Yowza! I just finished watching the hour long documentary that Steely posted earlier in the thread, well, this one:
THE SECRETS OF SCIENTOLOGY (FULL DOCUMENTARY) - YouTube
and I read some of the ex-scientology young people's accounts.
So much to be said here. I do hope Dateline or some show will do something, strike while the iron is hot so to say.
This group claims to be opposed to psychiatry/psychology. That is because this is their main tool, only in it's most negative aspects. This is nothing than control tactics similar to the abusive spouse, parent, military leader, other cult leaders.
This group also incorporates little bits of many other religions, to even include a caste system. (Much more to be said.)
Any group that films you openly, or secretly with the tiny spy cams that again are used by abusers, stalks and abuses you, applies lie detectors (WTH?), is not one that could be deemed religious, imo. Any group that keeps families separate is not one to be deemed religious. None of this stuff has the best interests of the individual at heart. Only the best interests of the money making machine it is. Low cost to operate with high dividends from the followers either in money or labor. (Much more to be said.)
I did start chuckling at that level III space alien god dude thing. Oh my. But what else would you expect from a religion started by a sci-fi writer??! Wonder what you are told at the higher levels?
I can see why some young people would get involved. The nice, but no one on them, demo of pools, tennis grounds, etc... The help with raising a family (always have a guaranteed job of some sort), the help with not doing drugs or alcohol if one feels weak toward that. The community presentation (false as it may be.)
I just wish there were more exposure to cults nowadays. Also wish critical thinking was taught in schools and on television. Perhaps even world religion, philosophy, psychology, and footage of some of the most heinous leaders of all time in action to show how nicely it begins and how rapidly it ramps up into full on control through threats, intimidation, and sometimes death.
Interesting that the one actor had 3 very large German Shepards as his front line of loving furries.
I'll try to get to more of this bizarre stuff later. Most fascinated now.
ETA: I figured out why I never liked TC's acting, I always felt it is poor acting, but just not my preferred style. Then I saw the other actors/actresses involved and feel the same about them. It is fake. They are doing just as they have been trained! I do believe it is termed "method acting" but those people in this documentary were doing just this same in their display of tactics.
