# Anybody here have any personal experience with Scientology?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-any-personal-experience-with-scientology/370824>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 30, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-any-personal-experience-with-scientology/370824 "2006-08-30T19:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2006, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-any-personal-experience-with-scientology/370824/21 "2006-09-17T07:15:47Z")

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John Travolta turned me into a newt once.

But I’m much better now.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-any-personal-experience-with-scientology/370824/22 "2006-09-18T06:19:23Z")

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[QUOTE=Evil Captor]  
John Travolta turned me into a newt once.

But I’m much better now.  
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Birds of a feather…😃

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-any-personal-experience-with-scientology/370824/23 "2006-09-18T11:34:01Z")

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[QUOTE=grimpixie]  
My Father-in-law’s wife and her daughter and son-in-law are all Scientologists. **And yet** , FIL’s wife insists that she has memories of being a bear in North America in one of her previous lives - and I just don’t know how to respond to that… in love at least…

Grim  
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Clearly, you need to contact Stephen Colbert on this matter.  
I drove past a Scientology Center once. There was a guy outside smoking a cigerette. I wanted to roll down the window and shout, “Hey, that is not good for you!” but then realized he might think that I was telling him fags were unhealthy, not the L. Ron Hubbard stuff.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-have-any-personal-experience-with-scientology/370824/24 "2006-09-18T13:27:42Z")

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I once ordered a plate of steamers, and when they arrived, I could have sworn I heard one crying, “Help me, Tom Cruise! Help Me!!!” 😃

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