Scientology admits that it numbers ‘tens of thousands’ not millions, as we’ve been saying

[Karen#1]

Scientology admits that it numbers ‘tens of thousands’ not millions, as we’ve been saying | The Underground Bunker

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EXCERPT from blog:
A reader pointed out something on one of Scientology’s websites that we have to admit is pretty precious.

The Religious Technology Center is Scientology’s nominally controlling entity. (The Sea Org is the real power, but it has no legal status, and so RTC is the next best thing.) Its chairman is David Miscavige, which is why Scientologists refer to Miscavige as Chairman of the Board or C.O.B.

 

[Enthetan]

This means that the likely remaining active membership has dwindled to a few thousand at most.

 

[stratty]

This means that the likely remaining active membership has dwindled to a few thousand at most.

From where I'm looking at it there are two distinct areas of activity (or lack of it). Miscavige seems to be primarily milking his 'whales' to provide funds in order to enlarge his real estate portfolio. Meanwhile, training and processing (clearing the planet - once the main driving force of scientology) has now become a mere afterthought. We have 'Ideal Orgs', but they are empty apparently.

 

[Dotey OT]

From where I'm looking at it there are two distinct areas of activity (or lack of it). Miscavige seems to be primarily milking his 'whales' to provide funds to enlarge his real estate portfolio. Meanwhile, training and processing (clearing the planet - once the main driving force of scientology) has now become a mere afterthought. We have 'Ideal Orgs', but they are empty apparently.

No truer words were ever spoken concerning training and processing being an afterthought. My thoughts at the beginning of our ideal org funding campaign, while I watched the org be allowed to wither, were exactly that.

To make it even worse, "You were only as good as your last donation!"

 

[La La Lou Lou]

The next admission needs to be that it just doesn't work.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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Meanwhile, training and processing (clearing the planet - once the main driving force of scientology) has now become a mere afterthought.
We have 'Ideal Orgs', but they are EMPTY apparently.

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Paradoxically, that actually IS ideal! LOL

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[Enthetan]

From where I'm looking at it there are two distinct areas of activity (or lack of it). Miscavige seems to be primarily milking his 'whales' to provide funds to enlarge his real estate portfolio. Meanwhile, training and processing (clearing the planet - once the main driving force of scientology) has now become a mere afterthought. We have 'Ideal Orgs', but they are empty apparently.

It's been happening since the 1980's, since they gutted the Mission holders network and made it increasingly impossible for field auditors to operate.

Why did people train? Not to learn the tech for its own sake, but because they wanted to use the tech to help their friends and family. Take that away, and people stopped training. Then you were left with only auditing, and auditing didn't work anyway.

 

[F.Bullbait]

10,000s with access to the internet. Would the number be that high? This website should have them running for the hills. Then there are those true believers with no access...

 

[stratty]

It's been happening since the 1980's, since they gutted the Mission holders network and made it increasingly impossible for field auditors to operate.

Why did people train? Not to learn the tech for its own sake, but because they wanted to use the tech to help their friends and family. Take that away, and people stopped training. Then you were left with only auditing, and auditing didn't work anyway.

I didn't learn the tech to help my friends and family, I learned the tech so that I could become an auditor and help Ron clear the planet. And he said becoming an auditor was a sure fire way to understanding what it was all about and becoming OT.

 

[HelluvaHoax!]

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Why did people train?

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ANSWER: As far as I can tell, there are two (2) main reasons why people trained:

1) AESTHETIC REASONS: To balance out that slightly creepy wall in your living room that only contains a single jumbo photographic portrait of a mentally ill conman in a naval costume. Training allows one to populate the wall with other similarly framed pieces known as Completion Certificates.​

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2) NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES: Later in life one can leverage the training experience by posting about it on an Ex-Scientology message board, where they can meet other former cult members.​

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[HelluvaHoax!]

I didn't learn the tech to help my friends and family, I learned the tech so that I could become as auditor and help Ron clear the planet. And he said becoming an auditor was a sure fire way to understanding what it was all about and becoming OT.

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Exactly!

Dr. Hubbard stated (not merely said) that: "ONE HALF OF THE GAINS FROM SCIENTOLOGY COME FROM TRAINING".

The other half of the gains come from blowing Scientology, wherein one instantaneously gains enormous quantities of time, freedom & cash flow.

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[Lee #28]

Dang this pisses me off.....

Years of pressure to buy that second meter...

And the true numbers....

 

[pineapple]

Why did people train? Not to learn the tech for its own sake, but because they wanted to use the tech to help their friends and family. Take that away, and people stopped training. Then you were left with only auditing, and auditing didn't work anyway.

I became an auditor to help myself, really. I knew I'd never be able to pay for all the auditing I'd need, so I got trained figuring to co-audit to Grade IV. And they pushed training, explicitly for that reason: "Get trained! Co-audit to Grade IV! Think of all the money you'll save!"

Of course it was never that simple. (Nothing ever is in scn.) Either you can't find anyone to co-audit with, or your co-auditor blows (meaning he leaves or is just a shitty auditor), you're PTS and can't get audited, or you're in a lower condition ... etc.

I used to think, "If the tech is really so great, why do we have to make everything so f**king HARD?"

 

[Xenu Xenu Xenu]

I remember the days when every person we recruited onto a intro course had to first sign a form making him a member of the Church of Scientology for free. One could not do any course until one was a member. No doubt Hubbard got the Guardian's Office to implement this policy. It was just a ploy to beef up the membership stats. Most of the people didn't stay or even finish the intro courses. That is because most people pick up on all the creepiness of Scientology. Scientology is like bad food, most people don't have the stomach for finishing things with a funny taste or smell.