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"The very last paragraph says, The whole agonized future of this planet, every man, woman and child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depends on what you do here and now in Scientology"
Originally posted by blackmetalmist
Ill be first to admit... I got sucked into Scientology when I was a teenager walking down the street wearing my combat boots and Black Flag shirt down Hollywood. I guess I might have been an easy target or what not because the next thing I knew, I was at their center watching a movie about L. Ron Hubbard. Soon after that, they claimed they could give me a job, which I accepted but quit a few days later when I learned I was only going to get paid $5 bucks.
My job was to bug .. erm... call people and try to convince them to continue their seminars. 99% told me f off and lose their number. During my break I was taken into an office and told if I was to continue working there I would have to join their program which would cost about a grand AND buy all their books starting with Dianetics. Thats when i realized, screw this, its all a sham. I left that place and never returned back. Once in a while, they will still call me and tell me to come back. So my advice, keep on walking when you see those people on the streets with those meters trying to measure your thetans or whatever.
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by blackmetalmist
I got caught up in Scientology in the early 1970's, and got out around 1975, and moved to Maui, where there was no Church of Scientology. I have moved several more time since.
About 2 years ago, at around 9 or 9:30pm, there was a knock on my door. It was a tall young man wearing a suit and tie, telling me he was from the Church of Scientology and wanted to talk to me about returning. I told him that I got all I needed out of it back in the 70's, and wasn't interested.
Then he told me that all the books, written by Hubbard, were incomplete and now had been rewritten, by David Miscavige, with the "new tech." He wanted me to hand over any books that I may still have, and for about $1,500, I could get all new ones.
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Wow. Thats definitely something that I hope doesn't happen. Its crazy how much they insist you return. Even when those people I was calling told me, "No, I do not want to come back", the higher ups said "Don't take no for an answer, call them back tomorrow". I knew there was something wrong with that and I put myself in those peoples shoes. I wouldnt want anyone calling me almost every day pressuring me. I had to get out fast ! extra DIV
Originally posted by blackmetalmist
Ill be first to admit... I got sucked into Scientology when I was a teenager walking down the street wearing my combat boots and Black Flag shirt down Hollywood. I guess I might have been an easy target or what not because the next thing I knew, I was at their center watching a movie about L. Ron Hubbard. Soon after that, they claimed they could give me a job, which I accepted but quit a few days later when I learned I was only going to get paid $5 bucks.
My job was to bug .. erm... call people and try to convince them to continue their seminars. 99% told me f off and lose their number. During my break I was taken into an office and told if I was to continue working there I would have to join their program which would cost about a grand AND buy all their books starting with Dianetics. Thats when i realized, screw this, its all a sham. I left that place and never returned back. Once in a while, they will still call me and tell me to come back. So my advice, keep on walking when you see those people on the streets with those meters trying to measure your thetans or whatever.
Originally posted by chrismicha77
Yes....we need more Scientologists like Tom Cruise & John Travolta running around saving the planet!