The Battle Creek org claims there are 1000’s of Scientologists in their area:
https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2018/08/20/scientologists-scientology-kellogg-hart-hotel-project-moving-forward-dowtown/1008018002/

Yet they just had a ‘Saint Hill Sized’ weekend. Two cars in the parking lot at most!

My husband was involved at one point when they were in Ann Arbor. It’s always been a small group and dwindling fast.

I don’t live in the UK.

ROFL

It does actually pronounce correctly if you put spaces in it:

Diss m ination

Your grammar correction is incorrect or not universal. American English was Noah’s Webster’s service facsimile. Just use the Queen’s English, that is, UK English.

Thanks Scribe. I’ll put that on my to read list. I also recommend Martha Stout’s book, “The Sociopath Next Door.”

I would pay money for that opportunity………I wish I’d have head-butted him and tossed him off the stage instead of shaking his hand at that awards event…….now that I know I was complicit in the fraud that is $cientology……

I replied to your comment. Hasn’t shown up yet. I’ll wait a few days before I re-post it.

Darn. I meant Magnfallesplatblar – not Magnfallesonblar.

I hope Mr. Magnfallesplatblar won’t be offended. Sorry.

The orgs being made “ideal” now are the small and failing ones in areas where Scientology has never done very well. A number of the orgs’ state and existence has to do more with accidents of history, and the internal machinations of Scientology, than viability – such as tiny Battle Creek, which has a full-blown “church” and not just a mission – but once established, they can never be closed.

Interestingly, I looked it up, and the Columbus and Cleveland metro areas are virtually the same size, and yet Cleveland has nothing more than a tiny mission barely hanging on in some commercial space off an alley. There may not be more than about a hundred active scientologists in the whole state.

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