Let’s see now, a few reasons MIGHT be these TOP TEN:

1) FEAR: Knowing nothing Else but what’s been drilled into your head.
2) CONSEQUENCES: Break the Rules & you KNOW where you’ll end up
3) BROKE: No money to begin a life on the outside.
4) TRAINING: You have no job training other than Scientology’s BIG sell of books etc.
5) SQUIRREL BUSTING: Being hounded, harassed, picketed, followed, photographed
6) ELDERLY: Missing out on the new reincarnated promised Meat Body after death
7) MINDERS: Never a chance to blow, always watched/audited/ locked in can’t escape
8) EDUCATION: You have NO High School or College Diploma
9) THE HOLE: SEE #2
10)) DISCONNECTION: Forbidden for family to have ANY contact with me.

HHHmmmmm……sounds like there are enough reasons to stay in…….how sad is that.

Yes, you’re right. And so true that he doesn’t care if anyone watches it or not, cuz his whole purpose was to have something to say to the whales, of “and we have our own tv show on…” so that they keep donating. He’s cunning.

As an aside, years ago when I just got out of college, I worked at a radio station. The format was easy listening. Then the owners changed it all to religious all the time. We asked why the abrupt change? They said because the televangelists and ministers and religious people who were on the shows paid their radio bills like clockwork and it was all about the money. So I can see where Direct TV doesn’t care who has a show as long as they pay cold hard cash.
And Davey gets to show off to the whales in the process.

It’s a ghost town. Seriously, IT IS A GHOST TOWN.

Doug, one Scientology axiom I have found to be totally true is, “The practice of not-isness reduces understanding.”

These OTs and whales have been denying what is right in front of them for so many decades that they no longer perceive their environment even after a zillion hours of objectives. And so their understanding of what is really going on around them in the CoS is totally out the bottom.

Possibly they keep their eyes wide shut because they can’t confront having wasted their lives.

🙂

“…Scientology’s aging and fading celebrities…” Yup. No new blood coming in on that comm line either – ha, ha Dwarf.

Yes! “…if someone is ‘curious’ now he searches on the internet and finds everything.”

No one has to “walk themselves into an org” to find out about Scientology anymore!

The coveted 18-35 demographic lives on their phones – my God, everything is searched – everything and every one, constantly, continuously – internet searches are their oxygen!

I looked at scn as something I was studying rather than joining or becoming a member. A few years ago I got into a debate with someone who insisted that Hubbard always referred to scn as a religion and I said he didn’t. The debate heated up and eventually I conceded that when I was “in” I thought that everyone should eventually become a scientologist so maybe it was my “faith” at the time and that was good enough to end the debate.