Petey C
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My vote is Anonymous changed the game. If not, show me different.
In Oz, I would also add Nick Xenophon and the band of exes who came out fighting, together with Cherished.
My vote is Anonymous changed the game. If not, show me different.
I wish it were so but I remember the words from the poem "The battle of maldon"
"The fewer we be, the fiercer shall we hew, and our courage crueller"
Just remember that the ones that still can think are the first to leave so the "gene pool" become sever more fanatical.
I wish it were so but I remember the words from the poem "The battle of maldon"
"The fewer we be, the fiercer shall we hew, and our courage crueller"
Just remember that the ones that still can think are the first to leave so the "gene pool" become sever more fanatical.
When Scientology is down to it's last 2 Scientologists and makes its last-ditch marketing effort.
Co-Audit Up the Bridge!
TWINNING AND WINNING!
"When you get to Clear you'll
understand why we are so VVGI's!"
If that's the last two, I say leave them be and call it a day.
. . . But remember, hair and fingernails keep growing for a while after "termination" - that's all we're still seeing here IMO.
Love the sentiment but - just to be a pedant - its a myth that hair and nails continue to grow after death. What happens is that the skin shrinks giving impression that hair and nail is growing.
I agree that the Scientology "brand" has been irreparably sullied. I doubt we've reached any sort of "critical mass" because, lets face it, even if every public and every sea ogre were to walk out tomorrow, a small cabal at HQ has sufficient funds and real-estate investments to continue surreptitiously indefinitely.
Just on the point with Noriega; the analogy I'd make is with Osho Rajneesh and the Oregon commune. Rajneesh was finished in America and everywhere else in the West because the US government made sure he was after the mass food poisoning incident.
With the organisation a busted flush, those that were left "in" set up on their own and created a mass network of therapists and disseminators of Osho's works - the Multiversity. It's probably doing better than ever now.
I can't help the suspicion that the reverse is true with the CofS; the US government is covertly backing and protecting them and that's why they've been able to get away with it all for so long. I hope I'm wrong.
Oh, can't we just properly thank AL GORE for inventing the internet and move on?<snip>
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They are as 1.5 as hell and not going to take it any more.
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The funniest line of the year!
... AND they are going one step further and 'sticking it' to the cult by making videos, appearing on TV and radio news shows, magazines and books!!!! The meltdown has begun and appears to be avalanching.
Huh? People have been "going public" on Scientology since the 1950s.
I wish it were so but I remember the words from the poem "The battle of maldon"
"The fewer we be, the fiercer shall we hew, and our courage crueller"
Just remember that the ones that still can think are the first to leave so the "gene pool" become sever more fanatical.
I do not think that CoS has reached critical mass. I think COS has sunk to enormous Mediocrity and Stagnation, but not critical mass.
IMO, critical mass can only happen in CoS when DM himself reaches critical mass. He will be the Trigger of Collapse.
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So what?
The crimes they have committed will be investigated and they will eventually be jailed for them - even DM will run out of options eventually and do time in jail. Or He'll die pursued by Law Enforcement and lawyers - living on the run paranoid and alone like Hubbard in his final days.
With zero public support and an increasing number of whistleblowers coming out, the cult's days are numbered.
It won't matter how much money is left in the kitty - there will be a lot of disgruntled former customers demanding justice. And the media will feed that and the politicians and the police will act accordingly. That's the pattern we're seeing right now and it's only going to increase in intensity until the cult's leadership are nailed.
I'm not sure how long this will take but IMO it's inevitable now that the whole house of cards will fall. Without any sort of public support, Co$ CANNOT survive indefinitely. With increasing public ridicule, it will just accelerate that.
It's the same sequence that's happened over and over again. Noriega in Panama was invincible, then he lost his support. He is now where?
It happens to totalitarian leaders all the time. Their empire crumbles from within and without and there's nothing they can do to reverse that. Do you really think the cult can make a comeback from here?
I don't intend to take my foot of the Beast's throat, nor do I advise anyone else to. But there's nowhere for the cult to go but down from here. IMO we've passed the point of critical mass and a meltdown is inevitable.