I think this is an excellent suggestion. I have only interacted with a few still-ins, mostly as drive-by insults as I walked past their personality test tables and fired a shot or two to keep them from bothering me further.
If I were to talk to an OT (let's not include entheta just yet, a normal conversation), what would I notice? What would strike me as odd?
And what would be going through their head at the time? Constant self-censorship? Desperately trying to remember some bit of Ron's wisdom in dealing with a wog?
Would they try to steer the subject to SCN? Avoid it? Or try to probe me to get a reaction?
I talked to two OTs fairly recently. They have been in for decades. Here are some answers.
what would I notice? You might notice that they are quite unexceptional in every respect.
What would strike me as odd? The word mediocre comes to mind.
And what would be going through their head at the time? Trying to calculate what MEST words they could say that would get you to reach and pay for a Scientology book, course or auditing action. Trying to plug you into one of Hubbard's handling modules (e.g. finding your ruin, sharing their amazing wins they are sure you will want, etc.) so they could run the standard formula on you and get you to respond positively towards Scientology.
Would they try to steer the subject to SCN? Avoid it? Or try to probe me to get a reaction? They would steer EVERYTHING towards Scientology up until they determined that you were not a prospect because you were an SP or dangerously PTS.
In the conversation I had, I let them pitch Scientology to me without telling them of my own "OT" status. LOL.
Then I told them that I had done Scientology when I was very young. They eagerly inquired if I had done a course or ever had auditing. I just looked at them without any trace of emotion and said: "Yeah, I did the Briefing Course and through OT VII". That fucked them up a little, but they didn't give up.
After a couple beats of indecision, one of them had a "bright idea" and eagerly asked me if I had heard about "The Basics". I said yes. Before they could get very far into the pitch, I told them that I had read the books several times already. They confidently told me that the books were now restored to the way they should have been...
I said something like: "Oh, yeah I heard, some minor grammar errors were corrected."
One of them jumped right up and protested that it wasn't just minor grammar at all. They insisted that the books are really "different" now.
I suppressed a smile and asked: "Really? What's different?"
"EVERYTHING!!!" he fired back. (yeah, I used 3 exclamation points, that's right! LOL)
I calmly said, "Everything? Hey you know as well as I do that's completely bullshit. Anyways, why aren't you following the standard LRH Dissemination Formula and trying to find my ruin?" (it's evil when an SP puts in KSW on an OT, right? lol)
One of them kind of seemed to know what I was saying was right and clammed up. The other feebly kept trying to babble about how I should really read them for myself and see that it was true ("
everything was different")
That pretty much ended the conversation. I left the two OTs to get in com with each other about what just happened.
The simple answer to what Scientologists are doing is this: LYING. To you and to themselves. When they decide to stop lying they leave Scientology.
OTs are pretty pathetic actually. They can only be OTs with other OTs who agree with them and their OTness, lol. In the real world their tech doesn't work. Wogs have a name for that: "losers".