And I’m sure all Flag staff will be blamed by little man Davey for “pulling in” the storm. Both literally and figuratively.

OSD
You have the greatest superpower of all. The ability to paddle out, be in the ocean, sight a wave and take off: Surfing is truly the best superpower!!!

And from Scarface and the Teflon Don you’d at least get some decent mozzarella.

Oh, and “the slurch”.- that’s a keeper 🙂

Yep!

Power Girl,
Interesting that your friend pawned herself off to you as being JewIsh when in reality she is a Scientologist. It’s like she actively hid her Scn background and the fact that she had reached the highest pinnacle in the church, OT VIII. That isn’t just dabbling in it. And no, it isn’t true you can “be a Jew and a Scn at the same time.” Getting onto the upper OT Levels has stiff eligibility requirements and as you go up the bridge you must further and further pledge allegiance to only Scn. So she misrepresented herself to you by saying she is Jewish and not saying anything about Scn. So if you went into biz with her, what other things would she hide from you?

Barbara, thank you for sharing your experience with me. I appreciate your wise words. I am really worried about my friend and I hope she doesn’t get upset with me when I try to neutrally extricate myself from the business opportunity. What really bothered me is we had deep discussions about religion. I am Catholic and she is Jewish. We joked about the similarities of maternal guilt in both of our religions. LOL So I really was surprised when I found out about her OT 8 Scientology status. She is in deep and I hope she figures it out.

Thank you!

Power Girl, earlier this year I was surprised,no stunned, when I found out that a friend of more than 50 years has been a scientologist since the early ’70’s. I love this woman as a sister and never would have guessed that she fit the profile of someone who would buy into the dangerous litany of this ugly trap. We had fallen out of touch a few years after high school but connected again five years ago. She’s one of my dearest friends and I’m genuinely frightened for her, but there’s absolutely nothing I can do to prevent her from continuing to drink the Kool Ade. She’s never tried to recruit me. What I can do is wait and hope for her sake that she learns that the truth and I’ll be here waiting for her if she so desires. In the meantime I still write to her, text with her and talk on the phone. We just never broach the subject of religion. She knows how I feel, but I never tell her the truth. That would only serve to strain the relationship to the breaking point. So you’re a women who wouldn’t mind having a friendship with this scientologist, but knows you probably shouldn’t go into business with her. Yup, just ease on out of business side of things and remain a friend if she demonstrates a willingness to do so. Very good luck to you.

PS: I hope I didn’t sound as if I was telling you what to do. My intent was to share what’s working for me.