Scientology

[DanaC]

I only started really looked into Scientology after reading about it in the Cellar. It's not such a big deal in the UK, but a colleague of mine once almost fell for their "take our personality test - OMG you're so damaged we can help you!"

I took one of them thar tests once. I was walking down Deansgate (I think it was Deansgate) in Manchester and this very pleasant and smarly attired young man asked me if I wanted to step inside and tale a free personality test. I was killing time waiting to meet a friend so thought, what the fuck? Ha. There were about fifteen people all sitting at tables taking the test and the rest of the place was like a book shop. At that point I hadn't even heard of scientologists (was in the early 90s). When they started telling me I was depressed (wow, who'd ha thunk it?) and suggesting I start by buying a book by L. Ron Hubbard, I was a little dubious....see, I had encountered Hubbard in the form of the worst sci-fi book I ever tried to read. *chuckles*