Bill – laughter – I’ve never been a sailor but I appreciate the metaphor. lol

keelhaul

Nautical. to haul (an offender) under the bottom of a ship and up on the other side as a punishment.

to rebuke severely.

My husband is an avid reader & had a copy of this book. Having had high school friends who got literally sucked into the Moonies, Children of God, Hari Krishna…..I decided to give the book a read.

Well, needless to say, my head was spinning with Hubbard’s “double speak”…..I learned growing up that “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t (true)”…& i was not the brightest crayon in the box, but even then………..& for some reason I was gifted with a lot of common sense which kept me away from being sucked into cults like this….the book to me was full of holes.

I grew up in a somewhat dysfunctional family….but my dad once said “You can have all the brains in the world BUT if you don’t have COMMON SENSE…you have nothing”…….something as simple as that has kept me on the right track & from being a victim of “I need to belong somewhere”……

Life’s a lesson….sometimes you pay a little….sometimes you pay A LOT….sometimes you pay ALL you have……& in this case……COS takes everything.

Jeanne I just had to respond to your well thought out statement!

Recalling wins or cognitions from the past or what “attitudes, emotions, sensations or pains were handled” would be mostly a futile effort to “mock up” and reexamine the past. To say that no one ever gained any lasting benefit from their auditing would be an opinion.

Thank you LMR & Skyler.

LMR, good to know and as the membership shrinks, probably more pressure on the whales.

Then comes Skyler’s idea. When they realize the huge savings on hiring a personal love bomber, maybe they will actually do something worth while with all of that extra cash.

Bill right, LOL.
My guess has been always (even when I was still in) the following:

If there is such a damn urgency to clear the planet, then why the services haven’t lower prices to allow more people to afford them and as a result increased number of clears and OTs and also why OT 9 and 10 – if really existing – haven’t yet been released? Logically the above will boost the planet clearing.
In any dangerous situation in life one usually would run around with a flashing light in the head and the hooter on doing everything possible, I bet he wouldn’t get lost in any bullshit. But DM and the cult seem to have no real hurry.

Then finally I got my answer: because it’s a SCAM!!

Petty, I must agree with LMR. you are totally right.

But, Wow! Oh Wow! When it comes to increasing one’s ego, I can’t think of too many ways that people chase that in a way that is more expensive than this scam.

There are a million ways someone can throw away their money to boost their ego that will cost them one whole Hell of a lot less money.

You can hire a professional comfort lady who will take your hand and sit by your side for an hour and gaze deeply into your eyes and repeat over and over again,

“Ooohh! You are just the greatest! No one in this world is better than you!
Everyone just loves you because you are the best and the brightest and the very most handsomest. Oops. Sorry honey. Our time is up. Same time next week dear?”

This experience is a whole lot more pleasant and a whole lot less money and it also smells a lot better than trying to accomplish the same result for less money from the scam.

Unelectedfloofgoofer said: “they had hoped that this time it would be different.”

Skyler answers: Well …… this cult has been around since the 50’s and you know what?

In all that time, it has NEVER changed. It can NEVER change.
It is actually written into the laws of the scam (kind of like the Constitution) that whatever Tubby said can never be changed.

Ain’t it amazing this con man was such a fucking ego maniac, he insured the ultimate failure of his cult by ensuring it would never adapt to the future. So this crazy cult is frozen in time.

Once someone has been tricked out of their money, the only thing that is certain is that they will ALWAYS be tricked in exactly the same way.

I suppose we should really thank the fool. What kind of idiot establishes an empire and ensures it will be doomed to destruction by writing failure right into its constitution? I suppose the answer truly is that he was mentally ill.

They won’t be able to afford to go up any more levels at that rate.