Peacemaker, LRH did rail against raffles and such. But then the orgs no longer deliver services; except for Flag, they don’t audit preclears, they don’t train auditors. So what else can they do except fundraise? Sad, actually. Sad and infuriating at the same time that staff accept this.

The more I read about the history of Scientology, including things I’ve read before that I now look at a bit differently, I notice early on that Hubbard sometimes accepted donations of various sorts – especially if that category includes loans by followers that he reneged on, and perhaps also the various ways he ripped off business partners. Plus, as LmR pointed to, the CofS has since Hubbard’s era relied heavily on advanced payments, which represent a sort of backdoor donation when many of the funds left on account are inevitably abandoned in the turnover of members (which has always happened, though Scientology now makes it even harder to get refunds).

We’ll get together sometime…

Kronomex, I just want to say I really liked “Dorkenfuhrer”. Well done!

Thanks OSD………….

Maybe another time for that drink, I have a headache from all that election ballot counting……….
………………………one for them….one, two for me…….I think.

P.S. I just made rice pudding…..OMG….it’s soooo gooooddd…!

..sssiiiggghhhh….

Hey Balletlady, you want to go out for drinks?

Wow! A Limited Rare LRH! Will you take a couple of bucks?

What I really need is a clue! My other clue ran away.

The “Celebrity” could, of course be someone like the good “sister” who is doing the on-line “auditing”, and no one can sign out of the group meeting without sending her a 5-page Success Story”, so her “stats” will be even MORE incredible, awe-inspiring, supercalifragilisticexpialidosis.