Elronius of Marcabia
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The op is wrong because it overgeneralizes.
what does "op" mean Claire ?
The op is wrong because it overgeneralizes.
what does "op" mean Claire ?
The post that started the thread.
I did NOT know. ((Me in 1969: :confused2: ))
I had been a "hippie" in San Francisco, tried drugs, tried Eastern Religions...
But they were hard to "Apply". Then these kids I knew from High School gave me this book,
Dianetics. I asked, "What is it about?" They said: "It's an applied philosophy". ((Note: Had they said it was a religion,
I would have never gone)).
THAT WAS MY PROBLEM with the Eastern Religions!!
They said, "You can have it". I read 3 chapters (about being an auditor and helping others).
I quit college, and hitch hiked from Chicago to LA.
30 YEARS later..................I fully woke up and escaped OUT: Never to return ever again.
Thank GAWD we're OUT
Tory/Magoo
Gawd bless you, Tory!
It has crossed my mind that this is what will keep the COS supplied with fresh meat. Good old fashioned teenage rebellion.I was interested in the auditing. Tried it at home. Tried to talk to my father about it, but he made the mistake of ridiculing me, and I had a monstrous chip on my shoulder. Face/nose-type thing.
My case is a bit different – I didn’t know, but I should have known. When I was taking Level 0 course, our course supervisor told us not to read certain LA Times article because it contained OT data, the article was published in 1985. I was an atheist at that time and believed in Dianetics only, I didn’t think that OT data would harm me in any way. I went to a public library and asked for the article contacting the OT data. But the librarian told me that I should go through the pile of newspaper issues since I didn’t know the data of publication. I was too lazy to do that. But seeing the Hubbard-Xenu shit would have been enough to keep me away from the cult.This is a thread for those who were exposed to negative or critical or ridiculing information about Hubbard and Scientology, and became involved anyway.Whether it was during the pre-Internet era, or the Internet era, YOU KNEW, yet you STILL JOINED.I can fully understand if no one wants to post anything on this thread.I particularly don't want to think about it either.Embarrassing.
The op is wrong because it overgeneralizes.
what does "op" mean Claire ?
The post that started the thread.
ah "opening post" then
Thanks Claire
Actually it refers to the poster, I mean the person who posted, so it means "Original Poster".
I'm reviving this very embarrassing thread. Although, scanning through it, it seems it is not all that embarrassing for most. Most people didn't know.
I admit. I knew quite a bit. I'll tell you a little bit and they may sound like excuses because I of course don't want to look stupid, but whatever, I was really young and who is all that smart when they are so young?
It was all pre-internet. I first got into it in a unique way. I was 12 and my brother was 15. It was my brother that was introduced to it by an adult outside of our family who had one foot in and one foot out of the church at the time. He was mentored in through books and taking some courses at Flag. I read the books he brought home and had no idea there was even a "org" near me for about a year, nor would I go in because I already felt there was a separation between the org and the tech. We were kind of anti-org.
I finally went in at 13 and thought they were all weird and very soon after saw a big 20/20 expose and told my "terminal" at the org/mission that I wasn't coming back in. But I still believed in the tech.
At 16, I went back - to AOLA to get free auditing (my Objectives). After a few weeks of that (and some extremely odd things that happened with my young auditor - whose family/household I was living with), I blew and was convinced that Scientology was a brainwashing cult!
Yes!
Why would I go back after that three years later?
There were reasons, but now that I get to this part, I feel I can't say them aloud. I've said too much already.
All I can say is that people largely get sucked into cults typically when they have been through a series of losses and/or life changing-events and they are extremely vulnerable.