If a reg ever calls me, or sends me a letter soliciting a response, I'm going to ask a question or two and not let them slough them off until I get some kind of answer.
"Can you tell me the city or town nearest the university where Ron got his Ph.D.? Or even what state it's in? No, not George Washington U., he dropped out of there after his first year, maybe halfway through his second...? Don't remember, but sometime in the early 1930's; nobody disputes he never graduated from GWU.
"What I can't get anybody to tell me is where he did get his Bachelor's from, before he earned his Ph.D. Which is really odd, because anybody, I mean anybody who has their biography written, you'll find his Alma Mater somewhere on the first page--typically the first couple of paragraphs. But any time I ask about Ron's Alma Mater, I get this awkward response of somebody asking me why I'm asking. Seriously? Why am I asking?
"I'd like to know where Ron graduated--and why is that an awkward question, if he has a legitimate degree from an accredited school?"
A good registrar will, of course, have some kind of response to that--but since Ron didn't graduate from any college, the reg won't have a real answer that s/he will admit to. The reg probably won't even know that Ron's Ph.D is bogus--a neophyte who's naïve enough to pass on the question might get him/her-self sent to ethics for asking awkward questions.
If enough people sent in questions like this in the self-addressed envelopes the letter reges thoughtfully provide--questions about how odd it seems that the Venusians look and dress like us when the planet-wide "weather" on Venus is above the melting temperature of lead (what do they make their clothes from, anyway, blue asbestos?).
"And I understand the OT IIIs can't talk about the classified materials on the course because anyone who learns about them without being prepared beforehand could fall deadly ill from it---but how come we didn't have a worldwide pandemic when some spy released the OT III materials on the internet years back? The Church did try to sue for copyright infringement and not for libelous misinformation, which verified that those were the actual OT III materials. I mean, isn't that really strange? Did anybody ever figure out why the pandemic didn't happen?
"And doesn't it sort of indicate that we aren't carrying the self-destructive implants Ron thought we carried against hearing that story? Since literally thousands (a good statistical base) outside the Church did hear it with no higher incidence of illness than everybody else?"
"And if that's the case, doesn't that mean that the OT Levels need to be researched yet again!? Tell you what, I'm going to wait until you get the OT research flat before I start up the Bridge again. Seems like you still don't have it all assembled right and anybody going up now is just going to have to re-do it in a few years.
"When the OT Levels have remained stable for more than a decade, and when some OT can report what's going on on Venus and Mars these days, then call me about registering. I understand that's right around the corner, so just make a sticky with my number on it.
"Oh, and while that spacefaring OT exteriorized observer is at it, how about asking him/her to pop over and check out 2014 MU69, the Kuiper belt object that New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to fly by on the 1st of January, 2019, and tell us something about the pictures the spacecraft will be sending back.
"Honestly, I've never understood why the Church passed up so many opportunities in the last sixty years to prove OT exteriorization Tech to the world by way of disclosing what our spacecraft would find when they got there. I understand not wanting OTs to get OT Powers associated with party parlor tricks, but revealing knowledge that couldn't have been achieved any other way would have had droves of new acolytes filling the orgs to bursting decades ago. That's hardly a party trick.
"Ron talked about trains on Venus, but didn't say whether they ran on time---and he didn't mention the extreme temperature or give any details about the inhabitants, which may, as he said, look like us but sure-as-hell can't be like us carbon-based life forms, because we wouldn't last a millisecond on Venus's surface out in the open (where the trains run). If he'd elaborated just a little on some of the details, then when spacecraft arrived years later to verify the surface conditions, Scientologists would have had the last laugh on those who derided them for predicting it. Because Venus's surface was a surprise for the scientific community.
"Similarly, there are dozens of details that could have been noted by passing OT Thetans--the uncratered appearance of the far side of the moon that Ron might have mentioned while wandering around in our neighborhood, the striking details of several Jovian and Saturnian moons--you know, sulfur geysering on a planetary scale from volcano-dotted Io (400 volcanos, no waiting, and why the hell didn't Xenu dump us there instead of bothering with atomic bombs on Teegeeack?); Europa with its entire surface made of thick ice but showing strong evidence of a subsurface liquid ocean that could harbor life, and similar to ice-and-snow covered Enceladus, Saturn's moon with over 100 known water-rich geysers that provide much or most of the material of Saturn's rings. If Ron or one of the other drifting OTs had mentioned that before the Voyager flyby, nobody could have refuted that they had been there first.
"And let's not forget last year's New Horizons flyby of Pluto. A roughly heart-shaped feature covering a large part of the planet's (for so it was deemed at the time of Ron's solar system travels) surface could hardly be missed and would have been notable enough to mention. So why, oh why, didn't He? If only to prove to the next generation that He had been there."
I wouldn't pack all these questions into one phone call or letter, of course. I'd put them out one at a time and stick to them, keep asking for an answer, try to get the reg to see the real question: The questions themselves are simple--the real question is, why are they awkward? Ostensibly because I don't want to register for courses or auditing when I don't understand something that basic about the dynamics of the organization. Do they know what they're doing or not?
My thought is that if enough of these questions started flowing into the letter reges in their return envelopes, followed by the question, "Why is this an awkward question?"--then maybe--just maybe--one or two of them might start to wonder why there are so many awkward questions that ought to be simple to answer--and eventually blow sooner and salvage a bigger chunk of their productive life.
BTW, OSA: You might consider doing that too. You aren't doing anything productive where you are, and later on in life you'll want to feel like you made an actual contribution to the world. Trust me on this (or not), it's a good feeling; and you aren't ever going to have it at the end of your life if you continue working for an organization that perpetuates an elaborate fantasy that has already been busted. Think about it.
