@Joe,

I have relatives in the South who are strict and I do mean strict Evangelicals. Nothing but nothing in the Bible can be questioned. If its in the Bible, it is true, and that’s that. Questioning or doubting means lack of faith, and lack of faith equals you is goin’ to the bad place. Lack of faith also has a host of other undesirable consequences but the worst is that without faith you’re doomed…hell fire everlasting, etc. etc.

On the other hand, strong faith, deep, strong, unwavering, unquestioning faith, means after death you have life everlasting in the bosom of Jesus Christ, and peace and happiness and glory etc. etc in heaven.

Now, these relatives of mine are college educated and in their own lives, their own day to day lives, sorting out their own pedestrian, day to day problems they are quite rational. They’re also good people, honest people. If they bought something and the cashier gave them too much money back in change, they would return that money to that cashier. If you were driving in their area and your car broke down they would stop and help you. They would feel that it would be their “Christian duty” to do so. I’m not making fun of them when I say this. They’re decent. They’re honest, they’re kind.

But when it comes to their religion, they’re nuts. They’re not rational. In the area of their religion, they simply are not rational for the simple reason that rational thinking is not permitted to operate on these subjects.

They also believe that God and Jesus Christ sent Donald Trump to be President. Why? Because their Pastor tells them this. And they VOTE as their Pastor tells them to. To do so is also “Christian duty”. by the way.

Its like…how do I explain this…its like there is an area which includes certain subjects and these subjects are walled off in their minds – things are a certain way within this mental area and are not to be questioned or contested – ever – because doing so is dangerous, and tantamount to lack of faith, and we already know where THAT leads…you dig?

I think what’s going on with the Scientologists is the same mental, “thought stopping” mechanism. L Ron Hubbard is not to be questioned, ever David Miscavige / Command Intention must never be questioned. There’s a mental wall around these subjects. And yet, in their day to day lives they may be quite rational.

I know several quite successful Still In Good Standing Scientologists who, if they wanted to expand their businesses would not DREAM of first buying or renting new office spaces, furnishing them expensively, THEN staffing them, and THEN expecting that new clients would come FLOODING IN. I mean, they would consider this all completely NUTS. They woud never do it. Common sense would tell them that business expansion is occurs by increasing one’s client base FIRST and THEN accommodating the expansion of the actual organization by expanding one’s quarters via a larger office or offices. In their business lives they do NOT have “expansion of the organization” confused or conflated with “expansion of square footage of office space”.

And yet, they blandly attend events, and clap enthusiastically while Miscavige touts expansion of square footage as expansion of Sc;ientology.

Stupid, right? Totally dumb, blind, deaf, totally unquestioning – Miscavige says this, that – and they believe it.

And yet in their own businesses, they are not stupid. In their own businesses they apply a good deal of analytical thought and rationality and common sense, which is why their businesses are successful and they make very good money (a lot of which to be sure goes to the cult but still they MAKE it).

So smart and yet so dumb; so dumb and yet so smart. Go figure! And good luck with figuring it out. I’ve never been able to!

And what’s amazing is that the wealthy ones are just as dumb those living hand to mouth.

Dumber, actually.

Well, as PT Barnum said… one every minute.

What story is this, the oil wells? can you tell the story? I would like to know more. greetings from Canicattì.

Good on you for allowing the post even though it doesn’t agree with the article. Common swans!!!

Thanks for the info. If they needed more space, he should have kept the Russell St building and turned it into a test center like Tottenham Court Rd in London. (Though needing space supposes they had people on services)

Miscavige isn’t very good at investments — remember he lost ten of millions of Hubbard’s money on Oklahoma oil wells…

He has gotten rid of THE Scientology that people used to join for (whether it ever worked or not) while creating the appearance that it still exists and is even better.

The other thing that overseas and even non Melbournians may not realise is that parking in the cbd is expensive, some services that scientoliegy provides take several hours. It is not unusual for parking lots in melbourne to charge $70 for a days parking, street parking is limited, timed and expensive. At least at their new building (a old school) they have their own parking which is big enough to suit their needs and untimed street parking if the org parking is full. The current larger facility is big enough to suit all of their needs (purif), course rooms, Church for Sunday service etc etc. Like any topic in this great world, opinions vary but if I was part of Scientoliegy I would see the new facility of greater benefit than Russell st.

In DMSMH in the part on The Clear, LRH says the most important attribute of the clear is rationality . Talk about a fucking joke! There are very few groups of people who exercise LESS rationality than Scientologists.

I wonder how this news will go down once it gets around the field down there (or what’s left of it now) – I believe that there’ll be a few asking for their hard-earned back now that the SO Reserves are flush with cash 🙂

You really couldn’t make this sort of shit up and have peeps believe you – $cientology; it’s like an STD that just keeps on giving over and over and over again.

Oh, and the building was in terrible shape internally and externally – when I was outside with anonies at various protests, it was glaringly obvious that the place had been deliberately neglected for a long time. I would point this out to newly-outs who came along to show just how “powerful” the kult actually was. Lol.