Hi Steve Crawford,Very good to meet you. Thank you for your sensitive post.Perhaps the cos older man you saw got misty eyed because your little boy reminded him of a son or grandson he had not been able to see or contact in years.Although he did not sell you a book,he just might have given up on that.Considered very downstat in the cos world.Yes many staff & Sea Org may be heartbroken inside,I was SO & I became so,but not in the beginning.There are white hearts & black hearts & within the cos cult one learns to tread carefully.I would love to visit your beautiful city of Melbourne one day.I’m from Boston, Mass but live in the Deep South now, Baton Rouge, Louisiana! My best to you & yours Ann.

Hi Bruce,My IPad is having fits today.I spelled your name correctly & it corrected me.Sorry Ann.

Hi Btuce, I think you are onto something!The vicious cycle of KoolAid $ & hot SO Uniforms,being worn while the $s are collected! On the deck of a ship back in the day even dress whites were hot.Ann.

Hmmm, maybe I’m seeing a pattern here: Sea Borg uniforms are hot and stuffy, hence they drink more CO$ “Kool Aid”….a convenient “vicious circle” that keeps them in-line and faithful to their cause…..

Hi I Yawnalot,Really perceptive post.I thought Princess Diana was most brave in her minefield campaign.I was afraid she would stir up the honet’s nest & she did.Even though the evil of mines continues, she brought awareness of it to the wider world.Some other other choices in life not so explainable,but then some of mine aren’t either!I like your point about cos being not some benign business model as they have claimed in the past & others have agreed with, but a living breathing evil cult bent on beating it’s own way through this world no matter what the costs in lives broken families broken bank accounts broken hearts…Always Ann.

Hi Sortingitout,Thank you for your post.That you have a technical bent & profession in a technical field is most interesting.My CO @ Asho F was a very accomplished engineer if I recall correctly & we in our small team adored him.For me on the other hand,not an exactly an airhead but as I posted Mike the other day,he can distill an argument down to it’s purest form & have a response that is concise & logical.While I having the writer poet bent,chase the phantom, broken dreams & lost paths that wind through my mind.I need to be less emotional & more level headed at times.So I joined the SO as a dreamer on the waves of help to mankind.Just did not realize the powers that were had different ,very different ideas for me at the end of my time there.Yes so much is laughable for me now & that is all good.Ann.

Oh wow, the ever lurking typos strike again – booby traps I should have written and the 2nd last sentence of the second last paragraph – yucky, sorry.

This thread might be cold, but I said, miscavige is sort of like acting as a henchman, not that he is in the employ or guidance of someone higher. The subjunctive is what this game is all about I suppose.
I’ve been military and it’s something I’m not proud of as part of my experience dealt with the deadly game of bobby traps and mine warfare. Princess Diana pioneered the awareness of the lethal clean operation to rid the world of existing devices and to limit their future deployment (oh yeah and those reptilian military commanders listened hey?). People are still being killed and maimed by WW2 devices let alone what happening in the hills of Afghanistan or the jungles of SE Asia. One device so dreamed up was approx 2oz, undetectable by mine sweepers and could be dropped by helicopters or thrown about by ground troops. It worked on a click clack type of action, step on it or straighten it and bingo there goes your hands or foot. Children are the most common victims. Our side (the good guys) deployed countless numbers of them and how in the world do you recover them? You don’t!
I’m saying this because I have come to see first hand the deviousness of what man can get up to and when it comes to subterfuge or misinformation for political means or money, geezers what a mess. I’m very wary of any generality as to the business model concept of explaining away why groups of people do things that result in human atrocities or the opinions of those who don’t have the mental capacity to dream up the most evil and vile concoctions and put them into practice. It takes a special kind of asshole to do wide spreading evil. So special in fact we don’t see them and even vote for them.
Nothing would surprise me concerning the bullshit surrounding scientology but to think such an organisation and technology hasn’t been the subject of scrutiny by the most evil intentioned people on earth is wishful thinking on the level of the Easter Bunny is real. Mind control is the evolution of power, how many criminals that created the global financial crisis for a quick buck have been brought to justice is one comparison of the susceptibility we have as humans have to being ‘led to believe things and make up excuses justifying it.’ Agony is real only to victim so it can be proven.
Comparing Amway or Microsoft with the devastation of human lives committed under the banner of scientology and then relating it to business modelling – what the fuck?!

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Good luck with it all, sanity is a slippery eel but you’ll do OK if you keep both eyes open.
(psst – I still reckon there’s a way out, but don’t tell anyone 🙂 )