Little do they know the Sea Org IS the Third World…….

“Not that there’s anything wrong with that……” (hat tip Jerry Seinfeld)

Actually……they ALREADY appear to be a gay couple in that picture…….

Aren’t ALL recent SO crew Eastern European or S. American?

SOMEthing about that pic bugs me, just a niggling little thing, nothing I can put a finger on….

After a while, I JUST DIDN’T CARE, and they knew it.

SURVEYS

“back in the day”we weren’t able to ID who hadn’t returned a survey except for the letter regges’ noting they’d included one in a letter, but received no reply of that letter, no returned survey. We found that scientologists love to fill out some surveys Including a BRE survey was almost certainto get a reply, which adds A LOT to the letter regges’ stats. Requiring the recipient to put on a stamp … didn’t work so well….

THAT survey? would be surprised if they got 1% response rate

My wife handles our mail, unceremoniously dumping Scientology’s obvious mail into the circular file
My wife also *discourteously* hangs up on scn callers, which distresses her to do. She was taught to be more courteous and understanding to the poor cold-callers than that. In a weak moment last Wednesday, I picked up a call from flag. After hearing the caller *try* to start her “script”, I asked for and got someone who spoke English as their primary language (*snark*). Then comes on the line, NONE OTHER than RICK ALEXANDER!, from NYO back in the ’70s [We’d been in similar orbits back then. Never did figure out what Flag was trying to reg me for, but heard some of his & Minty’s news which I promptly forgot. suffice to say it was a shock to hear him, never mind his sounding hale & hearty and sharp-witted in his late 60s or maybe 70s(just guessing). I Felt good FOR him for a bit; his health seemed good, but I realized he was STILL in the grind, still going for the stats, whatever his post is now, (I didn’t ask)
and here I was, talking to him from bed soon after reviewing the previous night’s Aftermath, happily retired, with my gorgeous girl (wife) next to me. Poor guy will be grinding away for stats until he keels over, I suppose. Thus, I GUESS that I’m not declared or dead-filed despite my best efforts over the years if they’ll call to TALK to me. Dead-filed or Declared, I think, from the PL I saw recently (didn’t see/read it when I was the CF Officer. the org disconnects from US, doesn’t call or write. I should probably ask the next time they call, and see what status I am in. If I cared enough, I guess I could call them direct, but does anyone know the direct # of the Flag MAA or IJC? I also got a call from AOLA, trying to get me to SOME event, as did FCDC, a few hours before their New Years’ bash. (We couldn’t have made it there in time even if we’d cared to go. It would take us two or three hours to get there that close to crush hour. Now, that’s some last-minute scrambling for stats.

Scientology ain’t got nuttin’ that we want.

mindless stuff that didn’t stress my body much. After awhile of the mindless work, I basically said (frequently):”This is BS.It’s not accomplishing anything and I don’t know why I’m being punished anyway.”(There had been no comm-ev or other formal ‘ethics’ thing.) I did the running, which was no strain — but when I got someplace before the folks in charge (usually), I would like-as-not collapse on the floor, say “This is ridiculous”, and sit there panting and sweating until the powers that be showed up. In other words, not refusing duty, but making my opinion known . After awhile of that, I suppose I was FB’d out. as I got no goldenrod or any formal ‘ethics’ action that I was aware of. I was just given the opportunity to box up most of my stuff and ship it home, then in August 1980, when temps of 105° were being posted all up and down the East coast, I got on my motorcycle and put CW in the rear views. A bunch of months later, said girlfriend called me up at my Mom’s place to try to get me to pay my “freeloader” bill, WHICH I HADN’T RECEIVED, still haven’t seen. So, I didn’t ‘blow’, at east not all at once. During the initial depression, I did sorta blow by not doing my post for a while, but I stuck around in case anyone wanted to talk with me (No one did, not my senior, not HCO, not my girlfriend, which itself was further depression.)So WHAT if I’m not doing my job? I was just a file clerk, though a darn good one.At one point after I returned home and was working as a programmer, I heard that the ‘replaced’ me with 3 crew members. Hey, I left the post in relatively good shape, my hat fully written up including the ‘tricks of the trade’ I’d discovered and ALL LRH references.

Ammo speaking truth and cutting right through the b.s.!