Thank you for your very interesting story. I find this story funny, and I think we are all adults here and should therefore behave with respect and communicate cleanly for positive discussions.
Thank you!

Way back in about 1987 I spoke (sort of) to two people on a train on the way home from work and was quite happily reading the “Pride of Chanur” by C J Cherryh and from across the aisle a voice asked me, “Do you read Science Fiction?”

What a silly bloody question, I thought looking at the book in my hands and waited to see what what was going to happen next.
“Yes, I do,”
“Have you ever heard of or read any of L Ron Hubbards books?”
I knew where this was going (after having a number run ins with other $camologists in the city centre) and decided to squelch any further contact, “Do you mean the fat rotten toothed madman that created the money making racket and mind destroying cult that is Scientology?”
Their faces went black as thunder clouds and she yelled at me, “We’re Scientologists!” They stormed off the train at the next station and were gone in a flash.

Seems the pair were regularly on different trains looking for potential victims.

See, you keep repeating yourself and confirming what I say.
Where I come from, they say there is no one more deaf than the one who does not want to hear.
And as usual, you don’t respond to anything.

You want those who comment to be meaner. But that is only YOUR view of things, not the way things really are. And this view of yours stems from something deeper (perhaps a discomfort) in how you see people and the world in relation to yourself, and it’s just your perception, never the reality, although you force yourself to see it that way.

Let’s end it here and good luck.

Your earlier statement was clearly directed at me. That you claim otherwise is a poor lie and joke.

I have never violated politeness norms at this site. However, from you, boss of the site, I see that it’s dominated by Scilon loyalists.

All very amusing.

Calm down. There’s no need for you to be flattered. Actually, I wasn’t talking about you. I mentioned you briefly as a side note in a broader discussion.

The issue was that periodically someone shows up here wanting to criticize Mike or the commenters, ramble incoherently, or simply try to provoke or get a bit of attention, all signs of a deeper discomfort. A while ago, we even had Lrh 2.0.

As for your comments, what can I say, you either baselessly accuse half the commenters of still being ‘believers’ or try to provoke without ever acknowledging the responses to your questions, but keep saying, “this just confirms that you’re still a believer.”

You’ve never been ‘in’ and with your rigid mindset that always has to prove you right, it’s unlikely you’ll understand.

You’re either here thinking you’re causing trouble (as you’ve admitted to doing elsewhere) or you think you’re smarter (or both).

Now, did you listen to yesterday’s ‘exposing scn’ podcast? You should.

(One last note. You and I are both guests here, and where I’m from, it’s right to behave well in someone else’s house.)

I am flattered that you find my comments so fascinating.

However, I can’t recall any time when I have been showing comment threads to real-life friends, why should they be interested?

Strange behaviour on your part.

Articles at times, sure. sometimes by me, but as I said, nothing to do with Scn., also as I said, most people don’t even know that Scn. even exists.

It is great that you won five euros, it is also creepy that you make my comments a centre of conversation.

I’ve said this before but if CO$ cared at all about training auditors training packages in every Class V org would be quite inexpensive and/or free via scholarships, with the latter offered not only to teenagers 15 -19 but to students of all ages on a merit basis.

Maybe I’m being overly suspicious but this Tampa scholarship program sounds to me like this teen scholarship deal is a red herring to get a pool of youngsters in one place who can then be shunted into Flag’s Sea Org.

Briget, actually, I don’t even know if there will be beer. The shortage of new people leads to awkward situations, like organizing events like this for non-scnists, which no one will attend, or, as seen some time ago, starting to sell fruits and vegetables.