GREAT idea! Thank you very much, OTD! I want to make sure that what I send actually gets READ. Wow. Now I know what to do. Thanks again!

Very good and accurate reply.

Indeed @Ruth. I had the same thought reading this week’s RB saga. Bizarrely (“We are the Most Ethical, Pro-Survival Group on the Planet”), the worst bosses and business owners I encountered have been those who are Scientologist and WISE affiliated. (World Institute of Scientology Enterprises)

I am a good networker for people in my area business community. I remember (as one for instance) meeting someone who was a career commercial construction project manager. He was between jobs, and he was looking to make some new connections, get into conversations about the industry and job prospects with new folks he had not met. Regular, simple stuff. “Networking 101,” we might call it.

Enthusiastically, I reached out to the local “big kahuna” WISE member Scientologist at my org who owned a large construction company. Simply inquiring if he would be up for having a telephone conversation with my person. HE LAUGHED. He honestly laughed at the notion, stating that he and no one else operated as the project manager at his firm and there was no way (laugh, laugh) he was going to talk to or give any support to another skilled person in our market who was a construction project manager as well.

I was dumbfounded. Yet I can come up other similar tales — WISE member company owners who were simply narcissistic bullies. Not really in it to help OTHER people “flourish and prosper.” Good Lord, not even close.

Same guy (I am remembering) had a head of Div 3 – Treasury, who was continuously at the org doing courses. Such an intelligent, nice gentleman. In taking him on for a while as a preclear, I was (inwardly) stunned to learn he was not even an employee. No, though he was on-site Mon-Fri, doing all the books and vital accounting, payroll, bill paying activities for a multi-million dollar firm, he was forced to set up his own sole proprietor company and bill the larger firm as an outside vendor. Say whaaaa?

You compare this set-up with other full-time financial professionals who work at companies where they receive good pay, benefits such as vacation time, retirement plan, dental and health care, training and enhancement to improve their craft. I think these WISE member companies probably only “succeed” (and it is temporary, I imagine) because of positioning themselves in an insular way: “You don’t want to go to work for those Wogs (shudder).” Talk about a con —- ironically, an example of “social veneer.”

Aqua, sometimes the legislators’ assistants are the best people to hit up. They are often the gatekeepers. You can get them on the phone.
Just a thought.

Happy budget-awareness! I was sloppy that way for years.

A heavily blue state.
That rules out North Carolina.

Oh, but Peggy, in due time HE will have an ethics cycle and be ordered to do his own personal 2D admin scale in present time which will show that as a married couple their admin scales no longer align! His goals and purposes will prove quite different from the goals and purposes of his wife! His admin scale will show him to be a good Scientologist, i.e, a cult creature whose every action and thought must benefit the Church of Scientology and she…well, let us be charitable here — she MAY not be an SP but she OBVIOUSLY has other fish to fry! Dear, dear! This cannot be!

But fear not, the day will come, the Admin scale will show the truth and for him this it will be a cognition of magnitude, and she won’t have to bother to divorce him, because he will be very easily persuaded to divorce her.

PS: Along with the books I think its important to send a recommended reading list, which, conveniently, is provided right here on Mike’s Blog as well as onTony’s. I thought I could also include that list that Tony keeps of ex-Scientologists, and how long its been in days since they’ve seen the family members who disconnected from them.

Recently I did a sort of general itemization, just off the top of my head as to how I regularly dribble away money, on a daily and weekly basis. It came to about $100 a month that I really, really do not have to waste, that I’ve been wasting for years, practically,due to sheer laziness.

Anyway its about a hundred a month and so I ordered 5 more Billion books in addition to the one already bought for my own reading. I plan to send them to some Senators or Congressmen or mayors – people whom Scientology would call “Opinion Leaders”, etc. I plan to do this each month with any money I know I would otherwise waste.

I’m sharing this plan here not so that you praise me – seriously, please don’t, I won’t be able to handle it – but because some others here might like the concept of shunting what may be their daily dribbles of small money into the purchase of information that in the right hands might effect some changes. Or there might be some here who actually budget very well and who don’t, like I do, fritter it away in small amounts (which, at the end of the year, total up to a sizable amount, yikes1).

What I’m still trying to figure out is who exactly to send the books to. As to the legislators in my state, coals to Newcastle, entirely. There’s no way Scientology is getting another foothold in this neck of the woods. Although, in that it is a heavily blue state (yes, OSA, I’ll keep you in the game but I’m not going to give it away) it might do some good to have some of the extremely tax hungry types in my state legislature start a “crusade” LOL in the Senate or the House of Reps to have our favorite cult stripped of its tax exempt status. So whatever your ideas or suggestions you might have would be welcome to me. Thanks for reading , have a great long weekend everyone, and now back to RB 🙂