Now that is 100% on source!! When these squirels get too close, cover your nuts.

Well, that is only sort of true. After 1967, he was addressed as “Sir” as Commodore of the Sea Org. Even his wife and children addressed him that way.

Well, Taylor, looks like you generated a few negative responses and assumptions about you.

Your writing is rather unique, but what I got out of your message is perhaps unpopular to some writing on this blog:
1. It’s over. (Not just the Church, but Scientology?)
2. And Miscavige deserves a punch in the face.

If those were your points, I generally concur. However, I knew lots of good people while in Scientology, and had good successes myself and in auditing others. There are many points in Scientology worthy of _scientific_ study and research.

However, in the big scheme of things, Scientology simply failed to deliver. It produced not a single proven Clear or a single demonstrated OT VIII in 64 years.

After spending many thousands on Scientology, it took me quite a while to quit apologizing for Scientology. The subject does not need apologists. It needs proof of delivery of promised results.

It quite evidently cannot deliver those results, and so will dwindle into a small sect that will probably persist for some time. Yes, it will blossom from time to time into affluence as it penetrates new countries, and then it will subside in those countries when its true character, written into the DNA of the group via policies and “tech,” becomes known.

My hunch is that Scientology will persist via small numbers of true believers for quite some time. The shame is that as long as it is cloaked as a religion, auditing will probably not be studied scientifically. And that’s a shame in my opinion because it denies science the chance to examine auditing. And that robs humankind of the chance to see what is valid in Scientology.

Hi Morris,
I never met Clive personally and I am sure you are right about his basic goodness. Also about that goodness becoming dissipated in as he moved up the chain of command in that environment.
It just annoys me a little bit every time I see someone high up the chain of command COS being referred to a “Mister” when Ron set the example of just being called “Ron”. I think that was a good example for many reasons. It indicates an absence of pretentiousness and suggests inclusiveness of others.

“Scientology has already been destroyed by David Miscavige”

Truth. It just ain’t what it was, whatever it was before Miscavige made it over in his image.

The more money you have the friendlier they are.

Exactly! Flag the friendliest place in the whole world!!

Uh, that Respect! for MJ was from me, not from MJ.

Respect!

MJ, respect!

Thanks Annabelle. Glad I made you laugh. 🙂