Scientology ‘speed running’ trend has LA abuzz and church unhappy | Los Angeles

I can never pass those.

IIRC, you learn about Xenu at OT III (it goes up to VII) and the cost to reach OT III was estimated to be in the $125-200k range a few years ago depending on exactly what path you take and how much auditing they decide you need.

Nah man it’s gotta be Matt Turk

He had money. He had his cultists file tons of lawsuits. Both against the IRS and the individual people working for them, accusing them of all sorts of things, targeting and harassing them till the IRS caved.

Accidentally replied above to this, links included

Goddamn, core memory unlocked lmao. Hesch was always my no 1. MC Chris for f****** life.

If Tony Ortega believes she's alive, she's almost certainly alive. He has contacts inside Scientology, as well as contacts who have left. He wrote this in 2024, but nothing has changed: >Scientology may be very effective at keeping Shelly out of sight, but covering up a death is another matter entirely. Consider the case of Anne Tidman, for example. Also known as Annie Broeker, Tidman was one of the last people to see L. Ron Hubbard alive, and she was also kept out of sight at a Scientology compound for years. When she developed cancer and then became very ill, she was moved to an apartment in Hollywood, where she died in 2011. Scientology was able to keep news of her death quiet for several months, but eventually her family was told about it, and that’s how we became aware of it. If Shelly died, we think the news would get out even more quickly. >Also, Scientology’s attorneys, in reaction to Leah Remini’s episode, made claims to the media that they had either personally seen Shelly or communicated with her. Scientology attorneys may be unpleasant human beings, but they aren’t going to risk their law licenses and claim that a dead woman is alive and well. >**Shelly is alive.** >She is at the CST compound near Crestline, California, the same place she’s been for 19 years. (We have amazing drone footage of the place, and a former employee there even pinpointed where he thinks Shelly is living and working there.) >She is now 63 years old, and if claims of a recent sighting in the town of Crestline is correct, she may be in ill health. >And yes, we will say again, she may be resigned to her fate. Nobody wants to hear this, but it is possible she's not a prisoner hoping to be freed but a willing participant in the cult.

I always just assumed she was at their underground base in NM engraving L.R.H's writing on metal disks or whatever they do there. 

>suicide by 3 shots to the chest with a rifle WTF Corruption at its finest, unless she toed a machine gun to her chest, who the f*** claims thats a suicide...

They haven't discovered the power of a suit, a high vis vest, and an iPad in a rugged carrying case just yet.

I really need to watch this episode.