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There is an interesting blog post at J.P. Capitalist new blog – Scientology Daily Digest – an anecdote by B. B. Broeker,” a longtime commenter on Tony Ortega's Underground Bunker. He ran into a Scientologist at Tampa airport who was leaving town. THAT is odd in itself, but even stranger was the fact that she was in a bar, drinking.
Here is a link to the post with the anecdote –
http://www.johnpcapitalist.com/2013/11/analytical-techniques-the-power-of-anecdotes/
I would like to discuss the drinking because I got some interesting responses to my comment. There are many interesting responses to the anecdote regarding the drinking, but mine is one of the only ones that points out that Scientologists just don’t drink (or take drugs). During the time I was involved with Scientology, if you were actively on the Bridge, receiving auditing or a student, you did not drink because it would cause you to be “unsessionable” or “unstudentable”. I walked away from Scientology in the late 1990’s. Have things changed since then?
If you read the anecdote, one of the outpoints about the woman in the story is that she was in a bar drinking. Not a normal circumstance for a Scientologist.
Here is the link to my comment and it is quoted below -
http://www.johnpcapitalist.com/2013...es-the-power-of-anecdotes/#comment-1122085097
Here is a link to the post with the anecdote –
http://www.johnpcapitalist.com/2013/11/analytical-techniques-the-power-of-anecdotes/
I would like to discuss the drinking because I got some interesting responses to my comment. There are many interesting responses to the anecdote regarding the drinking, but mine is one of the only ones that points out that Scientologists just don’t drink (or take drugs). During the time I was involved with Scientology, if you were actively on the Bridge, receiving auditing or a student, you did not drink because it would cause you to be “unsessionable” or “unstudentable”. I walked away from Scientology in the late 1990’s. Have things changed since then?
If you read the anecdote, one of the outpoints about the woman in the story is that she was in a bar drinking. Not a normal circumstance for a Scientologist.
Here is the link to my comment and it is quoted below -
http://www.johnpcapitalist.com/2013...es-the-power-of-anecdotes/#comment-1122085097
In this anecdote, one thing really stands out to me – the drinking.
In general Scientologists don’t drink. Just like they don’t take drugs, not even OTC drugs, they don’t drink. Drinking makes a Scientologist “unsessionable” – in other words, not able to receive auditing. Scientologists moving up the bridge and going in session on a regular basis do not drink. Also, this woman was drinking A LOT. 4-5 glasses of wine for most people would be quite a buzz, and for a Scientologist who rarely drinks, put them under the table. For an alcoholic,4-5 glasses of wine might be barely getting started on a binge. Was her speech slurred? I wonder.
I agree, why would a dedicated Scientologist leave town when “the most important moment in Scientology history” is about to take place? Why would they (staff at Flag) let her leave town, when it is known (on the fringes of the internet) that the Co$ is having difficulties packing the event tent with people…
I also agree that this woman probably is clueless (or was clueless until recently) about her family’s finances. After (my first) spouse and I left the Sea Org, we became public Scientologists and continued up our Bridge. I was stupid and naive and trusting, and found out after the fact that credit cards (in my name) were maxed, our house was in foreclosure, our cars were going to be repossessed, we owed the IRS taxes for 4+ years. I found this out when my spouse came home from Flag and announced to me about $25K put on (my) American Express gold card to the IAS. I had the credit but not the hounding regges. I was a lot better at saying NO. When I found out about all these financial disasters, I asked for a divorce. I went from fantastic credit to the worst credit a person can have. It took me years to recover.
It seems like something VERY bad happened to that women, and being an indoctrinated, longtime Scientologist, she was probably feeling it was HER fault. Maybe she found out about finances gone bad, as I had, and said to herself - I AM OUTTA HERE, or maybe she got kicked out because she got upset about it. But when BBB started talking to her in the bar, she was not going to say anything bad about Scientology or what might’ve just happened in her life, divorce, leaving before a big Scientology celebration, pounding down the glasses of wine.
It is the tendency of an alcoholic, even one who has “recovered” or is 'recovering”, that when something REALLY BAD happens to them, they return to drinking. (We already know that Narconon does not have proven techniques that help with alcoholism/addiction like AA does.)
If I had met that women in a – Bar – struck up a conversation with her, and she announced she was a – Scientologist – she would’ve seen a look of shock on my face.