Yeah, it was downtown on high street. It was a shady little retail shop. Usually creepy looking with videos playing in the front window.

Jere, I’ll still assert that Hubbard didn’t build much of anything — it was you and your friends, part of a whole generation of idealists and seekers who flooded Scientology expecting something, and often made it what it was in spite of Hubbard rather than because of him.

I think Miscavige is like someone who inherited a horse buggy whip factory in 1910. There’s nowhere to go but down when the world, and the markets, have passed you by.

Miscavige has of course been an awful authoritiarian. But then again, it seems that policies like ‘disconnection’ on steroids have actually kept Scientology together better than a lot of other high control groups from the same era, many of which have vanished almost entirely, like the dark offshoot Process Church which turned into the kinder and gentler Best Friends Animal Society that is almost unknown nowadays.

Driving by always freaked me out, but I was oddly comforted that they were completely ignored and looked small, empty, and pathetic. Their “new” building gets less pedestrian traffic, but it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I drive past it. It sickens me to know that it’s there.

I watched the whole Aftermath Series (DVR’d it from the first episode) and listened to every podcast, watched every documentary, and am starting to get into looking at some of the exposing youtube videos.

I would love to try to get rid of them, but I feel like it’s an exercise in futility until their tax exempt status is revoked. I’m not wealthy, and I don’t have vast resources. But they have literally zero presence outside of their building. And that stupid channel on DirecTV

AMEN…………….to it all!

The Freewinds…..a/k/a SHIP OF FOOLS.

Dear Jere, I KNOW what you mean. As I mentioned before I had friends from High School who got hooked on “Hare Krishna”…..devastated their families totally. There was forced separations from family & friends to prevent the member from leaving the “commune”.

I recall seeing two former friends in Times Square in the late 1960’early 1070’s jumping up in down in “karate attire”….two had partially shaved heads, barefoot, bells jingling….holding signs begging for money.

I knew their parents who were beyond hurt, devastation & shock…all the college fund money “somehow ended up in the hands of you know who”…..along with money saved for college books, equipment, a car. Most hurtful was the “required disconnection” from their former family & friends.

Many years went by with no contact, when a chance came….too many years & too much hurt had come……all was lost.

I recall one or two of these “kids” committed suicide….no money, no job, no future, no nothing. Every cent went to Hare Kristhna.

Thank goodness I had common sense NOT to join anything…as my father always said
“If something seems too good to be true…………..” That prevented me from indulging.

Nothing was accomplished from Hare Krisna, The Moonies, The Children Of God…..Heaven’s Gate people died….BUT there is STILL an ACTIVE website & participants…..Now THAT ALONE is SCARY.

For you….you are OUT, living the best life you can away from it all….I wish you & your family much joy & health!

Thanks; I always enjoy reading comments like this.

GL: I can see the conversation is triggering that ole Scientological Implant and getting you upset

Cognitive dissonance plays a role

Do your own research. Or don’t. It’s your sanity at stake.

You are still using the loaded language Scientology implanted into your subconscious mind .
Do some research on de programming after leaving a cult
It takes many years coupled with persistence and a conscious effort to accomplish sufficient Deprogramming from Scientology.
None of our minds will ever be totally cleansed from the garbage LRH implanted.

It has been my experience that most ex Scientologist never accomplish the daunting task And get sucked into other Cults, including political cults and multi level marketing scams.

Mark, an eternity WITHOUT scientology is a valuable commodity and we’re soon to receive the initial down-payment from Davey’s EXCELLENT progress in dismantling what Hubbard & friends built!

Leave”, that has been the report given on all of the monuments to Davey’s ineptitude: Empty, the sound of crickets, deteriorating buildings, etc. At most, some have propaganda videos running on endless loops in the fully automated Div VI near the street door, the same garbage shown on SCNTV at great cost with no viewership.

BALDERDASH!