Espiritu,

“Sounds like a bunch of pre-teens trying to decide what they will be doing on the weekend.”

LOL! You nailed it. When I got into Scientology as a 19-year-old almost everyone I interacted with was significantly older. The average age was probably around 45 or so, considering there were quite a few 50+ individuals and an equal number of college-aged kids.

Over time, the older, more experienced people, especially those who were auditors, have systematically been removed from SCN. It’s not a lot of fun for DM to be surrounded by people who knew what the Real Tech looked like.

What is left is a bunch of teenagers and twenty-somethings with an 10th grade education (on average) who have consistently had trouble reading and understanding, not just LRH, but pretty much anything out there. The result is the frenetic, confused and disorganized mess we’re seeing portrayed in the volumes of emails being sent around. It’s sad, is what it is.The dumbing down of Scientology to the lowest common denominator — which of course is Miscavige himself.

Odd

Thanks Odd. Camelot feels pretty nice.

Ashaman,

I’m happy that you’ve seen the true Church as it exists now. From personal experience that razor thin line between past perceptions of a beloved group and the stark reality of what it has become, can be a difficult line to cross.

I balked and kicked and shouted, “Say it ain’t so Ron!” quite a few times, but in the end, reality won out and all the veils slipped away as the Church revealed itself. Kind of like the pretty princess turning back into the ugly witch, just as you were ready for a kiss.

Well, for me, the single hardest moment of the entire process was that split second of panic when i thought I was leaving SCN behind forever – simply not true. The real SCN is what we do with it, and there’s a lot being done with it out in the Indie field. Welcome to Camelot.

Odd

Quite right Gato!

It’s the emeter alone, not case, is 30lbs.

Jose – Not joking that the new emeter weighs 30lbs. My friend just came back from Flag with one and weighed it before flying. Trouble Shooter is 25 lbs. My friend is no more than 110.
The wheeled case she put the emeter in broke a wheel in the Tampa airport and she had to carry all her stuff. She was so frustrated and drenched with sweat by the time she got to her seat.

🙂

Milk… it’s the new Kool Aide.

So cool Valerie.