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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Fredric L. Rice" |
| Date: |
19 Mar 2005 07:05:13 PM |
| Object: |
Xenu |
Fascinating reading. Long time human rights activists are fimilar with
the phenomena, of course, but it's interesting to see newbies get exposed
to the cult's violent behavior when "Xenu" is spoken.
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http://mindhack.blogspot.com/2005/03/how-i-was-handled-by-scientology.html
Friday, March 18, 2005
How I Was "Handled" by Scientology
This occurred March 17th, 2005. All of this is written by me from
memory, no recording devices were used.
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Today I finally got the guts to do something I had been planning on
doing a long time ago, actually visit a Church of Scientology(Don't
worry, I have no intention of joining their "cult"). What triggered
this was that I talked to a friend briefly about it after class, and
he brought up the topic of the source of Xenu.net. I told him that the
person who writes it doesn't claim to be any official source on the
subject nor any educational credentials. I wanted to find out if
Xenu.net was legit. I figured, well if Scientology has nothing to
hide, then what could hurt by going and asking questions? I already
knew that there was a location near me, but needed to check the exact
address.
I got home around 12:45, had a quick snack, and went to
Scientology.com to look at their store locator. Sure enough the
location says Upland, an address, and a phone number. I call the phone
number and get an answering machine for A Woman from the Church of
Scientology, but I decided not to leave a message. I printed out the
address and directions from MapQuest.com and headed out armed with
nothing but a pencil in case I wanted to write down anything
interesting.
It took about 15 minutes to get there by the freeway. Once I was on
the street I started looking around for a big church-like building.
The building number was 299, so I was also paying attention for that.
A few minutes later I had seen no church-like building and was in the
100's. I must have passed it. Did a u-turn and this time I found it,
well, there is no sign on the street, I found it by the building
number 299. The first thing I noticed about this office building was
H&R Block and Charles Schwabb were the apparently the largest offices
there, as well as numerous smaller law offices. Hmm what is a
tax-exempt church doing amongst all these business'?
I scribble down a few names of companies for future reference and go
inside looking for the building directory. The directory was located
next to an elevator and sure enough there it was: Church of Scientoloy
Suite 201. By now I am nervous but I hop in the elevator and take it
to level 2. I am expecting something along the lines of when Agent
J(Will Smith) first enters the Men in Black building. As if the
elevator door opens with tons of hustling and bustling people wearing
suits were waiting, hidden from the public, inside. Ding. The elevator
door opens, and to my surprise, there is nothing. The room before me
is a grey, bland, lobby with a two restrooms to the left, and two
hallways. I see another directory, this one has arrows pointing
towards the location of each suite. There it is, Church of
Scientology, Suite 201. I walk down the corridor to the right
wondering what a church is doing next to People's Discount Mortgage
and the Law Offices of Fernando Vargas. Guess what? There IS no suite
201, nothing. I walk up and down the entire second floor several
times, nada. However, there are a few doors with blank, black name
tags that look like the sign has been removed recently. I'd almost
given up and left when a few women came out of another office.
I asked them, "Uh excuse me, do you know where suite 201 is?"
One woman replied, "What is it?"
I was a bit confused by her response and said "Suite 201" again.
She replied back ," What is in it?"
I said, "Oh, Church of Scientology."
She smiles says,"Oh, I think they moved out about 3 months ago.
There's a lawyer in there now moving in."
I get on the elevator going back down with them. She either works
there or was a client, but she had obviously been here frequently
enough to have this information.
"Oh...yea...I found it kind of odd a Church was in amongst all these
business's."
"Ya." She says back smiling. I didn't say anything else, nor did she.
Well clearly the Scientology website does not update their location
information very often. Or was there something else to this? My
curiosity was only fueled further, I HAD to go to a Church of
Scientology today, if anything but to know that they EXIST. I got back
home and again went to their website. I located one in Pasadena. I
called in advance again, and I told the woman I had tried to go to the
location in upland. She said, "Oh..I think they moved. I'm sure where
they moved to though." A long drive, and I knew traffic would be bad
on the way back, but it would be worth it.
I passed the building this time as well, and was disapointed again in
what it looked like. The building is very small and is nestled between
two other business' whose names I didn't notice. I entered and was
greeted by a young man who looked to be about 20-23 and was wearing a
blue dress shirt and tie. He got up from working on some what looked
like envelopes to be mailed out and shook my hand. I told him I had
heard of Scientology from a friend and was interested in it. His first
question was "What have you heard about scientology?" In which I
replied, lying, "Oh just some stuff on TV and from some friends." He
was happy to answer all my questions. I also mentioned the Upland
location, and he said, "Hmm...I think they moved..somewhere, I don't
remember where." I played dumb mostly and appeared to be the perfect
customer, acting interested in everything as I would be getting to the
more interesting questions later.
Soon enough he asked me if I wanted to watch an introductory video to
Dianetics (the origin of Scientology) and I said sure, but then he
asked if I wanted to see the intro to Scientology video. I said sure
because in truth I was more interested in the background of
Scientology, not Dianetics which is only a portion of Scientology. He
said the video was only 30 mins but it turned out to be 50, of which I
was only mildly annoyed by.
Ok here's the summary of the video. L. Ron Hubbard (Or "LRH" as the
guy accidentally mispook to me in Scientologese) created scientology
because he figured out the "common denominator" between all religions,
philosophies, and cultures. Attending scientology "training" (aka.
brainwashing) can increase ones IQ, reaction times, and allow one to
realize ones full potential as a spiritual being(thetan). We don't
want weak, sick, dumb, or insane people. We only want capable members
of society(ie. Tom Cruise) so that we can make them MORE capable.
Well after the video ended I was ready for some real questions. I
started asking about the organization, and he was happy to share about
that. He even told me his rank. He was a No Class Auditor taking the
"Student Hat" course, which is essentially reading a lot of books to
get to advance in levels. The ranking system is extremely complex.
I started to ask him about Scientology as a religion.
"Was there a creation story?"
He didn't really answer. He didn't seem to know.
"Like, how the humans came to Earth?"
"Oh, I think we have a book on that. I've only read the beginning so
far."
He grabs a book off the shelf. It is titled "History of Man" and has a
cave man tearing the flesh off of a fresh drum stick of some animal
pictured on the cover.
He flips through it then looks at the back.
"Yea it says here 60 trillion years."
"Wow thats a long time."
"Uh huh"
Here is where it gets creepy. We chatted a bit more until I brought up
Xenu.
"Uhh whats this thing I heard about, its called Xenu er named Xenu."
"What? I never heard about that before." He looked confused.
I was shocked, since Xenu is supposedly the supreme being regarding
Scientology.
"X-e-n-u." I pronounced it slowly. " Never heard of it? Does someone
else know?"
"No....Let me go ask someone."
I realized what I'd just asked him much to late. He either didn't know
who Xenu was because he hadn't been taught yet, or he had been taught
to deny who Xenu was. Most likely he did not yet know who Xenu was. He
was still very new in the organisation.
He walked into the office of an older woman and they came back
together. Immidiately she got into my face.
"What's this? What are you asking about? What?" All said in rapid
succession
My face went flush and I started to sweat a bit.
"Uhh xenu...I heard about it and was wondering about it..." I said,
not very loud.
"What?" She said again.
"X-e-n-u." I said it slowly this time. Is this word hard to be
understood around here or what? "I heard it was the god of scientology
or something."
"No I've never heard of that before." She said sternly.
I shrugged and conceded. OK maybe they've never heard of xenu...I
wasn't going to push it. But I just had the sinking feeling, staring
both of them in the eyes, that at least one of them was blatantly
lying to me. At this point I was really nervous and my stomach decided
to produce some extra acid. Probably because of the triggered
fight-or-flight response by some woman I didn't know getting in my
face.
"Ohh..ok ...I see." Is what I said, and the woman walked away. I
talked to the guy a little bit longer, then asked again 5 minutes
later.
"So you've never heard of Xenu, at all? Xenu.net?"
"No...hold on let me go ask someone."
What the...? Ask someone again? This time he went to what appeared to
be the highest ranking person there. Her office was set aside from the
rest, and seemed to have a bigger desk.
Meanwhile, I stood there by myself contemplating just walking out, but
I didn't want to act like I was flustered (which I was) so I just
stood there waiting. Again, the first, older woman approaches me while
i'm standing alone.
"Where did you hear this information?" She said, close to me, the type
of close you want to just shove someone away from you. She looked and
sounded *****. Why does she have to be so close?
"Uhh I heard from a friend."
"Well, when you hear information like that, you need to check your
source." She said in a very serious tone. But somehow maintaining a
half-fake smile. It just creeped me out. Then she walked away again.
The guy came back and said, "Oh..she says it was something made up
from a magazine."
At that point he asked me if I wanted to take the personality test. I
said no thanks, and left.
This whole event creeped me out even more when I got home and read on
xenu.net "How to talk to a scientologist." The first thing she says in
that section is not to mention the weird stuff (ie. Xenu) because most
scientologists probably haven't been trained in that yet, but are
trained to believe that if they learn about it to early they will die.
Whoa... now I think by just saying the word "Xenu" around that guy I
may have caused a serious problem in his life. He asked two of his
superiors, so they know, and a "report" with RTC (rtc.org) will most
likely be filed. Will he have to talk about this next time he is
audited? I didn't expect there to be such a big reaction just by
mentioning one word, Xenu.
Heres a question. Why did all three people I asked about the Church of
Scientology location in Upland all reply exactly the same way,
including the woman I saw in the hallway(I did not see what door she
came from)? "I think they moved." Hmm...
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http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ http://www.notserver.com/
Scientology crooks: http://sf.irk.ru/www/ot3/otiii-gif.html
Scientology murder: http://PerkinsTragedy.org
Improving the herd: http://www.rightard.org/
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