translate English to German: rior to Scientology, I had become a fatalist, thinking that whatever was going to happen to a person was going to happen, no matter what he did, and that he could not change his destiny.
or Scientology hatte ich mich zum Fatalisten entwickelt und glaubte, was auch immer einem geschieht, ist einfach Schicksal. Egal was man unternimmt, man hat keinen Einfluss darauf.