Scientologists spotted recruiting at Nashville flea market
Due to a wonderful vacation and enjoying the summer with my family it has been a few weeks since I last posted anything. Rest assured this blog has not been abandoned and I will get back into the swing of things and will post many more in the near future.
Last weekend I found myself at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds Flea Market in Nashville browsing the various wares of the merchants there when I came across a booth of Scientologists apparently recruiting. The first thing I noticed were signs saying “Free Stress Test”. This normally wouldn’t have aroused my interest but I noticed they had a table full of books all by L. Ron Hubbard. Then I noticed the two plastic E-Meters there used to do the “stress testing.”
I took out my phone and snapped a photo when none of them were looking. Had I not been with my family I would have played dumb and talked to them and taken a stress tests to see what it was all about. I was a little nervous pushing my kid around in a stroller considering the violent acts people hired by the Nashville Church of Scientology had supposedly commited to peaceful protestors in Nashville.
Away from them I told my wife about who they were. She wasn’t convinced they were scientologists and went back and asked them, “Isn’t Hubbard the Scientologist guy.” They told her yes and that they were indeed from the Church of Scientology in Nashville. They had several people taking the tests so that is all my wife asked and left.
I find it interesting and a little troublesome that the Church of Scientology is recruiting people at the flea market, maybe they are hurting for members so bad or this is something they normally do. Either way its clear that the the church is working to spread scientology here in TN. If I go back and see them recruiting again I will definitely be sure to take a stress test and inquire about the meter. As an electrical engineer I’m sure I’ll have several tough questions about this test and the instrument they are using to conduct it especially about how they are detecting stress, quantifying it and what those values mean and are used for. Also I’d like to know their methodology of calibrating such a sensor.
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They are unbelievable. People need to realise how dangerous they are — I was there when the security guards beat down 44 and was stunned when their spokesperson went on to say WE are the terrorists. Look around the Internet to see how dangerous they are and get the truth about Scientology; the truth won’t be found anywhere near scientology.org.
Thanks for this post and I hope that you go back to confront them — I’d like to see how they explain things! We’re also protesting them on the 15th. More info can be found on the Nashanon LiveJournal.