It's better this thread doesn't get too derailed - let's find more DM abuses to post.
Agreed, and I confess the sin of Derailification! lol
I have a little silly story that might give some clue how Scientologists end up in the position where they ALLOW DM to abuse them.
At one time a feature film I co-wrote was just released in theaters and some Scn Celebs invited me to meet DM backstage after one of their performances. I was introduced as as a movie writer. It is the first and last time I ever met him.
Miscavige invited me to come out to Gold/Int where I was to work with them. At that time they trying to secure the services of non-SO writers/directors for their film/media enterprises.
I wasn't anxious to "report" to a Sea Org installation, having been in the Sea Org many years before, but like anyone that asks for my help, I kept my mind and heart open. I said something like: "Sure, if there is something I can do, I'd be happy to try and help."
Without a moments hesitation he indignantly barked back:
"It's not that you can help us--WE CAN HELP YOU!!
It caught me off guard because it's not the kind of response you expect when someone has asked for your help. It kind of stayed with me as a very odd moment.
I never followed up on his offer or inquired about it again. Even when I was out of work as a writer. lol.
But years later, when I had left Scientology, I began to understand the mechanism of introversion and control that COB runs on his juniors and parishioners.
I think the first technique is always to introvert and overwhelm. And to reverse the hell out of everything so that an offer to help becomes a plea for help--which he alone can grant at his whim.
Even something as seemingly innocent as a writer saying they would be happy to try and help. He said that he can help me. Hmmmm. It makes you wonder at that moment, what kind of help you need. You start looking inward for something wrong.
Even the willingness to offer work and help is something that is used against you to manipulate.
That conversation was only 15 seconds. Imagine being subjected to that 24 hours a day for years.
No wonder Sea Org victims passively accept their grim fate of being terrorized and beaten. They have committed the unpardonable sin of offering to selflessly "help" for one billion years.