Hey!!! I want to be David Miscavige!!! I could play him perfectly!!!

Can’t be mine. I excused myself from my keyboard to go to the bathroom. Okay, who’s out there up-chucking in my name (and getting it all over OSD)?

Gene, the center in downtown Seattle Seattle appeared to have been set up and possibly subsidized by member “whale” who is a developer, though I can’t remember the name – but I don’t think it was Bartell. The street-level storefront is actually an elevator lobby for a large, multi-million-dollar condo unit on an upper story. Records indicate that, as in Tampa, the local org now owns the property.

Corporate records show the Bellingham mission went inactive in 2010.

Somewhere in the distance, a droning loop of LRH’s voice from a kiosk.

Scientology, truly the most boring con ever foisted upon humanity.

Ooh, I was on staff around Seattle for over a decade (the last three years extracted against my clearly stated will to leave by threatening my family with disconnection courtesy of DSA Ann Pearce who ran the op). I am not sure what mission and family you refer to, please fill me in!

At one point Bob Bartell (heir to the Bartell drug store chain) and his wife Alina sponsored a mission in Bellingham, but this sounds like something different.

Not only is Scientology shrinking, from what I’ve been reading, in the Western world all religions are shrinking. The United States is becoming increasingly secular with more and more people claiming no religious affiliation.

Of course, this is worrisome to older Evangelical Christians – Judgement Day, End Times, etc. They’re afraid Jesus will lump them in with all the rest of us doomed infidels. :). The good news is that Judgement Day and the Second Coming have been moved up to sometime in the mid-21st century. These events had been scheduled for 2000 but apparently Jesus got caught in traffic or something and they had to be postponed for a later decade.

“Fake News, Thy Name Is Scientology”.

Great intel, Anonymaker!

I love the way you worded that.

A couple who were expecting a baby got off loaded from the SO. They moved in with his parents and took state aid to pay for everything costing tens of thousands of dollars. And this was despite the parent’s making multi millions a year with their private company in which the kids were later employed. There just HAD to be a ton of fraud to pull this off.

Did you have to lie in your effort to go on the dole?