Point taken, I should have thought twice before using the "deep-kool-aid-drinker" term without further explanation. It ended up sounding as offensive as the "wog" and other such terms.
Basically, what I meant to convey is to distinguish between two very different forms of CoS fanaticism.
1...
That's already been a practice in the late 90s and early 2000s. 2nd gen kids were prime candidates and were pursued very strongly, especially if anyone in their immediate family were staff or SO at any point.
I have empirical personal experience of that :/
Yes and no. My personal observation...
Scientology in Armenia sounds like "Nordic socialism in rural Nebraska". Ain't gonna happen.
Guys recruited in Russia who are sweeped off their feet by a "We can bring you to America where you will get a good job and a white picket fence home" .
I wish I could say that, but I knew some things. I knew about the invigilation and about sharing recordings or transcripts of confessionals for example.
I didn't know about a lot of other stuff. I never knew about the hole, I never knew of any pedophilia instances inside scientology. I never...
I'm sorry if my messages were a little on the hermetic side. I hope none of the peons were too annoyed ;)
WUS = Western US. A "continent" from the administrative point of view.
FOLO - Flag Operations Liaison Office
CMO = Commodore's Messengers Organization. It used to be a private communication...
Yeah Scientology has science in its name, so obviously it has nothing to do with it. Just like the "People's Democratic Republic of Korea" has nothing to do with either democracy or people... nor is it a republic.
I guess the korea part has some validity as its half Korea. ;)
Yeah my direct observations are a decade old. the rest are extrapolations from various accounts available in the "criticnet" ;)
I can't speak about Latam, but as far as Europe goes, things are not going well for the CoS at all. They have much worse PR in Germany than anywhere else in the world...
About the initial topic of the thread:
The people who are lest likely to leave seem to be of the following categories:
CMO, RTC, CST people. In general: those who are part of Dave's command structure that he created to replace the WDC and int management. They have certain privileges, an "esprit...