GP,

Yes, the theta/entheta ratio “created” by the RCS has ALWAYs caused everything good worldwide, but somehow is NEVER mentioned when bad things occur. At these times the RCS selects out their counter-efforts (the psychs, Big Pharma, suppressive individuals and governments), the IAS goes into action using the bad news to squeeze money out of everybody. . And what’s blowing my mind is that NO-ONE, including myself, to date, ever has or had the presence of mind to query, “Well, why isn’t our theta/entheta ratio handling that?” “Why did this happen at all, given our theta/entheta ratio?”

This isn’t happening. Miscavige no doubt has the real numbers at his disposal and knows that the Church is empty. It is dead. Worldwide. And it’s just getting worse.

He thinks that pretty buildings will attract people. If they build it, they will come. But this isn’t true at all. The buildings don’t matter. The MEST means nothing (and in 10 years will look like nothing more than a tacky office building).

The only thing that will attract people to the Church is PEOPLE. And sadly, no matter whether David Miscavige thinks that Tom Cruise is the hottest man on the planet, hardly anyone else does. HE’S JUST AN ACTOR. The Church needs people of consequence, and at the end of the day, it needs to PRODUCE people of consequence.

Sadly, the church has NEVER done so. People join the church, and then disappear from life. They don’t join the Church and THEN become great.

And that’s one of the many, many, problems the Church faces. It DOESN’T produce great people. It does the opposite. It takes productive people and then shuts them off from society. And any organization that does that has no future.

“’Field of Dreams’ mentality…..” – yes, that is there. There are those that are waiting for command intention orders. But they are willing to roll up their sleeves and work, and are spinning their wheels ‘training’ and ‘preparing’ for delivery.
It is quite depressing. They cannot see the hole that they are digging themselves into. Their intentions are great, but they just not-is reality.
This is a fantastic intellectual study, but in reality, it is very sad.
IMHO, any effort to force reality on them is taken as an attack, and they circle the wagons. The only solution is a light touch with love. Let karma be the enemy, then we can be there to help them up when it is over.

That being said, there are also the brown shirts that are promoting the mess, they will inherit their own mess.
And the status beasts that have no other purpose in life, they will fade away to other things.

Add in the millions of course at Flag and we are halfway to our goal of 10,000.

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Mike!

How much to get on the Perforated Honor Paper role?

And where did they get this field of dreams mentality? Straight from DM’s PR.

I also doubt that any original grassroots projects would be welcomed. They would distract time and money from the big plans authorized by COB..

“I think what is left of the Scientology laity in orgs these days are those who believe they don’t have to roll up their sleeves and actually *do* something about the way things are by actually auditing people or *doing* something to improve conditions.

“They suffer from the “Field of Dreams” mentality that if you build an “Ideal Org” people will come or that if they audit themselves long enough the world will somehow change for the better and that they don’t have to do anything more than lift up a pair of over priced e-meter cans and adjust the tone arm on their way too expensive meter. Thinking that by doing this they are somehow making the world a better place.”

Yes, that was exactly my point. You have duplicated me utterly on this.

It’s never (NEVER) “What can we do to make our services easier, better, more to your liking, our wonderful Customers/Parishioners who mean so much to us…?” Oy. What a yucky thought on Christmas Eve.

I hope for everyone else it is happy, healthy and loving. Merry Christmas, for real. 🙂