Wow.
I still can’t get over how this cult even exists. It’s heartbreaking.
It’s disgusting that these people would think they’re helping the world, when the exact opposite is true.
Thank you Mike & Leah for having the courage of to do this documentary-knowing how rich & evil this organization is.
I think celebrities like Laura Prepon & Elizabeth Moss should be confronted & made to answer questions about this organization that they support. How could they lead others into misery & no one even question how them?
This organization should be illegal. It should be illegal to brainwash others in general. Can’t wait for season 4 in November!

Rondroids makes all go right. The cause of their cause is millions, billions back in time.

That Cummins guy does look weird and creepy. That very wide, false grin. Its not a genuine smile. It doesn’t reach his eyes, which are blank and cold. Creepy, yes. I thought I was the only one who thought this!

Wynski, then where do you draw the line?

There’s ritual sacrifice in various religions and traditions, and, of course, infamously, blood atonement in Mormonism. Clearly, government can outlaw and punish killing of any type, even if the victims are willing – unless you think that’s indeed unconstitutional overreach. That may be the extreme example, though the next step down from it is the more relevant issue of religious groups effectively imposing indentured servitude or even slavery on members, as in Scientology’s Sea Org, and whether that should be prohibited – but that’s an issue for another time.

Back to more mundane matters, given that government has some power to regulate the activities of religious groups, unless you take a bizarrely strict constitutionalist stance, why can’t the role of legislators or the IRS extend to prohibiting fundraising commissions within tax-exempt religious groups, particularly as an extension of the established principle of prohibited inurement?

Can you cite a SCOTUS case relevant to your position?

Thanks, Skyler. In fairness and with no false modesty, I’ll tell you that it was MUCH easier for me to leave than the majority of Former Ins. The cult had NO leverage on me. I had no loved ones in there. My income did not in the least depend upon the patronage of of my fellow Scientologists. I didn’t plan it that way or take any precautions. It just was that way. No leverage.

That said, I lost a few “friends” of whom I was fond and to whom I was attached. I thought the feeling was mutual but they cut me dead without a word of explanation.

I learned a good lesson from that, from being dropped without a work of explanation, without them ever coming to me and at least giving me a chance to tell my side.

You know, the way you do when you have a friend? “So and so at the org in an ethics cycle said such and such about you; is that true?” But no.

Whatever the org people told them, they believed. God knows what it was. It doesn’t matter. Its not the org peoples’ fault, liars that they are.

Whatever it was, my “friends” swallowed it hook, line and sinker and dropped me without giving me any opportunity to defend myself.

And that, Skyler, is the “love” and “affinity” you can expect from a Scientology BOT.

It hurt for a while but nothing, nothing even CLOSE to the wrenching pain the people on this blog have experienced whose loved ones – children, spouses, sweethearts did exactly that to them.

But that’s what the love of a Scientology bot is worth. Nothing. So good riddance to them. Good riddance to anyone who behaves that way to a loved one. That’s the attitude they deserve and that’s the attitude they understand because they’re worthless, like their fake love.

George… Do you believe the meter works? Do you believe that rock slams are a real needle motion that indicate hidden evil purps?

In stripping away the cult mind conditioning, I constantly uncover concepts that I am unknowingly still holding as valid in some way. It can be disheartening to me when I find that I don’t shake off the “gut feeling of belief” even after I’ve isolated it, recognized it, and have rejected it on a mental level.

I deal with it (so far) by forgiving myself, putting it mentally in a quarantined jail, headed for execution whenever possible in future.

“Welp, that fucker’s in pretty deep, guess I’ll have to just keep working at it”.

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(and I’m a fan of yours, happy you’re out and helping by posting)

NO! Laws against murder are NOT laws governing religion. OMG, that was hilarious though. Just study the document and SCotUS case law.

But, DO continue with the stand up material.

Didn’t anyone else wonder about that?

The reason is they are all broke and bankrupt after using all their credit to get more and more money for The Scam and now they are begging for more money so they can eat.

Don’t know why I never realized that before.

I’m puertorrican living in the island. Before, during and after Hurricane Maria we never knew there were “volunteers” from CoS “helping” the ones in need.