Voltaire's Child
Fool on the Hill
On another thread (the one where Mick Wenlock is telling us what happened to him on leaving the SO) I suggested that some kind of assn be created - perhaps informally on a cyber basis- for people leaving the SO.
I would be up for that. I know a couple other people on that thread seemed willing, also.
I suggest maybe creating a sort of cyber assn on a word of mouth/intro basis.
I talked to John and asked him if he would ever put an ex SO member up who needed a place to stay. He said (and I concur) that he'd have to know something about the person. Perhaps an intro from someone else, something. So under some circumstances, we could do that.
I would also be willing to pledge a bit of money (I'm not rich but I would contribute) at times and also I am pretty good with credit counselling so if someone had questions about their debt ( a lot of ex members have debt problems) and what can be done to them, bankruptcy, etc, I can supply some info as to how it all works.
It was suggested that the departee might not want to stay with disaffected ex Scn'ists. And J and I are certainly expelled and declared- BUT...
I was thinking. Some of the people who leave the SO aren't trying to get back in and won't care if the person who they are talking to is in good standing with CofS or not. Some people WOULD care, but then again, not all critics are expelled/declared. I am sure that one way or another, some of us who wanted to help, would sometimes be taken up on that offer.
And in case anyone's reading this who is in that situation, is about to be in that situation, or knows someone who is and is wondering...I personally do not tell people they should not rejoin CofS or that they should do FZ or they shouldn't. I would not even go into it with them, unless the person brought it up. And THEN I would start by saying, "What do YOU want to do?"
I live in Seattle and am listed in the phone book...
Claire Swazey
I would be up for that. I know a couple other people on that thread seemed willing, also.
I suggest maybe creating a sort of cyber assn on a word of mouth/intro basis.
I talked to John and asked him if he would ever put an ex SO member up who needed a place to stay. He said (and I concur) that he'd have to know something about the person. Perhaps an intro from someone else, something. So under some circumstances, we could do that.
I would also be willing to pledge a bit of money (I'm not rich but I would contribute) at times and also I am pretty good with credit counselling so if someone had questions about their debt ( a lot of ex members have debt problems) and what can be done to them, bankruptcy, etc, I can supply some info as to how it all works.
It was suggested that the departee might not want to stay with disaffected ex Scn'ists. And J and I are certainly expelled and declared- BUT...
I was thinking. Some of the people who leave the SO aren't trying to get back in and won't care if the person who they are talking to is in good standing with CofS or not. Some people WOULD care, but then again, not all critics are expelled/declared. I am sure that one way or another, some of us who wanted to help, would sometimes be taken up on that offer.
And in case anyone's reading this who is in that situation, is about to be in that situation, or knows someone who is and is wondering...I personally do not tell people they should not rejoin CofS or that they should do FZ or they shouldn't. I would not even go into it with them, unless the person brought it up. And THEN I would start by saying, "What do YOU want to do?"
I live in Seattle and am listed in the phone book...
Claire Swazey