Bruger was a madman. i worked on Pac Reno. i was there for northridge quake.

Touche.

Yeah, like L. Fraud’s HCOPLs will actually build up a viable and expanding org. It’s never happened in the history of Scientology. Why would it happen now?

Hi Nostradamus, It is good to meet you. Yes your post brought back memories of my letter reg/ ASR time at Asho F. And when holding letter reg from above by Thurs at 2:00 I got ” whips ” both sides for both stats. It could get very crazy! Also I am sorry what your son has decided.cob becomes his touch stone. I hope the Dawn breaks and somehow he will see. Love, Ann.

Laughter!!

Nice post and hear you on the frustration. Good luck with your son.

You also asked several other questions that I’ll try to briefly explain… A registrar is usually put on post as an assistant to an established registrar while doing the Professional Registrar course which is based mostly on doing drills based on a book by Les Dane called “Big League Sales”. You learn to profile people and handle them differently based on personality type, gender, marital status,…etc. And you drill and drill and drill how to do it until it becomes second nature to you. When you finally get posted as a full-blown registrar with your own desk,…etc. you get sent to cramming for failed closes (which is basically where an auditor in the qualifications division [quality control] puts you on the meter and finds out where you didn’t apply the right tech to close that person and then you get a program to drill and word clear that part of the course again to fix what went wrong prior to going back on post). The pressure is INTENSE to say the least. A registrar is often not allowed to go home until daily quotas are met. I’ve been kept awake for as long as 3 to 4 days and hounded over by my senior like a master with a whip to make sure those quotas were met. It can get brutal. Later as an exec I was expected to do the same with my juniors. And yes, you get burnt out. However, there are registrars on post at Flag in Clearwater, Florida who have been there for 30 years or more. Not sure how they made themselves numb to that kind of abuse, but some can apparently. I didn’t put up with it that long and eventually got the hell out of there. A good interview for you to watch for even better reality on this is one on the Truth Rundown by the St Pete Times where they interview Hy Levy (now deceased). He was a good friend of mine.

Regraded Being, your thoughtful answer to my questions and for the way you took the trouble to make distinctions between the Still Ins and their varying reasons for staying in is appreciated.

While I didn’t specifically mention them in my rant, I do have compassion for those Still Ins who trusted, and brought their children and family into the cult and cannot bear to be parted with them, or, who trusted and therefore divulged highly personal information and now fear public humiliation and loss of reputation, and those Still Ins whose total income is dependent upon other Scientologists in the business world.

Thank you for bringing these factors to the forefront of my mind. I don’t judge these people. God knows what I would have done if I had been in any of those traps.