(May 8, 2014 at 1:57 am)whateverist Wrote: Welcome. I assume it was your misfortune to be born into that mess. Boy do you ever have a story to tell. I'm inspired that you found your way out. You know what they say about what doesn't kill us. You should wind up very strong indeed.
Almost, I was introduced as a young teen and believed in hubbard's cult most of my life. Everything and mean everything I thought and felt was through a scientology lens.
I went on the internet searching for what people thought of scientology. The cognitive dissonance was scary as hell. Hubbard wasn't some god like being, he died in hiding avoiding governments, mainly from France convicting him in absentia and Operation Snow White in which scientologists staged the largest infiltration of the U.S. government in history.
It's one hell of a paradigm shift from arrogant have all the answers to existence to realizing I've been conned. Very humbling. Scientology is the path of being dehumanized with mind control techniques that make MK-Ultra look like a tea party. Then the scientologist starts dehumanizing anyone that can't be subjugated into a scientology agenda.
I see many parallels with religious fundamentalists exerting a fanatical steamroller over anything that doesn't conform to their views. That's one aspect of scientology that is purposefully indoctrinated into it's followers, fanatical devotion.
That's what I learned here some time ago, fanaticism is blind, brutish, uncaring, unquestioning, devoid of empathy. It was a valuable lesson.
