrack,

the timeline of trillions of years of memory Scientologists claim to have. "Sally has major Overts from six million years ago on her Wholetrack."

Why,

a reason to explain why something happens; a cause. "We need to find the why behind the failure of Operation Snow White."

Win,

a success from a Scientology perspective. "David Miscavige announced some Big Wins we had in Germany in 1994." See "Big Win", "Success Story."

WISE,

World Institute of Scientology Enterprises. Business department of Scientology. Licenses L. Ron Hubbard's "Tech" to corporations and then infiltrates them in high-level takeovers. A cult front-group, now located at the HGB, qv.

Withhold,

after committing an Overt (undisclosed bad act), people try to hide it or Withhold it; thus a Withhold is what you're hiding. "Sit down and write up your Overts and Withholds." See MU.

Wog,

a derogatory and racist term the cult co-opted from British slang, and now uses to refer to people outside of Scientology's purview.

Wog world,

the mundane society away from the totally free supermen inside the cult of Scientology, seen as an aberrated sea of insanity and criminality to be feared and avoided.

Word clearing,

a very common and central activity in the cult. There are nine formal methods of word clearing, many being done on the E-meter with an auditor (word-clearer). See the individual methods under M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M7, M8 and M9. See in particular M3 and M4 for a more detailed explanation of what word clearing does and what its real purpose is.

WUS,

Western US. See CLO.