Hello,
I was never a scientologist but I do remember back in the early 90's I was working at an Environmental Firm in Emeryville, CA. One Day I was sitting at my cubicle on a small break I was talking to my father and excited about the house I just bought, my Dad called to let me know he was going to bring me his New House Gift early a lawnmower.....we both laughed about this while talking to my father my mom called me and I hung up with my Dad to talk briefly with my mom. Each time I sounded excited. However, after my telephone calls with my mom and Dad my co-worker popped her head in my cubicle and said how nice you can talk to your Mom and Dad....nd I looked at her puzzled.....
Needless to say we got in a small discussion and she told me that she was an Ex Scientologists who left the church and now her siblings and parents would not speak to her. I remember scrunching my face up like weird and then I said, "it is a church right the Scientology church" and she said "well" .....I was like, "the John Travolta Scientology Church.....she looked at me like she wanted to knock my head off.....
later on she told me her and her family was from near Death Valley, CA and when she was around 2 her family joined Scientology and she pretty much grew up in the Church of Scientology and her husband was an ex parishioner as well but his family was never in.....he was a freshman in college when he joined and his family was never in. This young lady said when her and her husband decided to leave and take their two small children their family and friends from Scientology refuses to speak to them.....her husband decided to move them with his family in Bay Area part of California because his family was never in Scientology.....
I not being in Scientology thought it was weird that a Church was refusing her to speak or be around her family because she did not want to practice Scientology any longer her story sounded like BS to me. With everything going on in Scientology these last several years the movie Going Clear and Leah Remini Show.....I get it now ....just recently I found some old Hearings from 1982 on YouTube and the one that caught me was of this young man named David Ray when he is describing how his Mom and 2 sisters would not talk to him and said he was causing trouble because he left Scientology in other words I know the terminology now "Disconnect" .......and to me that is just horrible, amongst the other mental and physical abuse brought on by the Church Administration or Top Dog Miscavige. I don't respect Scientology as a Church any longer......it sounds more like an organization to me running afoul....
But all these years her story about Scientology haunted me because that was the first time I heard about scientology disconnection policy and it was up close and personal not me looking at a TV screen watching someone talk about it. This young lady did tell me more and why they left but I do not want to tell her story.....it is horrible expensive story just like most ex scientologists and it was too much for me.......I couldn't believe it .......but now I know she was not lying and I wish I could meet up with her now I would hug her and let her know I am sorry for acting so standoffish and having a hard time back then believing her story because my thought process back then was Scientology is a Church ...people of the church would not do this horrible stuff.
Thank you for listening, I appreciate it. Yes, I used to be a die hard John Travolta fan since Welcome Back Kotter.....not as much now.
I was never a scientologist but I do remember back in the early 90's I was working at an Environmental Firm in Emeryville, CA. One Day I was sitting at my cubicle on a small break I was talking to my father and excited about the house I just bought, my Dad called to let me know he was going to bring me his New House Gift early a lawnmower.....we both laughed about this while talking to my father my mom called me and I hung up with my Dad to talk briefly with my mom. Each time I sounded excited. However, after my telephone calls with my mom and Dad my co-worker popped her head in my cubicle and said how nice you can talk to your Mom and Dad....nd I looked at her puzzled.....
Needless to say we got in a small discussion and she told me that she was an Ex Scientologists who left the church and now her siblings and parents would not speak to her. I remember scrunching my face up like weird and then I said, "it is a church right the Scientology church" and she said "well" .....I was like, "the John Travolta Scientology Church.....she looked at me like she wanted to knock my head off.....
later on she told me her and her family was from near Death Valley, CA and when she was around 2 her family joined Scientology and she pretty much grew up in the Church of Scientology and her husband was an ex parishioner as well but his family was never in.....he was a freshman in college when he joined and his family was never in. This young lady said when her and her husband decided to leave and take their two small children their family and friends from Scientology refuses to speak to them.....her husband decided to move them with his family in Bay Area part of California because his family was never in Scientology.....
I not being in Scientology thought it was weird that a Church was refusing her to speak or be around her family because she did not want to practice Scientology any longer her story sounded like BS to me. With everything going on in Scientology these last several years the movie Going Clear and Leah Remini Show.....I get it now ....just recently I found some old Hearings from 1982 on YouTube and the one that caught me was of this young man named David Ray when he is describing how his Mom and 2 sisters would not talk to him and said he was causing trouble because he left Scientology in other words I know the terminology now "Disconnect" .......and to me that is just horrible, amongst the other mental and physical abuse brought on by the Church Administration or Top Dog Miscavige. I don't respect Scientology as a Church any longer......it sounds more like an organization to me running afoul....
But all these years her story about Scientology haunted me because that was the first time I heard about scientology disconnection policy and it was up close and personal not me looking at a TV screen watching someone talk about it. This young lady did tell me more and why they left but I do not want to tell her story.....it is horrible expensive story just like most ex scientologists and it was too much for me.......I couldn't believe it .......but now I know she was not lying and I wish I could meet up with her now I would hug her and let her know I am sorry for acting so standoffish and having a hard time back then believing her story because my thought process back then was Scientology is a Church ...people of the church would not do this horrible stuff.
Thank you for listening, I appreciate it. Yes, I used to be a die hard John Travolta fan since Welcome Back Kotter.....not as much now.