thanks for alerting me to the transcript. Jeez, I couldn’t make it more than a few paragraphs before performing a head-desk convergence.

I’m just wondering how far up the pyramid you have to make it before they call you into a room and say “Yeah, this is all bullshit, but look at all the money we are making”.

She was brought in by her mother. The CoS practices complete seperation from family members if you leave. She also was raised in CoS schools etc.

Scientology is a glorified pyramid scheme. The more money you make, the more “knowledge” you are granted (in the form of books and other materials that you pay for with your tithing (monthly or yearly)). And the church writes it off as if it is nothing. Ridiculous.

As was Leah. She was taken in my her parents as a teen and mentally manipulated for years.

Her mother got the family into the cult when she was a kid. Very much at the “you go where your parent tells you” age; she didn’t have a choice about joining. I saw an interview with her and she said that one of the things that scared her most when she began to think about leaving was that her mother would decide to…

It’s called grooming. Lots of religions and pedophiles do this to keep a hold. Polygamy, for example, has an excellent grooming program.

I think she was raised in it by her parents from a young age. Not really her choice. Regardless of how much money she has, taking some away from that cult is a public good even if she just sets fire to it on the court house steps.

Scientology takes it a bit further than many (as far as the organization itself is concerned). Some people are trying to sum up the fucked up shit they have done but honestly you have to read in detail or watch a few documentaries to understand it. The best I can say is think of some of the nastier cult tendencies…

Scientology blackmails and cons people out of money all the time. I’m glad she’s suing.

You know that a lot of kids are born or forced into this, right?

She didn’t join, she was raised in the cult. smh

As someone who has read her book it’s more like years of indoctrination and damaging emotional abuse that started when she was a teen. So try again.

I’m not a Scientologist and my knowledge of it is mostly that it seems creepier and a more blatant scam than other religions. However, TS to Leah Remini. You joined. It sucked. That’s life. You made a shit ton of money from the shitty Kevin James show. You ain’t starving..

I have kids so I went through the stages where they were learning to speak and used words wrong (and still do) but that was some next level horrible. And does he know more two or three damn adjectives?

Me too, the word salad was too much for me. Whole portions just made no sense at all.

In other news, I demand damages from the incoming Trump administration.

Acceptable, but lacks a certain pizazz.

How about dick-patterned pocket squares?

Thank you!!! I was all — damn that’s a big uterus! And should be a bit lower, no?