What I Miss About Being a Public Scientologist

[jojo]

1. Being sessionable -- no partying go to bed early missing my favorite tv shows
2. Forcing food down my throat in order to get a metabolism read
3. wishing I was OT enough to hang with the OT crowd
4. Being sent to Ethics
5. Looking up all the little words
6. Listening to idle gossip about who the latest SP is
7. Making your needle float
8. Being regged for thousands of dollars
9. Borrowing money to give to the registrar
10. Being behind in my bills
11. Applying the Condition Formulas -- usually Doubt
12. Being in Doubt again!
13. Not going to the doctor when something is wrong
14. Knowlege Reports
15. Trying to write a Success Story

 

[In present time]

I really miss that part where artists are treasured, but most of your art was being outlawed. Ahhh, the good old days.
Maybe we could make a list? Then change that into a repair session? And "disaffected" public would flock right back in.

 

[iHateDuplicity]

1. Giving at least 10 standing ovations every hour while watching events, even the ones on video.
2. Coming up with more and more and more things to say to the Examiner when he's just staring at you until he finally nods and you can stop talking and be told your needle is floating.
3. Coming up with legitimate-sounding excuses for not going to fundraisers.
4. Feeling guilty for having more than $100 in the bank.
5. Being made to feel guilty by regges for trying to follow LRH policy on having some money in reserves.
6. Being made wrong by my course supervisor for not putting in enough time on course.
7. Rushing through my courses so I can count as a number on my sup's weekly stat.
8. Being home visited by people I've never met at 11pm so they can give me an urgent briefing about world affairs and then ask to my credit card limit so they can get it raised to help solve those problems.
9. Getting regged for my full training package and then after I pay, getting recruited to staff so I will be sure to never have the time or ability to do that training.
10. Watching my org shrink and fail while being told Scientology everywhere is expanding like never before in history.

 

[Auditor's Toad]

Being told " Auditors are the most valuable beings on the planet "!




And seeing that made true over & over & over again !













































Because they bring the highest bounty of all !

 

[jojo]

I forgot to say answering the phone with a fake half Chinese half Russian accent whenever an event was coming up and say no speaky English. Not to mention hiding inside my house whenever there was a loud knock on the door because I didn't want to deal with being given tickets to an event I didn't want to go to.

 

[KissMyStats]

I miss carrying toilet paper in my purse.

 

[Udarnik]

Making your needle float sounds vaguely dirty. Is that why there's so much out 2D in the orgs?

 

[freethinker]

Convincing all the terminals on the routing form for leaving Flag that you don't have any money left and you're doing absolutley fantastic so you can get the fuck out of there.

 

[KissMyStats]

I miss searching for twins for Emeter drill 25, Date/Locate. It was like hunting for prey.

Also miss having total strangers read my liabity formula, then questioning me about the bad things I had done, then accepting me back into the group, even though I had been such a shit, and then signing my formula letting me back into The Most Ethical Group On The Planet At The Friendliest Place In The Whole World. Very religious experience. So fucking spiritual.

 

[Gib]

Convincing all the terminals on the routing form for leaving Flag that you don't have any money left and you're doing absolutley fantastic so you can get the fuck out of there.

Oh fuck, tell me about that one.

I finally signed off for peeps and bypassed a whole lot of sharks,

I figured out they would never know and I got sooooo tired of telling the truth, I'm fuk'in broke, god damn it. Really!

 

[R6Basic]

10. Watching my org shrink and fail while being told Scientology everywhere is expanding like never before in history.

Change 'Org' to Mission and that's one of mine.

 

[clamicide]

It's so not funny, but now just oddly bizarrely funny in a sick wanna-kill-myself sorta way. My ex was always part-time staff, but also treated like public. So, I could write a whole bunch about what I "miss about being married to a public Scientologist". As in trying not to be "CI" while he gets regged into destroying any financial stability for the future...

and while in the middle of trying to reconcile, he's pretty much 'kidnapped' on the Freewinds because he can't leave until he comps his course and he's way behind target, so borrows a ton of freaking money and was there for months beyond plan.

I know at times it can seem hard for us who were staff to sympathize with former public, because in many ways it seemed like they had it easy. But, hell... we'd call them up and give them hell and make them come in before 2 on Thursday in order to try to save our skins. Life in the cult isn't easy.

 

[iHateDuplicity]

1. Arguing with people as to whether or not there should be a "disapproved" line in my liability formula writeup.
2. Wondering whatever happened to all those guys who used to talk on the stage at Int Events.
3. Counting the semi-colons in Science of Survival.
4. Lucking out in finding the "right" coach for EM 22 and 25.
5. Listening to IAS regges go on for hours of doom and gloom about how the world is being destroyed because I'm not giving enough in donations, and wondering whether this is somehow related to what merchants of chaos do.
6. Being told by the Ethics Officer that the only way to make up the damage for being late to course was by buying a Basics book package, but only if I bought it from him.
7. Having a headache and being told I was just out-Int.
8. Having a headache and being told to take B1.
9. Having a headache and being told to stop dramatizing.
10. Forcing myself to laugh so I'd soon stop frowning.

 

[Idle Morgue]

I miss hearing "I am not regging you"

I miss saying NO over and over and over - to fundraising, to coming on course every day,
to supporting huge vacant Idle Morgues,
to getting up the Bridge,
to IAS registrars,
to buying crap that sits in my basement never opened,
to buying more bridge before I could ever use it,
to going to events,
to donating to some poor some foreigner that wants to join the Sea Org but has NO MONEY to fly to Flag,
to buying Basic books to put in Libraries that throw them out,
to buying the newest releases,
to buying LRH Sci-Fi books,
to BELIEVING THE LIES ABOUT LRH,
to recruiters trying to get me to join staff or the sea morgue
to being a really big being and would I just tell them I have in my IRA account so that I can liquidate it for KSW!

Now I can say YES - to life, to love, to the pursuit of happiness, to puppies, kittens, flowers and lots and lots of MEST!!

I also really miss - paying for repairs and re-doing my entire Bridge~! NOT!!

 

[Arthur Dent]

I miss searching for twins for Emeter drill 25, Date/Locate. It was like hunting for prey.

Also miss having total strangers read my liabity formula, then questioning me about the bad things I had done, then accepting me back into the group, even though I had been such a shit, and then signing my formula letting me back into The Most Ethical Group On The Planet At The Friendliest Place In The Whole World. Very religious experience. So fucking spiritual.

Yes, this. And then seeing them grovel through a condition soon after for something stupid.

 

[Gib]

to buying Basic books to put in Libraries that throw them out,

If I had my confront up, LOL

I should have told the fuk's,

hey dude,

the books are at the library,

the work was free,

so why should I, motha fucker buy them?

when I can go to the motha fuk'in library with some play dough and read them?

So fuk off, motha.

 

[Arthur Dent]

Let's see... what do I miss... umm... ok, I miss:

Auditor and pc hiding in sessions to avoid the surprise IAS reg visit.
Wrong why's forced down your throat because they were convenient to others.
Being told you'd be paid. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Being told you were sooo theta and sooo upstat and how you've really changed..... only when you dropped a wad of cash; the rest of the time you were a useless piece of shit. Again, soooo spiritual!
Knowing how to 'out-create' evil ethics cycles and doing it just to be done with it.
Running into a great old friend I hadn't seen in a long time who was now RTC and giving a big, warm hello and hug, only to be met with ice and disdain for no reason.
Watching public on vii do lowers for stealing cable. Always cracked me up!
Pillaging the family coffers at every turn as it was easier to deal with those consequences rather than the consequences of not paying up. It was truly like the Mafia. Only they wore uniforms mostly.
Five hour, over hunger and fatigue, 'What are your crimes?" sessions.
Being lied to. I won't go about that!
And yes, Ihateduplicity, arguing about whether my condition formula should have a not-approved column!

 

[clamicide]

1. Arguing with people as to whether or not there should be a "disapproved" line in my liability formula writeup.
2. Wondering whatever happened to all those guys who used to talk on the stage at Int Events.
3. Counting the semi-colons in Science of Survival.
4. Lucking out in finding the "right" coach for EM 22 and 25.
5. Listening to IAS regges go on for hours of doom and gloom about how the world is being destroyed because I'm not giving enough in donations, and wondering whether this is somehow related to what merchants of chaos do.
6. Being told by the Ethics Officer that the only way to make up the damage for being late to course was by buying a Basics book package, but only if I bought it from him.
7. Having a headache and being told I was just out-Int.
8. Having a headache and being told to take B1.
9. Having a headache and being told to stop dramatizing.
10. Forcing myself to laugh so I'd soon stop frowning.

omfg... headaches. I'm sorry. I HAVE to comment. We weren't allowed to give TAs for headaches, because the tech said it was probably caused by something else (out-int), so we didn't, but we did give every other freaking assist known to man for them, because it wasn't expressly forbid by the HCOB. Oh, I got in such @!## for bringing up how that made no sense.

 

[Takin Time]

I miss carrying toilet paper in my purse.

Hey! (indignant) I still do that! Of course, that's because I go to outdoor events where the only facilities are portapotties... or even less. I guess I learned something from my time in scientology.



What do I Miss About Being a Public Scientologist?

Not a fucking thing!

 

[Gib]

omfg... headaches. I'm sorry. I HAVE to comment. We weren't allowed to give TAs for headaches, because the tech said it was probably caused by something else (out-int), so we didn't, but we did give every other freaking assist known to man for them, because it wasn't expressly forbid by the HCOB. Oh, I got in such @!## for bringing up how that made no sense.

don't worry,

Tom Cruise can stop by an accident and give a TA w/o C/S permission. LOL