Ha, ha! Good one! I’m sitting here trying to visualize this Scientology event where the Dwarfenfuhrer takes to the stage amid cheering crowds and says something like this:
“This past year, you’ve experienced Scientology like you’ve never experienced it before! From closing Ideal Orgs to massive defection of contracted staff and Sea Org members, from empty courserooms as well as a steep plunge in Well Done Auditing Hours, Scientology is going through a period in its history that is unprecedented! Stats that are straight down and vertical, and not necessarily at Unprecedented Orders of Magnitude show the world a Scientology that is failing on all dynamics!”
Crowd breaks into loud, lengthy applause.

Agreed 👍

Scientology is escapist in nature. Belief in oneself as an immortal soul, who can soul fly out of your dreaded imperfect human body, is their escapist theory to all time and space and “case” we all possess.

mwesten, I don’t think the numbers are quite reliable enough to draw conclusions about things like just what their losses might be. but they do seem to rely heavily on an aging generation that is just getting too old to carry on, if not actually passing on; that seems for example to be one of the reasons for a lot of missions disappearing in recent years, the longtime franchisees have just reached the point of retiring.

Besides rapidly aging demographics they’ve now got the challenges wrought by the pandemic, on top of a disastrous decade as far as their public image. It will indeed be interesting.

Well, who needs them anyway?

IKR. This could actually be a major reveal.
If true, they’re losing some 2,250 members every year.
The next five years will be interesting.
Deadline scientology?

My name is Patty Moher formerly Patty Pieniadz formerly an anonymous poster Cerridwen. I have wanted to talk to you for many years to ask you a few questions and I’m finally doing it. Do you have a secure email? Something like cotse.net or similar?

From looking at pictures of Hubbard I don’t get the impression he spent a lot of time running around in circles, or running at all.