Can you just stop?

[TheOriginalBigBlue]

I don't disagree with your post at all. I would just like to know some more information about your experiences in the Scientology community for a research study I am doing for school.Please let me know if you would be willing to participate. Thanks so much.

Sarah

Hello Sarah,

Requests like this come in from students and reporters with some regularity. I think it is excellent and should be encouraged. When Scientology has contracted and retreated to some dystopian enclave like The Prisoner then it will probably be people like you who keep the conversation moving.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/

I suggest that you start your own thread to flesh out key questions and to ask how to best go about this project. It may also help others who want to conduct interviews.

 

[programmer_guy]

Hi programmer_guy. I am fascinated by your experiences within the scientology community.Would you be willing to answer some questions I have about your experiences?

Which of my experiences are fascinating to you.. before the time of this post you made? Just curious. :confused2:

 

[AnonyMary]

I don't disagree with your post at all. I would just like to know some more information about your experiences in the Scientology community for a research study I am doing for school.Please let me know if you would be willing to participate. Thanks so much.

Sarah

Sarah, around here you will not find people jumping to such a request without having details on the project where it is being sponsored by, and who the principals are. Over the years we have gotten lots of people pretending to be someone they aren't, 'trolls' so to speak, here for the benefit of aiding Scientology in identifying members. Therefore members are cautious and demanding of more specific information before venturing out to discuss their life in and out of Scientology.

Your interest is commendable but do keep this in mind that many members are protective of their anonymity, for very important reasons. Scientology is an organization that has a history of trying to destroying families, friendships (disconnection). Google Scientology + disconnection and you will see why.

Workplace and community stability is also targeted when it comes to certain ex members speaking up (who may reveal publicly things they don't want made public). They have a policy people inquiring into Scientology, called Attacks on Scientology. They have a policies, still active despite claims otherwise, based upon the doctrine of Fair Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology)

Not all ex's are effected by potential consequences for speaking up or discussing their history, but a good number are for any one of the reasons, above. Please keep this in mind and if you seek volunteers for your graduate study, do provide details of the university, and professor in charge, so people can verify this study exists.

 

[Helena Handbasket]

Idem!

I escaped and took 2 flight to go back to my parent's home so had a bed and food. Took a week of rest and decided to demand a subsidary to go back to studies..
(did equivalent of a degree in 1 1\2 year non-stop..full time..was hard though..6 to 12 midnight each day)
but about right after I was back at work a self-employed consultant and made a good living with my work.

But, if I had nowhere to land..I don't know what I would have done...really I don't....It's something I can't figure out and is why I have so admiration and respect for those 2nd generation SO who escape...

This must be a time you really experience what lonelyness is and need resilience at work though!

You know that made me think of something ....

Getting a degree/another degree/job training would be a GREAT way to cover for the years spent "on the inside". Not only is it a ready-made explanation for why you haven't been in a job for a while, but since any prior job would have been WITHOUT that new degree, no one would expect it to be too relevant, and so would be uninclined to want to know too much about what you've been doing then.

Helena

 

[JustSheila]

You know that made me think of something ....

Getting a degree/another degree/job training would be a GREAT way to cover for the years spent "on the inside". Not only is it a ready-made explanation for why you haven't been in a job for a while, but since any prior job would have been WITHOUT that new degree, no one would expect it to be too relevant, and so would be uninclined to want to know too much about what you've been doing then.

Helena

True, that!