Balthasar
Patron Meritorious
In cult recovery how do you explain to regular people that you were in a cult for years and not have it sound like bs or you were an idiot or knowingly complicit in crimes? How can you be accepted as possibly sane after serving a group less popular than the KKK and that pays SO slaves less than Chinese slave laborers and gives RPFers less rights than convicts and forces young girls to have abortions ? I feel like it's going to be a tough sell to explain mind control , misdirection,etc to people who don't know and don't believe it's possible. I also don't know how to explain going from a fanatic who slavishly loved lrh and would've killed or died for scientology to a critic who doesn't believe any of the doctrine and that just a few months study up to the affirmations and completely stopping thinking in the language has resulted in a complete change in loyalties and beliefs; it just seems like more change than is possible in a human being, especially after decades of cult membership. Please tell me how it's gone for you guys. thanks
Why not tell people that you worked for the Scientology cult whenever the subject comes up. I would feel extremely uncomfortable pretending not knowing anything while my friends or the the people I am with, discuss it. I always tell them. Oddly enough, nobody ever asks for details. Perhaps because I don't look like a cultie.
Beside that, why would one even care what other people think about oneself? If you run around worrying wether or not other people approve what you do or have done in the past, you are not free but a prisoner. You have got to free yourself of cult shackles but not only that, you also have to break free of religions preconceptions, society moral codes and, I am sure most will disagree, even laws.
Laws may one day tell you point a gun at your fellow man and shoot. Will you do it?
You are your own master. It's YOU who has to live with YOURSELF forever. No other person can truly judge onother person. Only the person itself can - and will.
Beside that, seriously, WTF would it be somebody elses business what I choose to be involved in?
If nothing helps - please make this your new religion:
"WTF is it somebody elses business what I did"
repeat this until the need for approval disappears