That’s true . Jehovah’s Witnesses are generally turned off by anyone with bad teeth.

Cecybeans, holy ChXXXt , you have a way with words that makes me think we are connected, if not spiritually, than as brothers in arms (or sisters in arms).

John, from the numbers I’ve seen, a couple of “ideal” orgs have been built in cities where the active membership is around 60 to 80, which may actually be pretty typical – and I’ve come up with that same figure of around $150,000 average contribution. I don’t know how many members really contributed close to that numerical average, I think that around 10 years ago they were able to get building campaigns off the ground with major contributions from smaller numbers of members of means including those willing to empty their retirement accounts, and now they are relying on real whales and funds from management to slowly finish off enough of the stalled projects to keep up the illusion of “expansion.”

As I’ve noted before, with those sort of low membership numbers and large buildings, the local org approaches having as much space per person, as their members have in residential living space – around 650 square feet per person. And many members probably have in fact given up on ever owning a home, or have so heavily mortgaged their residences that they will never really have any ownership equity, in order to give money to Scientology including for the building campaigns.

George, I think you’re right about that. I suspect that Hubbard might have considered that a very small number of “big beings” might arise to join in playing the game at his level – and that Miscavige, considers himself one of those. But really what he probably wanted, was to make more able minions to aid in his quest for power and wealth, not to truly free his followers. I sometimes now think of him like Saruman in the Lord of the Rings, overseeing the creation of his army of Uruks – a more able breed of Orcs.

I’m going to ponder ideas for names for your operation. “Religious freedom” is a phrase that I think carries baggage from its use by the Christian right, though perhaps it’s the best there is – and might indeed help attract some worthy allies from among Christians.

In a discussion yesterday about Tony Ortega’s article on the Cleawater business owner who’s apparently been “safepointed,” I pointed out that what is really needed is some professional whitepapers to give to businesses and organizations that Scientology is trying to safepoint, to expose the nature of the organization and its practices is ways that are non-sensational but will have the most impact with that sort of target audience. It seems to me, an effort like that might be right along the lines of what you are seeking to do.

Eostre was originally a pagan festival, appropriated and celebrated by early Christians as a way to gain converts. The Co$ can celebrate it as it sees fit. You do not have a monopoly on this weekend!

What? “Me, myself and I ” don’t count as 3 people attending…….then there’s always those pesky little body thetans….WHAT we can’t count them either….scheeezz….Not Fair!

WYAC – my sentiments exactly. Only I tend to think they look like a cross between cheesy down-level marketing conferences (think Amway), where people earn awards named for precious gems and metals (Diamond! Platinum! Sapphire!) and those televised mega-church specials where everyone looks like a fresh-scrubbed Disney extra or a Stepford clone. There is definitely an anachronistic quality to them, the way you feel when you watch old Gunsmoke reruns on cable and the cast is dressed in polyester “western” outfits and have 1960’s hair and make-up. A huge feeling of inauthenticity, of looking on a stage set, of peering into an alternate universe. I also get a sense of watching space aliens, who basically learned Earth’s language and customs from watching those same reruns from outer space, reenact our culture. Very Velveeta, if you ask me. Or hot-house tomatoes. Synthetic. And it is surprising given how many people in Hollywood have been recruited or would be available to them versus other “religious” organizations. The video and print artwork always looks “off” in some ways – like Soviet Bloc soundtracks, Hong Kong disco music, or South American game shows. They may represent another culture somewhere else, but I cannot see anything in them that would appeal to a United States aesthetic. I know that sounds harsh, but for sales collateral, – and that’s what they are – they really miss the mark and come off as in-house productions (which rarely ever go well, even for big corporations). However, that being said, it might be best that is how they seem. It might be a factor in helping keep the numbers low. Which is a good thing. They are dangerous enough without having true mass appeal.

Not without being sued for your boxer shorts! I’d like to start a non-profit there in Clamwater which is dedicated to re-homing exorcised BTs. These voiceless cult casualties are thetans too and it’s a violation of their civil rights to be evicted from their homes without due process or providing services to help them adjust to their new freedom.

$cn has exorcised these poor sub-human thetans willy-nilly for far too long, like they were litter to be recklessly tossed to edge of the highway by super-powered thetans as they race up the bridge to Total FreeDumb. $cn’s spiritual caste system has made these poor confused disembodied thetans into the equivalent of the Hindu religion’s Dalit, or Untouchable, caste for far too long and that needs to stop RIGHT NOW!

BTs never have a nice day and it’s high time we held the cult responsible for turning all these spiritually disabled beings loose in the theta universe, where there’s absolutely nothing to stop them from just reflexively glomming onto another body – like yours or mine – while BT-free Scilons selfishly enjoy their newly re-acquired native state, god-like abilities!

Ditto “MIS” & CTM”……
WHAT “excuse” does CO$ use for an “Easter Egg Hunt”…..ok, so the Bible does NOT mention the Easter Bunny……I GET that…..it seems that the word Easter is part of the “Christian religion” & the death and rising of Jesus…….and the Bible also states that the Earth was created by God………and NO mention of Xenu,space aliens shoved down a volcano and blown apart….or of any “alien bodies inhabiting human bodies that we need to basically get rid of and “clear the planet”?
Seems to me if the planet is to be “cleared” it certainly will NOT be done thru Scientology…
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I agree. To use Easter like that is a sad thing. It is my favourite Christain holiday and it has so much meaning to our family. What a bunch of money hungry pigs these scientologists are.