Brilliant, Madora. You said it perfectly.

Sindy,
Got it on what you said.
Deforestation (refusal to go digital, wasting trees). Check.
Cruelty to Animals (leatherbound editions, probably tons of them). Check.
Child Abuse (recruiting minors into the SO for a billion years of slave labor). Check.
Abuse of Women (forced, high pressured abortions). Check
Green Organization? Huh? Oh, yeah GREEN=MONEY

LOL

Aqua and Jane,

Sorry guys, Red Vols are not for sale. Got some Basics, though…..

Your right. Adding that the US now exists as an advanced third-world country with approx. half its people in or near poverty (Census Bureau). Corrupt corps act without impunity in this country; legal defers criminal action and imposes insignificant fines. The US economic landscape has radically changed. China as a communist-run country does not tolerate competing ideologies, such as the Falun Gong, I predict DMSMH will get banned by the Central Propaganda Department. Officially the ruling appartchiks have stated science over superstition and anything that resembles religion constitutes a fraud. I don’t know about Taiwan.

Here, here!

Point well said Brian.
I was on staff as an Exec, when Big League Sales first came on SCN lines. I recall having a CMC as I read the initial Policies involved. That would be a Momentary Cerebral Malfunction.

I thought: Church – Religion – Philosophy – Compassion – Clearing – Spiritual – Eight Dynamic – Sales – Selling – Used Car Salesmen and so on. I couldn’t make it work. It didn’t make sense.

LRH was a compassionate genius. A tenth-level black-belt of a spiritual visionary. He was also the man who would install cup-holders on the passenger side of the car only, so the driver could sit there scratching his head, wondering how he could retrieve his coffee, without crashing the car. Some details simply weren’t on his radar – at all.

He was hyper-focused on expanding SCN and saving the planet, against an arbitrary timeline of a scant few years, to get it all done. This created mass PTSness amongst all staff, including him. This meant “extreme measures” had to be applied to get the job done in time. Only, what did “in time” really mean? Ten years? 50 years? Christianity has been at it for 2000 years; Mormons 150, Buddists 2500+. Why couldn’t we have 100 years to do it right?

Making Stats a primary focus of all SCN executives and staff, was tantamount to putting in a Chevy 434 horsepower engine on a golf cart and looking away from the carnage created on the golf course, day in, day out, as idiots with delusions of being a Grand Prix driver, co-opted the entire purpose of a SCN organization. The products, purpose and other spiritual aspects of the Church were diametrically opposed to the Business at All Costs mentality that took over.

You CANNOT run a Church like a Steel Mill or a Car Dealership. You Can’t. My opinion, I know but I’m sticking with it. They are at cross-purposes to one another. Creating Clears and Auditors take time. You CAN’T produce a Ten-year single malt whiskey in 9 months. Yet, that is exactly what we tried to do. The overt of smashing these conflicting concepts together – like some mad Physics experiment – created a cascading effect of stat pushing and quickied products. Stats became the new Product. We lost sight of the Mountain and went after a CGI version of it.

But in the Indie field, we have a second chance at getting it right and I am confident, we will do so.

Wow Mr. Bell…
We were told, during the same conversation where we were informed that all “arbitraries” had been removed from my wife’s attempt at getting onto to OT VII, that we HAD to buy a full set of Basics and Basic Lectures, or she wouldn’t get on the level. Straight faced, with no concept of the level of creepy BS that was wafting through the fiber-optic lines, that they had just extorted us.

Every action, every intention becomes Okay, if it’s for the right purpose or cause. History and all the examples of this NEVER WORKING be damned. Got to get those stats up.

Thanks Ronnie

Good God, Pepper. Fire sale time!

Remote Observer :

China is a hungry market, perhaps insatiable is a better word at this stage. They are emerging from decades of economic suppression and are creating a middle class that has outstripped what was created in the USA over the past 100 years. However…. what the RCS is doing is positioning their book, their so called Intention to expand SCN into this sector of the world, with an organic process that is ongoing in that part of the world, and which they have had little or nothing to do in its creation. This is 1.1 because there is no truth to it. It’s making a connection that does not exist. This “promotional action” has become common place and is the height of Bullshit.

You made a valid point – no questioning of that at all. Just adding my 2 cents to the mix, because this is what the RCS constantly does. It’s tantamount to moving quickly behind a celebrity photo shoot, so that your face is in the photo with Spielberg, Lucas, Hanks, Day-Lewis and others and you then send it to your mailing list, falsely touting your connections with all the bigwigs.

The key is, it’s a Falsehood, an Incorrectly included datum.

I hate this stuff. Sorry, I loath despise and abhor it. So there.