I usually attempted to be open-minded in terms of socializing with new-people, thus I did not operate additional way whenever my personal date abruptly unveiled that he was actually a Scientologist. What ensued was actually among my
most memorable dates previously
, although it undoubtedly left my personal mind rotating. Here is what took place.

1. 
   Every little thing started out therefore ordinarily.
   
   We would satisfied in a coffee shop for the reason that type of “meet sexy” way a lot of people dream about. The informal dialogue ended up being actually really fascinating, and I have to say he had been quite pleasant when that talk converted into flirtation. I additionally hadn’t been on a romantic date for a time at the time, so I failed to really hesitate when he questioned myself around. The date alone had been rather regular as well. In the end, we were merely
   venturing out for lunch
   .
2. 
   Yeah, I found myself surprised towards Scientology thing.
   
   We just got our meals at restaurant after subject of religion emerged. He 1st asked what I believed in and I also openly admitted that I have been raised Catholic but at this time thought about myself personally more agnostic than whatever else. His response? “Oh. Well, I’m a Scientologist. Could you be knowledgeable about the Church?” Gotta appreciate how informal he was, but no, I experienced no clue that has been coming.
3. 
   A non-Scientologist online dating a Scientologist is in fact fairly uncommon.
   
   Based on my personal time (and later confirmed by my post-date late night internet lookups), it’s rather unusual for a Scientologist as of yet somebody outside the chapel. Along with Scientology being among those
   fundamentalist belief programs
   where in fact the theology will be the response to everything in daily life, others cause for this is really fairly simple. Scientologists only fork out a lot of their private amount of time in the church/engaging in church products. That “meet precious” that we had within the restaurant? He’d merely come from a session in church. And in which was the guy before the date? On church needless to say!
4. 
   The big date kind of turned into all about Scientology.
   
   While I was tempted to state “OK!” and move forward, my personal day felt very contemplating just what my thoughts on their religion were. The truth ended up being that I really don’t wish tell him my specific feelings on Scientology whenever we insulted him, but I additionally didn’t need lie… so I affected with myself and told him that, similar to individuals, I’d heard most different things about Scientology, a few of which might not be true. That became a blunder because the rest of our amount of time in that restaurant centered on him wanting to A) discover precisely what bad circumstances I’d heard and B) convince myself that Scientology was actually simply FANTASTIC!
5. 
   He had beenn’t the initial Scientologist I’d ever before met.
   
   While this ended up being my first (and just) day ever with a Scientologist, the truth was actually that I would recognized one before. It was actually a pal of mine in college, though she’d always been pretty peaceful regarding the topic. After that emerged one summertime in which she revealed she ended up being leaving class commit work with the Church and nothing people have you ever heard from her again. Even her fb membership was deleted shortly thereafter. Sometimes i believe about this lady and wish that she is okay.
6. 
   I became thinking about hearing every little thing he previously to express, but only because We learn religions as a spare time activity.
   
   I’m
   maybe not spiritual myself
   but I’m completely interested in various opinion techniques. For years now, i have learned various religions inside my free time to the stage that I am able to let you know the theology of all of the main ones and then some. But rather of enlightening my time that I currently understood about courses, OT degrees, engrams, bridges, the Sea Org, Xenu, Tom sail, etc., I stayed silent and listened. Give everybody an opportunity to share their section of the tale, right?
7. 
   He wouldn’t actually answer my concerns.
   
   Much as I wanted to know him talk about his very own perspective on their viewpoints, he had been really elusive whenever I inquired particular questions about it. Including, at one point I inquired exactly how much it cost, an average of, for a person to get started in Scientology. His feedback? “It is thus amusing you may well ask that as you really cannot put an amount on it.” Later on, we inquired what can take place if the guy or one of his family actually remaining the Church. “you actually have a great creativeness!” he said, before fast changing the niche.
8. 
   Works out he hadn’t been in very long.
   
   Like other Scientologists, my date had joined because people in his household did, it proved they’d been involved for just over 5 years, and is pretty darn short in comparison to many people into the faith. He was determined that Scientology had altered all of their physical lives your better but also for some cause won’t actually enter particulars about his parents or siblings beyond concepts like what age they were and where these were living.
9. 
   He had been a very wonderful, articulate man. But of course he had been!
   
   For people who don’t know, Scientologists understand through their particular chapel classes simple tips to speak better with individuals. Thus, most of them are extremely poised and well-spoken when around others, and that I imagine dates are not any exception. Very much like I happened to be annoyed by my personal go out’s vague solutions about his religion, i really couldn’t help but admire the way he spoke and transported themselves.
10. 
    No, the guy failed to just be sure to recruit me personally (or at least he was subdued about it).
    
    We kept looking forward to him to say something such as, “you will want to come see for your self precisely why Scientology stones. Here is a pamphlet!” but we recognized the fact he never ever did. The guy undoubtedly depicted it in a positive light, at one-point he performed let me know which he thought I would take advantage of it. However, the guy never ever pressed us to go go to the Scientology middle and that I appreciated that. Maybe the guy hoped I would offer by myself to visit.
11. 
    I thought it best for both of us whenever we failed to continue circumstances.
    
    I do not be sorry for my personal Scientologist date after all, but We knew we weren’t attending work out. I politely tell him this at the end of the evening therefore we hugged and parted methods. I do believe the guy knew that it was the proper action as well. We never saw him once more.