Jere,
Public repeatedly were REPEATEDLY and relentlessly phoned, written, buttonholed in person “invited” via nagging, begging, pleading and vaguely threatening to attend these events.

Just horrible. With all that happened to you, you can at least feel fortunate that you were “tossed out as useless” well before these frequent events became the norm.

A kind of mental torture because we not only had to attend but we had to PRETEND to love them, PRETEND that we had enjoyed ourselves. We could NEVER admit that we avoided them whenever possible.

A real, live, ongoing mindfuck. You had more than your fair share of these, no doubt. At least you escaped THIS type 🙂

Bright ideas, Aqua!

How MANY fell for that, I wonder? Paying for services to be delivered in a future lifetime™😜.
Did OT VIIIs ever pay for next L/T’s OT VII?🥸
OR their next life’s “clear” package? (where they could attest to “past life clear” at full cost.

Well, scratch FUBAR TV off of the list of streaming services *I* might go for. How much is Davey paying them to carry his wretched self-promotion, anyway?

Kissing ass AND making it go right by making do with the nothing you got/get. At least you’re out of the RPF, so more-or-less “free”!
The only “freedom” in scientology is the freedom to get in line to get punished again. At your own cost, no discounts for staff.

That starts me thinking: HOW many non-staff attended these self-congratulatory Mcsavage-fests? Staff had to, I expect; they had nowhere else to go, but the public had to come IN to attend. how many of them “tried”😍 to attend, but suffered breakdowns/accidents of the car, bus, train, or plane they were in? I suspect it was a regular occurrence, perhaps most times they held those events. Thankfully, I didn’t have to suffer through those things as McSavage didn’t assume power until a decade or two after I was tossed out as useless.😎. I’m not sorry to have missed them, and have no interest in watching Miscavage’s self-gratification being re-broadcast to the rapt audiences for the 170th time.
In the far future, some Hubbard re-incarnation will refer to them as “Incident 3”, I guess.

Knowing that I would have to do Call In for all the events (and they were just non stop) was the MAIN reason I refused to join staff. I swear, MORE than the knowledge that I’d make NO money and work 40-50 hours a week, was the dread and I do mean DREAD at the mere thought of having to do Call In for Events. At best I tolerated events; at worst I LOATHED them and avoided them whenever I could. But being on staff? OMG, Just the thought of having to call people to get them to come to these things – to call them, over and over and over – to come to these things when I myself couldn’t stand them – no – no, there was no way I could have done that. I knew I’d never be able to handle that. It would have made me sick – actually physically sick, and I’m not being funny. I am not a sickly person, I’m never ill. BUT I’m totally NOT capable of pretending, of living in a way, ongoingly, that is “false” – for lack of a better term right now – to myself. I would have fallen ill. I have a theory that ex staff members with serious health issues after leaving the cult fell sick BECAUSE of this kind of stress. I can’t prove it but again, I know it would have made ME sick, and maybe I’m not that different or unusual.

Aqua, once again you are so right! At Nashville Org we had confirm, reconfirm and rereconfirm. Yep, that’s right. We called our public three times to ensure they were coming to the event. And, I’m sure, pissed them off in the process.
I am so glad all that is behind me.