Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com Subject: TOM@S NOT ANSWERING Message-ID: <9512170931.0DDXW00@support.com> Organization: L.A. Valley College Public BBS (818)985-7150 X-Mailer: TBBS/PIMP v3.35 Distribution: world Date: Sun, 17 Dec 95 09:31:46 -0800 Lines: 64 Wbarwell@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (William Barwell) >>Possibly, if the stuff was reasonably priced, tens of thousands of OT >>VIIIs could have existed. So your cult cheated those who were desperate >>enough to sell their souls and those who weren't. Think you can do >>OTVIII without selling yourself into Sea Org slavery? Ted Mayett wrote: >I'm confused here. 1) There is policy somewhere that states that all Sea >Org are OT. 2) I thought that Sea Org worked only. 3) I thought only >paying customers got the OT levels. > >Was I wrong on this? Pope: >No. You can pay for your OT levels. If you happen to have about a >quarter of a million laying about. Or >You can try to get your courses by >going on staff. Fat chance. A rip off. You can get minimal courses >while working long hours at minimal wages and no benefits. Toadly accurate. >Or work your way up by joining the Sea Org, the only realistic way to make >it to OTVIII for most people. Most never make it. I got training (and OT levels) because I was in a position where I needed it for my post, Cramming Officer. Most staff just slaved away hoping for a session. Courses (except hatting) were out of the question. >Sobocinski, an OTVIII who posted here for awhile, let us know that there >have been only 1200 OTVIIIs produced to date by CoS. >Dennis Erlich worked his way up to OT VII in the Sea Org. >This seems to be the commonest way to get into those upper OT levels. >The Sea Org people are the few who really do get these upper levels free >if they stay in the Org. 1 in 100. >The only other possible route is to get the $$$ >by becoming an FSM but I have no idea if anybody ever manages to make the >bridge up to OTVIII doing that. Start a business management consulting firm and funnel chiropractors, podiatrists and vetenarians into the cult. >Ask Neal Hamil or Dennis Erlich, they may have a better handle on this. What's the question? >Pope Charles >SubGenius Pope Of Houston >Slack! +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * *