My first encounter with scientology.
I visited the church of scientology in my city, out of pure curiosity and wanting to put across a few questions. I kept polite, interested and heard there opinions on different things.
After hovering around outside for a short while, a member of staff came out of the building and invited me. I was taken up in a lift and givena tour around the office-like church.
I noticed a picture of a smiling John Travlota, and a wall of donations and expensive membership fees.
I heard their extreme views on drugs, psychology and 'degraded people'. The first woman I spoke to had been part of the group since 1989, the second just 96.
I never expected the staring, strange jargon, over friendliness and personality tests with strange devices...but it was all there. Interestingly enough it was the woman who has been a scientolgist since 89 that spoke the strangest.
And she DID speak strangely.
Apparantly the media likes to give scientology a bad name, Scientologists are against the Internet and extremely against the story of Xenu. I mentioned xenu.net being taken off the top of googles links, I didn't get much of a response.
I asked about the different levels of scientology and attaining them, and what you learn at the end...thats when she started speaking against aliens being in scientology. Apparantly it's all about getting to a state of total freedom, I couldn't help thinking after belonging to scientology for decades the last thing you'd be is 'free'.
The younger girl...seemed nice enough. She explained her friends aren't scientologists and she still has many interests outside the religion. I can't help but think she only said this in order to try and put my mind at rest.
Oh, and I almost forgot the worst thing of all. The video I watched. It featured L Ron speaking over easy listening music, clips of people being healed by scientology and wild canned laughter whenever L ron says anything remotely funny.
Actually, the worst thing is that I'm still interested in asking more and I might have another look tommorow...
What do you think? I'm kinda paranoid, I feel as though they've subliminally put something in my mind haha...ridiculous, but just how I feel. They gave me a lot of leaflets, so I'm gonna look through them in a bit.
[This message has been edited by Iskalla (edited 02-03-2007).]
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