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		By: Jere Lull		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 22:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-319676&quot;&gt;Melanie Archer&lt;/a&gt;.

Pennsylvania is ALMOST a state without scientology.  The old, failing mission just outside of Philly was &quot;promoted&quot; to org status, then induced to buy a monstrous old piano warehouse 15 stories high in a blighted area of philly for their &quot;ideal&quot; building.  Since then, the only news for scientology has been the continual fight between the city&#039;s department of licenses and inspection (L&#038;I) and the org over unhandled code violations.  It seems L&#038;I wants to avoid another high-rise conflagration in that old barn of a building.  scientology, of course, is above all these MEST concerns and will stop any fire in its tracks with their OT postulates.  Meanwhile, their current org is barely there in a part of the city few dare venture into.]]></description>
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<p>Pennsylvania is ALMOST a state without scientology.  The old, failing mission just outside of Philly was &#8220;promoted&#8221; to org status, then induced to buy a monstrous old piano warehouse 15 stories high in a blighted area of philly for their &#8220;ideal&#8221; building.  Since then, the only news for scientology has been the continual fight between the city&#8217;s department of licenses and inspection (L&amp;I) and the org over unhandled code violations.  It seems L&amp;I wants to avoid another high-rise conflagration in that old barn of a building.  scientology, of course, is above all these MEST concerns and will stop any fire in its tracks with their OT postulates.  Meanwhile, their current org is barely there in a part of the city few dare venture into.</p>
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		By: KM Kazmierczak		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well now we know where they got the figure. If you look at 109 from a certain angle and backwards it looks sortof like 901 but 901 adds up to 9 + 1 + 0 so we get 10 and 11 000 ads up to just 2.

How can the rest of you not see this!

Fu(€k!  Am I tho only one doing any friggin work around here? God damn SP&#039;s. The math is simple we need 11k so: 

Since 109 is sort of like 901 we can state 
901 =11000

Thats what &quot;=&quot; means it makes things equal! Fuc#=kn SP&#039;s.

Problem solved. Now we need to make sure everyone knows how we got it. Man I&#039;m so good at this. We need to make sure the word knows.

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On a serious note, there was this MLM back in the early 2000&#039;s called &quot;The Global Information Network&quot;, the guy who created it was called Justin Trudeau and he brought a few Scientologists in for lectures. This was in fact a ponse scheme with membership levels that had nothing but fluff.
We did a comm drill as a group and talked about stats until Trudeau was outed as a scam artist. So from my pespective this was a wide trolling net and honestly it worked since I did get in eventually on these breadcrumbs.

Anyway later when I was at the Canadian Liaison Office they tried to dead agen the group and told me the Trudeau guy had been declred.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well now we know where they got the figure. If you look at 109 from a certain angle and backwards it looks sortof like 901 but 901 adds up to 9 + 1 + 0 so we get 10 and 11 000 ads up to just 2.</p>
<p>How can the rest of you not see this!</p>
<p>Fu(€k!  Am I tho only one doing any friggin work around here? God damn SP&#8217;s. The math is simple we need 11k so: </p>
<p>Since 109 is sort of like 901 we can state<br />
901 =11000</p>
<p>Thats what &#8220;=&#8221; means it makes things equal! Fuc#=kn SP&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Problem solved. Now we need to make sure everyone knows how we got it. Man I&#8217;m so good at this. We need to make sure the word knows.</p>
<p>‐&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>On a serious note, there was this MLM back in the early 2000&#8217;s called &#8220;The Global Information Network&#8221;, the guy who created it was called Justin Trudeau and he brought a few Scientologists in for lectures. This was in fact a ponse scheme with membership levels that had nothing but fluff.<br />
We did a comm drill as a group and talked about stats until Trudeau was outed as a scam artist. So from my pespective this was a wide trolling net and honestly it worked since I did get in eventually on these breadcrumbs.</p>
<p>Anyway later when I was at the Canadian Liaison Office they tried to dead agen the group and told me the Trudeau guy had been declred.</p>
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		By: Melanie Archer		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Archer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2020 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317529&quot;&gt;PickAnotherID&lt;/a&gt;.

Was PA a state with no anything Scientology? I hope so.]]></description>
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<p>Was PA a state with no anything Scientology? I hope so.</p>
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		By: Victor		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 15:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317561&quot;&gt;PeaceMaker&lt;/a&gt;.

And they even stop calling!]]></description>
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<p>And they even stop calling!</p>
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		By: PeaceMaker		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PeaceMaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317497&quot;&gt;Victor&lt;/a&gt;.

The CofS website listings now classify Moscow as a &quot;religious group&quot; - without any address or even contact information.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317497">Victor</a>.</p>
<p>The CofS website listings now classify Moscow as a &#8220;religious group&#8221; &#8211; without any address or even contact information.</p>
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		By: PeaceMaker		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PeaceMaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The CofS lists orgs and missions on their website - now all lumped together.  The two used to be separated, but presumably they&#039;re trying to make it look like there&#039;s been &quot;expansion,&quot; and hide the disappearance of most of the missions.  In the US the number of each is around the same, 45.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The CofS lists orgs and missions on their website &#8211; now all lumped together.  The two used to be separated, but presumably they&#8217;re trying to make it look like there&#8217;s been &#8220;expansion,&#8221; and hide the disappearance of most of the missions.  In the US the number of each is around the same, 45.</p>
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		By: Old Surfer Dude		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Old Surfer Dude]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 03:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317487&quot;&gt;newcomer&lt;/a&gt;.

Thanks my good friend!  ALWAYS good to see you here!]]></description>
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<p>Thanks my good friend!  ALWAYS good to see you here!</p>
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		By: PeaceMaker		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PeaceMaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 03:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317451&quot;&gt;George M White&lt;/a&gt;.

Christian Science has been shrinking since the 1940s, but it &quot;boomed&quot; to such a large size in its heyday that its long decline still leaves it with a significant number of members and properties.

When I went to visit the commercial building in the Boston area where the org has temporarily moved into cheap upper-story space, practically across the street was a CS Reading Room where apparently they now even hold services after having sold off their local church property.  It&#039;s possible that whatever regime follows Miscavige&#039;s will engage in some realistic downsizing, but I suspect that in most cities the end game for Scientology will be just some limited area of the ground floor of their massive idle morgues actually being used while the rest is empty and decaying, until they disappear into a PO box the way many missions have.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317451">George M White</a>.</p>
<p>Christian Science has been shrinking since the 1940s, but it &#8220;boomed&#8221; to such a large size in its heyday that its long decline still leaves it with a significant number of members and properties.</p>
<p>When I went to visit the commercial building in the Boston area where the org has temporarily moved into cheap upper-story space, practically across the street was a CS Reading Room where apparently they now even hold services after having sold off their local church property.  It&#8217;s possible that whatever regime follows Miscavige&#8217;s will engage in some realistic downsizing, but I suspect that in most cities the end game for Scientology will be just some limited area of the ground floor of their massive idle morgues actually being used while the rest is empty and decaying, until they disappear into a PO box the way many missions have.</p>
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		By: PickAnotherID		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PickAnotherID]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just ran a GREP search of the IRS Exempt Organization database, current as of 121219, for entities with &quot;Scientology&quot; in the name. It turns out there are 109 such entities, scattered across 30 states and the District of Columbian.

As you&#039;d expect, the highest concentration is in California, with 46 such entitites, 1 of which is the &quot;Independent Reformed Church of Scientology. They are followed by Florida with 9, of which 4 are Missions and 1 being FSSO. Texas has 7, of which 5 are Missions, and New York has 6, with 1 being a Mission and 1 a &#039;Celebrity Center.

The rest are 1, 2, or 3 scattered through the other 26 states and DC. Which leaves 20 states with no entity with &#039;Scientology&#039; in the name.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just ran a GREP search of the IRS Exempt Organization database, current as of 121219, for entities with &#8220;Scientology&#8221; in the name. It turns out there are 109 such entities, scattered across 30 states and the District of Columbian.</p>
<p>As you&#8217;d expect, the highest concentration is in California, with 46 such entitites, 1 of which is the &#8220;Independent Reformed Church of Scientology. They are followed by Florida with 9, of which 4 are Missions and 1 being FSSO. Texas has 7, of which 5 are Missions, and New York has 6, with 1 being a Mission and 1 a &#8216;Celebrity Center.</p>
<p>The rest are 1, 2, or 3 scattered through the other 26 states and DC. Which leaves 20 states with no entity with &#8216;Scientology&#8217; in the name.</p>
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		By: Murmur		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Murmur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mikerindersblog.org/how-many-churches-of-scientology-are-there/#comment-317487&quot;&gt;newcomer&lt;/a&gt;.

Absolutely correct Wyn. 9,400 on solo nots multiplied by the 10K-20K body thetans &#038; cluster blown by each solo auditors = Billions of new Scientologists who have been cleared !! 
BILLIONS I tell you !

Dave Mc(Redacted)]]></description>
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<p>Absolutely correct Wyn. 9,400 on solo nots multiplied by the 10K-20K body thetans &amp; cluster blown by each solo auditors = Billions of new Scientologists who have been cleared !!<br />
BILLIONS I tell you !</p>
<p>Dave Mc(Redacted)</p>
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