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Monday, March 27, 2006

Scientology got me worried

Psst! I'm undercover. A little while back I filled in the online scientology questionnaire, yes, all 200 questions! They start to grind you down for their brainwashing sessions even before you ever set foot in their offices.
Anyhoo, here're the results:
Bill Patypus' test scores

Then the emails ensued. I was using Bill for this, and with his big webbed front paws he misspelled his surname. Also, the scientologist's text is in blue...
From:    cclondon@scientology.net
Subject: Bill Patypus' personality test results
Date: 23 March 2006 01:08:55 GMT
To: platypusbill@ntlworld.com

Dear Bill,

Thank you for filling out your personality test on the internet.
Your next step is a free evaluation of the resultant personality graph.

Did you receive it yet?

Regards,

Janne Bjork

From:    platypusbill@ntlworld.com
Subject: Re: Bill Patypus' personality test results
Date: 23 March 2006 08:24:38 GMT
To: cclondon@scientology.net

Dear Janne,

Looking at the graph resulting from my online test, I don't recognize myself at all. I think I am a pretty confidant, healthy being. How is this possible?

--Bill
From:    cclondon@scientology.net
Subject: Re: Bill Patypus' personality test results
Date: 26 March 2006 23:10:23 BDT
To: platypusbill@ntlworld.com

Dear Bill,

Thank you for your reply. I understand your confusion on this.

There could be either of two things at play here, or both: 1) The circle
around Trait E indicates that you are not having the low point on the graph
at all times. It varies and you could be quite high on the graph during
perods of your life but then other times take be low. Is this true?
2) How was your understanding of the questions? Sometimes a misunderstood
test could give a different result than is the actual scene.

Which one of these do you feel is more the case?

Also, did you answer like you feel right now rather than how you would
usually handle things in the past?

Regards,

Janne Bjork
cclondon@scientology.net

From:    platypusbill@ntlworld.com
Subject: Re: Bill Patypus' personality test results
Date: 27 March 2006 18:14:29 BDT
To: cclondon@scientology.net

Dear Janne,

There could be either of two things at play here, or both: 1) The circle around Trait E indicates that you are not having the low point on the graph at all times. It varies and you could be quite high on the graph during perods of your life but then other times take be low. Is this true?

Now I'm even more confused. I did wonder what the little cloud around 'E' was, but that was one of my few positive areas, together with aggressive. Does that mean that I'm too active? It's true that some times I am more active than others. For instance, yesterday I went for a run (the first time in a month or more) and today I feel quite listless.

2) How was your understanding of the questions? Sometimes a misunderstood test could give a different result than is the actual scene.

I think I understood them okay. I did feel that the same question was being asked over and over. And sometimes when it says 'I normally this or that' then of course you have to make a judgement. But I tried to be honest.

Also, did you answer like you feel right now rather than how you would usually handle things in the past?

Well, depending on what the question asked. I guess how I'm now, but then if it asked, do you sometimes, then I answered yes if that's a thing I used to do or sometimes did. I hope this is alright.

I still don't know if I fully understand the graph.

--Mark

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yet More in common.

The wall is a disgrace only Israel could dream up A Wall years after the Pink Floyd album. See these guys are just not as 'original' as they'd like to think or even as Levi's jeans were, when denims became trendy.

Have they not heard that the Berlin Wall came down in, when was it, oh yeah the last Millenium.

I'd laugh were it not for the fact that with the money it cost to build the wall, they could have built decent Council Homes for everyone in the East of England and Palestine.

11:57 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Perhaps Israelis should take the Scientology test:

(1) Did you understand the question

Uhh How to build a separatin wall?

(2) Did you understand the question

Uhh How to keep Palestinians out?

(3) Did you understand the question

Uhh How to keep some Arabs out?

(4) Did you understand the question

Uhh How to keep some Muslims out?

(5) Did you understand the question

Uhh How to keep the non-Jews out?

(6) Did you understand the question

Uhh How to keep the Catholics out?

(7) Do you understand that Jesus Christ was a Jew and he opened the Kingdom to All who believe

Uhh How to keep Jesus Christ out?

(8) Did we meet on Jesus Green

Uhh How to keep Jesuit Greens out?

(9) Did we meet in His kingdom

Uhh How to keep mine + myself out?

(10) YEP You got it, only you can exclude yourself from God's kingdom

Uhh How to keep someone else out?

12:09 am  

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