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I love your logic.

“Hubbard did not care about anyone except for himself. ”

Right. The staggering amount of materials he created (it was a hell of a lot of hard work to write all those books and issues and deliver all those lectures, and manage all those projects and organizations, whatever you think of it) was because he “did not care about anyone except himself.”

That’s what you do if you are a selfish person. You work your ass off to create an epic amount of writings and lectures that you believe can help others.

Hope you don’t eat anything made of corn (Monsanto’s GMO corn is killing people) buy anything made of plastic (it goes into landfills and stays there for 50,000 years), drive a car that burns gas (the big oil companies are ruining the planet’s ecosystem) or set foot on an airplane (they are a major contributor to greenhouse gases that cause global warming) because you have such high sense of moral rightness and can clearly see how wrong and selfish all those people who provide these products are.

If you do, then just think about it. Will you go to a blog and comment how bad Shell is, how selfish they are? And THEN go fill up your car?

The “selfish” LRH, with his faults and mistakes and all, probably contributed more value to society than you could ever dream of doing. If his faults bother you so much that you think that his faults are the most important thing to say about the man, that speaks volumes about you, much more than it does about LRH.

Just don’t use his products if you hate him so much. It’s fine. It’s a big, free world.

And I certainly hope you don’t have an iPhone, because Steve Jobs is told to have been a brutal, and often abusive boss. And he did it all for MONEY. Phew.

“if the auditor screwed up, he had to replace those hours without pay” – now THAT’s fair. One of the things that made me realize there was something MAJORLY wrong with the “church” (the eye-opening moment) was when I was looking at people literally CELEBRATING Dave for announcing “WE FUCKED UP the materials earlier and now you can BUY the corrected version!” Then announcing “WE FUCKED UP YOUR PURIF but now you can BUY AGAIN the corrected version!” And it went on and on and on. Zero responsibility for any of this on the part of the “church”.

If a commercial manufacturer sells a faulty product, they will (or be forced to) recall and fix it at their expense. Not the “church”. They tell you that they fucked up (but now it’s all fixed) as a VICTORY and make you pay for it. How sick is that?

Note that even a for-profit, COMMERCIAL business is expected to fix their error at their own expense. They are NOT a charity – they are there to make money. But a “church” that poses as a tax exempt “charity” that makes YOU PAY for its mistakes while claiming to “help you”? Where is the “charity” in that? Bragging about how cheaply they can manufacture the new “corrected” books and then turn around and sell them to you at retail price at a handsome profit? They lowered their production expenses and use almost free labor all right, but who is it for? You are still sold the books at retail price. The “charity” somehow forgot to pass on the savings to the “helped” – oops.

Organizing “library campaigns” where YOU pay retail price for the books while the tax exempt publisher (a “charity”) donates NOTHING EVER, but only SELLS every single “donated” book to YOU at retail price, again, making a handsome profit on your donation? Oh, come on. What freaking “church”? It’s a for-profit freak show and business, and a rotten one at that.

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Not true, Kevin. It WAS booming in the 70’s. I was paid enough (on Mission Staff) to share an apartment with 2 other staff (a 3 BR) and could eat and keep my car. In today’s money, that was probably about $200 to $250 a week, on average.
We had 90 staff and so many public, we were bursting at the seams. Had to get there early to get a seat. No attack, just answering your question.

Straight shooting, Trouble Shooter.

Exactly right, Hallie J. Thank you. I do care but I also see the lunacy in it. “I’ll lose my eternity.” What? Where exactly? Is someone going to take it from you? It has been yours all along. You found a good solution to rehabilitate YOUR abilities (said to the person still in) by finding Scientology. Scientology is a tool to REGAIN your talents and abilities, not the group that holds the licensing to them. They are YOUR abilities.
And, if the corporate Scn isn’t giving you all that Scientology can be, then YOU have the ability to perceive, to find a different path to what you really wanted in the first place.
Look for yourself, like Ron said to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACJSR-Smr8c&list=PL97bG9F7T-UeCh701KeAgAH6eZ3L1_FIg

I couldnt agree with you more. In my opinion, anything in the Green On White “tech” that doesnt comport perfectly with Red On White “tech” should be chucked forthwith. Otherwise you could have the absurdidty of a 5 foot tall physcial and spiritual dwarf usurping and dominating and entire global church–oh wait, that already happened.