Because it’s available for Us to check it out!!!! Now any other books we have at our local study Group are for sale!! However if anyone want to know about Scientology we will never stop them from reading it.
“There’s no compulsion in Islam”

We are very Peaceful People in the Nation of Islam. So, for the person who wrote my Name in his Comments and feel the need to discredit me for no reason.

Understand This is the time we all we start seeing change . Now I read books all the time , Even the book Sister Judy is Reading.
The Video you seen is a video of her time with the Nation of Islam!! We are not promoting Scientology at all!!
It’s very sad how Folks take things out of context all because of who we are?

Only if you knew Am happy to come across this blog and article on The internet very interesting what you will find and read of what people really think.

I hope each of you can find peace in your life …. May each of you reading my comments have a bless day
WS
From Sister Mariela X

Since stepping outside the bubble and engaging in this forum, something that keeps surfacing is the evidence of how much Hubbard disdained labor. It seems NOT rocket science that, to build an organization, requires staff well-cared for and well-paid. In Scientologese, “do all you can to make the post occupiable.”

This factually would entail each post in the organization COULD be occupied. A person in that post would be well thought of, treated well, paid well, have opportunity for advancement, access to routine healthcare, good nutrition, the promise of a pension or, in modern-day convention, a 401K with employer contribution match. As many of us have experienced, this how a lot of the rest of the working world is organized. It is not rocket science. It is how you attract, motivate, and retain talent. One certainly would do this if they wished to foster stability and expansion, rather than a slave empire.

Life in the Sea Org: the design of it seems so punitive and grinding, until there is just about nothing left of the individual. If Hubbard truly wanted to set up “his own navy,” then he would have made it like the actual navy, which—while requiring dedication, sacrifice, and hard work—has many benefits in return. For any reading who have been in the military or are close to someone who is, these can be satisfying careers, including by providing financial stability to the service member and their family. Nothing is perfect, of course, but they do (so I have been told by friends and family who have served) routinely have toilet paper in their work environments.

As a non-Sea Org member, I was clueless as to the punitive use of toilet paper. A previous interviewee, Valeska Paris, spoke of this in her tale of growing up in a cadet org in England. There was no toilet paper EVER, she reported.

I recall a new public, swept into the promises and grandeur of Scientology, advised to clean out her retirement account, buy the Briefing Course and head to Los Angeles to study. A neat and proper lady, she nearly about-faced and headed home upon arrival because THERE WAS NO TOILET PAPER in the ASHO (American Saint Hill Organization) ladies’ room. Never could she find any, nor (she reported) was she successful getting the situation corrected. She took to surreptitiously carrying a roll around with her in a cavernous handbag.

This reminds me of the tale of “losing the kingdom for want of horseshoe nail.” Will the empire be lost for want of toilet paper? This is a strange—and yet, as ever, dutifully self-imposed—fixed condition.

When George wrote, “. . . the Black Man won’t take any crap from Miscavige.” I got a picture of DM getting in the face of a burly NOI dude or feisty NOI woman. It probably wouldn’t end well.

Talk about “mixing practices”.

Nice story. Thanks for sharing it.

The overall presentation of Hubbard/Scn is “We know everything about everything. We’re right and everybody else is wrong.” IMO that means your in a cult even if it’s a “mainstream” religion.

On a TV show a commentator was interviewing a fundamentalist minister and asked him if he thought there was any truth in other religions and his immediate answer was “No.” I guess she wasn’t expecting that answer and after an awkward ten second silence she replied, “Well . . . Okay”

lol ditto