The tiny church in my REALLY tiny home town had more active parishioners than that.

One of the recent graduates was listed in their mag as “matriculated to the Hubbard College of Administration.” Bwaaaa ha ha. College, my ass. The Hubbard “College” sends emails about how to choose a college etc. trying to position their bullshit with real colleges and the Fatman’s idiocy with a real business degree.

Anyway, when I saw that I had to laugh – there goes $150,000 worth of private school tuition room and board down the crapper. The Hubbard “College” doesn’t even require a high school diploma! The only test required for admission to this farce is whether you have the $52K ! to pay for their worthless unaccredited bullshit “diploma.”

I think the main Delphian school in Oregon has fewer clam kids in it these days though, but that’s just a seat of the pants guess. I think they had to expand beyond the scientology jerk circle to survive – there aren’t enough rich clams left to spend that kind of money on their kids especially after having been pillaged by the IAS and Idle Morgue regges.

On Thanksgiving, I’m paying $40 to participate in a 5K run – you know, actually pay money to drag my sorry ass 3.1 miles – where all of the proceeds go to the local Food Bank so that food can be provided to food kitchens at our local churches and homeless shelters and emergency food suppliers for people in crisis. Then later I’m going to dinner with my family to celebrate this American tradition and recoup the burned calories 4X over.

I like the Whining Alert,Aquamarine.I am catching up on blogs.And what better way than Thursday @ Mike’s!Between the DMSMH reviews for Amazon,very lame if you ask me and that Thanksgiving Dinner for 25.00 each,when in I never saw a turkey scrap or even an old thigh or drumstick where the non-officers ate.If I had wanted some turkey I would have to have cooked it myself!And the promo piece with the dancing circa 1980!Sometimes I have to blink to make sure the shot is really what they put there!Thank you for your great comments.?

150 graduates? Ha! They wish. I was in a graduating class of 13. The combined high school graduates from all of the schools (mostly Oregon and Los Angeles) is 25 in a good year. There have been a bit more than 500 Delphi graduates since 1983.

That’s all.

As you said, Sky Dayton co-founded Earthlink. As well, his wife, Arwen Dayton (née Larson) wrote some successful sci-fi books. She was also the daughter of the headmaster.

A few other graduates achieved some financial success. Mostly, they came from already financially successful families. What’s remarkable is all the stories I heard about so-and-so who had dropped out of college or worked some odd jobs — and then ended up either working at the school or, more likely, for the Sea Org. And then there were the graduates who went straight into the Sea Org. At least 40%. So, something like 60% of all Delphi graduates end up in the Sea Org or at the School itself (so many graduates working at the Schools!).

Four years at the school is an easy $150,000 (and inevitably much more than that with their endless fundraising). Successful graduates must unlearn their rigid study habits to succeed in the real world. A Delphi education is literally an impedance to success.

Sweet mercy, it’s always worse than you think.

Well Mike, on the positive side, at least you can check “dealt with massive shit” off your bucket list?!?!

And you can check it twice actually. You did have to work for the massive little shit Captain David Miscavige, COB, RTC after all.

Thanks Trouble.The study tech is pretty moronic.
Be fun if you could post an article with some stats observations.
In 35 or so years the combined Delphis et al must have turned out say 150 students a year.Say 5000 students.Since these kid had intelligent parents otherwiseyou cannot pony up the fees you would expect some notable people in this group.I only of the earthlinkguy.

OMG, yes. Cuh-ringe.

Right. The degree of delusional hyperbole is proportionate to the degree of failure. Each serves as and index for the other.