+1

Sounds like the “God’s Math” that those late-night money preachers go on about. Give us money, and it will come back to you tenfold!!!

I’ll bet that He Who Must Not Be Named, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center Mr. David Miscavige was up late one night, drinking old Scotch and chain-smoking Camels, and caught one of those jokers on TV.

A light bulb illuminated in his head.

The rest is history.

Gus

Thanks, Jane! So you don’t even get a copy, huh? I guess if they did, and once people started to show them around, it would one of hell of a PR flap. Everyone should read, or re-read 1984. As Jane posted, Big Brother is Watching You Big Time. This is true. Scary.

For the glorious leader it doesn’t provide a narcissistic supply and money is addicting. A person reaching toward freedom will attempt to ride the tiger (so to speak), and won’t have any interest in a career as head wiper at the car wash. Freeing people has consequences as they could become a pain in the ass; best to make it difficult and expensive so as to stifle any fighting spirit.

+1 Scott

You bring up a good point Scott. Davie does count on people becoming desensitized to his outrageous overts and hutzpah. And in the SO they do become desensitized to it and join him in his valence as a survival mechanism. It reminds me of what they did in the armed forces. They would have the soldiers in training play video games where they killed the opponent, or maimed and there was bloodshed, body parts flying, death, destruction etc. And they found that playing those games enough did desensitize the soldiers so that they were able to go out and kill the enemy without any problem. So somehow we have to fight against becoming desensitized to it all and keep bringing others out of the church as much as possible.

Old Surfer dude, Yes the form is many pages, but they don’t give you a copy. You have to initial almost every paragraph as well as sign it and yes there is the Lisa McPherson part and also that you wont’ get your money back unless you are in good standing and do it their way through their channels. The catch 22 is that once you ask for money back, they label you as “not in good standing” or as “an SP” and then by their rules and definitions, you can’t get your money back, even if you were in good standing when you asked! And no, the form doesn’t ask about sex partners or sex acts. That form is when you join the SO and you have to write down your Life History, part of which is all the sexual stuff. I’m told by veteran SO members who are now out, that one of the reasons they ask for all your relatives and name, phone number, where they live, as well as close friends, same thing, is so that if you blow the SO, they’ll know where to go to start looking for you to bring you back, i.e., to your close friends and family. Big Brother is Watching You Big Time.

Thanks Jose. What is “It Works” book about?

Believe it or not I’m almost desensitized to this kind of shit from Miscavige – and that’s not a good thing. He counts on people losing their perspective on what an outrage this type of abuse is.

Ha!