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Esquire Magazine: What It's Like To Visit The Church Of Scientology
I was given a bogus personality test and persuaded to think I'm inferior
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/church-of-scientology-visit
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I was given a bogus personality test and persuaded to think I'm inferior
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/church-of-scientology-visit
Excerpts:
As I started taking pictures of things I wanted to come back to and learn more about, a guard at the church told me to stop. And to delete pictures off my camera immediately.
It was right after this that I stepped away from the crowd for the first time and went to take a piss. Before I even whipped my penis out, an administrator approached me. Alone. In the men's room.
"Have you taken a personality test yet?"
"Not yet," I said.
"You should take a personality test if you have time. We also offer an IQ test."
"Okay. I'll check out the personality test after I'm done pissing."
To my delight, he quit talking. He then shook my hand across the separator. Don't think I got any urine on him, but I'm not totally certain of that.
After being subtly coerced in the men's room into taking a personality test, I was issued the "Oxford Capacity Analysis," a 200-item questionnaire that had no direction and seemed to lack methodical validity. * * * *
I then asked if I could take my test results home. Given that they did not have the questions or my answers on them, I didn't see what the problem would be as there shouldn't be a copyright issue.
"No. Those stay here."
"Well, can you Xerox me my results? If I am to improve myself, I want to remember which areas of my personality need the most work."
"I'll go ask and see what I can do..."
He didn't come back for more than 10 minutes. I got bored. So I took a picture of my test results with my cell phone and skedaddled. * * * *