Another example of scientology shooting itself in the foot with their own statistics.
This org Org is manned primarily with Sea Org members— Kathleen Olsen was one of those shipped off to this org that the Aftermath Foundation helped to escape.
Columbus became “ideal” 4 years ago.
Apparently what they are most proud of (perhaps more accurately, the least embarrassing thing they can point to) is selling 11,000 books and getting “over 700” people onto their first service. Not a word about the real stats that are supposed to measure the success of an org: how many Clears and Class V auditors they’ve made and how many groups, social betterment groups and missions they have opened in the Scientology wasteland that is the Midwest. I would guess the number of Clears would be single digits in 4 years and the other stats would all be 0.
Let’s break down the numbers they are willing to announce (even though they are the missions that groups and missions should be judged against). 4 years is 200 weeks give or take. This translates into about 50 books sold per week and 3.5 new service starts a week. They should have DOZENS of groups and missions EACH producing this sort of new public inflow by now. And remember, it takes a LOT of first service starts to get a single person started on a real Bridge service. They may be getting 1 in 50, or a new person on the bridge every 3.5 months.
This is how they are clearing the planet!
But good news. More than a year after the program launched they are “gearing up now” to send an executive team to Flag for training! Woohoo.
PS: Diane, the word manifold as an adjective means “of many kinds, numerous and varied” not “multiple” as in “more than one, several.”
Looks like an incredibly wasteful and inefficient process, with all the expensive buildings Miscavige keeps empty for years, and the wasted months spent in Clearwater where the outer Org staffs accomplish nothing while waiting for others to do the same.
Manifold times?
Good Gosh! I don’t think that I’ve ever seen that word used in quite that way. Maybe the writer was just plumb tuckered out? I suppose that after working a 35 hour week, the human body can just get real tired.
Especially if it doesn’t get paid. I don’t know why. But it sure does seem logical to me. You just gots to pay those slaves. If you don’t, they will just surprise you with their spelling and grammar. I’ve seen some pretty crazy stuff!
Reports are DM makes outer irg trainees be on course overnight and sleep during the day. Of course any reasonable person realizes how harmful that is to someone’s health. Of course it violates what Hubbard said about not auditing after 10 pm. He claimed it was due to space issues when they could easily used some of empty buildings for more courserooms if needed.
Ah, the poor, misunderstood, entheta-throttled, universe-saving Thetans! Feverishly postulating and fundraising and cosplaying…to no avail!
The Church Of Scienbollocks is DOOMED, I tell you! El Bong Strokehard’s tech is being buried in…
TRUTH!
Tick Tock, COB (Chief Offal Blaster).
Do they still need to send the executive team to the flag? I thought with DM’s firsthand supervision, things were already on track worldwide.
Seems like they are more lost than I thought.
In few decades this is the 20th time I hear about these executive teams, and when they come back, nothing seems to change.
Will this be the time? Hmm.
I wonder if they are giving up on the experiment of staffing Columbus with SO – and resorting to moving them to Austin and Chicago just to finally have enough staff to get those orgs open.
Another example of how Hubbard’s creation went the way of the yo-yo. Founded around about the same time period too. Same ups & downs, except with Scientology they never realized the string broke.
I guess that they must also have a “manifold destiny”, then. But I think that we have a pretty good idea of what the most likely possibilities of their destiny is.
Hint to the Columbus “ideal” org: On your student hat course, there is a very excellent, detailed description of how to fully clear a word to full conceptual understanding. Perhaps instead of spendinig org income to send staff to flag for “advanced” training you, you might consider having having each of them star rate and clay demo this bulletin.
If they know how to read and write English well, the other training will go better.
If you divide 700 by $camatology’s favourite magic number 47 you most likely get a truer figure of “raw public” and that works out to roughly 15 over a 4 year period. I’ll be generous (don’t ask me why) and say 40 instead.
Such over-the-top hyperbole is a marvel to behold. But I guess that’s par for the course. Once you’re accustomed to buying into Hubbard’s crap it becomes easy to buy into your own crap. Weird is the only way to describe running orgs based on mutually agreed upon delusions.
The fact that they have not yet been able to get a team together to go to Flag is an indicator that they do not have a lot of non-SO staff. They are not the only supposed ideal that has not gotten their team to Flag yet even though it is over 1.5 years (maybe more) since the Golden Age of Admin was announced. Staff who volunteer for this have to know, if they have been around for very long, that they may be separated from families for 1-2 years. They have to have some outside method of support too as their pay while at Flag will be almost nothing. Even when someone finishes their lineup, they can’t leave until whole team finishes. Of course the grueling over night study is bound to harm the health of older staff (didn’t at least one exec from some place in Midwest die?) And they may need to be replaced and whole team will need to wait for new person to be recruited and finish.
Overnight study? What is their typical schedule like? Just curious.
I guess they are using ‘manifold’ now instead of “47 X”!
After eating way too much beans and rice the subsequent flatulence attack that Diane had went straight to her head and caused the “…expanded manifold…” brain fart.
OMG I can’t with their crazy over the top BS! It’s so silly!!