But Glorious Leader never told them to make sure the money they collect keeps up with inflation.

As a result, they are now collecting 1950 era dollars that are only worth about 60% of the 2020 dollars.

What a stupid kult!

What an incredibly stupid thing to say. No one survives this universe. We all die eventually.

I fully expect that indicates just what a moron this man was. I don’t want to waste much more of my time arguing this point. LRH was a con man as well as an imbecille.

But it would be fun to see him try to defend that statement.

I wish I could do more – I’m in CT.

It was Lara’s mother of course, Lara Meghan Anderson who had to spend her chilhood slaving for Scientollogy making Happy valley pretty rhrough hard labour under a military sadistic regime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9VzCmsgu90

LARA FM – MY HEAD (Official Music Video)

Great info, thanks.

More proof of Hubbard’s character, thankyou.

Good move. Always the best move, “….quit fast…..” (or as fast as you can quit, quit however you can, it’s always better out of the mess)

From hearing now, so many voices speak up, I see, the Missions got more professional public onboard, and they wisely, quit decades ago, like you.

I just re-read Monica Pignotti’s excellent story on Prof Dave Touretzy’s library:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/pignotti/index.html

Monica’s story is a fast read, I just re-read it in one sitting, it was so helpful.

To piece her story, she got in through the Salt Lake City Mission, in the old times, and got out.

So many of the Mission public and staffs are what held up the movement in the old times.

Sea Org has been a failure. But even deeper, it seems all this massive staffing and orderliness and harsh ethics of Hubbard’s has been the most damaging. But the pseudo-therapy and exorcism I don’t think helps anyone in the end of the day. It’s a long stretched out false promising “snipe hunting” scam which unfortunately Hubbard was so committed to it, he never doubted it, until the end, when he admitted failure as is told in the final pages of the “Going Clear….” book.

Hubbard wasn’t mentally all there, and he just kept piling it on to make his operation work, but all the administrative oversight and Sea Org just didn’t work.

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

For me it was Hubbard´s writings (which I guess he stole/copied from others) especially about the concepts about Granting of Beingness and Awareness of Awareness.
I´m still so glad I was in a little group within the cult , that saw that when Miscavige and his Finance Police showed up we just understood that this was the opposite of Granting of Beingness etc so we just left the cult. 40 years ago…

I always wondered what the sailors close to Hubbard thought of him in service. Service conditions bring out someone’s true nature to those they serve with. Makes sense what you uncle Walt said. Thanks for the heads up.