Scientology sees flood of former members speak out.

[Geminex]

Did somebody say Hit-

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No, no, never mind.

And it wouldn't be "old man Funka". More like "Grumpy ol' Funka".

[Sir Pinkleton]

Godwin's Law! That's what I was thinking of, I always for get what it's called. I was using it ironically. :p

Butbackontopic this site doesn't list Scientology is a religion, and apparently it's kinda difinitive. I'm not sure if I've seen anywhere as listing it as an actual option for religion, so there's that to take into consideration. Also, this site claims that the numbers of Scientologists has gone down sharply in the past few years (still trawling its sources to see where/how it got those numbers, but hey, at least it's better than any guess from me).

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Funky Old man

Back in my day........

Easy Clarification.
You can say all you want about them being weak for being suckered in, and whatnot, but somewhere down the line they decided to get out. Further down the line they decided to fight back.

To make it even easier to understand.
Let's say you're a member of C.O.B.R.A. and for years you're all throwing the salute and making robot snake traps or whatever the fuck they do, I don't watch G.I. Joe.
Then one day you go "Holy shit they're EVIL" and you leave. They tell you, "bitch you can leave and we'll be vandalzing your shit from time to time, and none of your friends will like you, and that'll be about it. But you DAMN WELL better not say shit in public about us because we WILL kill you." so you're quiet and miserable for a good few years, then one day you go "Fuck it, I'mma go find Duke and kick some C.O.B.R.A. ass!" and start bustin up their shit. That's pretty damn courageous.

[Funka Genocide]

My uncle knows Maria Carey, therefore your arguments are invalid.

also yeah, I mean if I defected from COBRA to the Joe team I guess that'd be pretty badass. But I'd still be a douche for rolling with cobra commander, I mean seriously...



I love it when that picture is topical.

[Jenwrath]

Man, I'm so so soooooo glad me and a vast majority of people are able to take these people's accounts of what's been going on, so that hopefully none of us will ever be sucked into the cult bull that things like Scientology promotes.


I can totally ..."see" how if once you got into a organization like that, that your ability to stand up to that kind of treatment would be severely hurt. Go go psychology ;p

[Aerozord]

honestly if it was just this it wouldn't phase me, every major religion has its horror stories. Its mostly the fact that on top of that you have to pay for membership, and they actively hide information about their religion. Something I am philisophically and morally against.