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6. The Big Lie -- False Stats, Lies & False PR

It’s a fact that most Scientologists and most staff (including Sea Org) would forgive Miscavige anything, any level of destructiveness, if the purpose of Scientology was being achieved. The false rationale behind such a state of mind is a perversion of the Scientology datum of the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics. The problem is that, in this instance that datum doesn’t apply, because the rest of Scientology materials tell us that anyone destructive will not achieve the purpose of Scientology for themselves or the group. They will create something else, something destructive.

But Miscavige knows this so he invents another lie, the Big Lie that Scientology is expanding by leaps and bounds, it’s huge in size and scope and it’s doing well. He knows that if you think Scientology is achieving its purpose you won’t ask any difficult questions, certainly not in his direction, in fact you won’t even have questions.

It’s the real reason for all the events, the dazzling statistics and the staged shots.

Let’s look at the big lie, the overall statistic of the number of Scientologists in the world. I’ve heard a number of figures from Miscavige and every time he quoted millions.  I’m sorry to say that is a total lie.

Let’s define a Scientologist as someone taking service or likely to take service at some point in the future (attend their church).

Missions: Now most missions have just a handful of staff with a handful of public. Go look at some if you don’t believe me. I have been to a number of them recently and I see what would have been defined as a group in days gone by -- two staff or 6 staff and a similar number of public. I would be being generous if I said mission public numbered 30,000, very generous.

CL V Orgs: Again, most are small and failing. The small ones have less then 10 staff with 30 public taking service with perhaps 100 more in the field. The larger ones have maybe 50 staff and 100 public on lines with a few hundred others that might take service at some point in the future. There are around 10 or so that are bigger but most are much smaller. Again, if I’m generous and take the medium-sized ones at the average 600 public x 150 orgs equals 90,000 public.

Sea Org Orgs and FSO:  Los Angeles, Sydney in Australia, St Hill in England, Copenhagen in Denmark and the FSO in Clearwater. Well, the first thing you have to know is there is overlap of public between the orgs, many public are on more than one mailing list. At any one time these Advanced Orgs have a few hundred on lines, on average and have a few thousand to call upon which is why after many years of intense work by orgs we have only around 6000 OT VIIs, the number of Advanced Org public just don’t exist to support greater numbers, around 40,000 all told.

Now throw in less than 10,000 staff worldwide of all types and the total number of Scientologists number around 170,000.

Now I’m not saying that there aren’t more central file folders in our orgs but that would lead me to the next question: Where did these people go? Why did they fade away in the last twenty years?

I can prove it another way. In the latest Scientology News (page 5), Miscavige claims that sixty million LRH books and lectures have been sold in the last two years. Well, you don’t have to be a genius to know that’s the Basics (books and lectures). Well, there are around three hundred individual books and lectures in a full basics set. If 10,000 Scientologists (the dedicated ones put under heavy duress) were forced to buy 10 sets each per year (I know a number who have twenty sets in storage), over two years that’s 10 (sets) x 2 (years) x 300 (books & lectures) x10,000 (paying public) = 60,000,000 books and lectures in the last two years.

Alternatively, 20,000 people forced to buy 5 sets per year, over two years. Or 40,000 forced to buy 2 to 3 sets per year, over two years.

And that’s if you believe the 60,000,000 figure and I’m not sure I do.

Many OTs were forced to buy multiple sets for nameless people or donate to library campaigns over the last two years. The strain on the few was very heavy. But any way you want to cut it, it doesn’t add up to a lot of people.

Sixty million items over two years sounds fantastic at first glance but actually it proves we are small fry. And if Scientology is small fry what the Sam Houston has Miscavige been doing over the last thirty years? Crashing the stats is the answer. Burning question: why were many orgs and missions bigger in terms of public and staff in the 70s and 80s than they are now?

And just to prove again that Miscavige is lying, in the same magazine he states there are 195,000 volunteer ministers and that we have engaged 20 percent of the Earths population in the last 12 months with VM and similar programs (page 4). Well, first off, if every Scientologist in the world was a volunteer minister we still wouldn’t reach 195,000. As for reaching more than a billion people in the last 12 months through VMs, Narconon and the like, well the average Narconon might handle 50 addicts in a year so you do the math, its utterly impossible, Miscavige’s assertion is just another part of the weave added to his fabric of lies.

Conclusion

I could go to town, analyze Miscavige’s stats and assertions and show you the falsities but that’s the wrong sequence, it’s the wrong end of the stick.

If you take into account the hidden false reports, hidden actions, falsely created Scientology track that no one could think with and the heavy behavior modification, along with implants and the fact that no one knew the whole story (hidden things done and said by Miscavige), and those who did know gagged and banished, plus the fact that we’ve all been made to feel inferior because we have constantly failed at tests no one could pass, is it any wonder we can’t think straight with this subject?

But once you see the mechanisms he has employed, once you lift the false curtain Miscavige put there and notice the smoke and mirrors, you become very aware of the fictitious time track and you begin to remember what actually took place and it becomes easy to discern the truth.

And once you see the truth you easily start to see through the false stats, false PR and lies because you will never buy his bill of goods again.

Written by T. Paine