ATTN MODS: Please don't delete this again. I'm not a bigot saying, "My sister's about to marry a black dude! Help! Scientology is not a religion, it's a business.
So two weeks ago my brother went to Toronto with his, (sketchy) girlfriend. Before he went I asked him why did he want to go, and he told me that Vancouver is the only city in Canada that we've really been to, and he wants to see the rest of the country, and his girlfriend wanted to go their too. So blah blah blah and speed up to a few days ago. My family is having a get together with just the folks my brother and me. He talked about his trip to Toronto some, answered my moms annoying questions, and named some big tourist attractions like the CN tower. However, I noticed something strange: he didn't go into any details about the places he claimed to have visited, (usually he will go into how many windows the rooms had, the temperature, the pitch of the paint in every room, ect.) I assumed this was because maybe he just spent the whole trip banging his girl. But while my mom was clearing plates he said he had an announcement to make. He said, “ Laura and I are...converting to scientology.
I started to laugh until he gave a stern look and I realized he wasn't joking. There was silence in the room for a few seconds and the he started to explain what they really spent their doing. Apparently the first day they got there the girlfriend said she wanted to visit the church of scientology there. He said once he got there, “his world was changed forever..." He then explained the whole textbook scientologist with the emeter bullshit and how he was incredibly depressed, his gf even more depressed, how he learned about Lord Xenu and some bridge bullshit. It was an awkward rest of the night
The next day I called him to ask if he was just playing a joke on the old fam, and even offered to be in on it with him to scare our parents even more. However he actually took offense to that. I asked about the scientology South park episode, and how he can actually believe all that prisoner soul bullshit. He responded by saying he hopes that I know the difference between cartoons and reality, (sadly south park had an accurate portrayal of this bullshit.) The phone conversation ended with me suggesting he watch this video
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
Even after that call I still believed it to be BS. He had a sense of humor, it couldn't be true, (well, the GF scares me a little.) Well the chance of it being bullshit when I found out yesterday that he has contacted a realtor to sell his and his and his GF's house! F***! They want to have money to buy as much scientology shit as they can. I am now in shock. I have no idea how this guy can go from a skeptical agnostic to a crazy scientologist. HELP