Zombie and L.Ron Robotic after effects are the cult’s brain washing specialty. Where the cultists can think for themselves as long it’s Hubbard-think. Sad they can no longer see how they are truly mind prisoners of a made-up bad belief system minted 5 minutes ago by a hack science fiction writer.

And actor’s think of themselves as enlightened and above most people in awareness. Hah!

The charts you referenced say the hourly earnings for production workers in Contract Construction was $7.49/hour in 1976. You’re contradicting your own reference. Maybe you have some “resistance” to the idea that scn was once affordable?

Richard, that’s interesting to hear. You must have been in a somewhat privileged position regarding your earning ability, and perhaps also being at a mission or org where conditions weren’t as bad as they were elsewhere.

If auditing was $25 per hour back then, that’s 11.9 times the 1975 minimum wage of $2.10 per hour.

California minimum wage in 2018 is $11 per hour, so if auditing now $125 per hour (the most recent figure I remember seeing), that’s a multiple of 11.4.

Things don’t seem to actually have changed as much, as your nostalgic recollections lead you to imagine. It’s a common foible of human memory, and seems also to be exacerbated by long-term Scientology indoctrination including being forced to frame things in terms of “wins” and to though-stop criticisms of the CofS.

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Binx you deserved a little ribbin’ for that comment! Haha! That would be a good game show for scientology tv. The Dating Game! You have to choose between Kirstie and 2 other celebrity losers. And the loser gets the date! Or the hole! ?

@Alcoboy…Never made it to those locations but when I am in NYC I LOVE to “cruise by (no pun intended) the Scientology location. The place nearby has GREAT PIZZA…. The usual COS “waiter dressed staff” are sometimes out front sharing a cigarette.

As mentioned, a while back my BFF & I had taken out two slices of pizza from that aforementioned pizza place (too good to toss or leave) so we handed it to these two young people hanging outside the door….kind of a few paces away from the front door where insiders could see them & you would have thought we’d given them a gold piece….they wolfed those slices down in less than a minute without a gulp of water/juice etc.

Once in a while they will try to use “the hook” to drag you off the street to the inside….no thanks! My BFF once told them we were “Krisna’s”…they had NO IDEA what the Hell we were talking about as they stared blankly at us.

Hi Mark – I agree that scn as a path to Total Freedom is a failure and I wouldn’t recommend scn to anyone. Lawrence Wright said he was interested in how people become caught in a prison of belief. I sometimes mention things I believe were positive within the subject itself as distinct from the organization and the “Founder” which might give some sense to it. Most people in scn and other cults eventually wake up and leave so there may still be some hope for humanity.

As a practical and observational matter, the e- meter reads nothing…other than the trained(i.e. indoctrinated and hypnotized response) of the scientologist and, incidently, changes in galvanic skin response that can indicate non-specific emotional arousal, especially given the crudeness of the e-meter design. I get that you are attached to the device and the so-called ” tech”; why don’t you read some more about the last 100 years of research and experimentation with GSR and, at the very least, upgrade your machine? And, perhaps, examine the same time period regarding the development of a plethora of concepts of the mind and spirit that are ethical, compassionate, and workable, all useable without needing to surrender your critical thinking skills or your personal moral compass.