Got it! Talk about “Complexity and Confront”, right? 🙂

Yes, nicely said, but it more than just a theory. They have built their own ‘prison of belief,’ as it has been written about quite astutely some time ago.
If it wasn’t so desperate with holding people literally incarcerated away from their own families and their prior life it would almost be comical, but one of the easiest things to do from an outside perspective is to make a Scientologist wrong. Their own dismal statistics and repetitive unsuccessful actions for decades is evidence enough, but has all but killed their off the last of their own humanity in that organisation. I hate to say this, but they resemble rodents in a cage, creating a miserable but oh such a busy a life in an ever decreasing and degenerating space. It must suffocating in there. Yet, it is only through a criminal conspiracy that they are there at all.

These lyrics in Eyes Wired Shut by Edgewater sum up the individual CofS Scientologist’s aspirations pretty well imo,
“I’ve thrown away
Thrown away again the fear of failing
I’ve thrown away
Thrown away again the noise that make me sane
Thrown away the chance to make it right
I wanna be, I wanna see, I wanna make it back to me!”

@ Yawn,

Its all about “being right”.
Its been going on too long with them now.
If they stopped, they’d have to admit being wrong.
And they can’t be wrong; its too painful for them.
They’ve been behind this thing for too many years.
Being wrong about it is just not confrontable for them.

As a reward for all the years, they must at least be right about it.
That it IS going to work.
If only they try hard enough, push hard enough, sacrifice enough, etc. etc.

And so they go on, year in and year out, allowing themselves to be fleeced.

Being fleeced is painful and they hate it and they hate having to pretend that they love it.

But as painful as it is to be continually contributing and getting nothing back, it is still less painful than admitting that they’re wrong and have been wrong and fools all along.

That’s just my own theory.

After all, this number would represent almost 1.1% of the entire contingent this “church” manages to eke out GLOBALLY.

I was going to write the exact same thing! How can anyone with an internet connection still join? And bring the kids??!?!?

“Learn how to correctly estimate and execute your efforts to speed up your progress on the bridge.”
Should read: “Learn how to correctly estimate and execute your efforts to speed up how to empty your bank accounts and credit cards on your progress to being bankrupt.”

Booksellers –

Angela the Public contact Secretary and …gasp… sales of “…100’s of books…” reminded me of a bit of 1982’s Whoops Apocalypse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIxMUi-lhc

Everything else is the same monotonous offal they keep churning out week after week after…
Kiddie Corner always gives me the creeps.

I don’t get anything from Nashville Org!
Then again, they don’t have my current address!
Oh, I love being an ADDUNK!

There are indeed “thousands” of students across the street from the Church of Scientology Austin but they are not YOUR students and never will be. They are University of Texas at Austin students who live on their phones and do internet searches on everything and as such will never set one foot into one of Miscavige’s El Floppo El Stinko Ideal Morgues.

Much love,
Aqua

Yes indeed. Interesting the Dept of Labor seeks to get mandatory arbitration voided.
Hope Mike can find a way to share the news with Bixler, et al.