Mike,

Oh, I agree that’s what they will try, but there are basic rules of business and Sociology which no one can avoid. Rather like none of us can avoid gravity.

I was never a member myself. I’m coming at this from a business viewpoint. Effectively it appears, from an outsider’s perspective, that they’ve gotten caught in a self sustaining feedback loop.

Maybe in five or ten years, all that will be left is a dwindling group of Sea Org members…

Wayne

57

Like the Heinz “57 Varieties” slogan, which is where it most probably comes from.

Thanks Joe for your comment!

I am still laughing at imagining your new use for an umbrella.

What happens when they run out of customers?

They come up with a “new” thing that everyone has to do/redo and the whole process starts all over again — each time with less and less sheeple….

So, assuming $700K per week and a mid-estimate of $2m per week to keep the full show on the road with all the Sea Org staff, the buildins maintained and the corporation as a legal entity then two thirds of their day-to-day running is funded by donos given mostly by the whales who have been promised their money will be used for expansion. I’d call that fraud. The whales would call it “yes sir, please sir, punish us some more sir, we’ve got plenty more where that came from”.

Superpower is only open to a member in good standing of the Church of Scientology. In business terms it has a ‘limited market’. The market is further limited by costs. Any Scientologist living outside the Continental United States has high costs to visit Flag and do Superpower, costs which many would not be able to afford.

How big is that market? Mike has written several articles about church membership, but even he, as a former high level manager doesn’t know for certain.

My point being that the 1,179 Superpower completions to date are probably a significant percentage of those who:

1) Are chruch members in good standing
2) Are able to afford Superpower

What happens when they run out of customers?

Rinder vs Rendir … Not my fault, I can not think or type without my daily fix …. All your fault Mike 😉

Luis, those are fantastic and valuable attributes of a truly free being that you have come up with. As far as your question goes, it’s a bit like asking what would happen if cows could fly. (the answer to that last question of course is that we’d all be in the umbrella business)