Start to become a scientologist experiment

[_Rambo]

I was just watching tv and I saw I'm a Mormon ad. I started thinking about how it was just like the scientolgist ones.

I wonder if becoming a scientologist is very familiar process of becoming a Mormon. It would be an interesting experiment just to see. Maybe I'm bored but I think it would be a fun experience.

Is there a chance they could drag me in and I will believe?

I have seen there church has a workout gym so that wouldn't be that bad. :)

Anyways who is down for me to try this experiment?

[_canpakes]

If I understand the process correctly, you're going to need bags of cash to continue this experiment for any amount of time.

[_Tarski]

I was just watching tv and I saw I'm a Mormon ad. I started thinking about how it was just like the scientolgist ones.

I wonder if becoming a scientologist is very familiar process of becoming a Mormon. It would be an interesting experiment just to see. Maybe I'm bored but I think it would be a fun experience.

Is there a chance they could drag me in and I will believe?

I have seen there church has a workout gym so that wouldn't be that bad. :)

Anyways who is down for me to try this experiment?

If you supply the needed money.

And you have to fix your avatar (it isn't visible to the rest of us)

[_Themis]

If I understand the process correctly, you're going to need bags of cash to continue this experiment for any amount of time.

The fees for Golds gym is a hell of a lot cheaper. People complain about paying 10% tithing, but I understand Scientology will ask for much more.

[_Chap]

I was just watching tv and I saw I'm a Mormon ad. I started thinking about how it was just like the scientolgist ones.

I wonder if becoming a scientologist is very familiar process of becoming a Mormon. It would be an interesting experiment just to see. Maybe I'm bored but I think it would be a fun experience.

Is there a chance they could drag me in and I will believe?

I have seen there church has a workout gym so that wouldn't be that bad. :)

Anyways who is down for me to try this experiment?

If you supply the needed money.

Going to Scientology top levels is very, very expensive. Operation Clambake has this:


Okay. Here is the long awaited CoS (Flag) processing price list, from "Raw Meat" to OT8, with a glimpse beyond even that.

========== ========== ========= =====
Processing Intensives Cost per Total
Step Required Intensive Cost
or Course (IAS)
========== ========== ========= =====
Life Repair 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
Purification RD ----------- $2,560 $2,560
TRs & Objectives 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
Scn Drug Rundown 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
ARC Straightwire 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
Grade 0 3 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $16,800
Grade 1 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
Grade 2 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
Grade 3 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
Grade 4 2 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $11,200
New Era Dianetics 3 x 12.5 hr $5,600 $16,800
Clear Certainty RD 1 x 5 hr $2,800 $2,800

SUB-TOTAL TO CLEAR $128,560

*Solo Course Part 1 ----------- $3,200 $3,200
*Old Testament Preparations 2 x 12.5 hr $3,300 $6,600
*Solo Course Part 2 ----------- $1,900 $1,900
*Old Testament Eligibility 2 x 12.5 hr $3,300 $6,600
*Old Testament I ----------- $2,000 $2,000
*Old Testament II ----------- $3,800 $3,800
*Old Testament III ----------- $6,500 $6,500
Old Testament IV ?2 x 12.5 hr $6,500 $13,000
Old Testament V 4 x 12.5 hr $7,400 $29,600
Old Testament VI set-ups 2 x 12.5 hr $9,250 $18,500
Old Testament VI ----------- $12,800 $12,800
Pledge Intensive 1 x 12.5 hr $9,250 $9,250
Old Testament VII ----------- $3,500 $3,500
Old Testament VII C/Sing
(per year) over 2 years $3,200 $6,400
Old Testament VIII ----------- $10,000 $10,000
Old Testament VIII auditing ?2 x 12.5 hr $7,400 $14,800

TOTAL BILL FROM RAW MEAT TO Old Testament VIII $277,010
========
Although all that spending would be spread over time - maybe ten years or more - you would still be spending at the equivalent of tithing on an annual income of $277,010. That's much more profitable for the organization that Mormonism ever is, based on the income of an average American.

But then, Scientology is a modern religion, and a carefully designed one at that. No wonder its efficiency in extracting cash is higher than the scheme dreamed up by an early 19th C. farm boy.

I wonder what L. Ron Hubbard said about Mormonism? I bet he knew something about it, and learned lessons from it.

[_Gadianton]

Rambo,

In addition to the time and money, those guys don't take rejection very well. A friend of mine who lived in the Sea Org "escaped" after learning about some of the higher doctrines -- and this was prior to the internet so it wasn't that easy -- and they were still pursuing him years later.