Carmel
Crusader
Speaking out publicly to media means disconnection. That disconnection often has a ripple effect on so many others. As a result of that, many who want to speak out, won't or can't without having an adverse affect on more than themselves.
A made up example of the nasty web, but typical all the same ...
There's a lad (a second generation Scn'ist) who wants to speak out. Dad is in the SO. Mum is out of the SO, doesn't like the church, but is married to someone on course in the org and she works for a boss who is a Scientologist (well, she *thinks* her boss is a Scientologist). Boss though wants out and desperately wants to speak out, but she has a daughter in the SO, so remains under the radar *waiting* for something to change. The lad is willing to lose his dad, he figures he's already lost him. He knows though, that his mum is on side with him, but if he speaks out, then he knows that if his mum sticks by him, she’ll lose her husband and her job. The boss wouldn't want to sack the lad's mum, but if she didn't, then she'd lose other employees who were scientologists and her SO daughter would disconnect from her. It goes on and on and on. The ripple effect is humongous.
What does the lad do? The Church has people by the short and curlies on this one. They know it and they use it.
Per our calculations, only 3 -5% of all the people in ANZO who have left the CofS and who are out of Scn, have been prepared to speak ‘publicly’ against it. The rest won't because of fear of being "fair gamed", but for the vast majority who won’t or can’t, it’s because the ramifications of disconnection will not only affect them, but also severely affect their loved ones, and sometimes severely affect those who have nothing to do with it or no choice in the matter (like the second generation for example).
I’ve had so many people contact me now about speaking out publicly, since the announcement of the Inquiry. Since the Lateline news segments in the last two days, it’s kinda gone ballistic. Still though, when it’s come to the crunch, only one of many who have contacted me in the last week with the intention of doing it, can or actually will, now that they've looked at the ramifications.
So how do we get around this? We have been ‘managing’ it to some degree, but after today, I’ve been wondering how the hell to blast through it.
I’ve often dreamed of a ‘day of reckoning’, or a day when everyone would put their bloody cards on the table. If they did so in ANZO, they would be bloody surprised! They’d realise that the the vast majority of their mates, clients, customers, their boss or their employees were under the damn radar just like they are. However, if they didn't all come out at the same time, that'd be a problem.
If all those under the radar had or felt the freedom to communicate to their friends and associates about where they were at on the CofS and Scn, they would find out where their friends and associates were really at, and the vast majority would be gobsmacked by the insidiousness of the façade they have been maintaining.
For sure, for many, to just discard the facade *alone* could and would have dire consequences to self and loved ones. But imagine if the majority who keep up the facade all discarded it on the same day. Who would be left standing? Crikey, it wouldn’t be those against the Church and Scientology who would be out of work, ostracised, kicked out of home, losing clients, losing business or whatever…….it’d be those few still sticking with their old allegiance, coz now it would be them who would be standing alone......and they'd be thinking “where the fuck has everyone gone?” and “maybe I should go too”. Then, with the vast majority of those "out" now speaking out (instead of staying under the radar), and no *imaginary* field anymore, maybe a lot of SO members would walk and go and reconnect with their families.
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhhhh! I know things are changing and that they’ll continue to do so. I’m just wondering how ta give it a bit of a nudge, coz today it’s been a bit of a bitch.
Dreams are free.
A made up example of the nasty web, but typical all the same ...
There's a lad (a second generation Scn'ist) who wants to speak out. Dad is in the SO. Mum is out of the SO, doesn't like the church, but is married to someone on course in the org and she works for a boss who is a Scientologist (well, she *thinks* her boss is a Scientologist). Boss though wants out and desperately wants to speak out, but she has a daughter in the SO, so remains under the radar *waiting* for something to change. The lad is willing to lose his dad, he figures he's already lost him. He knows though, that his mum is on side with him, but if he speaks out, then he knows that if his mum sticks by him, she’ll lose her husband and her job. The boss wouldn't want to sack the lad's mum, but if she didn't, then she'd lose other employees who were scientologists and her SO daughter would disconnect from her. It goes on and on and on. The ripple effect is humongous.
What does the lad do? The Church has people by the short and curlies on this one. They know it and they use it.
Per our calculations, only 3 -5% of all the people in ANZO who have left the CofS and who are out of Scn, have been prepared to speak ‘publicly’ against it. The rest won't because of fear of being "fair gamed", but for the vast majority who won’t or can’t, it’s because the ramifications of disconnection will not only affect them, but also severely affect their loved ones, and sometimes severely affect those who have nothing to do with it or no choice in the matter (like the second generation for example).
I’ve had so many people contact me now about speaking out publicly, since the announcement of the Inquiry. Since the Lateline news segments in the last two days, it’s kinda gone ballistic. Still though, when it’s come to the crunch, only one of many who have contacted me in the last week with the intention of doing it, can or actually will, now that they've looked at the ramifications.
So how do we get around this? We have been ‘managing’ it to some degree, but after today, I’ve been wondering how the hell to blast through it.
I’ve often dreamed of a ‘day of reckoning’, or a day when everyone would put their bloody cards on the table. If they did so in ANZO, they would be bloody surprised! They’d realise that the the vast majority of their mates, clients, customers, their boss or their employees were under the damn radar just like they are. However, if they didn't all come out at the same time, that'd be a problem.
If all those under the radar had or felt the freedom to communicate to their friends and associates about where they were at on the CofS and Scn, they would find out where their friends and associates were really at, and the vast majority would be gobsmacked by the insidiousness of the façade they have been maintaining.
For sure, for many, to just discard the facade *alone* could and would have dire consequences to self and loved ones. But imagine if the majority who keep up the facade all discarded it on the same day. Who would be left standing? Crikey, it wouldn’t be those against the Church and Scientology who would be out of work, ostracised, kicked out of home, losing clients, losing business or whatever…….it’d be those few still sticking with their old allegiance, coz now it would be them who would be standing alone......and they'd be thinking “where the fuck has everyone gone?” and “maybe I should go too”. Then, with the vast majority of those "out" now speaking out (instead of staying under the radar), and no *imaginary* field anymore, maybe a lot of SO members would walk and go and reconnect with their families.
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhhhh! I know things are changing and that they’ll continue to do so. I’m just wondering how ta give it a bit of a nudge, coz today it’s been a bit of a bitch.
Dreams are free.