I usually tried to be open-minded in terms of socializing with new people, thus I don’t operate one other method when my big date out of the blue disclosed that he was a Scientologist. Just what ensued was among my
most notable dates actually
, although it definitely left my mind rotating. This is what took place.

1. 
   Every thing started out very normally.
   
   We might satisfied in a restaurant where kind of “meet cute” way lots of people dream about. Our everyday conversation was actually truly fascinating, and that I need to say he was rather pleasant whenever that conversation changed into flirtation. I also had not been on a romantic date for a time during the time, so I did not really wait when he requested me personally on. The big date it self ended up being quite typical also. After all, we had been merely
   meeting for dinner
   .
2. 
   Yeah, I became amazed towards Scientology thing.
   
   We just had gotten our very own food on cafe once the subject of religion emerged. The guy initial asked the thing I thought in and I also freely admitted that I have been brought up Catholic but at this time considered myself personally a lot more agnostic than whatever else. Their feedback? “Oh. Well, I’m a Scientologist. Will you be familiar with the Church?” Gotta appreciate how informal he was, but no, I had no clue that has been coming.
3. 
   A non-Scientologist dating a Scientologist is pretty rare.
   
   In accordance with my date (and later affirmed by my personal post-date late night net lookups), its very uncommon for a Scientologist to date someone beyond the chapel. Along with Scientology becoming those types of
   fundamentalist belief systems
   where the theology may be the response to everything in daily life, the other cause for this is actually fairly simple. Scientologists only fork out a lot of the individual time in the church/engaging in church programs. That “meet pretty” we had from inside the restaurant? He’d just come from a session in chapel. And where was actually the guy before our day? At the chapel definitely!
4. 
   The date method of became all about Scientology.
   
   While I happened to be tempted to state “OK!” and move forward, my personal day felt extremely enthusiastic about exactly what my personal emotions on his religion happened to be. The reality was actually that I really don’t wish to make sure he understands my personal specific feelings on Scientology in cases where we insulted him, but I additionally didn’t wish to lie… and so I affected with my self and informed him that, like most individuals, I would heard lots of different things about Scientology, several of which may or may not end up being correct. That became a mistake since remainder of all of our time in that bistro devoted to him attempting to A) uncover precisely what unfavorable circumstances I’d heard and B) convince me personally that Scientology ended up being merely GREAT!
5. 
   He had beenn’t the very first Scientologist I’d ever before met.
   
   While this had been my first (and only) time ever with a Scientologist, reality had been that I would known one before. It absolutely was in fact a friend of my own in college, though she’d for ages been very quiet towards subject. Then came one summer time in which she launched she ended up being making class commit work for the Church and nothing of us heard from her once again. Even her Facebook account ended up being erased soon afterwards. Once in a while i believe about her and wish that she is OK.
6. 
   I became contemplating reading every little thing he previously to express, but because We study religions as a hobby.
   
   I Am
   maybe not religious myself
   but I’m completely interested in various belief systems. For years today, I’ve learned different religions during my spare time concise that I’m able to inform you the theology of all of the primary types right after which some. But instead of informing my personal big date that we already understood about courses, OT degrees, engrams, links, the ocean Org, Xenu, Tom sail, etc., we remained quiet and listened. Give everybody an opportunity to share their unique region of the story, correct?
7. 
   Howevern’t truly answer my questions.
   
   Very much like i needed to know him speak about his or her own viewpoint on their philosophy, he was really evasive anytime I inquired certain questions relating to it. As an example, at one-point I asked how much cash it cost, normally, for a person to get started in Scientology. Their reaction? “It really is so amusing you ask that as you truly can not place a price about it.” In the future, I inquired what might happen if the guy or one of his members of the family actually kept the Church. “You do have an excellent imagination!” he stated, before fast modifying the topic.
8. 
   Ends up he hadn’t been in very long.
   
   Like other Scientologists, my personal time had joined because people in their household performed, it turned out that they’d been involved just for over five years, in fact it is very darn short compared to many people during the religion. He had been determined that Scientology had altered all their physical lives for the much better however for some cause wouldn’t actually enter into details about his moms and dads or siblings beyond essentials like what age they certainly were and where these were living.
9. 
   He was a really nice, articulate guy. But of course he was!
   
   If you have no idea, Scientologists understand through their unique church courses how exactly to connect better with people. Thus, quite a few are extremely positioned and well-spoken whenever around other individuals, and I imagine dates are not any exception to this rule. Much as I was frustrated by my personal go out’s obscure answers about their faith, I couldn’t help but admire the way in which he spoke and carried himself.
10. 
    No, he didn’t attempt to recruit me (or at the very least he was slight about this).
    
    I kept waiting around for him to express something like, “you ought to arrive see yourself the reason why Scientology rocks. Here is a pamphlet!” but we recognized the fact that he never ever did. He surely portrayed it in a confident light, and also at some point he performed tell me that he believed I’d reap the benefits of it. Nevertheless, the guy never pushed me to go look at the Scientology middle and that I appreciated that. Maybe he hoped I’d supply alone to visit.
11. 
    I was thinking it best for both of us if we didn’t continue things.
    
    I don’t regret my Scientologist go out anyway, but We knew we had beenn’t planning work out. We politely tell him this at the end of the evening and we hugged and parted methods. I think the guy realized that it was the right action also. I never ever saw him once more.