This article by Scientology business alleges that an inside source told them that David Miscavige is very, very unhappy and unsatisfied with the statistic of the Church Of Scientology in the United Kingdom.
He allegedly told the executives in the United Kingdom to “handle” the UK, for who may not know “to handle” is Scientology jargon for “improvise and put as much manic energy into a project until you reach your goal”, too bad that when people actually “handle” as they are ordered they are punished because “it’s not in the policy!”
I don’t doubt that the members of the Sea Org are motivated, in fact, it is my convinced opinion that people who work 18 hours a day (no, you didn’t read it wrong, 18 hours a day) 24/7 without a pay must be the most motivated people on the planet; the Sea org members of the lower ranks (swampers to chief petty officer) are people who truly believe in their mission of expanding the church, the problem is with the upper management (midshipman to captain) that is composed of people who seem to be doing everything in their power to give impossible orders to the the lower members and the orgs’ staff, while doing everything in their power to sabotage them.
Imagine that you are ordered to tear down a brick wall, you ask for demolition instruments to do it, you are told that the policy states: “the only acceptable way to tear down a wall is with your bare hands” and that’s it, you (obviously) fail in your task and you are punished for it; that’s the Sea Org.
The funny thing is that it would take nearly nothing to reverse this decline and make membership increase again, all they have to do is to stop sabotaging their staff and their members and let them work, they even had a pretty efficient Div. 6 (public outreach/charity) in Scotland before the upper management decided to shut it down for who knows what reason; also, they could start to follow the law, like, it’s not that hard to get a legal permit to mount a stage they don’t have to start a PR nightmare everytime they want to hold a public event.
If self-sabotage was an olympic sport they would win gold medals every 4 years, literally all their ruin comes from them constantly shitting on their own public image with abuse scandals, legal scandals, lawsuits and bad management.
I kind of like pity the staff and the low level Sea Org members honestly.
As I said before, they do believe in the “mission” of the church and of the Sea Org, but the problem is that they can’t do anything to raise their stats because it’s completely out of their control.
If the church of Scientology was a person, it would be a psychopatic narcissist who had a little moment of glory in their youth by making up grandiose lies until the truth came out about how they mistreat their children; so, everyone (their children included) burnt bridges with them and now they are old, alone and miserable while screaming at the few codependants that are still with them.
Miscavige should just resign, if production statistics are of paramount importance for the Sea Org then his own are terrible and he should be sent on his merry way: the orgs are empty, no one takes the test anymore, the sales of the books have decreased, the auditing has decreased, the charity is not being done anymore; the church has became nothing but his real estate cash cow that he uses to live like a mogul.
When I was a kid, back before the internet, it was very expensive to have computers talk to each other. And being a child meant there was absolutely no way for my friend and I do pay for it, and that was not going to stop us. We would use the Church of Scientologist phone lines (on the outside of their buildings) to facilitate the communication (and put the bill on them). We choose them because they are so hated we figured if we got caught (by like a policeman) there was a decent chance they would let us go. We never got caught.
That’s probably not the way the Miscavige and his cronies see it. To them, the stats going down is probably due to the staff being incompetent (so they have to work harder), not that the Hubbard “tech” fails (because that is axiomatically not possible). And/or the “church” is being attacked by evil external forces that the staff have to work harder to counteract. For the latter point, i’ll concede that it is probably a half-truth, but with a different perspective that reflects the truth better: With the rise of the Internet in the 1990s, Scientology critics could reach a global audience, and disgruntled higher-level scientologists saw their chance to leak “secret” (but oh-so-embarrassing) documents that were the foundation of the “theology” of Scientology. Ridicule inevitably followed. Throughout the 1990s, Scientology set their bestest and cleverest lawyers on the case (anyone remember Helena Kobrin?) to eradicate the material and to sue whoever they could. I used to read about this whole shitshow on Usenet (in particular alt.religion.scientology, which I came across by accident when Scientology first started their censoring attacks on the Internet). At first, I thought Scientology was a parody, but as the censoring efforts spread out across the globe, I started realising that people actually believed the space alien mythology shit that Hubbard hallucinated. In retrospect, I see now that the utterly ridiculous content of the Scientology belief system also contributed to kickstart my own freethinking, and to release myself from religion.
In short: well played, Scientology. Well played. /s
It never ceases to amaze me what people with bizarre religious beliefs can accomplish. It makes them willing to do anything and risk anything to spread, protect, and defend those beliefs. It’s like a super power. I can only hope that scientology has finally met it’s match and can, at the very least, harm fewer people.
I doubt that Hubbard’s policies are still being 100% enforced, it seems to be now that all the policies in favour of letting Sea Org and staff members relax a little have been repealed and new soul crushing policies have taken their place.
You are just reiterating my point (Scientology regards the failing of Hubbard “tech” as axiomatically impossible; it’s the staff members and the Sea Org that is not implementing it properly).
No, you have misunderstood what I said, I meant that despite the church saying that Hubbard’s policies are perfect they still have changed or repealed some of them.
Like the policy that an auditing level shouldn’t cost more than the median monthly income in a state, it has been completely deleted and now auditing costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Or the policy that allowed Sea Org members to have children, it has been changed to forbid them to have children.