Just the fact that a “church” would tell you to sign a document like that would set off all sorts of alarms for me.

safetyguy, I think people trusted they could sign a document from a “church” – yet another way the CofS has exploited if not abused the status it browbeat if not extorted the IRS into granting it.

Ain’t nuttin objectively true about scn. Even subjectively, the “gains” proved to be all illusory. The “success stories” we were forced to write, if truthful, would have been variants of “finally FINISHED that monster.”
It’s only gotten worse since the Twit™ seized power. (whatever power exists within the organization) HE got running servants, day and night, gallons of good scotch to guzzle like cheap rotgut, plenty of pricey toys and a few willing punching bags.

Scientology can only “work” if one believes that it can.

This is faith…just not an exclusively “religious” one.

Good limerick

“Imagine if any other religion made newbie followers sign legals docs up the kazoo…”

I am trying to imagine that, and I can’t! Applied to Scientology, it is what it is. Applied to any other religion, it is simply beyond the beyond, unheard of and unmitigated gall!

25 years ago she was seriously ill. I don’t know how that played out. As a side note I heard that Harvey Jacques died last October. He was no longer the Captain FSO at the time. Apparently he was responsible for making money from the Philippines.