A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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The fact that Rinder comes from Australia, but seems to have an almost New Jersey-like accent, makes it feel a bit off. Instead, it ruled that in the single case in front of the court there was an insufficiency of evidence to reverse the IRS's deduction denial.

Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. The most difficult part of his story in my opinion is his obvious pain and regret when it comes to his children. I knew all of this prior to reading the book but hearing the new-to-me details of how he spent close to no time with his children, sometimes going months or even years without even seeing them, was shocking.

If you go into this book with zero prior knowledge about Scientology, I believe it would be difficult to truly understand the magnitude of the information and follow along with all the jargon. Her anecdotes are humorous, heartfelt, and supremely captivating, recounted with the passion of a true survivor and the acerbic wit of a weathered, street-wise New Yorker. Still, Rinder bought into the doctrine that his personal comfort was secondary to the higher purpose of Hubbard’s world-saving mission, swiftly rising through the ranks. There was a sign against a fence in the Russian labor camps, which, paraphrased, declared something like 'We will force you into happiness'. Every story I’ve read or heard from Mike rings true and gives a clear view of what it’s like working for Scientology in the Sea Org.And it just has become, you know, to use the Scientology vernacular, they're fair game for the media now. Neither were they aware of his aim to safe all mankind, and therefore establish a sort of world domination. It might have been a podcast about secret societies, or a magazine about it, but I immediately wanted to read it.