Irayam
Patron with Honors
Very good demonstration!^^^^^^ Exactly!
And they would achieve all that on simple word-of-mouth advertising. No Super Bowl commercials needed.
If Hubbard just got each member (including himself) to bring in an average of one additional member per year, everyone on the planet would be a Scientologist by 1983. Here's how it would work:
1950 - 1 Scientologist (LRH)
1951 - 2
1952 - 4
1953 - 8
1954 - 16
1955 - 32
1956 - 64
1957 - 128
1958 - 256
1959 - 512
1960 - 1024
1961 - 2048
1962 - 4096
1963 - 8192
1964- 16,384
1965 - 32,768
1966 - 65,536
1967 - 131,072
1968 262,144
1969 524,288
1970 1,048,576
1971 2,097,052
1972 4,194,104
1973 8,388,208
1974 16,776,416
1975 33,552,832
1976 65,105,664
1977 130,211,328
1978 260,422,656
1979 520,845,312
1980 1,041,690,624
1981 2,042,381,248
1982 4,084,762,496
1983 8,169,524,992
Note, the world population back in '83 was only about 4.7 billion, so this calculation would take into consideration the ones who died since 1950.
Certainly it IS fair to expect each member to bring in an average of one additional member per year IF we're talking about a discovery more significant than the invention of the wheel, which was what was asserted in Dianetics, Book I:
https://tonyortega.org/wp-content/c...ianetics-part-2-the-state-of-clear/index.html
From 1983 onwards everyone would just need to co-audit each other up to Clear, and voila, we have a Cleared planet!
Only problem being is that not a SINGLE Clear has been created as of yet with the abilities promised by Hubbard.
More people wanted a Pet Rock than what Hubbard was selling:
No need for further discussion
Irayam