UPDATED with New Screenshots: Leah Remini & Mike Rinder’s Anti-Scientology Fans Fair Game Monique Rathbun’s Business
Here are Mike Rinder’s minions planning their fair game of Monique Rathbun in their closed Facebook Group
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Can Chris Shelton The Critical Thinker At Large Distinguish Between a ‘Cult Recovery Paradigm’ and Therapy?
Is Chris Shelton The Critical Thinker at Large the Stuart Smalley of Celebrity Anti-Scientology?
The Top 5 Most Toxic & Corrosive Things About Being an Ex-Scientologist
As an Ex-Scientologist for 22yrs, I’ve identified the top 5 things that, over time, become the most toxic and corrosive things about being an Ex of any cult.
Post Ex-Scientology
A Post-Ex has integrated the arguments, and “truths”, he made as a Scientologist with the arguments, and “truths”, he made as an Ex/Anti-Scientologist. He has seen the disconnects and the contradictions there, and repaired them. He no longer walks around with an opposite self inside him, with which he is at war.
How L Ron Hubbard Tricked You: Two Scientologys
Have you ever noticed that there are two Scientologys? When you study the chronological development of Dianetics and Scientology, and you watch L Ron Hubbard develop his tech and policies, you can really see the … Read more
Celebrity Anti-Scientology: The Drama Queen Paradigm of “Cult Recovery”
Celebrity anti-Scientology is a hell of a drug. Presenting all your trauma, over and over to a sympathetic audience on TV can create and maintain your whole self-identity for you. And it can get you all the status & fame you desire. But is it good for you?
Professor Hugh Urban Responds to Tony Ortega’s Stereotyping of “Religious Studies Types”
I’ll hand this to Tony, whenever it is to his own advantage, he does make stabs at being intellectually honest. In this case, he published a response to his criticism of professor Hugh Urban and … Read more
The Truth Rundown, Scientology’s Most Brutal Brainwashing Technique
The Truth Rundown in Scientology tries to force Scientologists to delude themselves into believing they never saw what they saw with their own eyes.
Anti-Scientologists Display Frenzied Hysteria & Dysfunctional Negativity Over CNN’s “Believer”
Reza Aslan’s episode of “Believer” on CNN regarding Independent Scientology changed my life for the better. It reminded me of an approach to belief and spiritual pursuits that is positive, constructive, and life-giving.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master Revisited by an Ex-Scientologist
For anyone not intimately familiar with Hubbard’s writing and the early history of Scientology, you should know that almost every word that Hoffman’s Lancaster Dodd speaks in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is either a … Read more
Scientologist Haydn James on Why Scientology Does Not Work
Independent Scientologist Haydn James, who I understand is STILL a practicing Scientologist, wrote this bit of Scientology reasoning which is a gem to behold. So I did.
Mike Rinder Bans Commenter From His Blog For Posting Link to US Senate Investigation Into BackPage.com
Mike Rinder Anti-Scientology vs. Mike Rinder Scientology: a great real life example of what happens when your friends and your group are more important than the truth.
Has Celebrity Anti-Scientology Jumped the Shark?
Yesterday, up and coming celebrity anti-Scientologist Brendan Tighe was on Meghan Kelly’s chat show, where he claimed that Scarlett Johansson auditioned with the Church of Scientology to be Tom Cruise’s girlfriend. Johanssen released a statement … Read more
Skeptics and Pseudo-Skeptics of Scientology
The key characteristic of a pseudo-skeptic of Scientology is the furious and dedicated certainty of their position, and their squinting suspicion that anyone who would question them must be an OSA agent.
Was Elizabeth Moss a Brainwashed Cult Member Playing a Brainwashed Cult Member?
Multi-layered and highly nuanced truths are not really good at whipping up mobs of people against minority religions. They’re boring and take too much thought.
A Narrow Critique of Scientology Ethics Technology
One of the benefits of Hubbard’s Scientology ethics technology is to provide a way to structure the analysis of problems in your life, and to think up solutions to deal with them. One of the … Read more
Thinking With Simplistic Cult Metaphors from Scientology
Vicar, in his short but excellent comment over on Mark C Rathbun’s blog, wrote: “I would have to think that the deeper one follows Ron and presses on in this search for his native state, … Read more
2 Poled Thinking & Anti Scientology Fanatics
Rinder has a post about “2 Types of Exes” which copies “Two Types of People” by L Ron. Hubbard was wrong about this two poled thinking. So is Mike Rinder.
“Star Witness” & “The Disappeared” Next 2 Episodes in Season 3 of Leah Remini’s Scientology and the Aftermath
New news on the next episodes of Leah Remini’s Scientology and the Aftermath, and the latest viewership statistics
Here’s What Makes a Scientologist Stupid
I wrote this after dealing with a swarm of Scientologists on the Internet: I’ve seen it now. It is unmistakable. It works like this: You present an idea that has NOTHING to do with Scientology, … Read more