Hi! My name is Violet, and I am not an ex-scientologist, but have always been curious about Scientology!
I am really interested in talking about scientology with an ex-scientologist!
I'd like to talk about whether you think that if David Miscavige hadn't taken over for LRH, do you think the church would have taken off and continued to spread? Or do you think that LRH had already planted the seeds for it's top members to abuse and manipulate some of their most passionate followers? I've read examples of LRH's texts where he'd say one thing, but then express the opposite idea in another text...so I was curious. In a lot of ex-scientologist memoirs I've read (Ron Miscavige, Jenna Miscavige, Leah Remini, etc.), almost everyone insists that the majority of Scientologists are passionate good people--but why aren't the good people ever put in charge? I find it so baffling that the good people aren't looked up to? Then again, one could say a lot of good people with good intentions could do bad things with bad information...
Also--what policies do you think the church can do without? What policies could be crossed off to improve the church and maybe weed out people like David Miscavige?
I'm wondering these things, because even if one day, say--the FBI investigate the church and redact that they're a legitimate religion, it seems like a harsh thing for people who have dedicated their whole lives to the church to leave them high and dry of a religion that they truly believed in. Some may say these people are brain washed, but it's never a good thing to rip them out from something that they're brainwashed in right? What could get them to truly take the church's policy of 'think for yourself' seriously?
I am really interested in talking about scientology with an ex-scientologist!
I'd like to talk about whether you think that if David Miscavige hadn't taken over for LRH, do you think the church would have taken off and continued to spread? Or do you think that LRH had already planted the seeds for it's top members to abuse and manipulate some of their most passionate followers? I've read examples of LRH's texts where he'd say one thing, but then express the opposite idea in another text...so I was curious. In a lot of ex-scientologist memoirs I've read (Ron Miscavige, Jenna Miscavige, Leah Remini, etc.), almost everyone insists that the majority of Scientologists are passionate good people--but why aren't the good people ever put in charge? I find it so baffling that the good people aren't looked up to? Then again, one could say a lot of good people with good intentions could do bad things with bad information...
Also--what policies do you think the church can do without? What policies could be crossed off to improve the church and maybe weed out people like David Miscavige?
I'm wondering these things, because even if one day, say--the FBI investigate the church and redact that they're a legitimate religion, it seems like a harsh thing for people who have dedicated their whole lives to the church to leave them high and dry of a religion that they truly believed in. Some may say these people are brain washed, but it's never a good thing to rip them out from something that they're brainwashed in right? What could get them to truly take the church's policy of 'think for yourself' seriously?