Thought-stopping? Brainwashing? I also wonder if self-selection isn’t at work, and the remaining members are in many cases those with actual lack of discernment plus tendencies towards magical thinking.

Amen to that Ms. B. I qualify as one of the VSLs. Just glad I was not in the VVVSL group!

Yo Dave,
We have something in common good buddy but as usual, You are way better at it than I am. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and award You with the very, very very very slow learner student of the century.

Have you learned of the why that the COS is shrinking??? Not likely as you may need to add another ‘very’ onto your new status. As for me, I learned that the Cherch of Shit is currently composed of those with severe learning disabilities and led by One who is in a whole new stellar category of its own. Happy New Year Dear Leader!

Maybe LRH will come back one day and tell Davey, “I just came back to whip your ass, little man!”

One of the changes Davey brought in: They were losing people on the Student Hat course because so many couldn’t get past the big words and photo nomenclature and things where LRH used very big, obscure words. So Davey changed it by taking out much of the hard stuff and some of the tapes, making it easier to pass the checkouts on the tapes. I think LRH would roll over in his grave if he knew all the ways Davey squirreled the tech and the courses and auditor training he did away with.

LOL as usual, Newcomer, and Happy New Year, Mike and lovely family and a very Happy and healthy New Year to all the lovely people on this blog.

I have a feeling that something is going to happen in 2024, something good, something really good. What can I say? Its just a feeling. But in my old age I’ve learned to pay attention to these things, when they occur, seemingly for no reason…

Back with y’all in the New Year.

During my time in the cult, I never saw a staff member act as a twin. Of course, back then there were actual students being supervised by staff members. Now days, if blogs like this are to be believed, a scientology group would be hard pressed to have even a barebones staff let alone students so maybe a straggler student would need a staff member to step in and twin. Not really a bad thing for the staff member. While they were sitting there for hours on end doing TR-0 they could be daydreaming about finding a moonlighting job and the poor student would be none the wiser.

There is probably an HQS course, but few or no HQS students. I have to say, when I did it, the HQS course was actually sort of fun. It got me fully involved with the cult and things just went downhill from there. If I weren’t such an idiot at the time I would have bailed out during the Comm course. Some of us are very slow learners but when we FINALLY get it, we get it and get out for good.

Great comment Coop. Yes, now the OT’s can send in their parking spot wins to Advance Magazine when they come to the Valley Org parking lot.

No way anyone is going to do THAT Glenn! It requires someone to be aware of being aware!

Yo Dave,
Are you aware of the level of Scotch in yer bottle??

Might be time to stop by and wish Danny a happy new year in his new digs! Just sayin’ good buddy!