Re: Independent Scientology Not-For-Profit Membership Community Open in 7 Days (or le
1. The I.S. message board is tightly controlled so that it is all rah-rah-rah. I agree with Ralph above. It’s not worth trying to post to such a board unless you are a glassy-eyed zealot who cries out ‘Excelsior!’ and proclaims to all that the future is now quite definitely peachy.
2. The Indie 500 hasn’t completely filled up in the past two years, and as was pointed out earlier, it’s a madness on the level of the ‘Popular Front of Judea’ for four of the founders to have fallen out with Marty and Mike just as they are trying to interest former churchies in paying for a new membership system. Posts on Marty's blog were what finally got me to see what was truly happening inside the black box of church management. I am grateful to the man and I like him.
3. I am cynical of the claim that Milestone Two is a ‘memberocracy.’ It's actually designed and managed by a top-down oligarchy that says they will give up power later. This is probably necessary given the certainty of church attacks, but the mechanisms in place to prevent subversion would be approved of by the Ayatollah Khamenei. The voting members can elect the ruling party members, but the ruling party choose the voting members (and can kick out any they don't approve of). A future DM-lite insider will be able to live with that system. Will the members elect truly good leaders who want to serve, or will the most ruthless insider make it go right and get rid of potential rivals?
4. Two or three of the eleven leaders were very capable executives and staff members that I truly liked and respected. However, only the Israeli guy posted about his current field activities (at his successful breakaway mission). The others posted about their histories in the church.
5. I wonder where the annual meeting will be held? The membership fees have to cover their travel expenses (and other expenses). I wonder if the cost of the air tickets from Australia and hotel bills will be itemized out for the members.
6. I can’t get through to the end of Jim Logan’s articles, and a couple of years ago he was needlessly rude to me in other threads. So I'm wary of him and cut him no slack.
7. All kinds of FZer, Ron’s Org members and remote metering guys can join M2, but the ruling party plans to apply standard LRH ethics and cramming. It’s going to be a huge problem and I foresee further splits. However this problem isn’t being discussed on their board, because – just as in the church – the sheep (future non-voting associate members) don’t need to worry their pretty little heads about it.
I think the actual doers would be better off just establishing their own independent delivery centers and not trying to establish a layer of (possibly) parasitical management over such a broad range of quasi-Scientological activities.
