No, thanks to you Mike, Leah, and everyone else for opening the eyes of us who were never in about the abuses of this deadly cult. Keep up the excellent work and looking forward to this season of “Aftermath. Lance

Good for you, Lance! Thank you for doing that.

Thank you Lance.

You’re so welcome, Musician. And know this: your dreams are YOUR dreams; your goals are YOUR goals and appearances to the contrary, no one can take them from you.

The only one who can smash your dreams is you, no one else, unless you let them..

And I’m glad you’re not letting them!

You’ll have friends here.

COURAGEOUS PEOPLE ARE HERE. People, who lost just about everything yet built their lives back, got their grooves back, became happy again, and are still working through this process.

.( I’m not speaking of myself, btw. Unlike many people here and elsewhere I didn’t lose anything when I left the cult.)

Still, very day I come here and learn a little, heal a little, laugh a little.

You’re in a good place 🙂

Hello Everyone.

Today, September 29th, in Portland, Oregon, I drove to the Convention Center where they were having a “Spirit, Health, and body” event. I am sure you are familiar with the “past life readings,” “read your palm”, etc. at these events. I went to see our mutual friends the Scientologists at their booth.

They ended up having two booths, A Scientology booth with a FREE stress test and of course books to buy, and the other one across the way from the Scientology booth that was for Dionetics. (spelling).

I had made copies of “The Aftermath Foundation” which gave the phone number of the foundation, and e-mail address.

I took the copies to the convention and handed them out to the Scientology people. Right away I was told by a guy I will call “Zippy the Pinhead” small, balding guy 100 pounds soaking wet, (no offence to anyone who is reading this), and was told right away that “You cannot talk to my people.” I also gave a copy to the woman who was at the booth. Zippy came to me and asked if I was a vendor, and I said “No” he then told me he was going to charge me with “Religious Freedom” something or another. Nobody came to see me, and they all kept away from me, and I them.

I did go back to the original booth and tried to talk to the original woman at the Scientology booth along with a new woman who had joined her. The new woman at the booth said: “You have to leave now, as you are not a nice man.” LOL.

I would watch their booths and when someone would venture long enough to talk to them or get on the “Cans” I would wait until they got up and moved away and hand them the “Aftermath Foundation” card, and warn them not to get involved with the cult.

In about 2 and a half hours, there was about 8 people who actually stopped and sat down at both of their booths. They now know about the “Aftermath Foundation” and to look on the internet and TV for more information.

One guy that I handed a card to, (he just stopped at the Dynamics booth, but did not sit down. He said he knew all about Scientology from being in L.A. He said he knew enough not to get involved with them, and said never confront them. That might have been good advice way back when, but now, in your face.

One last observation. I know that a lot of people have seen the “Aftermath” and the other blogs about Scientology, but I am kind of surprised that there are still some folks that have not heard of the abuses or horror stories (until I told them about them). LOL.

All in all, a great morning.

Keep up the great work, and I know for sure that the Portland Org is now aware of the “Aftermath Foundation” their phone number, and e-mail address. Hurrah!!

I read somewhere ….the phrase

Flag – The Mecca of Technical Extortion

Aquamarine – THANK YOU! I have not had any type of personal support within Scientology for sooooooooooo long – I appreciate it here.

Scientology adverstises to newbies “Achieve your Goals” ??????

My goals were smashed by Scientology.

No more!

I am jumping off the Bridge into Total Freedom and will now pursue my goals. It feels good!

@ Musician:

“I am so out of there.”
WOW! SO GLAD TO HEAR THIS!

“I will figure out a way to get my family out now.”
MUSICIAN, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU WILL!

Sounds to me like you have a level head, clever head on your shoulders and, however long it might take you, no matter how much patience and fortitude it requires, you’ll get them to see what you see. You’ll do it!

My money is on you, Musician. So glad to have you with us.

Thank you everyone for your support.

I am now officially out of Doubt and out of the Church of Scientology.

I am reading everything I can find about L Ron Hubbard and Scientology. I am watching every documentary and every video I can find.

There is more information available on the net than Scientology has books and lectures. Information regarding how they have harmed and maimed good people that joined the cult and wanted to help.

I am so humiliated I believed this criminal fake church.

The leader is an evil man who beats staff and sits on riches hob-nobbing with celebrities to feed his narcissistic ego.

I am horrified as to what Scientology really is and how clever they were to mask the truth and keep people silenced.

No wonder the Church of Scientology makes it a high crime to look at the Internet. It is totally a criminal billion dollar empire where the leader gets to play a game where he thinks he will win as he wipes the blood off of his tiny little hands. I hope he goes to prison for life.

Scientology has always been in treason. It commits crimes against humanity and gets away with it right under the governments nose because it has been deemed a religion. The religious status was gotten through extortion.

Scientology is nothing but a cult that harms its members and gets away with it with all the cleverness of a mafia organization.

I am so out of there.

I will figure out a way to get my family out now.

Thank you for doing something about it Mike Rinder. You are the humanitarian.

Losing an argument? Which one is that then? Virtually every time I point out the fallacy in someone’s remarks the “argument” gets turned on its head or twisted into something else, followed by insult in my direction. So to accuse me even indirectly of ad hom is a bit rich – I am bombarded with it after nearly every comment I make.

As to qualifications, I have known quite a few so called Class 8s who are complete squirrels. In the end it doesn’t really mean a thing, but that is straying from my original comment about Alamo’s ridiculous “Scientology is all science fiction” type comment above..Next it will be “Justice Latey says that Scientology is…” (or whatever his name was).