Scientology has often given some pretty hefty numbers when talking about their membership numbers in Clearwater. I think Rev. Brian Anderson once said there was 10,000 but I have heard 6,000 also.

With all due respect to that learned cleric (won't somebody PLEASE buy him a meal)the true number is a lot lower. Recently I was shown a copy of a fund raising letter from about a year ago from which it was possible to deduce their real (adult) numbers, exlcuding staff: 2,500. I think this includes all of Tampa Bay area. This seems about right. How many are here at any given time for a few weeks or a month taking courses?

Nobody knows. My guess is 100-300. As for the number of staff, only the cult knows but they must have more than 500, if somebody said 800 I wouldn't argue but since scientology says there are 1,000 we know it is not that many; they never fail to tell lies when numbers are listed.

How can they keep going with so few members? Whatever a Scientologist has ends up in the coffers of the cult and if you don't have money they will be happy to take your labor.

Their recent statement in the press saying that they will "double" the exsisting staff has interested me.

How many Scientologists when they join end up on staff? One out of five? One out of ten? Anybody got any ideas? To get another 800 Sea Org members they might have to recruit another 10,000 suckers. Any chance of that? I don't think so. If they DID get them then they would have to get another housing complex the same size that is on N. Saturn St.

All this leads me to think that the idea of doubling staff at flag is either an outright lie which they have no intention of doing or is a pipe dream puffed out by a deluded upper management. Either way it 'taint gonna happen.

Scientology in the US is played out, -they haven't grown at all and are just keeping even if that. Look how many SO members at flag come from poorer latin american counties or Mexico.

English is an endangered species at flag. The estates org is a regular Tower of Babel. I wonder if the cult pays their way over? Perhaps we could make a case against them for endentured servitude or peonage.

Comments welcome, -The Exile "AS a result of a number of comm cycles at OSA, I have learned that the church does not want any church public posting to this entheta forum." -Ron Chester, TNX administrator and OSA lackey.

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