It’s somewhat that way in rock & roll, too, only it doesn’t generally come from arrogance; it’s just how people get when other people (angry patrons or posers, usually) talk at/about you all the time.

Yes, you SOers certainly did talk like that. Even in front of org public.

@Skyler what’s a newspaper😜

To the rest of you who commented, thanks, I’m glad I resonated and @cindy no I don’t know him, I wasn’t originally from Wyoming I came here because I had never been here, it was a good place to remake myself.

Thank you for all of this.

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Thank you for your excellent description of what it is like to come back to the real world. What you say about the arrogance is so true.

We were swearing f***ers like you couldn’t f***ing believe. The s*** that would come out of our mouths was vile. We were “impinging” on people, and didn’t have time for niceties. It worked sometimes too. I guess in a reg setting, it bullies people into buying to shut off the filth. What a binch of c***s we were!

Your experience is pretty similar to mine. Things got better when I finally told my friends about the Scientology. I did it to open up, help the healing process, and eliminate mysteries for them. As soon as they knew, my life and its oddities, such as my mother refusing to talk to me (she’s still in), made sense to them. It’s been the most important recovery step.

In the org, we used to drop f***, s*** and c*** constantly. You do it if you’re arrogant, if your vocabulary is limited, but especially if you thought you were “impinging” on people. That was the biggest excuse.