Well, not to go too OT, but I had a roommate who got into Scientology for about a year. It dragged her down both mentally and financially. She would tell me some of the stuff that they did there, which just seemed totally whacko, like taking huge amounts of niacin, and sitting in a sauna for hours. That can't be good for you. She also spent an absolute FORTUNE on the "courses". I remember her taking a loan out (I wonder what she told the bank it was for) for about $25,000, and she would get bills for thousands each month. And she was only in it for about a year. When she stopped going, they sent her these really weird letters (she left all this stuff lying around...a cry for help maybe?), it would basically be a piece of paper that someone had handwritten that just said stuff like, "Hope to see you soon", or "Haven't seen you in awhile". Just one line, that was it. Very strange.
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