Tarski wrote:Rambo wrote: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.
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Processing Intensives Cost per Total
Step Required Intensive Cost
or Course (IAS)
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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
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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.