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What made you join Scientology?

clearcat

clearcat

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Just wondering - if it has not been put up here yet - What made you join Scientology?

For myself, I can say that I was looking for answers to understand, why people behave the way they do. I wanted to understand why my father was denying me, why he left and why he refused to communicate with me - his own child. And he wasn't even a Scientologist or declared SP...

I also wanted to understand why I felt what I felt when standing on a dear friends grave and still being connected to a dead person. Why people could have a feast after having a person covered underneath.

It took me years to discover Scientology, I stayed with it for over 11 years just to be disappointed in the end. But I got some answers, too. I learned how to cope with emotional distress, and also saw that I could not change the whole world which I would have loved to.

I learned that the schemes are the same, inside or outside Scientology. The least powerful are punished, and the most powerful live a life beyond a normal person's world at their cost...

What was your reason to join?
 
thetanic

thetanic

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I didn't actually care about the spiritual stuff. I was in it because I was shy, and I was afraid of doing poorly in college.

Then I got Life Repair, and it really really did help.

The f/ns were amazing. Nowadays, I know they're just endorphin rushes, but at the time they were magical.

What I didn't know for many years after I left Scn was that I had endorphin issues, so I'd naturally bond to endorphin highs.

Edited to add: "really did help" -- my life in general, but not college. Due to the time I was spending at the org, I flunked out.
 
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The Anabaptist Jacques

The Anabaptist Jacques

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The Aims of Scientology, specifically, a civilization without war. The Vietnam War was raging at the time. I thought the world was crazy. Scientology looked like a solution. It turned out to be more of the same.

The Anabaptist Jacques
 
Free to shine

Free to shine

Shiny & Free
I didn't have much choice, being second generation. That also made it difficult to leave, as it involved facing disconnection.
 
clearcat

clearcat

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The Anabaptist Jacques said:
The Aims of Scientology, specifically, a civilization without war. The Vietnam War was raging at the time. I thought the world was crazy. Scientology looked like a solution. It turned out to be more of the same.

The Anabaptist Jacques
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Well it is on their flags to have "a world without war" isn't it? I thought so too, being the peace-loving person that I am, and then like many of us I learned it is not really what they aim for...
 
clearcat

clearcat

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Free to shine said:
I didn't have much choice, being second generation. That also made it difficult to leave, as it involved facing disconnection.
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I totally understand that, and until you experience it you hardly believe it. I was not second generation but made the choice to join and hoping I would find my freedom (which I did not while being within...).
 
EP - Ethics Particle

EP - Ethics Particle

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Very glad you asked, ClearCat!

Free to shine said:
I didn't have much choice, being second generation. That also made it difficult to leave, as it involved facing disconnection.
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I'm quoting FTS here, because it is the complete antithesis of my story. Just as a random choice at a book kiosk I picked up DMSMH as only something to dispell boredom. Knew nothing about Hubbard, Dianetics or Scientology at that time. I was in my late 40's, stable and well educated. I have a lot of thoughts on this subject, but it will take many posts to get it all said; and, if you guys bear with me, over time, I'd sure like to hear what you think.:nervous: :yes:

EP
 
thetanic

thetanic

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Good twin said:
I was a sort of hippie dippie druggie chick. Wanted to join a cult and live in a commune. It almost worked.:yes:
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My senior had been like that early on in his Scn days. He was out-qual for the SO because that was back in the days when you could drop acid and then go into session later the same day.
 
EP - Ethics Particle

EP - Ethics Particle

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Regrets, all....

thetanic said:
My senior had been like that early on in his Scn days. He was out-qual for the SO because that was back in the days when you could drop acid and then go into session later the same day.
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God! Stop it! Now I'm gettin' all nostalgic and griefy 'cause I did'n get sucked in till '90 +/-...:bigcry: I MISSED all the good parts...:nervous:

BTW - when did all that crap about masturbation start really rearing its ugly head? I didn't hear squat abot that "button" 'till after 2000 and it seemed to be "buttered all over the universe" then. Did I just luck out and overlook that venal sin :omg: ? :confused2:

Roy
 
uncle sam

uncle sam

Silver Meritorious Patron
I wanted

As a catholic - I wanted as Jesus did to change water into wine-couldn't do it. As an OT-I wanted to be fully exterior with full perceptions and fly around the universe chasing evil-doers and make things go right for those in need-can't do it.
 
nozeno

nozeno

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For me

.....it just fit perfectly where I was at the time. We were in the bottom of the seventh inning of the hippy era. I'd already done all the drugs I wanted to, done the commune thing, gave away all of my possessions and moved to the woods (don't try this kids, it's not all it's cracked up to be) attended many of the anti-war protests, did some things to avoid being sent to a war that I just didn't get.

Here was a group that claimed to have the answers to some spiritual questions I was wrestling with and they were paranoid, that is they thought "everyone" was against them, the US Guvmint in particular. So what more could a guy or a gal ask for?

When those crazy dudes from Villanova came a knockin' I said sign me up.

I've since recanted most of my radical views. I'm not nearly as radical as Zinj.
 
uncle sam

uncle sam

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WTF is up with that?

The Anabaptist Jacques said:
Three-fourths of those Wildcats are still in, right?

The Anabaptist Jacques
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I think "Anabaptist" that you are correct about those Villanovans. It blows my mind to think of those still in - especially "Greg Wilhere"-he's in his late 50's- his parents were blue collar- not much of an inheritance - if any at all. He was a philosophy major-I can only guess that he found his answer "perennial penance". lol
 
nozeno

nozeno

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The Anabaptist Jacques said:
Three-fourths of those Wildcats are still in, right?

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It's actually 3/5. But who am I to quibble over fractions?

One, you may not have known, had the audacity to leave quickly and follow a more traditional path by becoming a medical doctor.
 
alex

alex

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I had exteriorized with full perceptions doing zen meditation, and was curious and searching for ways to be able to live that way constantly.

(I now understand the reasons for having a body and living in the material, but still want the choice).
 
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