I always liked Borders Books. Too bad it is gone.

Yep.

So what it seems like is that everything will be re-done and re-released. (or not, or it’s taking so long because the staff halls echo with emptiness)

All the lower tech stuff was re-done, re-released, and mandated to be done. (St. Hat – levels) From what I’ve seen there is still no SHSBC/Class VIII, and I’ve assumed it’s because it’s not GAT II yet.

If I was wagering, I’d bet there is no delivery planet wide of OEC to public, Data Series Eval Course, KTL/LOC, PRD, etc.

I would bet that nothing is being delivered except the re-released GAT II version. The entire push is basics, lectures, GATII, purif, SRD. I know that when I was at Flag we only had the above, with the new PTS SP course thrown in. and SRD, of course.

……….
Ever since AOLA had the new pilot dic we’ve been waiting for the new dictionaries. They came out with the “hard to find” dic, (for org use only) but that’s it.

Since the year 2000 or before (anyone know?) higher orgs used the pilot dic and all the other orgs used the Tech and Admin Dics.

Study and training has not been uniform and standard with the same materials for 16 years at minimum.

Long ago, we DID learn that one must clear words per HCOB Clearing Words, and that is ouuuuut the window with GAT II. Can’t clear all the defs without a dic.

aaaand… what the sups tell you? They tell you the glossary is the dic for now. and you can see the sweat bead their foreheads and their eyes beg you not to point out the obvious too loudly.

you’re probably right. But I wasn’t staff at GAT II release, I was public, and I did my own share of trying to raise the roof (carefully)

I’ve been a bit bold and brassy with writing things up, but…
as it turns out…

those reports probably are still waiting in in-baskets of the long-gone.

Good point Rob. I guess they are about SH size, as are most orgs. Perhaps that is the thing we have all been missing!

Scientology, in the person of David Miscavige, expects to have something that any business would envy: infinite pricing power, by which I mean that no matter what they charge for their products, there will be a sufficient number of people who will buy them to sustain the organization at both the local and international levels. He worsens this situation by having high fixed costs in the form of expanding the number of organizations that the cash flow must sustain.

I doubt that Miscavige could get along on an assessment equal to the Peter’s Pence collection that the Vatican levies on Catholic churches. It is equal to about one weekly collection, based on what my father, who counted the weekly collection, told me thirty years ago. There is also an equal assessment made by the diocese, so about 4% of what a given church collects annually goes to these special assessments that support church bureaucracy at both the diocese and international level.

When an organization is screaming for money to be kicked upstairs weekly, something is very, very wrong.

PS (Best to you and your family 🙂

The whole business model of a Scientology org is based on getting much more than 40 hours a week out of each employee and then not having to pay them more than about 20-30 bucks for it.

And then, making them feel guilty for not working hard enough to get paid even minimum wage, let alone a living wage.

leave it to Surfer Dude to provide useful information

Well, that clears it up for me, secret-for-now.
(well enough)
I actually have that red dictionary, got out with it some 40 years hence.
Guess it’s a collectable item now, kinda like Hitlers’ china.

I have heard such stories about how David Miscavige trashed, excuse me, “altered” the tech.
Until now, I thought that talk was partly the biased opinion of the oppressed-escaped. Now I see credence where it is due.

How could he think it was ‘right’ to make it impossible to look up words?
The question assumes thinking was involved.

Hubbard was so ardent about that. (after all, … to keep the tech “sealed”, he demanded every word be “CLEARED”, his hypnotic text unaltered)
Now I’m giving more validity to the notion that the new leader is largely, personally responsible for the hastening of the inevitable demise of his forsaken “church”, and that he managed the feat by being stupid. Stupid is really too good a word, as it implies a certain absence of intent.
Yes, we are talking about you, DAVID MISCAVIGE.
– Thanks, Mr. Secret, Mr. W, Dawn
and everybody.