Farewell To The Ex Scientologist Message Board - ESMB
I left Scientology about five years, in 2014 after being in for about twenty-five years. I got a lot of help from a lot of people and would honestly have trouble mentioning all of them.
Jon Atack, Arnie Lerma, Tony Ortega, Tory Christman and Chris Shelton each provided help in one way or another and I communicated with each of them several times over the years and a couple of them in Jon Atack and Arnie Lerma dozens of not hundreds of times. Their help was a gift freely given and truly invaluable to me personally.
I know the Ex Scientologist Message Board is shutting down as far as receiving new content in the next few days. I want to acknowledge that the people there have provided a tremendous amount of help to me as well. Some are well known in their own right but many are less famous than the first five people I mentioned. I want to say that to list all the people who have helped and encouraged me at ESMB would take hours and hours of digging through threads,
messages and notifications. Rather than doing that I want to just thank them as a group here.
I have written dozens of posts and comments at ESMB and as many people here know started my own blog Mockingbird's Nest blog on Scientology with over three hundred posts there as well.
I want to make it available and to make finding particular posts easier so I have a chronological archive available.
https://mbnest.blogspot.com/2019/04/blog-archive.html
Blog Archive
BLOG ARCHIVE
▼ 2015 (182)▼ January (11)Taking On A Giant
Insidious Enslavement : Study Technology
Basic Introduction to Hypnosis in Scientology
Pissed It's Not Your Fault !!!
The Offensive Defensive Technique
The Critical Factor
The Secret Of Scientology Part 1 Control Via Cont...
The Secret Of Scientology Part 2 : The Adamantium...
A Brief Rhetorical Analysis Of Keeping Scientology...
The Secret Of Scientology Part 3 : Why Are Sciento...
Operation Endgame
▼ February (12)The Sour Knight
Recognizing And Recovering From Narcissists , Soci...
The Empty Well
Burning Down Hell - How Commands Are Hidden , Vari...
ARC And KRC
Why Hubbard Never Claimed OT Feats And The Rock Bo...
CREDIBILITY - The Reddest Of Herrings.
On Exes Letting Go At Differing Rates
A Million Years In Hell
The Clear Contradiction
David Micavige Murderer
Fifty Shades Of Hubbard - The Affirmations Dating ...
▼ March (25)Gibs Great Find - Rhetoric
Heaven From Hell
The Neuroscience Of How Personal Attacks Shut Down...
Recovery Beginnings
Ad Hominem :Fallacy File # 1
Coerced Colaboration
NLP...Cult ?
Cthulhu And A Puppy
Rhetoric In Scientology- A Few Brief Examples
Freeing The Mind To Doubt
Why Boredom Is A Barrier To Study Phenomena
Exteriorization Versus Dissociation
Lermanet.com's Great Finds Regarding Scientology
Scholars On Scientology
Recovery Beginnings
I Am Wrong And You Can Be Too !!!
OT VIII Anti Christ Version
Re: What Does "Workable" Mean ?
OT III And Beyond: Sources Plagiarized From Part ...
The Golden Age Of Castrations !!!
OT III And Beyond: Sources Plagiarized From Part ...
OT III And Beyond: Sources Plagiarized From Part ...
Propaganda By Reversal Of Meaning In Scientology
Cult Responds To Going Clear With Online Ads
Hubbard And Hitler
▼ April (12)Revisiting The C Word
Cult Of Scientology Malfeasance!
The Call For Compassion
Avoiding Piling On
The Day The Cult Died !!!!
Marty's Excalibur
Mark 'Marty' Rathbun: Scientology Beliefs
Why Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status - The R...
New " On The Down Low " Rundown Released For All ...
Honesty Without Compassion
A Psychiatric View With Comments On The Admissions...
Humbling Simplicity
▼ May (13)Scientology's Parallel In Nature - Malignant Narci...
The Unbreakable Miss Lovely - A Phenomenal And Ou...
Big Words...And Stuff
David Miscavige Pioneering Elder Care In The Scien...
Scientology 180 Degrees From The Truth
Money Hungry Scientologists
OT VIII Delusion Fulfilled
Scientology's Dirtbag Lawyers
Bottled Up Dissonance Expressed Through Projection...
Putting Scientology in Perspective
Hubbard's Legacy of Double Think
The Dilemma Of The False Self
My Endless Fascination and Wonder
▼ June (18)Implausible Denial
Miscavige And Hubbard : Contrasting Evils
An Open Letter To Leah Remini
Scientologists Equating Scientology To Jews And Cr...
Why So Many Semicolons In Science Of Survival ?
Sunk Cost - Crushing Gravity Of Scientology
Questions About Scientology Part 1
No Guru Or Enlightenment Here
How To Keep Scientologsists Away In Person !
Ron Hubbard's Narcissistic Traits
Dr. Robert J. Lifton's Criteria For Thought Reform...
OT VIII Delusion Fulfilled part 2
Good Cult Victims And Evil Cult Villains
Scientology And Margaret Singer's Six Conditions F...
Why We follow Decisive Leaders
Hypnotism : Science Or Pseudoscience ? Not So fast...
Boundaries , Bashing and Disorders
The Thousand Deaths
▼ July (3)List Of Cult Characteristics From Cults Inside Out...
Having Your Own Ideas In Scientology
First 100 Posts At Mockingbird's Nest
▼ August (36)The Incomprehensibility Of Scientology Part 1: Def...
The Error Necessary To Cult Recruitment
Sociopaths Traits from The Sociopath Next Door
Reclaiming Your Life From A Cluster B
Pathological Lying: A Psychopathic Manipulation To...
George Orwell: Two Essential Short Articles For Ev...
Signs And Traits Of Narcissists, Crazymakers, Emot...
A Painful Incredulity: Psychopathy And Cognitive D...
Scientologists: Was LRH Stupid
Scientology Logic™
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
PROPAGANDA: WHO'S PLAYING WITH YOUR MIND?
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 6 Propaganda: 7...
Scientology Trolls Again
Scientologists: Masters Of "Doublethink"
Scientologists: Have You Been Scammed?
Scientology Doublethink Again
A Scientologist’s Golden Age Of Integrity Drills
The Church Of Scientology Cries "Religious Persecu...
The "Science" In Scientology
Scientology And Freedom Of Religion
Conversation With A Scientologist
Scientology's Logical Fallacies
The Church Of Scientology Accidentally Tells The T...
Scientology Logic
The Scientology E-Meter
More On The Scientology E-Meter
Why Doesn’t Scientology Publish Good News About It...
Message To Nation Of Islam Members About Scientolo...
The "Not Me" Myth: Orwell and the Mind
Scientologists: Can You Remove The "Cult" From Sci...
"Real, live OTs!"
What Annoys Me Most About Scientologists
How LRH Destroys Scientologists’ Ability To Think
Scientology And The Universal Declaration Of Human...
There Is No Irony In Scientology
▼ September (18)Cults In Our Midst Part 1
A Brief Layout Of Scientology
The OT Perspective - To Be A God
How To Talk To A Scientologist
The Scientology "Soft Landing Place"
Scientology Has Failed
Scientology The Cult of Poverty
Xenu Who ?
Pulling Back The Curtain Part 1- Repetition And Va...
Pulling Back The Curtain Part 2- Deception By Dist...
Pulling Back The Curtain Part 3 Self Influence And...
Pulling Back The Curtain Part 4 Ethos And Obedienc...
Pulling Back The Curtain Part 5 Fear Appeals
Pulling Back The Curtain Part 6 The Granfalloon Te...
Pulling Back The Curtain Part 7 How To Become A Cu...
Exiting The Echo Chamber
Scientology's Influence Part 1 Contrast, Concessio...
Ron Hubbard's Twisted Mind Part 1 Pathological Lyi...
▼ October (15)Ambassadors Of Misinformation
Enduring The Unendurable
What Is Scientology ?
Trolls Are Fucking Assholes
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 1...
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 2...
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 3...
A Scientology Experience Part 1 Basic Beliefs
Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology ...
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 4...
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 5...
Scientology Building The Prison Of the Mind Part 6...
Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology ...
What Scientologists Below The OT Levels Learn
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 7...
▼ November (12)Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 8...
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 1...
Scientology Critics - Want To Win ?
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 9...
Scientological Thinking
Scientology Building The Prison Of The Mind Part 1...
Mass Murder In Scientology: Standard Tech
Unraveling Scientology - A Missing Vital Ingredie...
Ideologies And Critical Thinking
Withdrawal Of The Horizon
Orders Of Magnitude Part 1
Two Years Out Of The Scientology Cult
▼ December (7)Loving A Lie
Two Roads
The Lone Witness
Defending Delusion
OT IX And X
Mockingbird's Greatest Hits
Mockingbird's Greatest Hits 2
▼ 2016 (92)▼ January (11)Fox News
Fox News Echoes GOP's Misleading Definition Of Wel...
STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF CULT BRAINWASHING BEING US...
Racist Remarks
Unfortunate Inevitability - To Tolerate The Intole...
From Science-fiction to Fiction-science
A Guide To Mockingbird's Nest (So Far)
Scientology Mind Control Index
Rhetoric In Scientology
Cognitive Dissonance Theory In Scientology
Second Lives Of Cult Critics
▼ February (7)The Missing Foundations of Scientology
Scientologists: What, exactly, “works”?
The Weight Is Gone
Scientology And The "Gays"
Ron Hubbard On Psychology
Starving The Beast
Love And Admiration In Scientology
▼ March (5)Those Who Follow Part 1
After The Cult Part 1 Scientology Acceptance And D...
Alternatives To Scientology Part 1 Intelligent Dis...
Understanding The Language Of Narcissistic Abuse I...
Twenty Things Judges Have Said About Scientology
▼ April (11)Roots And Chains
Scientology's Disconnection
Disconnection - Undeniable Scientology Doctrine An...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 5 Emotional ...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 4 Thought Co...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 3 Informatio...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 2 Behavior C...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology Part 1 The BITE M...
Taking A BITE Out Of Scientology An Introduction A...
Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology ...
Scientific Method - Sort Of , Defining Terms Part ...
▼ May (20)Silence Is Consent
Brainwashing: Standard Tech In Scientology
Worker's Paradise
Dan Sherman's Hypnotic Writing Style
Hubbard Hypnotist Part One: Now And You
Hubbard Hypnotist Part 2: SHSBC Saint Hill Special...
The Anderson Report - Scientology and Hypnosis Rep...
"Never believe a hypnotist"
A Million Miles Away From Scientology
Crimes That Never Were
Hubbard's Con Dissected Part 1 PDC Tape 1 OPENING ...
Possible origins for Dianetics and Scientology
Hana Eltringham Whitfield talk
Understanding Dissociation
Building Resistance: Tactics for Counteracting Man...
Traumatic Abuse in Cults: An Exploration of an Unf...
Narcissistic Leaders and their Manipulation in Gro...
Denial and Other Common Narcissistic Defenses
Inception Of Self Deception
Scientology's Civil War
▼ August (7)Why Bother Dissecting Scientology ? 2
Affirmations as Conversation Enders
My Take on the Scientology E Meter
Scientology Study Technology - 1 Hubbard's Words
Scientology Study Technology - 1 Hubbard's Words
Scientology Mythbusting - Revelations
Understanding Scientology - The Light Of Reason
▼ September (13)Getting Away From Scientology Alive - Not Everyone...
Multiple Methods in Scientology
Scientology - Predictable Legal Strategy
The Fog of the Mind
Fool's Gold
Turning Scientologese and Turning Back
The Light of the Mind - Scientology Casts A Dark S...
Dissecting Scientology - Shadows and Light
An Inconvenient Truth
Cults and Cons re Scientology and Critics of Scien...
Chris Shelton and Marty Rathbun - Critical Thinker...
Scientology David Miscavige's Massive Shrinkage Pr...
Marty Rathbun - Later Day Ron Hubbard ?
▼ October (5)Scientology Damnation in the Details
Devil's Advocate - Scientology Watchers - Horny Ho...
Scientology's Kryptonite
Scientology's Kryptonite 2 The Fallacies of Scient...
Compilation On Abuse and Attitudes for Ex Scientol...
▼ November (9)Scientology's Kryptonite 3 Errors In Reason
The Cult of Trump part 1 What's a Cult, Really ?
The Cult of Trump Part 2 Who Owes Whom What ?
The Cult of Trump Part 3 Thought Reform
The Cult of Trump 4 Reason and Resistance
The Cult of Trump 5 Most Likely Scenario
The Cult of Trump part 6 The Con
The Cult of Trump part 7 Godwin's Flaw
The Cult of Trump part 8 Godwin's Flaw 2
▼ December (4)The Cult of Trump posts 1 - 8
The Power Of Leah Remini
Scientology Was Ron Hubbard's Private Game
Unlocking The Scientology Prison Of The Mind Part ...
▼ 2017 (40)▼ January (4)Traumatic Narcissism: part 1 Scientology and Hubba...
Traumatic Narcissism part 2: The Relationships in ...
A HELPFUL GUIDE FOR INTERPRETING THE LANGUAGE OF F...
Trump American Fascist 1 Fascism Really ?
▼ February (1)Defeating Trump - Operation Snowflake
▼ March (1)The Ten Stages of Genocide
▼ June (4)Scientology's Judas - Marty Rathbun
Scientology's Persistent Myths 1 - Hubbard's Belie...
Scientology's Persistent Myths 2 - Scientology Ca...
Scientology's Persistent Myths 3 - Sarge's E meter...
▼ July (7)Scientology's "Acceptable Truth" on "Messiah" Ron ...
Scientology's Secrets - 1 The Self Is Not The Othe...
Scientology a Cult by Design
Jon Atack and Marty Rathbun - The Critical Differe...
Marty Rathbun's Mission - Scientology's Useful Id...
Getting Into And Out Of Scientology part 1
As The Rathbun Turns
▼ September (7)Scientology - Enlightened Gurus And Gullible Dupes...
Essential Scientology Information
Scientology Viewed Through The BITE model by Steve...
Scientology And Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Scientology And The Age Of Propaganda
Rhetoric In Scientology
Why Lying And Murder Are Justified In Scientology ...
▼ October (1)SECRET PARIAH - Scientologists Among Us
▼ November (14)The Lies That Bind
Alternatives To Scientology - Subliminal In Full p...
Alternatives To Scientology - 1
Alternatives To Scientology 2 Subliminal 1
Alternatives To Scientology 3 Subliminal 2
Alternatives To Scientology 4 Subliminal 3
Alternatives To Scientology 5 Subliminal 4
Alternatives To Scientology 6 Subliminal 5
Alternatives To Scientology 7 Subliminal 6
Alternatives To Scientology 8 Subliminal 7
Alternatives To Scientology 9 Subliminal 8
Alternatives To Scientology 10 Subliminal 9
Alternatives To Scientology 11 Subliminal 10
Why Should Alternatives To Scientology Exist ?
▼ December (1)Ignorance Enthusiasts
▼ 2018 (23)▼ January (3)Scientology Racism - Can The Cult Deny It ?
Suggested Reading Scientology RACISM
Scientology Antisemitism "Jewish Bankers" conspira...
▼ February (1)Escaping Scientology - Overcoming Crushing Certain...
▼ March (1)Scientologists, ex Scientologists and Watchers - S...
▼ April (3)Levers and Lifeblood
Scientology's Secret To Overcoming Criticism
Origins of Deception In Scientology
▼ May (9)Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 2 Logical Fallac...
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 1 Looking at Bot...
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 3 Paul-Elder Cr...
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 4 Being a Pain i...
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 6 Propaganda: 7 ...
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 5 Show The Work
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 7 Rhetoric and S...
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 8 We Learn Toget...
Cornerstones of Critical Thinking 1 - 8 Introducti...
▼ June (4)Scientology versus Critical Thinking - Extreme Con...
Why Are Scientologists So Immature ?
Lessons From Leaving Scientology -The First Lesson...
The Poisoned Heart
▼ August (1)Why Scientologists Are So Close Minded and Certain...
▼ September (1)Cults, Narcissism and Digging Deeper
▼ 2019 (26)▼ January (15)How Cults Work 1 - A New Look
How Cults Work 2 - First Things First
How Cults Work 3 - Totalist Group Structure
How Cults Work 4 - The Brainwashing Process and O...
How Cults Work 5 - Attachment Theory
How Cults Work 6 - Forms Of Attachment
How Cults Work 7 - Disorganized Attachment and Dis...
Scientology's fight for apartheid The secret histo...
Scientology Racism can the Church Deny It ? Again
Scientology and Responsibility
How Cults Work 8 - Recruitment
How Cults Work 9 - Undue Influence In Recruitment
How Cults Work 10 - Totalist Indoctrination
Understanding Cults and Cult Watchers
How Cults Work 11 - Fright Without Solution
▼ February (2)Confirmation Bias - Can Versus Must
Scientology Assists and Objectives as Hypnosis
▼ March (4)Hidden Abuse in Scientology
Moving on from Scientology
Free Will and the Infinite Regress of Naive Realis...
Scientology Propaganda - STAND League
▼ April (5)
Jon Atack - Scientology Expert
Self Sabotage in Scientology
Scientology: Plan For World Peace
My Road Out of Scientology
Getting Into and Getting Out of Scientology - The ...
Scientology, Ron Hubbard and Hypnosis 1: Hypnosis ...
Scientology, Ron Hubbard and Hypnosis 2: Hubbard's...
Scientology, Ron Hubbard and Hypnosis 3 - Hubbard'...
Scientology -The Evidence - What Convinces Sciento...
▼ May (1)The Overboard Ceremony
▼ June (4)The Solipsistic Reality of Donald Trump
How to Debunk the "Liberal Media" Myth
Criminal timeline of Scientology
Scientology Criminal Conviction of Members
► July (8)
▼ August (1)The Scientology Tone Scale as Ron Hubbard's Game