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I cringe when I recall that these kinds of statistic/reporting forms were my life in the 2000s until I left abruptly in 2008 - reams of paper and countless files on my computer. They often fell into the hands of the treasurer. In my last year as a premie, I started to push back on some of the things we were still doing as a community because the results came nowhere close to justiyfing the exhorbitant amount of time, effort and money we were spending (money that constantly needed to be raised). That's when I was branded as "negative," the cult's secret code word for a premie going wobbly. It applied to anyone ever so slightly stepping out of line.
At one point, I got so ticked-off at cold receptions to what I thought were sound, practical suggestions aimed at spending our money more effectively (or at least not wasting it...the kind of suggestions I got rewarded for at work), that I tried to calculate how much money and how many hours we were spending per person who actually received Knowledge. I can't remember the estimate, but it was beyond astronomical (multiply that globally!). It didn't matter, of course, because that's what we were supposed to be doing and any hint contrary to exactly how we were doing it was too close to "doubt" for comfort... and did I mention "negative?" 
If you calculate all the time and costs, e.g., rented rooms, leased halls, organizing, communicating, subscriptions, set-up, break-down, viewing, etc., for all those introductory and aspirant video events - divided by the number of people who actually received Knowledge as a result - I'm sure you'll get the picture.
Many (if not most) communities actually shrunk in those years and the deterioration eventually triggered the need for the Team Trainings, which imo backfired miserably and marked the beginning of the end of communities as we knew them. The cognac imbued genius Himself developed them. Couldn't buy that training for a million bucks according to the facilitator.
Modified by lakeshore at Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 16:05:48
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