Re: SCIENTOLOGY CRUMBLING: An Entire Church Mission Defects as David Miscavige Faces
I wonder when we'll hear the first heckling and booing of of Miscavige by the previously faithful at a big event. I don't think it's that far away. It will start small and grow, as more and more see him as the problem. Of course he's only part of the problem, but they don't know that yet.
I would LOVE a video of that.
Can you imagine the security guards and HCO staff running around yelling, "HCO Bring Order"!!??
They would be yelling at each person, "stop, you are committing a suppressive act, you are committing a mutiny, and you are publicly heckling a top Scientology figure".
For Miscavige to have to be wisked away, surrounded by "security", with the crowd "throwing tomatoes", as he drives away into the night . . . . (ah, what a pleasant "mental image picture").
Oh, it would be so funny to be there and to be able to watch when such a MAJOR brick in the foundation of deluson first falls and crumbles to the ground.
Someday, someday . . . . . that tipping point will be reached.
That "critical mass" will be finally acheived and it will ALL blow up!
Though, in another regard, they might just eventually lose a slow war of attrition, as some more people leave day after day and week after week, and there won't be any big bang, just a few quiet wimpers and last gasps.
Either way works for me.
The problem with a mass upheaval is that too many active Scientology members have so closely and tightly identified themselves with Scientology AND even with Miscavige as the "long term leader". In the minds of such people, who have grossly misidentified with Scientology, who have so tightly attached themselves to the ideas of Scientology, attacking Miscavige or Scientology is tantamount to attacking themselves. As long as they remain
firmly attached to the ideas of Hubbard and Scientology, it can be difficult to attack what they falsely identify with.
This again, despite all of Hubbard's (and Marty's) posturing to the contrary, shows how truly different Scientology is from Buddhism. Buddhism aims to understand and break down the bonds of
attachment and identification. Participation with Scientology almost always
INCREASES attachments and identifications (if nothing else, with the subject and practices of Scientology and Hubbard).
The truly "devoted" say, "I am a Scientologist". Buddhism actually aims, at some point, to eradicate even "devotion", along with any identification with ANY religion - even with Buddhism itself!
In Buddhism and other eastern practices, there is the idea that at some point you have to
get rid of the system or package of ideas that you used to get where you are. At some point, they actually become a hindrance to any further development. You have to actually
BURN the Bridge to get any further. Not so with Scientology. They will NEVER abandon "the bridge".