Here’s a Scientology “2nd Gen” who is not running a sympathy grift on you:
Neil Gaiman
From his Wikipedia page:
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (/ˈɡeɪmən/;[2] born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic book series The Sandman and the novels Good Omens, Stardust, Anansi Boys, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He co-created the TV series adaptations of Good Omens and The Sandman.
Gaiman has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London.
Early life and education
Neil Richard Gaiman[3] was born on 10 November 1960[4] in Portchester, Hampshire.[5]Gaiman’s family is of Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi origins.[6] His great-grandfather emigrated to England from Antwerp before 1914[7] and his grandfather settled in Portsmouth and established a chain of grocery stores, changing the family name from Chaiman to Gaiman.[8] His father, David Bernard Gaiman, worked in the same chain of stores;[9] his mother, Sheila Gaiman (née Goldman), was a pharmacist. Neil has two younger sisters, Claire and Lizzy.[10]
The Gaimans moved in 1965 to the West Sussex town of East Grinstead, where his parents studied Dianetics at the Scientology centre in the town; one of Gaiman’s sisters works for the Church of Scientology in Los Angeles. His other sister, Lizzy Calcioli, has said, “Most of our social activities were involved with Scientology or our Jewish family. It would get very confusing when people would ask my religion as a kid. I’d say, ‘I’m a Jewish Scientologist.'” Gaiman says that he is not a Scientologist, and that like Judaism, Scientology is his family’s religion.[5] About his personal views, Gaiman has stated, “I think we can say that God exists in the DC Universe. I would not stand up and beat the drum for the existence of God in this universe. I don’t know, I think there’s probably a 50/50 chance. It doesn’t really matter to me.”[11]
Neil Gaiman is one of the most successful authors of all time. He was even the Executive Director of the Birmingham Org. (or maybe it was Manchester, someone correct me if I got the org wrong).
He’s a 2nd Gen. His parents were Scientologists, and he followed them into Scientology.
And he’s not sympathy grifting you for money because “Scientology is all he knew” (sniffle) or because “I was BRAINWASHED into continuing in Scientology as an adult!”
Yet he grew up in Scientology and even continued as an adult on (non-sea org) staff.
Here’s what Neil Gaiman said about what Scientology gave him on Marc Maron’s podcast:
“I think what it gave me… I think that what was great for me, looking back on it, I don’t think I knew this at the time was, I’m going to a high Church of England School, very religious but Christian school, I’m a Jewish kid studying for my bar mitzvah and there’s Scientology going on at home and I’m, like … it gave me a wonderful sort of vantage point going, people believe all these different things, okay, but I don’t have to believe any of this because I can be over here and not believe that, I can be over here and not believe that which means that … it’s kind of like that thing with where you start talking to people about what gods they believe in and you go, ‘Isn’t it amazing that you don’t believe in all of these gods and they don’t believe in all of those gods but somehow out of all of the millions of gods human beings have come up with that didn’t exist you found the one that did.”
— Neil Gaiman
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1353-neil-gaiman/id329875043?i=1000574611646
I’d say Neil Gaiman shows signs of “having recovered from his cult experience”.
So why can’t our YouTube Sympathy Grifting 2nd Gens start understanding human belief systems the way Neil Gaiman expresses here and stop asking us to pay for their expensive Anti-Scientology neck injections?
There is so much that Exes (of all ‘cults’) can learn OUTSIDE of the anticult ideology.
Maybe it’s time that their sympathy-grifted donors should also learn this.