I AM JOINING SCIENTOLOGY
Almost Adulting with Violet Benson
Violet Benson
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s finally the last week of October and to cap off the Cult month, we get an exclusive interview with a former member of Scientology who is related to Ron Hubbard, the CREATOR of Scientology.
Today, on Almost Adulting, for security and personal reasons, we are keeping the guest’s identity anonymous. The guest talks about how she grew up in the church and lived her childhood in a compound that housed church members, the day to day experiences, and what it was truly like to be part of the group. The discussion continued on with explaining how the ranking system required members to ‘donate’ more to have access to high profile members, co-Scientologists use networking to elevate their position in society, and the scheme to ostracize members considered underperformers because they fail to help the church grow by recruiting more people. The shadiness behind the glamorous front just keeps getting uglier so tune in to watch Part 1 of this 2-part interview.
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What to Listen For:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:49 Why did you decide to share your story today?
- 02:02 What is Scientology?
- 03:25 Common misconceptions about Scientology
- 05:21 The compound
- 06:46 Why was the cult created?
- 08:05 Humans are not meant to be worshiped
- 13:52 First job within the cult at the age of 6
- 17:33 Day to day in the compound
- 23:51 The emotional struggle when you leave
- 27:11 Can anyone join Scientology?
- 31:24 If you’re not contributing to it, you’re against it
- 36:56 Have you met Tom Cruise?
- 38:33 Why do you need more money?
- 40:38 What about reincarnation?
- 42:31 Levels, rankings, donations
- 48:41 Leaving the church
- 57:36 What are your current views on religion?
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| 0:00.0 | Walk me through your days towards the end of deciding to leave Scientology. |
| 0:05.3 | I packed my truck and over like a three-week period, I just put stuff in my truck that I wanted to |
| 0:11.3 | take with me. I said that I was gonna go across the street and I basically took a left turn and |
| 0:16.9 | I left. So I didn't really care what my future held. I just had to go. |
| 0:20.4 | It's a file of events in your favorite meme queen in the big set you didn't ask for, but |
| 0:24.9 | need a welcome to almost adult time. |
| 0:32.5 | Hey cuties and welcome to a brand new Thursday episode. Oh my god. We are finishing this month |
| 0:42.4 | with such a bang. I have been saving the special episode for the end of the month because it is |
| 0:49.5 | so fascinating that it needed two parts. Today you get to find out about Scientology and this |
| 0:56.4 | episode is so crazy because I got to interview a family member of the man, the legend, |
| 1:04.7 | that was behind creating Scientology. This is such a big deal that we had to protect the identity |
| 1:11.2 | of this person from their voice to what they look like and I'm so thankful they allowed us to have |
| 1:17.9 | this interview and I'm so thankful for everything they got to say. Today's episode and next week's |
| 1:24.2 | episode because it's two parts because there's so much information. It is not about me telling you |
| 1:28.6 | whether you should love Scientology or you should hate Scientology. It is me giving you information |
| 1:34.4 | and having someone share their experience. Their experience is going to be a very individual |
| 1:39.5 | experience. It's going to be very different from other people that I've experienced Scientology |
| 1:43.9 | since they are in the family area so their experience is going to be something that most people |
| 1:50.8 | whether or not they were in Scientology will never be able to experience. That is why the story is |
| 1:54.4 | so interesting and so fascinating. I am urging you to form your own opinions on how you feel about |
| 1:59.9 | this. I'm not here to tell you how you should feel. It's just me sharing information with you and |
| 2:04.6 | sharing interesting experience from someone's perspective that we will never be able to relate to. |
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