I’m with you, Balletlady.

At some point EACH of us has to take responsibility for our OWN choices.

At some point, each of us has to let go of blaming our parents for our choices. At some point each of us has to OWN our choices.

Taryn is no exception. Sure, she’s never known anything but the cult, and she’s – what – 40 years old. Sure, her father put her there. With the best of intentions, I might add.

But she has powers of observation as do we all.

Late in his life her father saw that he had made a mistake in doing that. He observed his own mistake in being there himself. He changed his mind! He changed his mind about HIS life. HIS life. Big deal, and boo fucking hoo to those who didn’t like it. It was and is HIS life! AND, he felt strongly that he’s like to save his daughter’s and son’s life, too! And anyone else caught in the snare of the cult as he once was!

Point is, we can ALL change our minds! Its our RIGHT to change our minds about a belief or a course of action AND to communicate about it!

We OWN our minds – we can change them about something, in a responsible way, no matter HOW convinced we were before that we were 100% right. We can change our minds!

And Mike did. It was his RIGHT to do so. HIS life, remember? Everyone has the same right; he exercised his own.

And he spoke up about it, and he explained WHY.

All of these nasty “kids” complying with Miscavige’s orders to trash their parents who left the cult, who spoke up and denounced the cult’s abuses – I have very little sympathy for them.

And by the way, there’s nothing emanating from Taryn -even though its likely she’s not writing this stuff – there’s nothing emanating from this cult brat that wouldn’t be emanating from any other cult brat if he or she were ordered by Miscavige to trash Mom or Dad, sibling or friend, ex-lover or ex-husband. The ONLY reason its not being done, if it isn’t being done, is because said brat has not (yet) been ORDERED to do so.

These ” kids” are not children. They’re pushing 30 and 40. When do we stop making excuses for their viciousness? How old do they have to be for them to be considered adults – 50, maybe? You tell me.

I don’t have children so I’ll give you a dog analogy: Let’s say you start out with an adorable little puppy, full of life, in love with life, wagging its tail, full of love for everyone and everything. Then, instead of being raised normally to be a loving, loyal pet yourself, you give your puppy to someone with the best of intentions.
And this person trains it to be an attack dog. One day you see your puppy all grown up. You’re shocked. All you remember is how wonderful this puppy WAS/ You KNOW how the little cutie started out. But now, after this attack dog training, what IS this creature, really? Dangerous to your life and health at the owner’s slightest command, is what it is NOW. At what point do you stop relating to the animal as the loving puppy it once was, and deal with the vicious creature it has become, an animal that will tear you apart on command from its master? At what point?

Of course, people are not dogs, but you get the concept.

Outstanding!!! Bravo!!! Now that’s some funny shit!!!

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Perhaps they know they’ll never get full rolls of toilet paper out of selfish scientologists, and are suggesting instead the little travel packs that are more easily spared:

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Members might know those all too well – because it’s what they have to take with them when they go into an org, where they can’t count on finding toilet paper in the bathrooms even in the best of times.

Exactly Zola!