Bill Strauss said: “… was to give them all the money. They don’t really want anyone to go up the Bridge.”

This is correct on both counts. Scientology’s first main objective, one that is baked into its DNA is to get money.

As to your second point: they really don’t believe in their own technology or that “going up the bridge makes the able more able” because if that was true, every single Sea Org member would be OTVIII by now.

Think about it: Sea Org members are resources for Scientology’s use. A more effective member is more valuable than a less effective member, therefore it’s in Scientology’s interests to maximize the effectiveness of its units. Anyone who’s played a 4x game with a tech tree knows that! They don’t have tons and tons of units to throw at the problems they face; they’re a tiny group. So gamewise, they’re like the Protoss instead of the Zerg. Sea Org members are like Protoss Zealots without upgraded weapons and personal shields, and without a speed boost.

They obviously have the time needed to get them up the bridge too; they have them 24/7/365. Instead, Scientology is content to leave Sea Org members to languish as pre-clears for YEARS. The only explanation is that the Scientology DOESN’T make you “more able,” and on some level they know it.

You don’t sound like a “Newcomer” if you made it to OTVIII.
I was in the OTVIII courseroom on opening Day June 6, 1988 as Capt Ray Mithoff wanted more air flow from the A/C. There was fungus in the vents and so we were ordered to put filters in the vents to stop the fungus. There would be hell to pay if by God, there was fungus coming out on Opening Day. So I was ordered up to the OTVIII courseroom. Capt Ray Mithoff and Snr C/S Int Jeff Walker were there and Capt Mithoff ordered me to remove the filters. Course Sup Alice Hablutzel (later Webber) was just starting to call roll. After she called the first name the students all started to cheer.
It was a big deal for them, the release of OT VIII.
When my Juniors and I pulled the filters off large amounts of fungus blew out just as the students were opening the packs.
Capt Mithoff was not bothered by this. He thanked me and we left.
I figured that fungus would blow out but did not want to non-comply to a direct order from Capt Mithoff. There was a Lot of fungus and it was on virtually All of the OTVIII packs.

True, but Mathieson E-Meters also had capacitors (often called condensers back in those days). Don’t ask me how I know that.
Tubes require more voltage.
That is probably where LRH got the line in “Man the Unfathomable movie “A few thousand Volts will take care of that!”.

I’m of the opinion that a particularly embarrassing withhold almost discovered by an auditor might cause a rock slam. One time I think I had a rock slam in a session with a female auditor. I heard the needle clack and she was a bit startled but kept her TRs in. I swear I had no “evil intentions” toward her, just a bit of a romantic and sexual fantasy which she might have been close to discovering. It didn’t come up in a future session so I got by. haha

One purpose of this day would be to keep the idea of the harm this criminal org does alive in the mind of the public. Then, when people ask others about this cult, they would not respond in a way that turns it into a joke so much as recognizing it is a terrible criminal organization set up as a for-profit business masquerading as a religion.

That is what Yashar Ali called it and I think that is the perfect description.

Yes, and those were the days when many IAS regs were hapless org staff pulling double duty. And it was before DMs fanatical Schutzstaffel of hit men and leg breakers dominated the scene. Nowadays the IAS operates like some kind of ecclesiastical Mafia that will resort to any degree of intimidation in order to extract their protection money.

Bruce wrote – “A mechanical rockslam of magnitude.” laughter!

A rockslam is the needle on the e-meter clacking back and forth and supposedly indicated “an evil intention or purpose” and earned a “red tag” on the person’s auditing folder, immediate attention required. A rockslam of “magnitude” might call for a Code Blue, all hands on deck!

Someone on another blog suggested:

“Today, all the books, lectures and other materials could be put on a server
connected to the Internet and distributed freely to every man, woman and
child on the planet. The cost would probably be under $250K for the hardware
and software. Much cheaper than running the ScTV on cable for a year.”
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Elron said books make booms. “The L. Ron Hubbard Scientology and Dianetics Free Library”

It might get more interest than Christian Science reading rooms and save trees.

This was my earliest and most rapid Scientology cognition.!

Hilarious, RB

I am bullbaiting them every time I post on this blog with my real name.
My last autitor from the Freewinds (OTVIII Review Auditor Joan Heller) freaked when she ran into me in the elevator at AOLA a few years after I left the ship. No doubt the last thing she had heard about me was that I was on my death-bed (which I was). And certainly her TR-0 was passed by RTC..
She is an OTVIII auditor (and a very good one from my experience with her) and she has a n
button on ghosts?

She is the one that was auditing me in my last session on the Freewinds when on an FPRD correction list, she got a read on “Present Time Problem? I told her that I was dying.