(October 31, 2016 at 2:23 pm)abaris Wrote:(October 31, 2016 at 1:45 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Honestly, the more I see it, it seems less of a case of some rich people promoting a group that pushes a nefarious agenda that benefits them and more a case of a group deciding to push themselves on the world and having the money (from the expensive coursework) to push their own nefarious (if incoherent) agenda.
Then it's a power trip. But I don't really see that as the only cause either. Every megachurch pastor running his own TV station would be more profit oriented than a highly organised cult such as Scientology then. I don't see that, or, I refuse to see that. Not with all the con seminaries and tests they created to get to the life savings of new members. They are all about money. Even their indoictrination is all about money. And when it's all about money, there's usually someone or some group making a profit.
And why can it not be Miscaviage himself (or Hubbard when he was still alive)? That's what virtually all the evidence points to. And, after all I've read, it's sure as shit easy to believe that Hubbard, having some obvious mental problems, and Miscaviage, essentially being a shorter and even more deplorable version of Malcolm Tucker are both certainly capable of such a naked mix of a cult of personality and a long con.
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