TIL an 18 year old owed $350 for a Scientology course, so the Church threatened his father. A letter from a ‘Minister’ included: I am an expert at harassment, try me and find out. You will be broke, out of a job and broken in health. I have abilities that I will use to crush you to your knees.

I don't think I would.

When people threaten me I tend to just call their bluff and threaten back.

Even assuming they've got the balls and the crazy to attempt on my life - They're not the only ones itching to take their crazy out on someone. Decades of abuse and bullying had their roles in my past and it's amazing I didn't snap - I hung by a thread from likely doing something that would make national news.

Please step foot on my property, I dare you. Intrude my home and with how Republican my state is, I'll have all the defense I'll ever need in court (one of the few good things about it). Just give me an excuse to use my guns, swords, and knives. I'll be sending your remains back to your family in soup cans with a madman's smile.

Besides that, nobody's going to fuck with me or my family on that level and live to tell the tale. If Scientologists think they're some crazy shit then they haven't met a guy that can just execute everything in sight while giving the emotionless thousand-yard stare the whole time. There's real monsters out there, and some of them live among you just barely keeping themselves from slipping because they keep sure to keep the consequences close in mind. But in a high-tension situation with a person with anxiety issues and a troubled past... It's easy to.. Just let yourself get carried away sometimes.. Heh.

Point being, I've seen enough petty bullies with no guts in my time. They can say what they want, do what they want - I'm already a hermit by choice, I gave up a social life because I concluded people aren't worth a damn to me a long time ago. The only thing they could do is physically attack me, and as I said, that just gives me an excuse to kill "one of those Scietologist pieces of shit".

Luckily, I don't believe in anything beyond what I can confirm exists or is scientific fact in general, and as a totally antisocial and isolative person it's pretty much impossible to pressure me. I've got money, I've got weapons, and I don't have any emotional bonds with anyone that you can target, nor do I desire much of anything.

So yeah, I don't think anybody, let alone scum as low as a Scientologist, has any ground to gain on someone like me. I guess I may be one of the few that can say that.

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