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I postulate people widespread for 2024 quit Scientology fast and choose another 8th dynamic activity which is less oppressive.

Non-existent Xenu and his non-existent body-thetans willing.

More Scientologists need to know of their secret snipe-hunting Xenu’s R6 implanted body-thetans faux exorcism/soul-freeing scam, and quit.

(Hubbard made the outfit such a long futile runway of steps and auditing and courses.

The members never can get their heads around the whole thing.

Plus Hubbard made it taboo for verbal data spreading members to simplify it since Hubbard failed to, Hubbard wants his captive audience for life!

Members linger way too long in it, get embarrassed to admit they’ve bought into this long con, plus they are disallowed a reasonable off ramp, they aren’t allowed to “quit” without dire penalties.)

Life should be getting interesting for Lerch. I suppose he will be in the bilges of the freakwinds by the time the Masterson civil suit approaches.

Can’t risk him giving away the state secrets.

I hear the sessions at Flog don’t always turn out that way. Its especially noticeable at the AO when the hammered and fleeced meetup with the Dir I & R folks on the sex month checks.

” Did you happen to glance at the legs of the waitress when you had the opportunity?”

I see. Well perhaps a small dono can square things up. I’m sure it was an honest mistake and don’t forget, it’s going to a good cause.

Always, makes my day to read your comments Cooper. I do wonder if Julian is now hidden away somewhere never to be seen again. Too may lawsuits implicating him as well.
Love your little notes to Dave also. He has GOT to be going through the scotch.

Mary, I think they are more con artists than real business people. The Cardones’ angle of boiler-room type sales of pieces of rental properties bought when interest rates were unusually low and occupancy rates historically high, may well fail as that market returns to more normal conditions. Others like Cummins’ and Bridgeforth’s resale of energy using questionable claims of savings could collapse if the feds tightened up rules to avoid fraud.

What they know at best (and may have partly learned from Scientology) applies to operations based on high pressure “big league” type sales, not real businesses where producing valuable products and services, operating efficiently and keeping customers satisfied over the long term are key. Most people don’t have the heartlessness and predatory energy for that sort of work, and aren’t in those sort of businesses, so the seminar is unlikely to actually help them much, though like with auditing they may walk out of the session feeling they’re ready to take on the world.

Oh man- idle morgues made my day! 🙌

Part 1 Salesmanship, Business of Talking about making you MONEY all the while picking your pocket and actually impoverishing you and Protecting the Brand.
(High 90% of time and effort spent in this category.)

Part 2 Pretending to be sort of religion-like. *
(Less than 5%? of time and effort in this category.)

* If you include – private detectives following/harassing people and lying efforts to trouble and harass people – as religious actions, then this % goes up.

Mary Kahn, I might add to your excellent post: Rinse and repeat.