Yep, all stats in the Cult are going to zero.
Zero new bodies in the shop.
Zero new shops.
Zero in plebes savings accnts.
Zero in Orgs bank accounts.
Zero events
Zero fun
Zero everything except for one.
All time highs: Dislike of He who likes to mail dildos to people He doesn’t know!

Yo Dave,
You, good buddy are a ZERO. Next stat graph will use the minus designation (-) which is yer new target. You’ve herd of Target Two ……. welcome to the minus target. Check yer shorts, it’s there somewhere.

Chris, I think it would take “all hands” like that just to try to halt Scientology’s decline – and I’m not sure they have any chance at even succeeding at that, much less keeping up with population growth or even exceeding it to make the sort of gains they imagine (or fantasize). Even if they had some idea that it would only take a few percent to somehow catalyze clearing, that’s still way beyond their reach now; even 1% would be 80 million clears, and they’re only around .1% of that.

I imagine that it must be like the sort of attempts at fantastic pep talks giving to other failing, aging groups like Christian Scientists, or the Shakers around the turn of the last century when their remaining communities were almost all in the midst of collapse.

Miscavige is the most successful SP scientology has ever encountered. He’s dismantling it quite effectively while building up quite the nested for himself. As “tired” as his more recent pictures have shown him, I wonder if he’ll ever get to enjoy the spoils of his scheme in this lifetime. He seems not to be enjoying ANYthing much as I read the reports. He’s self-imprisoned in his tower office so he can’t be served summons to stand trial for his misdeeds, his wife is 3,000 miles away, imprisoned in her own tower, and his best bud seems to be out of the picture, off doing his own thing.

Everyone in the orgs is convinced that the “no new members” problem is local to their org, that all OTHER orgs are expanding by leaps and bounds. That’s what COB is asserting, so you better believe it.

Sadly, for most scns, that “fixed income” could be $0, since scns are “encouraged” to convert all their assets and any retirement funds into statuses in Davey’s shrinking fiefdom.

It’s not LIKE scamlogy, it IS scamology.

IMO, the right order of magnitude for them is to switch to another game. Dwarfenführer’s® game is — by definition — unwinnable by anyone but Miscavige, and his “prize” is likely liver disease and some of the problems smoking like a chimney brings on. He STARTED with asthma, so more asthma or other COPD is likely, as are stroke —which ain’t no joke, I attest — and heart disease which can be as serious as a heart attack.

Of COURSE the teen ‘ethics’ officers are incompetent. Hubbard’s ‘ethics was nothing more than a control structure to ensure everyone did exactly what he ordered, even when it had been proven not to work as he guaranteed it would. Getting ‘ethics in’ was code for punishing everyone who couldn’t get out of the firing line fast enough. Often the punishments were arbitrary, capricious, and often spiteful for anyone who looked the wrong way at the wrong time.

If anything in scientology reliably worked as advertised, scientology would BE that “millions strong” they keep trotting out, instead of that pitiful few huddling in their big, empty, idle orgs dreaming their fantasies of doing the impossible in the face of the facts showing how impossible those fantasies are. There has never been a “Book one clear”; the human mind just doesn’t work that way, despite Hubbard’s oft-repeated assertion. His “science” had nothing resembling the scientific method having even a nodding acquaintance to his working style and techniques.

“And the bribed politicians and police will let him get away with it.”

Yes. They will let him get away with it. But for how long?

I get the feeling things may be nearing a climax for this cult and I hope we will soon see some fundamental shift in the status of the Glorious Little Leader.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see him sharing a cell with Danny Masterson? If not wonderful, at least it would represent some Justice – Finally!