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In Reply to: I don't want sympathy posted by Acheick on August 21, 2002 at 18:42:47:
You probably take my opinion a little too seriously then.
I'm not saying that my opinion isn't what I truly believe. I'm just saying that it shouldn't ruin your day just because some guy who was never in the Family thinks something different that what you wished he thought.
I've been taken advantage of before too. I was young. I was stupid. I let guys like Jay Van Andel, Rich DeVoss and Werner Erhard take advantage of me. As far as I'm concerned, they were the smart ones and I was the stupid one. Shame on me.
I enrolled my own Mother and Brother in the est Training. I enrolled a guy who went from est, right into Scientology and is still in it today (22 years later).
All of that happened because I was a dick. I had to wise up, grow up, stop blaming others and start acting like an adult. Now things are a lot better, except for getting beaten up on the boards every three weeks or so. I'm still a dick from time to time, but not the kind of dick that joins a group like that.
Sooner or later, I had to make the choice to admit that I did it. I was exclusively responsibile, and then promise I wouldn't do it again.
I talk about it from time to time now, because it was an interesting part of my life. But, I no longer feel like a slave to it.
