Shizzrack
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Hi!
I posted here a couple years ago under "Shrack", but can't get my password 'cause it was an old email address. I finally just made a new account. Yay.
I am Amy Shrack, and my parents were Tom and Carole Shrack, who have both passed away (Dad in 1990 and Mom in 2007).
I knew growing up that my dad was in the SO for a time (I believe it was long before he met my mom) and I knew they worked hard to pay off his freeloader debt, but a couple months ago while going through a box of old papers I found a communication sent to my dad c/o the RPF, and I was kinda floored. I didn't know he had to suffer the horror of the RPF. I don't know how bad it was in the 70s compared to more recent years, or how long he was there, but it really made me want to cry when I saw that document.
My dad's best friend from his childhood really feels my dad was struggling with the idea of leaving Scientology when he passed away. There were some signs. But of course he didn't want to leave me and my mom behind. My mom was pretty hardcore, in general (mostly in a good way) so I can imagine he wouldn't have believed she would exit the Scientology life/network/friends/purported spiritual freedom with him. If that's what he was thinking, he was probably right. An underlying heart condition made the decision for him, in any case.
When my mom was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, I was way done with Scientology, but I sucked it up and drove her to PAC to get the help she wanted (nobody would C/S her for anything but assists, as it turned out). It took a lot for me to walk into the org with her as a (non-vocal) ex, but I did it, because I loved her.
We were at PAC all the time from my earliest memories until Mom and I routed off the Pro Metering course (so early 80s through mid 90s), mostly at ASHO Day. My mom was also at AO and sometimes Flag for 7.
I've been an ex starting about 1996, although I did a Purif at CC during a moment of weakness in 2003. Mom and I became very disillusioned when GAT came out, although she remained a staunch believer in the tech through her dying day. It's too bad I wasn't connected enough at the time to turn her on to the freezone.
So those are my random thoughts for the evening by way of re-introduction.
Cheers, glad to be back here to share stories and hopefully find old friends.
Amy
I posted here a couple years ago under "Shrack", but can't get my password 'cause it was an old email address. I finally just made a new account. Yay.
I am Amy Shrack, and my parents were Tom and Carole Shrack, who have both passed away (Dad in 1990 and Mom in 2007).
I knew growing up that my dad was in the SO for a time (I believe it was long before he met my mom) and I knew they worked hard to pay off his freeloader debt, but a couple months ago while going through a box of old papers I found a communication sent to my dad c/o the RPF, and I was kinda floored. I didn't know he had to suffer the horror of the RPF. I don't know how bad it was in the 70s compared to more recent years, or how long he was there, but it really made me want to cry when I saw that document.
My dad's best friend from his childhood really feels my dad was struggling with the idea of leaving Scientology when he passed away. There were some signs. But of course he didn't want to leave me and my mom behind. My mom was pretty hardcore, in general (mostly in a good way) so I can imagine he wouldn't have believed she would exit the Scientology life/network/friends/purported spiritual freedom with him. If that's what he was thinking, he was probably right. An underlying heart condition made the decision for him, in any case.
When my mom was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, I was way done with Scientology, but I sucked it up and drove her to PAC to get the help she wanted (nobody would C/S her for anything but assists, as it turned out). It took a lot for me to walk into the org with her as a (non-vocal) ex, but I did it, because I loved her.
We were at PAC all the time from my earliest memories until Mom and I routed off the Pro Metering course (so early 80s through mid 90s), mostly at ASHO Day. My mom was also at AO and sometimes Flag for 7.
I've been an ex starting about 1996, although I did a Purif at CC during a moment of weakness in 2003. Mom and I became very disillusioned when GAT came out, although she remained a staunch believer in the tech through her dying day. It's too bad I wasn't connected enough at the time to turn her on to the freezone.
So those are my random thoughts for the evening by way of re-introduction.
Cheers, glad to be back here to share stories and hopefully find old friends.
Amy
Amy - Welcome back 
. So sorry for your loss of parents. 
May both your parents RIP. 
