A poster on EpicAnon has a lengthy post worth reading that helps make Scientologists blow their orgs and leave the cult.  It’s a primer on how to speak with a Scilon and get them listening to you by using the tech against them.

In order to communicate properly with an individual you must first find something you can agree upon. Once you agree upon something, you should then begin to find something about that person you desire, admire or just generally like. Raising your ’state of affinity’ about another person is what enables a communication to be well-received and continuously established [doesn’t this shit sound like a manual on how to make friends if you were a robot?]

So basically, find something about a Scientologist you both can agree on [drugging of children is a good start] once you state this, they may realize you have a similar reality [if they don’t point it out] and then begin to search for something you admire/like/respect about that person [and state it for the hell of it]. I generally tell them that I admire anyone who is willing to dedicate their lives to a cause that is worthwhile [whether I agree with it or not] and that usually gets me in the door with them. From there, you can really begin to discuss things with them.

tl;dr: it’s worth the read.

Via Enturbulation:

In this three-part interview, Antony Brinkman, number 1 at the Org in Manchester, UK, talks with Tony and Sue Thurston, parents of Rebecca Thurston, a 22-year-old student who has been attempting to leave Scientology for the past 18 months. He really put his neck on the line to come out and talk to us - for the full story, please watch these three videos.

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Actor and prominent ex-Scientologist Jason Beghe commented to The Village Voice’s Tony Ortega about Scientology Spokespoodle Tommy Davis‘ appearance on CNN.  Jason talks about the man he knew from his Scientology days:

Beghe says that he’s heard the reports that after the Sweeney matter, Davis was put on “RPF”—Rehabilitation Project Force—a notorious program of manual labor that Hubbard created to “redeem” wayward Scientologists.

“The RPF is there to suppress you, to make you toe the line. They pull all your hidden data [make people confess to wrongdoings in intense therapy sessions], they make you do menial, repetitive labor. And there’s sleep deprivation. This is bad shit,” Beghe says.

After watching last week, Beghe says Davis looks like he’d been through that kind of program.

“When I saw him on CNN, I thought, ‘Oh my God, what have they done to this guy.’”

Prominent ex-Scientologist and actor Jason Beghe showed up at the San Francisco raid.

He didn’t make a speech or anything, but just popped on by to check everything out. Moar pix on Disconnected Son’s blog and on Enturbulation.

Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of the embarassed and tiny David Miscavige, made a post on the ExScientologyKids messageboard documenting the cult’s latest round of harassment of her and her husband. What is most interesting, however, is this sentence:

I find this very interesting considering that Mike Rinder told Dallas and I in a conversation just about 2 weeks ago, that when I wanted to leave, at first they were trying to get me to stay (which is true-Trayce Danilovich, Kirsten Caetano and a few others were trying to get me to stay), but then when my uncle heard about it, it said that I should just go.

In case you missed it,

Mike Rinder

R6 Implant on a cross, are you fucking kidding me!?

Don’t just talk to Jenna and Dallas, Mike. Talk to all ex-Scientologists. Talk to all current Scientologists. Talk to us all. But most importantly, TALK TO THE FBI.

…is here.  Here’s an interesting opener:

4. I have reason to believe that organized scientology will try to prevent me from giving such details, including possibly physical harm to myself. Thus I wish to make one thing clear now. I am of sound mind and happy in my life and look forward to living many more years of life. I have no desire to commit suicide. Should I die and it appear that “I committed suicide” I wish to point out I would never do that and I would wish to request an investigation into organized scientology and Miscavige as potentially being behind my death.

Wow.

18. In two legal declarations Miscavige made in the 1990s under penalty of perjury (listed above) he made many statements that were either outright lies or that were misleading. These will be covered in complete detail in a separate declaration to be written shortly just on the subject of perjuries by Miscavige.

Oh my.

36. The true danger lurking behind those corporate veils and hidden behind religious cloaking is organized scientology’s intention to control the legal systems and educational systems of the world, to rid the world of its enemies and it apply its brutal ethics policies to everyone. That is what is in store for the world should the policies of organized scientology be applied throughout the world. It has long been the intention of organized scientology to do the above as it uses its front groups like Narconon, Applied Scholastics, the Way to Happiness Foundation etc. to get inroads into society for organized scientology.

Ouch.

James Packer, second richest man in Australia and owner of Channel Nine, has quit the cult.

Members of Mr Packer’s inner circle have confirmed that the billionaire, who had ranked as Scientology’s wealthiest member in the world, was no longer undertaking Scientology courses and had slowly moved away from the religion, telling his closest friends he no longer “needs it”.

Ruth Lorenzen, former maintainer of the iTheta mailing list, has a new site.

I was a member of the Church of Scientology for 13 years. My “wake up call” began when I was being pressured to turn my husband into a Scientologist — “or else”. I learned some more things about the COS and decided to leave. I kept quiet for a while, but since I’m not one to keep my mouth shut, it just wasn’t “me” to remain in hiding, pretending to still be a Scientologist while not really being one.

I announced privately and in writing to the appropriate department of the Church of Scientology that I had decided to leave and was no longer a Scientologist, in or out of the COS. It took me six months and a lot of hell to get back some of my money (a mere drop in the bucket to what I’ve spent on Scientology).

It’s a wall of text, but it’s compelling and has a lot of exploitable documentation… including a scan of an invoice issued by the cult itself!

Scientology Lives By The Saying “The End Justifies The Means”:

I was a scientologist for 20 years. I saw nothing but horror stories every day. The problem is scientology lives by the saying “The end justifies the means.” You tolerate all the abuse because you are brainwashed into believing that the goal of a world without war, crime and insanity is just around the next bend.

Any Article by Scientologists Should Have Health Warnings Attached:

I suspect that many of them lie because they no longer know the difference between right and wrong, but that is a different point. NOTHING that they tell us about their own beliefs, their own experience, and their own practices is true. This is why Tom Cruise on Oprah is telling a series of lies, some of them palpable and why the video of his address to his ‘congregation’ in 2004 is so significant and so sensitive because it was made for internal consumption. In the video he is telling the truth as he and the Scientologist faithful understand it.