Sunk cost? True believers? Hard to say.

The fall from grace and “altitude” has to be incredibly painful because the transition to WOG life has never resulted (at least in my memory) into a situation of comparable stature for ANY former senior-level Sea Org exec. Most have vanished into the ether or remain relevant only by becoming critics.

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I suppose blind lambs prefer slaughter over real life.

Yep. And yet some of them, including Jane, are still secretly being allowed to do Scientology, including the OT levels, on the down-low.

Hubbard had a big regret about Snow White – Mary Sue got strip-searched on her way into prison. That bothered him, her best friend told me so. But then he had nothing to do with her after that, what a guy. And the rest of “the jailbirds” as we called them didn’t so well, either. I trained Gerry Wolf on word processing when he got out, so he could make a living. Jane Kember, former Guardian Worldwide for Life? Last time I saw her she was having lunch at New York George restaurant on Fountain Ave. near the big blue building, wondering how she was going to make a living. Yeah, the tech “works” – at killing lives.

I feel honored to have been responded to by the man himself. ^_^ .. and so now if one wanted to leave asap.. there is another way.. other than ‘attempting suicide.’

I think Detroit is fascinating, but then I don’t live there…