Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
In late 2007 the media had all been shuddered into silence by Marty Mike and Dave. The only way to expose Scientology was by personal risk, by one’s self, on the Internet. Then the Anonymous collective arrived.
1st in a series on the Ex-Scientologist Message Board, one of the most effective hotbeds of Scientology criticism in its day, and thoroughly obliterated by Mike Rinder et al AFTER they ‘left’ Scientology.
Mike Rinder’s Book Release is Less Then a Month Away, Squeals Rinder Apologist and Propeller-Headed Control Freak Karen de La Carriere
With so many people stuck in the most negative views on ESMB, is this a place where an Ex-Scientologist can productively evolve & grow after their experiences in Scientology?
“Ex” is not “Anti”. Anti is a stance against. Ex is simply a former member, having many different stances about their former religious pursuit.
Karen de la Carriere posts Anti-Scientology info every day on the Ex-Scientologist Message Board while running her own Scientology auditing practice. Isn’t that weird?
HelluvaHoax! took this letter out of context, cut it in half, and characterized it in a way that only Joseph Stalin, L Ron Hubbard, and Snow Suzy herself would be proud. As I’ve documented many times, telling the truth is not the object of the anti-Scientology fanatic on any of the Snow Suzy properties.
If the Admin applied the rules of ESMBR to HelluvaHoax! & some of the other vicious cyberbullies there – would he lose needed funding to keep the board up?
Karakorum, an Ex-Scientologist who spent years in middle management of the Sea Org in Los Angeles, has been posting heresy to the new ESMB.
Scientologist and Anti-Scientologist alike can not think. They are both too militantly tribal to be able to think rationally. Here’s how.
I left the Church of Scientology after 16 years, becoming an outspoken critic of them in 1999. I’ve been thinking and writing about Scientology and cults for 36 years, in and out of both. Of all the lessons I learned by escaping Scientology, then by escaping Anti-Scientology, I’ve learned one lesson harder than any other: … Read more
A cult is a smaller culture inside the wider culture around it. It has different knowledge, skills & moral values, with a different narrative and different attitudes and acceptable behaviors.
I am presenting this piece of writing which appeared on ESMB recently as an example of what I believe to be a pathological state of mind for an Ex-Scientologist to develop. This particular Ex-Scientologist has been out of Scientology for a long time and has had many opportunities to reconcile with his old self as … Read more
I learned that someone – not Church OSA – was taking creepy screenshots of everything I write on my blog, like every day, multiple times per day.
The question is, will Rachel Bernstein stick around ESMB and actually post something that is not in her own commercial interests?
Michelle Ryan experienced the worst Scientology Fair Game I’ve ever seen anyone experience, and her demeanor and decision-making changed drastically after that.
Anti-Scientologists reduce their own cognitive dissonance the same way Scientologists do – by remaining blind to what they say and do to their “enemies”.
It’s the AlanzosBlog discussion of ESMB discussion on AlanzosBlog!
Tony’s single hypothesis, which he’s riding like a little hobby horse in a futile attempt to herd Ex-Scientologists thinking (Ex-Scientologists who know more about Scientology than Tony Ortega and Ray Jeffrey ever will) has holes as big as the open range.
Apparently, nobody’s running the store over at the Ex-Scientologist Message Board since Ethercat left suddenly a few months ago, refusing to comment on what made her leave. I guess this is how ESMB will end. Does anyone care? I think the question on everyone’s mind right now is “Where will HelluvaHoax go? Does ESMB have … Read more