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Yeah I was 15

You can call me N.

“4.4 million people touched by Scientology”. Yes, literally touched, ie handed a flyer or coupon, or tapped on the shoulder asked to try a stress test.

Sounds likely, N. Graham…

I’m still curious about the production costs & details. You say it’s an old ad – do we know how old & when it was first shown? It’s still a damn costly one.

Your numbers seem pretty sensible, but I do think it isn’t always a good idea to imagine the Scilons (and esp Miscavige) doing an clear-eyed cost-benefit analysis, even a quick back-of-the-envelope one like you just threw down here..

I have often thought there may be a big reason for Miscavige’s nearly suicidal mismanagement (not that Hubbard was any management genius, to be sure– and excluding his violence) and that is–
He may really believe this shit– More than the old man did, any way..
And if they truly believe that people are hungry for this stuff, and all you have to do is pitch it right.. Then that may be just the added edge to push them over into foolhardy risk…
The stuff I read about how he micromanaged Battlefield Earth, all the time thinking he had a monster hit on his hands (before it failed and he put it all on Travolta’s, ahem, ‘tone scale’ problem, convinced me that he can get really removed from reality and start placing crazy, bets..
Hubbard would never have done that because he knew, at least somewhere deep inside, that his kind risked hot tar, chicken feathers and the first rail out of town.. He’d need some quick’ get outta jail money’, etc… Miscavige could really lose the whole farm.. Not on this particular venture, but I smell desperation…
I think you are clearly better at math than either Miscavige or I, John P.!

David Miscavige reputedly flunked out from his auditor internship when he assaulted a PC. He never qualified as even a Class IV auditor, nor does he get audited.

You ask either sphinx the same question (mandatory, since you don’t know which is the liar/truth teller).

“What path would the other sphinx tell me to take?”

And take the opposite.