It’s a fundraising scam more than a real estate scam, now maybe even devolving into a Potemkin Village propaganda scam.

I don’t think that most of the orgs, particularly the small and failing ones left to go “ideal,” owned their own buildings – though a few, like Kansas City, did, and I think in their case may even have made money to support the org by leasing out parts of the property. Miscavige is now probably having to subsidize most of these projects to even get them finished and keep up the illusion of “expansion,” which I think may mark the beginning of Scientology having to start to spend down reserves in order to keep things running.

On a related note, it’s interesting that we’ve recently heard some rumblings from the upstart Independent Scientology Advanced Organization of the Great Plains (AOGP), which is in Kansas City. They are presumably former members of the KC CofS org, which is about to go “ideal,” possibly even disaffected by all the fundraising, and perhaps the general debacle of moving from a modest property that even provided them a source of income, to an impractically grandiose one.

Peacemaker,
You shouldn’t be surprised at this.
Outflow does equal inflow.
That this is Hubbard’s terminology for an ancient principle does not negate its efficacy.
It works.
Call it whatever you like. Call it Outflow = Inflow. Call it Ham on Rye. Doesn’t matter what name you give this concept.
Get the word out enough, and people will pay attention to what you’re saying.
Get the word out enough about a product and people will reach for what you’re selling.
All advertising, all sales, are based on this principle.
Nature propagates this way.
People propagate this way.
Not to get esoteric on you, but the Beatles sang:
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”
In other words, to receive love you must give love.
Ghandi said, “BE the change you want to see in the world”.
Which is just another way of saying that Outflow = Inflow.
All right, that’s enough, I ‘m even making myself sick.

Thanks, Peacemaker. Yes, the make-work reason makes sense to me.

I can see the cult wanting to use these mountains of paper as an appeal to keep the sheeple bonded and united in the ongoing, doomed, Ideal Morg scam.

I can also see the mountains of paper as a great excuse to keep them IN the orgs, physically. The orgs need bodies – bodies inside, doing SOMETHING, for crying out loud. They’re not getting cleared, they’re not becoming auditors, they’re not doing Basic Courses – ok, well get them in here on a Help Flow. Let them FILE. Give them SOMETHING to do. Makework. Yeah.+

And yes, out of hundreds of people contacted a few, inevitably will be drawn back in. Its a shame. But then, after having bee n out, for how long will those who’ve been sucked in again stay this time? I would think not very long.

Correction: “sweep” is not used as a verb in here. It is a noun. I was so annoyed while thinking about this stupid FN definition that I made this dumb grammar mistake. A sweep. A motion in one direction. Its a noun.

Thanks, Mike. Yes, I’ve heard that about the new definition of an FN being based on the definition of “rhythmic”. But I disagree. The VERB in that sentence is “sweep”. A sweep is an action in one direction. If its in 2 directions one would say “sweep back and forth”. But LRH doesn’t say its a rhythmic sweep back and forth. A rhythmic sweep of the needle on the dial would be (IS) a sweep that PROGRESSES AT THE SAME PACE. Its not jagged; it doesn’t stop and then go. For the duration of the sweep, there’s no slowing down, then speeding up, etc. And its not the LENGTH of the sweep that makes it a floating needle either. Of course if it hits the other side it will sweep back. But it doesn’t HAVE to hit the other side to be a bona fide FN!

But then for arguments sake lets say DM is right, that an FN MUST go back and forth. Let’s ignore the verb “sweep” and base the definition of an
FN solely on the adjective modifying that verb, i.e, “rhythmic”.

Ok, then – why 3?

Why not 4?

Or for that matter, 2?

2 is more than 1, after all.

Mike, no worries, I’m just venting. Its obvious that I think this new definition was pulled out of…you know.

It is just the most amazing real estate scam.

A legal church operates out of a near empty building. Convincing its parishioners that the reason there are so few parishioners is because their current building is inadequate, this church buys another building with no mortgage, paying all cash, all free money, no strings, via donations from the parishioners. Once bought, with the deed in its own name, this church renovates and furnishes its new building with more free donations from its parishioners. Then the church puts its old building up for sale, sells it, and keeps all of the money from the sale.

Amazing.

David Miscavige, it is very likely you read this blog. Very likely, or perhaps someone in OSA feeds you the salient points on a daily basis. On these assumptions I’m going to give you a compliment.

You are a clever crook.

You’re clever, yes, but not because you have any extraordinary mental gifts, per se.

This scam is very easily perceived as such by anyone with normal perception paying even HALFWAY attention. As scams go, the Ideal Morgue Scam pretty lame.

Your cleverness lies in your choice of victims.

The genius in the Ideal Org scam is your genius in choosing the right people to perpetrate this lame scam on.

Your genius lies in IMMEDIATELY cutting ANYONE loose who dares to even so much question the workability of this scam of yours.

And if getting rid of each and every Scientologist this way shrinks your numbers even faster, then at least the ones who remain are just that much blinder and stupider than the ones who just asked questions and disagreed and got booted out.

Inevitably, of course, your numbers will dwindle down to almost nothing, and these few will then have no choice but to leave. These few that will be left will be SO dumb that ANY crap you tell them will be believed.

But until that fateful day, you might as well keep getting free money from these imbeciles, right?

Therein lies your genius, sir.

I hope this makes your day.

Regardless, I now feel like Clark Gable! Thanks for the internet boost, Aqua.

Well, the “3 swing F/N” is based on the Hubbard statement that an FN is a “Rhythmic sweep of the needle across the dial” and the idea that in order to be rhythmic you cannot adjudge that unless it has been back and forth more than once…

Everything Miscavige does has as underlying basis from Hubbard. It is part of the perils of scientology — Hubbard was all over the map on his “standard tech” such that you can find contradictory statements for many things and it is all in which one is taken as gospel.

You’re 100% right on that, Wynski and I don’t disagree.

Here’s the “but”:

Miscavige has/had NO problem altering OTHER tech – plenty of other tech!

He redefined the FN! This is/was a huge alteration that changed a great deal, directly and tangentially about how preclears are audited as well as how students are trained as auditors. NOWHERE does LRH say that the needle has to swing 3 times to be an FN! DM changing the definition of an floating needle is a HUGE alteration of the tech, wouldn’t you agree?

And, respectfully, I get that you don’t think it ever worked anyway and that any changes are irrelevant anyway, but whether it works now or ever worked in the past is not what I’m addressing now.

My only point is that, for whatever reason(s), when and where it suits him, whether it be auditing, training, admin or ethics, DM has, demonstrably, NO problem changing the tech and then, afterwards, ordering a major campaign to convince the sheeple to go along with it as “Standard Tech” which is now being taught/done/etc “just as Ron always intended.”

So why not update CF with modern, workable, sensible, fast methods?

I could answer my own question by saying that, his PR to the contrary, very likely DM doesn’t WANT CF’s to be updated. That busy orgs, recovering people to Scientology, etc are not part of his ACTUAL plan. PR to the contrary, he doesn’t WANT orgs to be busy because busy orgs and planetary clearing etc. are not his real game. The game he’s REALLY playing is his own personal, exit strategy game. The Ideal Org Program is in fact a real estate scam so that when the end comes he and his lawyers can exit with as much money as possible.

That’s my own personal conspiracy theory, Wyn. I’d be interested in your opinion because you never pull any punches. There’s a lot to read so if/when you get a chance I’d enjoy hearing what you think.

Aqua, I think that paper files provide a useful sort of make-work in Scientology, as strange as that may seem. And CF is actually marketing or prospecting files, not member records, that get used occasionally, in what may be one of the few desperate ways that Scientology has left to find anyone who might fall for their badly aging lure.

Plus, as Wynski points out, there’s no Hubbardian “scripture” to cover computerizing them – which would also have to involve creating some system for flagging and following up on them from time to time.

The huge effort that they’re apparently making to contact “recover” people who were involved in the past, and the stories of a few who do actually get dragged back in, both fascinate and shock me.