HelluvaHoax!
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Alas, ethical church members were indoctrinated to police themselves!
I also had very "serious doubts" even before I heard the "official story", because I did not go to that event. My doubt condition was triggered when people kept calling me and saying that there was a "mandatory event for all Scientologists". Something about that word ("mandatory") made me secretly recoil inside and think "Hell No I Won't Go!" LOL
That's perhaps one of the top 3 drivers in all of Scientology that compels people to blow. The fact that they joined Scientology to very curiously and willingly explore the "science" that Hubbard hyperbolically boasted he had discovered. But then, later, the bait-and-switch kicked in and Scientologists started getting ordered around in military fashion and compliance became "mandatory". It's a monumentally shocking transition that goes unnoticed. It's analogous to a family visiting the entertainment theme park DISNEYLAND and (once inside) learning that the exits are blocked by costumed Mikey Mouse and Donald Duck ethics officers who threatened and terrorized you if you tried to leave.
Other than Scientology being a psychotic theme park that betrays you, abuses you, imprisons you and steals all your money, I think it's a lovely religion! LOL
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..What RVY says in that video "...what's amazing is that Scientologists bought this..." (referring to the story of Hubbard going off and researching the next levels. I was on Boston staff at the time watching the event at some nearby venue and I had very serious doubts about the official story we were told. Something just didn't feel right about it to me at all. But I didn't feel safe communicating those doubts to anyone at the time I knew in Scientology. I knew that questioning that story would land me quickly in the Ethics Office in deep trouble or at least I'd be getting a battery of sec checks . I'm sure that there were many others who also had doubts about that story. And for the same reason they kept silent. Some may have exited the CoS at that time.
Alas, ethical church members were indoctrinated to police themselves!
I also had very "serious doubts" even before I heard the "official story", because I did not go to that event. My doubt condition was triggered when people kept calling me and saying that there was a "mandatory event for all Scientologists". Something about that word ("mandatory") made me secretly recoil inside and think "Hell No I Won't Go!" LOL
That's perhaps one of the top 3 drivers in all of Scientology that compels people to blow. The fact that they joined Scientology to very curiously and willingly explore the "science" that Hubbard hyperbolically boasted he had discovered. But then, later, the bait-and-switch kicked in and Scientologists started getting ordered around in military fashion and compliance became "mandatory". It's a monumentally shocking transition that goes unnoticed. It's analogous to a family visiting the entertainment theme park DISNEYLAND and (once inside) learning that the exits are blocked by costumed Mikey Mouse and Donald Duck ethics officers who threatened and terrorized you if you tried to leave.
Other than Scientology being a psychotic theme park that betrays you, abuses you, imprisons you and steals all your money, I think it's a lovely religion! LOL
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