Beryl, I’d like to jump in here and say that what hijacked the expansion of Scientology was the cult’s abusive behavior of which the internet was a huge facilitator in disseminating. If the Church of Scientology had actually been living up to its own PR the internet would have facilitated in disseminating wins and good experiences instead of horror stories and losses.

Yeah but these are “collector’s items” and if taken out of the packaging they instantly lose value. They are to be reverently stored in basements and garages, slowly growing in value like the Basics sets. 😉

SSA – let’s not forget that these are whales and therefore used to high end personal products. I think they would lean more towards the 18 carat gold pendant with an embossed image of their favorite defrocked SP, in the traditional “circle and slash look,” favored by many squirrel busters.

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LOL!! Wonderful commentary on what is actually happening. Bystander, I actually did see a jacket like that at Circus Circus, in Vegas. The man was crafting balloon animals for children!

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It is really so much ado about nothing.

The hype that Hubbard gave the meter, and the swing even he had thinking that Clearing could be more fruitfully accomplished without using an Emeter, is an even bigger relevant issue overall in Scientology history.

There was that period when Emeters were not part of the practice.

Then, today, Emeters have become completely necessary.

Gilded Emeters for the rich Scientologists, with the surplus profits going to irreligious actitivies or lying in bank accounts and ultimately used for irreligious reasons, is always immoral, and I so wish some top finance people with access to where the profits are being banked would come forward and spill the bank accounts beans history!

Scientology’s irreligious activities includes gilded Emeter sales with the profits going places that do not in turn help.

If the profits truly go back to advertising Scientology so that this untolerable status quo continues of Scientology surviving with all its unrealized and unreformed thorns and irreligious behavior, then that is bad.

But it seems Scientology’s numbers are declining all on their own, unconnected to Scientology’s long in house patterns of funding their advertising in various gilded editions of Hubbard’s “properties” (books, Emeters, lectures, licence agreements to use his various copyrighted and trademarked “tech”).

How to even sell Scientology is always still a bigger problem, especially with all the leaked insider history available on the internet to the type of smarter people that Scientology ought to attract if Scientology were to even be able to dislodge Miscavige and reform itself of the deeper Hubbard problems/policies.

Oh right, they don’t have anyone left to support the Tech.

They do, Coop! All are expected to purchase two, AND, turn in any other meter (s) they might have. However, I doubt Nancy and Jensen’s are in for any sec checking. Money handed over can take care of anything in this organization.

Nice, GTBO! Warp speed ahead…

All I can do is to refer to the “Camelot Castle Hotel Tintagel and Scientologists John & Irina Mappin and Ted Stourton” thread on Why We Protest (all 144 pages of it!). Recommended, if a bit long. Don’t miss the links to the BBC documentary which shows the reality behind the photoshopped images on the “hotel’s” website. And stay for at least long enough to read about the lightbox…