Lol! T. Rabitt07. It is true, The number of members worldwide is enough to have a full concept of the scam. They entered since a few decades something called ‘extinction’.
They aren’t clearing anything, perhaps only their members bank accounts.

Thanks for the update, Peace Maker. Good news about the Ventura mission. My brother and family once lived there, so I visited a lot.

LMR, true that! It’s like Ron Miscavage stated recently in one of his wonderful podcasts “they aren’t clearing the planet, they(co$) can’t even clear a f*cking cul de sac”…….Lol!

:”Yo Julian,
Mail me a copy …… you have my address. Yep, same one as always.”

Same with me: same address or 68 years, now — and it’s on file there as you’re still sending me many pounds of dead trees you *think* will convince me of the errors of my ways: staying quit of your cult since you unceremoniously beached me 39 years ago. Phone number last changed when I was about 8 or 10, when we were given a 7-digit number and I had to memorize the new one — a laborious process at that age. But you know that since we get your spam calls from time-to-time, still. Thankfully, caller ID allows us to pick up, leave the phone off to the side, and hang up when the open-line beeping starts to annoy us.

otherles referred to “MV Freewinds”….

Would that be “Moth-eaten vessel, perchance? Measles-infected?

Bix, what’s left of the Collinsville mission and the one in Maine both seem to exist at the site of what appear to actually be private homes. That’s been the fate of a lot of missions that failed to make it in stand-alone locations – or that never got beyond someone buying a mission package, to begin with. The Connecticut mission is no longer listed on Scientology’s website, though the Maine one is.

And speaking of doomed missions, Ventura can’t be forgotten, which was unlikely to manage to exist for much longer after the former Santa Barbara org moved to an “ideal” building nearby, and is now likely to be pushed over the cliff by the current turn of events (and economics). I suspect quite a few of the other missions that were on the edge, many kept going by long-time mission holders who are getting old, will never open again.

They moved from a building that was a bit too big for them, in the heart of the city, to a small building on the edge of the CBD. They’re going to get an Ideal Org building bought for them that is out of town, which is madness. Class V orgs have to be where people are, as they are first point of contact with the public.

The org could not fail. That’s unthinkable. We had backlogged rent bills for months. CLO started paying the rent. That went on for weeks. We were expected to pay them back at some point. CLO was doing programs to find out why we couldn’t make money, so it could be resolved.

We couldn’t make money because the tech was bad. It was a long-term situation, so someone on those lines (and there was only me) had to be assumed to be knowingly preventing tech from being delivered standardly. There is a faulty assumption that Scientology is workable, and thus, delivered standardly, would bring in more business from satisfied customers. The “real why” behind the failure, which a Scientologist can’t see, is that Scientology has absolutely no workability, thus failure is inevitable.

Baby Boomers reminiscing. Lol
Hey – A lot of us were party animals back then.

You and I experienced similar events. It was a different world.