Someone I know decided to drop out of school. It seems that, over Thanksgiving break, he took a "personality test" in his home city. He was advised that the personality test showed that he was obviously smart but had some terrible problems that that would ruin his life and only Scientology could help him with. He came back to school with the idea of finishing out the semester and then joining Scientology.

He mentioned this to me as I was leaving for a final. I didn't have time to talk with him and just told him to look up Operation Clambake.

Well, I got a nice phone call from him last night. He really wasn't sure about the stuff he read about Operation Clambake, but when he started asking some questions of the Scientologists....

I think we can all imagine their reaction, and it convinced him to get the hell out of there. He's worked things out with the school so that he can come back to school this semester.

I just wanted to say thank you to the folks involved with Operation Clambake and to the Scientologists who did such a good job of convincing him what Scientology was really all about.

Thanks. You saved someone from a terrible mistake.

Fred

>Messages like this are very gratifying. Well done Andreas for all the
>work you have put into making yours the number one website for finding
>out the truth about Scientology. Your web site surely saves lives.
I makes me proud and embarrassed reading posts like this, but I feel I must balance this a bit. Even though I must admit I am proud of OC, I have spent a lot of hours on it over 4 years, it is still but a reflection of all of you critics on the 'Net.

Roland for example held my hand in the beginning helping me to understand what I was getting involved in, without his help, assistance and contributions there would never have been an Operation Clambake in the fashion you see it today. Others were incredible support and help too, it's been an amazing learning experience for me. And a trying one, for daring to stand up for my morality and to sort of find myself and my place in all of this. I've had some important realizations in my life directly connected to all of this. I never predicted where it all would lead. Not even close.

I do get a lot of supporting e-mails and phone calls from all over the world each day, and it is basically what makes me keep going. But I am concerned that I get so much credit. It is thanks to Roland and numerous others just as important (and very different) critics that I happen to sit here with such a site, and I have so many times wished I was better at forwarding the incredible feedback I get to you folks. You should personally take just as big part of whatever you feel is to be proud of at OC. And not to forget all the people that this site has somewhat been involved in (directly or indirectly) helping. For many sites like OC is what flashed in their eyes at the critical moment, but what lead to it was often a long and maybe painful process. Being at the end of a fantastic chain does not make me even half as good as any of you folks out there. It just makes me privileged. People have spent hours and hours, year after year, to create the background information and create the path, and never expected or wanted their names to be mentioned. It makes me very proud and humble to have had the pleasure of meeting and cooperate with you all. You truly are incredible.

I wish I could share the stories of all the individuals that have contacted me, you deserve to know what effect you all have on the life of people you have never met and may never meet.

But most can't be published without the risk of CoS revealing who they are. That's why they usually request that I treat it confidential and delete or encrypt their testimonies. Some day their life is in such a condition, and OSA rendered so harmless, that they are able to step forward. I know many of them follow every progress made against CoS very carefully.

Thank you all for being so strong and humane, I truly believe we are part of creating history. In more ways than we may ever grasp, probably.

Best wishes,
Andreas Heldal-Lund, Nunsteinvegen 9, N-4056 Tananger, Norway
Pho: +47 90 04 32 99 Fax: 90 32 35 46 E-mail: ahl@xenu.net
home.sol.no/~spirous www.xenu.net www.hedning.no/hedning
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"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in
thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which
never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion
and ignorance which does harm." -- Marcus Aurelius
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