Hello
Let me start by saying that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, a member of any Scientology organization.
I just registered because I am hoping, from time to time, to ask and possibly respond to discussions on this board. I'm not a troll, nor do I intend to be disruptive. I do realize that this is an Ex-members' board, and don't want to be intruding in a private place.
I'm now in my 40's, and am from Los Angeles originally. I think that I've somehow been aware of and amused by Scientology since my teens. For a few years I had an apartment in Hollywood, a couple short blocks from the Celebrity Center. I used to enjoy my interactions with Scientologists on the street, usually on Hollywood Boulevard, when they'd approach me rather abruptly and ask seemingly random questions like "When did you last have a haircut?" and "What do you do for a living?" and watch as they scribbled my "answers" on a clipboard. I never took any courses, but did the "Personality Test" a couple times for laughs. One of those times I'd used the answers from the Clambake site and entered them in online and got an email saying to get my results at the Celebrity Center. I went, and was amused by the experience. They never did get my results that time, because "there was a problem with the computer." I did get in an introductory film, and had a little rather odd foreign guy following me around and talk up Scientology as I was waiting for my results. I've read some about Scientology, like "Bare Faced Messiah" and "Piece of Blue Sky" and have followed the antics of the Anonymous/Chanology movement.
Anyway, it's nice to meet you all here. I've lurked for awhile and have found this to be an interesting place. I hope you don't mind if, from time to time, I join the conversations.
Let me start by saying that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, a member of any Scientology organization.
I just registered because I am hoping, from time to time, to ask and possibly respond to discussions on this board. I'm not a troll, nor do I intend to be disruptive. I do realize that this is an Ex-members' board, and don't want to be intruding in a private place.
I'm now in my 40's, and am from Los Angeles originally. I think that I've somehow been aware of and amused by Scientology since my teens. For a few years I had an apartment in Hollywood, a couple short blocks from the Celebrity Center. I used to enjoy my interactions with Scientologists on the street, usually on Hollywood Boulevard, when they'd approach me rather abruptly and ask seemingly random questions like "When did you last have a haircut?" and "What do you do for a living?" and watch as they scribbled my "answers" on a clipboard. I never took any courses, but did the "Personality Test" a couple times for laughs. One of those times I'd used the answers from the Clambake site and entered them in online and got an email saying to get my results at the Celebrity Center. I went, and was amused by the experience. They never did get my results that time, because "there was a problem with the computer." I did get in an introductory film, and had a little rather odd foreign guy following me around and talk up Scientology as I was waiting for my results. I've read some about Scientology, like "Bare Faced Messiah" and "Piece of Blue Sky" and have followed the antics of the Anonymous/Chanology movement.
Anyway, it's nice to meet you all here. I've lurked for awhile and have found this to be an interesting place. I hope you don't mind if, from time to time, I join the conversations.