Good one, as in the DWINDLE continues in COVID-closed California.

And the most fitting way to describe a grouping of scientologists:
A DWINDLE of scientologists.

Please, everyone, make use of this term.

A good book for data about Malcolm X aka Malcolm Little is, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” as told to author Alex Haley.

He was an interesting man. When he had a change of heart, an epiphany about brotherly love after his visit to Mecca, he wanted to steer the NOI in a different direction and was very vocal about what he wanted his new message to be – NOT of hatred, but in sync with his Mecca epiphany, that we are all brothers and sisters under the skin. This change of heart of his is in the Haley autobiography of him. It didn’t sit well with a number of NOI though. They wanted to stay with the hate message. Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, NY and if I’m not mistaken a few NOI members went to prison for it.

…soon…oon…oon…n…n…

I had a few high school (two different high schools) friends who got into Hare Krishna in NYC….where they jumped up & down dressed in white robes & pants, barefoot, guys with semi shaved heads….bells jingled…..way into it all. Very pleasant & happy…begging for money in Times Square.

They’d disavowed their own families who tried in vain to pull them away from the cult…..but from these friends point of view, they wanted to “do good in the world” & the Hare Krishna had expounded the good they do for others.

Sadly I’d run into a few of them over the course of many years…none had good jobs or educations, they were hit or miss with their families, they had no money, nothing. Most had left “the Krisna”….some weren’t even sure why.

Most of these people back then were “outsiders”….they didn’t belong to any of the so call cliques in high school…..they were looking to BELONG to something.. They were willing accepted fully with open arms to these type cults. Once sucked into that realm of belief….they were all in.

They rejected reasonable thought i.e. Critical Thinking……so very sad….to listen or believe in anything other than what they were being groomed to believe in, rejecting anything in belief or consideration of belief from the outside despite having lived THAT life for many years….they turned a deaf ear to parents, siblings, friends etc……..sounds all too familiar doesn’t it?

IF ONLY……..

Regarding Scientology and the Koran there might be a dozen NOI who made it through OT3 so they figured out a way to “blend it”.

Hey George – Since you now have some NOI Minister friends can I now assign you a new “title” – UCV – Universal Communication Vessel. How does that sound?

(for anyone who missed it, George was previously appointed Chief Universe Communication Officer on the Scientology Org Board – haha)

Very soon…

In the 1970’s when I was living in LA I decided to chat with a Hare Krishna dude who was marching around on the sidewalk and see if I could talk some sense into him from my then scn point of view since he was obviously in a cult. He knew a bit about scn and from his point of view “philosophy without God is empty” so he wasn’t converting. We had a pleasant chat and parted ways.

If I were chatting with an NOI Minister these days I would politely listen to what “they” (do they have female ministers?) have to say and it might be an interesting conversation. Communication is the universal solvent as someone once said. haha