This is the audio version of Chris Shelton's weekly Critical Question and Answer show on his YouTube channel. In this show, Chris answers questions posed by viewers in the comments section of his Q&A videos or sent by email to AskChrisShelton@gmail.com. Questions cover a wide range of topics but tend to focus on Scientology and critical thinking, as well as Chris' personal experiences with and in the Church of Scientology.
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Critical Q&A #170
The weekly show where I answer viewer questions left for me in the comment sections of my Q&A videos or sent to me by email at AskChrisShelton@gmail.com. This week, the questions I answer are:
(1) I would love to hear more about your personal experiences with children in Scientology. I think you said that they didn’t hang around the orgs any more and Sea Org members couldn’t have children – did you interact with children at all? Idly wondering what David Miscavige would do if a little kid accidentally stepped on his toe or something…
(2) I’ve heard former Sea Org members say that getting funding approved for even something as small as a box of new pens can be quite an ordeal. When David Miscavge wants to however, he can openly splash huge amounts of cash on one of his projects. Does struggling and struggling only to see DM’s people come in and spend millions with the nod of a head cause cognitive dissonance in staff and Sea Org workers? Did you ever see anything which apparently had an unlimited budget like that?
(3) What sort of relationships tend to form between “twins” in the RPF? Or is it all individual and it doesn’t make sense to generalize?
(4) Scientology seems to be growing in Taiwan. Do you think that CoS will learn from its mistakes in the western countries? Or will it reg, RPF and disconnect Taiwanese adherents until they leave too? Is cult behavior so ingrained in CoS that it can’t stop?
(5) Which current Sea Org member would you most like to see leave the church and start talking (other than Miscavige)?
(6) Star Trek: The Next Generation or The Original Series, which do you think is better?
(7) I seem to recall you mentioning a brother in one of your videos, am I dubbing that in or do you have a brother? Any other siblings? Are any of them still in?
(8) During one of my explorations of LA I made a point to wander around the block of both Big Blue and Celebrity Centre. It struck me, and I’d never noticed, that in all pictures of the buildings all window blinds are drawn. What, if any, is the logic behind those managing the properties?