Mrs Pattycake
Patron with Honors
Thanks for the wonderful welcome everyone !
I was also delighted that my post inspired ThatIsIt to post .
I decided to post to encourage all of you to keep going and let you know that your efforts "are getting through" to folk like me .
I had never before even considered looking on the internet at any "anti Scio" stuff until the anon protests - I was a genuine good "double diamond" status Scio - and yet once I looked at the data I moved fairly rapidly up through the steps and it did not take that long for my "Truman bubble" to burst. The stories on this board really help because they just ring so true .
They helped me to spot I had "excused" lots of stuff the Church has done for years that I did not agree with and that there were lots of outpoints that I had explained away... because when you are a " double diamond" you have to !
One kind of funny incident - I remember sitting in a HGC at Flag and seeing the IAS event where Tom Cruise gets awarded his Mega "I'm Better Than Anyone Else" Freedom Medal - the event was playing over and over - the crew were elated and kept asking me if I'd seen it and how great it was - I was sitting there in disbelief, thinking OMG they are giving him a Freedom Medal
I thought this guy gets the MOST "entheta" press about Scientology on the planet !!! If I was getting that much entheta press I'd be declared or be in serious ethics trouble !
But then his acceptance speech was just so embarrassing - I was like OMG now he is in DM's valence And he was speaking as if it is just him and DM doing all the work - and as if all those Patron Billionaires in the front row and anyone else had done jack shit !!! Quite invalidating I thought - and certainly an outpoint - but of course I didn't mention that to any of the enthusiastic SO members !
I felt validated in my opinion when I saw what a "hit" this event excerpt was on the internet ! Cof$ is certainly good at doing its own out PR !
I am currently working on a few cycles - once the dust settles I will have time to write up more.
In the meantime I hope more "lurkers" decide to join up so that you guys know just how effective you are ! And thanks byte for the SP status - I was just thinking that if I got myself one of those I'd probably get off all the call in and mail lists a bit faster !
I was also delighted that my post inspired ThatIsIt to post .
I decided to post to encourage all of you to keep going and let you know that your efforts "are getting through" to folk like me .
I had never before even considered looking on the internet at any "anti Scio" stuff until the anon protests - I was a genuine good "double diamond" status Scio - and yet once I looked at the data I moved fairly rapidly up through the steps and it did not take that long for my "Truman bubble" to burst. The stories on this board really help because they just ring so true .
They helped me to spot I had "excused" lots of stuff the Church has done for years that I did not agree with and that there were lots of outpoints that I had explained away... because when you are a " double diamond" you have to !
One kind of funny incident - I remember sitting in a HGC at Flag and seeing the IAS event where Tom Cruise gets awarded his Mega "I'm Better Than Anyone Else" Freedom Medal - the event was playing over and over - the crew were elated and kept asking me if I'd seen it and how great it was - I was sitting there in disbelief, thinking OMG they are giving him a Freedom Medal
I thought this guy gets the MOST "entheta" press about Scientology on the planet !!! If I was getting that much entheta press I'd be declared or be in serious ethics trouble !
But then his acceptance speech was just so embarrassing - I was like OMG now he is in DM's valence And he was speaking as if it is just him and DM doing all the work - and as if all those Patron Billionaires in the front row and anyone else had done jack shit !!! Quite invalidating I thought - and certainly an outpoint - but of course I didn't mention that to any of the enthusiastic SO members !
I felt validated in my opinion when I saw what a "hit" this event excerpt was on the internet ! Cof$ is certainly good at doing its own out PR !
I am currently working on a few cycles - once the dust settles I will have time to write up more.
In the meantime I hope more "lurkers" decide to join up so that you guys know just how effective you are ! And thanks byte for the SP status - I was just thinking that if I got myself one of those I'd probably get off all the call in and mail lists a bit faster !