Has anyone here had bad experiences with scientology?

Answer 1

Thankfully I've been fortunate enough to never confront the organization directly. There have been a number of people who have had very bad experiences with Scientology. Read about it here:
http://www.lermanet.com/persecution/
http://www.whyaretheydead.net/krasel/
http://xenu.net/archive/personal_story/cheryl_s/

Here are more "bad experiences" with the cult including an illegal plot to infiltrate the government, brainwashing techniques, mind control camps, attacks on critics, and DEATHS caused by Scientology doctrine and members:

• Operation Snow White – Under this official program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, & theft of documents in government offices. This program constituted the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history. Among the 11 prominent Scientologists convicted of this conspiracy was Mary Sue Hubbard, the wife of Scientology’s “prophet”.
http://lisatrust.freewinds.cx/scientology/snow-white/index.html
http://en.allexperts.com/e/o/op/operation_snow_white.htm

• Operation Freakout - Their campaign of sabotage & violence against Paulette Cooper, the writer who published her research & findings on several cults, including Scientology. Scientology’s official plan: to frame Paulette, ruin her career & reputation & get her either incarcerated or locked up in psychiatric confinement.
The official plan: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Krasel/cooper/frk1.html
Her book: http://holysmoke.org/cos/books/scandal-of-scientology-cooper.pdf

• Fair Game - the Scientology policy detailing how the organization may confront & handle critics & perceived enemies. Here is a direct quote: "Enemies may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.”
http://www.xenu.net/archive/disk/fairgame.htm
http://www.planetkc.com/sloth/sci/Fair_game_ord.html

• Physical & psychological punishment: Scientologists who "break the rules" while members of the "Sea Org" must subject themselves to the Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF), which includes regimes of harsh physical punishment, forced self-confessions, social isolation, hard labor and intensive ideological indoctrination.
http://www.xenu-directory.net/practices/rpf.html
http://www.lermanet2.com/scientology/gulags/BrainwashinginScientology'sRehabilitationProjectForce.htm
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kspaink/cos/rpf/escape_2.htm

• Brainwashing & mind control: Scientology exerts control over its members by means of typical cult tactics, including but not limited to controlling information about internal doctrine & criticism of the organization, severely restricting social contact outside the cult (including the practice of “disconnecting” with any family who question the credibility & trustworthiness of the cult), creating an “us against them” mentality by villainizing a specific out-group (for Scientology, it’s psychiatrists), & claiming all those outside the cult are unenlightened.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Tampabay/The_unperson.shtml
http://www.factnet.org/Books/SocialControl/scs.html#toc http://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/groups/s/scientology/pignotti/
http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/faq.html#cult

• Violent Kidnapping - Lisa McPherson was a Scientologist, was involved in a car accident & resultantly became mentally unstable. She was kidnapped from the hospital by agents of Scientology, held against her will, refused proper psychiatric treatment & allowed to STARVE TO DEATH.
Video: http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
News Coverage: http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/Lisa_McPherson_Scientology_Deaths.html
Website: http://www.lisamcpherson.org/

• Tragic Murder - A CBS “48 Hours” special on Jeremy Perkins, the mentally disturbed son of Scientologist parents who, because of the Scientology doctrine of opposing psychiatry, refused to put him on the anti-psychotic drugs that would have stabilized him & prevented him from killing his own mother.
Video: http://www.scientomogy.com/jeremy_perkins.php
CBS article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/25/48hours/main2124568.shtml
Website: http://perkinstragedy.org

Answer 2

As you see Scientology is a touchy subject. But none of these critics had had much experience with Scientology. I really don't know what eldad9 is talking about and luvdal68 is making stuff up; you don't repeat anything in Scientology. I have been involved with Scientology for over 16 years and I'm a US Air Force TSgt. You will find out that Scientologists are extremely able, intelligent and moral people. The reason that people don't see eye to eye with Scientology is because Scientology works. And it makes some people crazy seeing other people getting better. Scientology is so effective that even the pharma industry feels threatened. There is millions of Scientologists WW and not even one is in medication or drugs. That really makes a statement.

Answer 3

fairly undesirable. They use each advertising trick interior the e book just to objective and get human beings to hearken to thier rants. I have been given suckered to a meeting as quickly as that i presumed became going to be approximately some thing else. they're interior the moral sewer advertising sensible with the likes of Avon, Herbalife and telemarketing recruiters. That they wasted my time shows their loss of ethic or skill to offer ethical reenforcement. who could decide to improve thier infants in a undertaking like that the place they could be on with regard to the comparable ethical/ethical airplane as a billboard. the bend, yet no sin if the regulation isn't broken mentality. purely the way they have been attempting to deliver me in to debate the beginning on my own shows me lots and that i couldnt be extra disinterested to be certain what else they 'stand for' or are 'approximately'. BS purely like each little thing else to various stages.

Answer 4

Yes. This is what happens. You answer the little quiz that they have in some stores, then you bring it in to the nearest Scientology place. Then they interview you, where they "psychoanalyze" you for an hour or so. Then you pay some money to go to one of their classes where they teach you to solve your life problems using little props to represent people and situations. (Later, they will try to get you to take even more classes that cost hundreds of dollars.) Then you move on to the "worship" service (what they're "worshipping", I'll never know) where you repeat the same words and phrases over and over again for an hour until you nearly pass out from hyperventilation, which they tell you is just those things [I can't remember what they call them] leaving you. Then you leave and swear you'll never return.

It's a crazy religion. Stick with Christ.

Answer 5

No , only really good positive experiences.
But then I have actually experienced Scientology (for over 36 years) unlike the critical posters you have here.

Not sure what your intent is with this question......
or why you are looking for negative detractors of a particular religion.

Answer 6

Twice as many people dead as compared to all US wars since 1776. http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/15242

If you look at the areas we are successfully handling as a group, for example psychiatry and drug companies. Their products are being increasing labeled for what they are, more and more psychiatrist, drug companies and their agents are being brought to justice. Psychiatrist and drug companies have killed thousands of people, their own studies show this. The truth is there, but it is hard to look at as all people have a responsibility for it by doing or not doing something.

My experience with Scientology is being able to open my eyes and see the world and it occupants as they actually are, to see through the veneer of society.

Answer 7

http://www.xenu.net/
contains all the information you need.

It's an evil cult designed to make money and nothing else . Its effects on believers are destructive - Check out http://www.lisamcpherson.org/ , a victim of the cult who was starved to death.

Read "the road to xenu" - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/xenu/ - an account of a girl who escaped scientology after 12 years!

The cult's core belief - no, I am not kidding here! - in the words of the founder:

"The head of the Galactic Federation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 5,000,000 years ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet, 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H-Bomb on the principal volcanos (Incident II) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged".

His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants.

When through with his crime loyal officers (to the people) captured him after six years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confederation) has since been a desert. The length and brutality of it all was such that this Confederation never recovered. The implant is calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc) anyone who attempts to solve it. This liability has been dispensed with by my tech development.

One can freewheel through the implant and die unless it is approached as precisely outlined. The "freewheel" (auto-running on and on) lasts too long, denies sleep etc and one dies. So be careful to do only Incidents I and II as given and not plow around and fail to complete one thetan at a time.

In December 1967 I knew someone had to take the plunge. I did and emerged very knocked out, but alive. Probably the only one ever to do so in 75,000,000 years. I have all the data now, but only that given here is needful.

One's body is a mass of individual thetans stuck to oneself or to the body.

One has to clean them off by running incident II and Incident I. It is a long job, requiring care, patience and good auditing. You are running beings. They respond like any preclear. Some large, some small.

Thetans believed they were one. This is the primary error. Good luck."

Answer 8

Yes. I nearly lost a good friend to scientology.

he got better.

Answer 9

When I was at the mall they tried to get me to do a stress test. I told them to shove their stress test where the sun don't shine.

Answer 10

I think they spiked my smoothie once.