It has as much to do with the spirit and reality of the religion as a modern lavish, ornate cathedral has to do with the teachings and life of Saint Francis or even of Christ himself.

The spirit, the theta, left a long time ago…

I understand completely why people would mock. But if they really could ‘see’ what it was that was lost and what it could have been, I think they would honestly weep…

Well jeb, you would be mistaken. You don’t know diddly it seems, but assume some comment was “deleted” because I “get thousands of dollars for an auditing session” — never happened. Never will. You conclude that the article “proves” the e-meter is bullshit. That’s quite an conclusion to arrive at without any facts to support it. But your comment does prove you are bullshit. NOt because you have your opinion, but because you ascribe motives to others that you have no clue about.

Why is a Sea Org executive making the problem of paying for fuel for the Freewinds, an individual public’s?

Yes Aqua, I was amazed that they allowed the photography too. It shows how desperate the staff (and the CoS in general) is for ANY attention from the public because they are getting zero.

That’s right Mat. I would also like to add one more item: Parishioners, in particular those on OTVII are being asked to pay for FUEL FOR THE FREEWINDS. Yes, that’s true.

During my husbands last trip to FLAG, an executive had a meeting with him dressed in full Sea Org regalia, and told him that he needed him to put more money on account towards his OTVIII and accommodations because fuel was too expensive and the Ship had to sail. This executive told him that the cost per week for the Freewinds to sail was 70Gs.

My husband told me that this executive was “very PTP’d” and looked really serious and disturbed. I wonder if he ‘s aware of the excesses of Miscavige and the billions in the coffers of the CoS?

Scn is just simply TOO EXPENSIVE for what you get. Its pretty obvious that staff is doing the exact right thing to NOT get customers/clients. Well done CoS.

Yes, I’ll bet those SOs are being nicely toasted now. Well, the more injustice they experience, the more personal reality they get on the harshness and unfairness of this criminal organization, the sooner – hopefully – they’ll blow.

Also, I’m curious about what that needle reaction actually was to his deliberate and pre-planned willing of himself to think of something pleasant instead of something traumatic, disturbing, etc. I’m not an auditor but wouldn’t this show up on the meter as a kind of resistance all its own?

Have to say, though, all things considered, the Cherch deserves this hatchet job. They “pulled it in”, by gum.

Pepper, you beat me to saying everything I was going to say, except that I’m amazed that these Sea Org allowed this journalist take these pictures.