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Once Born's avatar

Always so sad.

It's hard enough to persuade people who need treatment to seek it, at the best of times. Their very illness gets in the way.

Nobody needs a fear of councillors, let alone psychiatrists, created by Scientology conditioning.

So many people must have died unnecessarily, over the years - genocide in slow motion.

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mark's avatar

True scientology "products": broken minds, broken bodies, broken spirits, and broken families.

Hubbard's dark legacy extends decades beyond the grave, thanks to tater

tot thetan and bouffanted plague, Captain McRavage.

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Geoff Levin's avatar

I have personal experience with how Scientology handles members who have mental issues that don’t respond to auditing. I had severe clinical depression and agoraphobia for three years. Scientology assigned two volunteer ministers to watch over me. I appreciate their efforts, they donated their time to see that I ate and got exercise outside. They did not have any therapeutic tools and so I suffered every waking minute. I still believed in Scientology and thought I was a complete failure.

Finally I got so I did not care that I was violating ethics rules and I started reading Tony Ortega in the Village Voice. In two month the depression lifted and I knew Scientology was a lie.

Jenny Burpee needed professional help. Gaslighting is the cause of so much mental turmoil within the cherch organization.

You can see my story in a new documentary called BROTHERS BROKEN debuting in the Cinequest Film Festival. I hope my story prevents others from joining Scientology.

Brothers Broken - Cinequest/Cinejoy Film Festival page-

https://creatics.org/create/cinejoy/showcase/moviepage/267106/Brothers-Broken

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mark's avatar

Hubbard's dianutics and scienbollocky are gaslighting ops from the git-go.

YOU DON'T KNOW YOURSELF, BUT EL CON HUBBARD DOES-and ONLY he does!

His dreck is the ONLY way out of the deep "trap"(as defined by el bong) you didn't

even know you were in...

Go Geoff! Keep livin' your best life✌🏾

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Robin Stamm's avatar

... "you didn't even know you were in."

The absolute best wording for those of us who are well educated but were suckered in ... until we knew it was a scam.

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Val Ross's avatar

This is what frightens me the most about scientology. Once you’ve been in it, even after you leave, there are time bombs planted in your mind from your time in there. The emotional shrapnel pops up at unexpected times and if you are programmed to not get real help, there’s nowhere to turn.

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Ann B Watson's avatar

May she be in Peace, Light & Love.

May Scientology be in turmoil,darkness and hate born of it’s Lies.

Thank you Tony. Sending 💛

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Robin Stamm's avatar

It was good of you, Tony, to do what you could to push her toward the help she needed. I didn't know of her, but this is heartbreaking.

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ACG's avatar

I'm so sorry. What a sad, sad thing to learn. My thoughts are with the people who loved Jenny.

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Ze Mooo's avatar

How sad, nothing else need be said, but the $cieno mindset can do you great harm.

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Geoff Levin's avatar

Mark, thank you. I’m still deprogramming. Making the documentary helped a lot.

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Ann B Watson's avatar

Powerful Post Mark Thank you.💛

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