Thank for the welcome
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
I'll try to reply to just a few of the comments here:
@ Free to Shine - Yes, being free to experience life and all its nuances is truly liberating - if only everyone could. Get your wog on!
@ LongTimeGone - thank you. I think having an inquisitive mind made me analyze things a great deal. Being an idealist meant my expectations of the CoS (based on its own stated goals) were slowly shattered by reality. I wonder if my parents had of stayed in the SO...what life would have been like. Quite different I'm sure.
@ Arthur Dent - My two younger sisters also turned out to be free-thinkers and they are both well thanks. Neither of them are involved in the CoS, though I'm sure it'll take some time before they really understand what it kind of organization it truly is. I think for now they take the view that if it 'helps' people like my parents then let it be - but I'm sure that view is slowly changing as they learn more.
@ Infinite - Kia Ora! I know! At the time, I felt it happening...I knew how it must have looked to my parents - like I was being 'enturbulated' by the black PR. They probably thought..."Hubbard was right! Look at what the data did to her!" Crazy Huh!
@ Kutta - thanks. I like to consider myself an Internationalist! : ) (plus kiwis who want to join the SO move to OZ, right?)
@ AnonyMary - thank you. Yes, I am so lucky that I have a great relationship with my parents.
I think they are great people and am quite sure they would never be pressured into disconnection...but that must have been said before... When the time comes I'm sure we'll talk about the true face of the CoS.
@ Mark A. Baker - I did read about some Scientologists in Taiwan. Thanks for the link and info.
@ behindmycamel - I wonder how that's coming along...Amnesty International can be slow to grind, but once they get going there is a lot they can do. Thanks for the info.
ashajade
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
I'll try to reply to just a few of the comments here:
@ Free to Shine - Yes, being free to experience life and all its nuances is truly liberating - if only everyone could. Get your wog on!
@ LongTimeGone - thank you. I think having an inquisitive mind made me analyze things a great deal. Being an idealist meant my expectations of the CoS (based on its own stated goals) were slowly shattered by reality. I wonder if my parents had of stayed in the SO...what life would have been like. Quite different I'm sure.
@ Arthur Dent - My two younger sisters also turned out to be free-thinkers and they are both well thanks. Neither of them are involved in the CoS, though I'm sure it'll take some time before they really understand what it kind of organization it truly is. I think for now they take the view that if it 'helps' people like my parents then let it be - but I'm sure that view is slowly changing as they learn more.
@ Infinite - Kia Ora! I know! At the time, I felt it happening...I knew how it must have looked to my parents - like I was being 'enturbulated' by the black PR. They probably thought..."Hubbard was right! Look at what the data did to her!" Crazy Huh!
@ Kutta - thanks. I like to consider myself an Internationalist! : ) (plus kiwis who want to join the SO move to OZ, right?)
@ AnonyMary - thank you. Yes, I am so lucky that I have a great relationship with my parents.
I think they are great people and am quite sure they would never be pressured into disconnection...but that must have been said before... When the time comes I'm sure we'll talk about the true face of the CoS.
@ Mark A. Baker - I did read about some Scientologists in Taiwan. Thanks for the link and info.
@ behindmycamel - I wonder how that's coming along...Amnesty International can be slow to grind, but once they get going there is a lot they can do. Thanks for the info.
ashajade