Beautiful, Ellie.

No kidding!

What a lovely letter. Here’s wishing you only a little while before you’re back together with all of your family and before the organisation has ceased to be able to censure their thoughts.

Rick Ross’ new book, “Cults inside out,” points to a high “exist cost” as an important element of the coercive regime that some have called “brainwashing.” Good book, by the way – IMHO

Woah Head Hunter, no kidding! I always thought there was something weird about it! Hey, this is sooo much better, ain’t it?

Odd Thomas, beautifully said and so true!

The good old days: a wishful thinking, an idealization of what is believed in, a romanced notion of reality.

Yes, things were not as violent. But then again we only learned about the truth with the advance of the internet.

If the Internet was around during Ron’s time how do you think he’d deal with it?

Same as DM: the Internet is suppressive and evil.

In other words- the truth is evil

Yes Thank you Statpush. From your mouth to God’s ears. And Karma is a bitch and all that stuff. Thank you for your postulates that I am reunited with my kids.

Wow, what a moving, well written story, Kelly. l Your are brave and your integrity is huge. Welcome to the sunshine. Congratulations on making the break, no matter how hard it was to leave friends. I’m so sorry about your son. But I hold out hope that we will all see our kids again when the church crumbles as it is in the process of doing right. You are someone I would be proud to call my friend. You are so right that in the church your “friends” will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if told to do so or if they thought it would save their neck… and that is the same as having NO friends. Out here you can have true friends. One request: Can you please post your picture? I couldn’t find you on FB. I think I know you, because I know that name. What city do you live in and can you post your pic?

Great advice, Joe P. Yes, start preparing quietly now: Unfriend most of the KA drinkers on FB. Most will never notice you did that. That way the church won’t look at your FB account and start contacting all your KA drinking friends to tell them you’re SP. (I had one friend who never knew until a year after I’d been declared and she only found out through a fluke. That friend never went on FB, so never go the FB R Factor to disconnect from me. So start looking for work at a NON Scn company, get off FB or at least get the KA drinkers off your FB, start cultivating Non Scn friends, and for God’s sake, get your kids out of Scn schools and out of the LA area. That way they won’t be recruited for SO. To paraphrase a good song, “Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be Corporate Scientologists.”