I should have figured that out.

Is this the wife of Dr Eric Berg the chiropractor turned nutrionalist on Youtube? He has about 3 Million followers.

Is Karen still on staff? are they both still in Scientology

If I may…I think it means “The Powers That Be”. That’s what I have always thought of it as and it’s in the internet’s ‘Urban Dictionary’ as this as well. Though Jere Lull may have a different explanation but in context with his sentence I think that’s what he means. Jere you can correct me if I’m wrong.

My experience is the best approach (at least for me) is just to lie to them. When they ask if you will attend something, just say “Yes”. Then don’t go.
If they should ever call you back (which they never did to me), you can always lie to them again and give them some excuse.

But just be careful the excuse you choose does not let them tell you they can fix the cause with auditing or with some books or some other bullshit.

You can always tell them to “Just Fuck Off!”. But, in my opinion, that should always be a last resort. Nor reason to anger them unnecessarily

Obviously, customer service isn’t a current concern. The old “missions” were all about service and got the stats to match, including the ability and willingness to PAY their staff a living wage & treat them like humans instead of animals (or *mushrooms*) ;-)*(mushrooms: kept in the dark & buried in manure.

What is TPTB?

Thanks

Lee:
I saw the conditions staff had in NYO back in the early ’70s. The ones who didn’t moonlight for money to live might have done better living under bridges. At least, their quarters might have been more upstat 😉 As public working a 9-5 job for minimum wage, $100 gross/week, I “scored” a shower in an apartment as clean as we felt like keeping it. Just two of us, not the dozen or more Org staff who would have packed into the place to keep costs almost zero — what they could afford on staff pay (or lack thereof). Even without extra tenants, I was able to save a few bucks a week towards doing Class VI out in LA. NYC wasn’t a cheap place to live even then, but I fell into a sweet deal on the apartment.

Doug, MANY of us bought the lines they were feeding us. Some got away. some are still imprisoned by the false beliefs.

Patience, Doug. A couple of years ago, I got a New Year’s Eve call from FCDC trying to get me to attend their NY’s party that night. I once bought a book from FCDC — about 45 years previous, and nearly 40 years after I was tossed off of Flag for being incapable of holding any post Flag/flog had, including being in the RPF(The last “post” I held in scientology). I *THOUGHT* I’d been kicked out of scientology — I haven’t darkened their doors since, but it’s possible they just didn’t want me hanging around saying “This is ridiculous.”, my favorite phrase at the time. The RPF wasn’t doing anything for me; I certainly wasn’t getting more tractable; indeed I was questioning TPTB as often and as publicly as I could get away with, while following the rules exactly to the letter and no further. Maybe getting rid of me made it easier to control the others? I dunno.🤣