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I Was A Teenage Scientologist |
| Everyone who lives in LA has some kind of relationship with the entertainment industry.Whether you did commercials as a kid, have a neighbor who works at a studio, or operate a business with a few customers who are starlets, the associations are inescapable.Everyone has some kind of connection to the music, film, or television industries.I'm no different.As a kid I was involved in a few aspects of the field appearing here or there, nothing terribly remarkable or memorable.As a teen my career had waned as I went from the transition of going out for work playing a cute kid to a bit of teen crush material, that was being groomed for those cheesy glossies.I'm tempted to put up images from the somewhat raunchy beefcake shoot I did for YM Mag once the modeling thing had started to pick up for me. Regardless, in the odd transistion my manager had suggested that I become a Scientologist so that I could schmooze at the Celebrity Centre.Which I did.As a Scientologist you can bypass alot of the introductory stuff if you fork over enough money.I did a little of both, including taking the E-Meter test.Some highlights from the unbelievably long list of questions you endure while hooked up to the machine:Have you ever enslaved a population?Have you ever killed the wrong person?Have you ever been a professional critic?Have you ever tried to give sanity a bad name?Have you ever consistently practiced sex in some unnatural fashion?Have you ever made love to a dead body?Have you ever smothered a baby? |
| Some highlights from the unbelievably long list of questions you endure while hooked up to the machine:Have you ever enslaved a population?Have you ever killed the wrong person?Have you ever been a professional critic?Have you ever tried to give sanity a bad name?Have you ever consistently practiced sex in some unnatural fashion?Have you ever made love to a dead body?Have you ever smothered a baby?Have you ever castrated anyone?At any rate.I paid my money, scmoozed a bit.Got several contracts out of it and moved on.I'm not remotely religious, and I wouldn't even call Scientology a religion.It's more or less a weird self-help group with this contrived planetary metaphor for personal improvement.They get attacked alot for the random and creepy things they do.A few friends thought that members of the Church were trying to kill them, which the media suggested lead both to commit suicide.Despite all that I do think the church is weird, but I find all religions creepy in a way (especially after I've had several as clients).I still don't have nearly the same distaste for Scientology as I do for say, Starbucks. |
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