To my surprise today I saw 4 desks & chairs on the pavement all brightly offering a “free stress test”, with dianetics in smaller text and a couple of mentions of the science fiction writer ron hubbard on the side, I instantly recognised this as the evil beginning of scientology. About 10 years ago in Munich I was walking out of my hotel to be greeted by someone in the street who said “GusGott”, which turned out to be good day in the southern German region, which I didn’t understand so he spotted me as a foreigner and next thing I knew I was invited into this building to talk about something or other and see if I would be interested in buying a couple of books… I turned it down and left the building.

Little did  I know that was Scientology trying to lure a 25 year old me into it’s clutches, so today the more informed me saw this little show and wanted to have a go of some sort at them. As I walked back to the car I walked more and more slowly… then a girl asked me if I was interested in a free stress test… to which I confidently replied “Isn’t this that cult that takes away all your money?”, she said “No it isn’t”, I looked at it and finally said “well it certainly looks like it”, then walked away feeling good about my dig at evil.

For those who don’t know what all this is about, just check out the BBC episode about them.