tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206230760891278528.post8445735231298590298..comments2023-10-31T17:09:36.316+00:00Comments on The Long Walk Home: Review: The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology by John SweeneyJae Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17816403017115766947noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206230760891278528.post-92037435310940400122013-02-28T11:17:02.878+00:002013-02-28T11:17:02.878+00:00My experience is very similar to Anonymous's. ...My experience is very similar to Anonymous's. About 40 years ago, as a new Philosophy lecturer, in much the same spirit as Anonymous, I entered Scientology premises in Edinburgh and did the 'personality test'. I was told the results showed I was a very unhappy person. I agreed I was and showed enormous delight at the finding. The interviewer kept trying to get me to see that this was something that needed remedying; I insisted it was great news, the confirmation of my hopes. Deadlock and my exit.Paul Brownseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00764726326208869989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206230760891278528.post-14279630634166170562013-02-26T21:47:59.437+00:002013-02-26T21:47:59.437+00:00I had my own little run in with them when I was in...I had my own little run in with them when I was in San Francisco. They had a stall in the street offering stress tests, my other half wanted to give one a go. As soon as I sat down and saw the e-meter and the Dianetics books I chuckled to myself. Basically the e-meter found my mother was the cause of all my problems. <br /><br />I then told them about my boyfriend and started to discuss L. Ron's history when I was promptly waved goodbye too. Funny that ;)Jae Kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17816403017115766947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206230760891278528.post-77410156775668397922013-02-26T21:08:25.249+00:002013-02-26T21:08:25.249+00:00One of the most fun times I have ever had was on a...One of the most fun times I have ever had was on a bored day walking around poole around 20 years ago and being stopped by some Scientologists who asked me if I wanted to have a personality test. Given it was cold and there was nothing better to do, I said OK. I was taken to some shabby, hastily rented former office and given a multiple choice questionaire which I completed by making a pretty pattern down the row. It was run through their computer.<br />Guess what?? My life was in ruins and could ponly be enhanced by Sciengtology. I was a recent Philososphy Grad at the time so started asking questions, paticlarly about 'Dianistics. I asked if it was anything to do with Dianism. The women ( a petite and fearsome blonde women) had never heard of Diansim...so I told her, graphically...that is to say that it was part of a tantric sex ritual. I then questioned every other 'statement' she made about my life, knowing that none of it was real because I never actually answered the questionaire. After 45 minutes she was in tears and told me to leave.<br /><br />They are not as powerful as you think unless you let them be. They are actuqally good sport if you have nothing better to do on a rainy day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com