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News flash! Turns out The Church of Scientology “doesn’t treat their members” very well. According to the New York Times “article on the Scientologist Sea Org group” they force members to work for $17 a week and to have abortions, and members can’t complain because they signed “a billion year contract”. Obviously, it’s very sad to hear that any religious “organization takes advantage” of their members. However, judging from the use of “entirely unnecessary quotation marks” on their personality test form, all of which makes it appear that they are talking “entirely in code” well, the Sea Org members should have smelt something fishy to begin with. Here are some of our favorites:
46: Are you “always getting into trouble?”
56: Does “external noise” rarely interfere with your concentration?
71: Do you often “sit and think” about death, sickness, pain and sorrow?
73: Are you always collecting things which “might be useful”?
127. Can you get quite enthusiastic over “some simple little thing”?
159: Could you allow someone to finish those “final two words” in a crossword puzzle without interfering?
162: Would you like to “start a new activity” in the area in which you live?
170: Are you opposed to the “probation system” for criminals?
194: If you lose an article do you get the idea that “someone must have stolen or mislaid it?”
All of which is great, and merits inclusion in The “Blog” of “Unecessary” Quotation Marks. But our favorite question was number 27: Do you often sing or whistle just for the fun of it? Because that will keep morale up on those $17 a week. Just the way it did in the Old South.