I’ve been breaking my poor old brain trying to figure out what that number means.50,000 what? Possibly it is just a pure PR stab in the dark, like 6 million members or straight up and vertical number of closed insane asylums. There really is no “sensitivity” improvement as in strictly amplifier gain (so many needle wiggles per microwatt of theta power) – the gain is set to match the PC by can squeeze. There is no technical advantage in being able to connect to a corpse and still get a read…They could be talking about resolution of the data converters but if so the joke is on them – the Quantum is analog so in theory it already has infinite resolution! And a real measure of resolution would have to be a power of two, like 65,536, not 50,000. I guess you just have to chalk it up to hyperbole.

The funniest part of the VIII saga is that not only did he know about it in 2002, he was demonstrating it to the whales on the Ship at the Maiden Voyage events. They knew about it too! And a lot of them probably knew about the VIIIs in Quantum clothing that infested the Flag service lines. Whales have been experiencing the 50,000 megaWatt Ultra experience for 16 years. And now they are supposed to crow and rave about how great it is.. Lo how the mighty hath fallen.

Is this electronic edition of The Auditor downloadable, or only readable online? It might be to their advantage to deny readers downloads or hard copy, so that once an issue is outdated they can make it disappear without trace.

You’re probably right OS.

Likely started with the IAS or just before that with SEF but I’d say it went to warp speed overdrive when they got 501ciii and they could promote the fact that “donations” were tax deductible.

“The whole ‘make it go right’ mantra has become the master justification for every kind of slip shod bullshit cover up and botch job in the shrinking scieno world”.

Well, my needle is certainly floating.

Miscavige knew this some ten years ago — and yet he withheld this material fact and allowed Scientologists to pay money in good faith for auditing that was 50,000x worse. IMO, this is fraud perpetrated by the withholding of material facts.

Miscavige represented that the old 50,000x worse Quantum met all RTC ecclesiastical standards.

This means that RTC ecclesiastical standards have a +/- tolerance of 50,000x — in which case auditing is meaningless given this +/- variability.

There was a saying, I think it was even policy to promote it, “If you didn’t read it in The Auditor, it didn’t happen”; it was supposed to really be THE newspaper for Scientology. The closest it got to this was in the early 70’s when all the orgs for your continent would send in their course comps and their releases and the ASHO comps would be there, too: page after page of fine print. Lots of fun to rush to your mailbox and really SEE hundreds, perhaps thousands of comps each month. I was in Portland, and I would marvel at the amount of comps that SFO was getting, and NY; you’d see the ups and slumps of orgs over the years.

You can see the contraction of Scientology through skimming through mid to late 70’s Auditors mags. When the Solution to Inflation ED had been in effect after several months, production in all orgs other than Flag and the AO started to fall rapidly, with less and less orgs reporting fewer and fewer completions. Then there was a resurgence in the late 70’s with all the Clears attesting. Then that dwindled. Asho and 90% of all the class V orgs became unviable and their stats were embarrassing! Asho ended up just reporting their own stats, and they were never anywhere near the mid-70’s and prior stats.

The earlier Auditors actually were pretty newsy. There is also policy that it authorizes using it as something of a classifieds for Scientology, although I never saw much of that. But there were sometimes some very interesting articles of people in the field doing some pretty decent dissemination, through successful living or auditing. I remember specifically an article about an auditor having a thriving practice in the Seychelles. A pretty blonde; pictures of her sunning on the beach and then sitting behind a Mark V in some delicious surroundings! And there were all sorts of articles about this that did not seem “staged”. These issues gave me pleasant dreams about my future when I was a Class IV org staff member reading them.

I remember being surprised reading that ANYONE ever died at all, and reading it in The Auditor! I TOTALLY believed that good auditing ought to minimize that, even end it, but there it was. I think that I probably rationalized it by thinking that the poor guy went a little PTS and got hit by a truck at full speed; certainly not through any disease!

I think that it’s still true: “If you didn’t read it in The Auditor, it didn’t happen.” What I read in this issue is “not much happening” and I think that’s pretty accurate.

When I want news about what’s happening in Scn, I get a lot more info at the Exscn forum!

Idle M,

I like to think that a portion of the still-ins are really NOT in, NOT on board, but just creating an illusion of being so to the powers-that-be.

Without telling anyone, and while doing my own research on the internet, I withdrew that way. I just kept my head down, kept going to the larger events, began gradiently to cut off the money, except for some really small token donos here and there given to keep up appearances.

Now, this was not rocket science on my part. It was just the safest, easiest way to first, get some space so I could do my research and sort thru and analyze a lot of data, and then, when I’d learned enough to make my decision, extricate myself after being on lines for more than 20 years. For about a year I had one foot out the door with my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut, while I armed myself with data and safepointed myself in other ways. During this time, if you had been a fly on the wall, you could have seen me at an event, like everyone else, clapping in appreciation of whatever bullshit was issuing from the Dwarf’s mouth.

I withdrew this way, slowly, feeding my own truths to staff on a “need to know” basis and then only when I knew I was safe There was nothing brilliant or brave about my leave-taking. For me it was a practical maneuver which involved the least risk to my dynamics.

I think that a portion of the still-ins are doing it this way as well. Sometimes I imagine myself as a fly on the wall of an event, scanning over the faces of the clapping seals to guess which of them are actually one foot out the door and devouring the internet.