I'm sure most have watched - but I've been partaking in some light watching of Leah Rem-something's 'show'
about life after Scientology.
Whilst it is interesting, it goes around some of the same circles that have been circled before and adds a little more texture, but I'm under no illusion that this is the Leah Rem-something show. She is irritating from the get-go, but you do find yourself warming to her, but then she says or does something soooooo showbizzy that any (if any) sympathy for her or the others just falls through the cracks and you begin to sort of... ludicrously... believe some of the comments that the 'Church' lobbies against them.
I won't go into detail, because it would look like a character assassination - but either I am a complete ass, or she and the others (not all) are.
She is coming across as a bandwagon jumper and a person who loves the limelight at any cost - which is possibly the reason she joined the cult in the first place. But aside of all that, I am beginning to see why she is pissing them off so much... as fucking idiotic as that may sound.
But not only that, Mike Rinder does one interview where all of his bullshit speeches on motivations of doing this and yearning for justice... they are all undone with one small fact that he just throws into one tiny sentence. I'm sure that this is not across the board, but most of these people are not the whistleblowers that they want to be seen as and are coming across as disgruntled excommunicated members more than anything.
I'd like to see a documentary on the lives that they have ruined through the practices of the cult and the negative things that they have done in the name of their religion, because through these shows, they are propagating the very tenants of Scientology itself, but by other means.
For anyone interested - here are the links.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5b25jvEdit: I feel that I need to add that I have read Dianetics in my younger years and think that it is a good piece of writing (as fiction, of course), say what you want about Scientology, but L. Ron Hubbard was a good writer (standing on the shoulders of giants of course) - I have been interested in Scientology for a while and even did an audit when younger; however, I do not believe in any of it for a minute and it is as many have said, an organised cult based on a very, very old business model... it's a pyramid scheme for people with a hole in their life.
Edit: A few more episodes in and some of the stories are harrowing - the abuse levels are beyond anything that anything that you have heard before... I am also perturbed to find some sections of Dianetics that have obviously been redacted in later versions - it was a long time ago when I read that book. It was given to me by a person who was connected to them...
I have just seen a section which either I glossed over, didn't read, or was simply redacted in the volume that was given to me - but it is chilling.
"A seven-year-old who shudders because a man kisses her is not computing..."
"At seven, she should see nothing wrong with a kiss, not even a passionate one."
Seriously?
This is what is written in the texts that the whole cult it based on and none of these people questioned that? If you add this to some of the stories that in the Leah Remini documentaries, it begins to paint a very vivid picture of the levels of depravity that this propagates.
This is where the buck will stop with them... if there are more stories of this kind of maltreatment, the house of cards will fall and it is quite clear why Katie Hopkins tried to have a restraining order taken out on Tom Cruise.
