I am putting my story out there in website format:
smokinram.com
Took me a long time to decide to do this but I am doing it.
It's also going to take me a very long time to finish it. But it will be done.
It's just getting started. Maybe you will want to read it and give me emotional support along the way.
Thank you,
Danny
Hi Danny.
Glad to see that you're now out of the cult lunatic asylum!!
Great start to your website. I've bookmarked it and am looking forward to reading more as you add to it.
I've read just about every book exposing scientology for what it really is, and am a regular on the former members' websites, such as this one, although I don't post that often.
I really didn't start learning about the REAL side to scientology for about 4 years after I got out.......... Then one day I bought my first computer and discovered the internet........... Up to this point I honestly thought that all the abuses of people, and financial crimes committed, were confined to the out ethics mission that I had the misfortune to belong to. How wrong was I................
I always love reading stuff written by exes. New stories shouldn't actually surprise me by now, but they always do.
Your bit about the OT's on your site made me chuckle. This really does show that "OT" is something people have been indoctrinated into believing. OT's still screw up, they still get old, they still eventually die, they still have accidents, they still contract illnesses and diseases, they still "justify" having "out 2D's". They are actually HUMAN!!!!!
The best part of it is that if a spokesperson for the cult was to be questioned about all the examples that you gave, they would NEVER say that scientology doesn't work, or that some aspect of it was at fault. It's always the fault of someone else, usually the person who has fallen foul of their "policies".
Your bit about KSW was very real to me as well. When I first joined staff I did the Staff Status courses, among plenty of others, and had my "wow factor" kick in. Hubbard made things sound so simplistic and real in the Staff Status', so I looked forward to applying the "tech".
Trying to ACTUALLY apply it in the nuthouse that passed as a mission was another thing entirely!!! There was always some flap or another, yet another "all hands" urgent job, yet another reason to pull people off post, etc....... It was always down to some "exec" who had sufficient rank to completely bypass policy altogether........ Dunno why we bothered with the Staff Status courses as no one could actually apply them!!!
Same with KSW. You'll always find someone who has a valid "reason" to ignore it and therefore, in Hubbard's own words, commit High Crimes and Suppressive Acts. Apart from the fact that, in my opinion, scientology has very little benefit to the vast majority of people, the hierarchy who should be applying it simply don't. Especially when it suits their own vested interests not to..........
Anyway, that's enough rambling from me. Keep writing and I'll keep reading.
Well done on creating your site.