Well, while we wait for that reply, I can tell a small DM tale for you chilluns, something that someone just reminded me of.
In around 2003, after his latest offload fest during which 150 people were offloaded from the Int Base, DM started to feel those natural responses that any person would get from committing such a sizable overt, but since he cannot spot himself as the source of the problem -- and it was not vanishing -- he came to the obvious conclusion that the ENTIRE Int Base is suppressive as a group against him, and that he should disconnect from it for once and for all.
Putting aside such insignificant details as LRH tech on the matter, DM one day says he's had it, calls up Jenny DeVocht (then CO CMOI) and tells her he is disconnecting from the entire Int Base, he is never coming back to the base again, never issuing another order; he never wants to have anything to do with anyone on the base again. In the same, he gives the Base a program of sorts to handle this SP/PTS situation.
Can any of you think with this?! Chairman of the Board RTC disconnects from the entire Int Base on the basis that he is PTS to us?!?!
As part of this program he orders (since he is COB RTC and is at cause over the situation) the entire Base to listen to the "Can We Ever Be Friends" tape, as in handling the antagonistic element!
So there we were, having an all-Base tape play of "Can We Ever Be Friends." It was so absurd, surreal, weird and twisted as to escape all reason, if anyone wants my opinion of it.
At that point you can really only ask yourself "what wall?"
(The next day he changed his mind, DA'd the briefing by Jenny DeVocht as "unauthorized," and resumed giving orders to the base)
OK, so I am getting the feeling that a few people here think DM is nuts. Was he always like this or did he suddenly or slowly "go crazy"?
Why would someone work their entire lives on something like Scientology and then turn it over to an incompetent?
And Lulu, I think it is very important to know what capacity BFG is/was in during these incidents especially considering the angle he writes his stories from.
Some like to just gobble up anything that supports their already cemented viewpoint. It helps make them feel like they are divinely right. Or didn't you know that?
I briefly went with a fella who turned out to be on speed. He reminds me of DM's behavior. Do you think DM might be on any type of drugs? Another reason I'm asking is because sometimes the Church accuses others of being drug dealers and I can't imagine why they would think that up unless someone was dramatizing his own overts, get my drift?
Doubt it, but I also have no idea what he is doing when the lights go out.
I know he is an avid drinker of energy drinks (you know Red Bull type stuff), and a heavy smoker. Neither of which is anything unusual.
If anything, he might go for amphetamine type stuff, since he sleeps very little. And since LRH did, it would make it "right" for him to do so as well.
I don't know enough about the visible effects of drugs to say one way or the other.
But I get your drift. I could check with some people who have been in more COB meeting than I to find out if he had a habit of asking people if they are on drugs, which would, as you point out, be an indicator...
V
I need some help locating a post from BFG which had the things listed out that DM has to approve. I'm sure some of you remember it. It may have been a transplanted clambake post. a little help. please? Thanks, guys. It's for a book.
Yes, I remember how cute he looked peeking over the e-meter when he was sec-checking me for Captain Bill's Mission to RPF all R/Sers. He was being treated as a prodigy - while his older sister got caught in the East Grinstead Scientologist strip-poker scandal! I F/Ned all the way through as I couldn't let myself lay anything heavy on such an innocent-looking kid.I see a picture of a keen kid called David on the Briefing Course at Saint Hill. Eager to learn the ways of LRH.
I'll just chime in here. I agree with the posts above by Lulubelle and LBV
regarding dm and his dominion over the poor folks still at the int base. I
speak from my own experience. When you have commited yourself
to the whole s.o. mindset and viewpoint, you tend to believe that dm has
inside knowledge and a "lack of reasonableness" that makes his take on
things superior to your own. So when you are at the receipt end of some
abusive action, you tend to feel *you* had it wrong, not dm. Even if the scene seems absolutely bananas, you tend to soul-search on how you could
be so off the rails.
As to lrh's sci fi writing, Mission Earth, to me, is like a poor x-rated comic
book, albeit a long one. R. Crumb would have been much better at it.
You dear, dear soul! I love you!
It takes years in my experience, but you do reach a peace one day!
Try to let it be. It is what it is. DM is what he is. LRH was what he was.
May your anger fade to love, the better to enable you to help. Your brave soul and fine heart will guide you the rest of your days!![]()
I think I read this over a year ago, or was it another "musical chairs" post from blown for good?
It was about the same incident and I read it between one year and two years ago. So, this happened quite some time ago. Maybe a lot of those staff if they were booted out are back at Int now.
QUOTE]
This story (or one very similar) was posted as a link by Kookaburra a couple of weeks ago on a thread called the SP Hall. However for sure, it's the stuff of nightmares.![]()
It used to be common, and, still is in some (ignorant) circles to posit that one must be *stoopid* to get involved in Scientology in the first place.
Thankfully, the past 10 years have given most a more differentiated view and abilitity to comprehend the *trap* involved; the trickery involved; and, to better understand that, while it's few people who eventually get sucked in, *intelligence* is far less a factor than naivete.
Most 'wogs', once they begin to comprehend the Mind Fuck tend to show compassion for those still trapped, and a differentiated comprehension for what *keeps* them there.
Strangely enough, it's the Scientologists and ex-scientologists and those who are 'Scientology Trained' who show the *least* comprehension or compassion. Or, not so strangely; because the Scientology Mindfuck teaches 'ultimate responsibility' and, for those who are doing 'OK', anyone who *isn't* 'Pulled It IN'
Almost as depressing as hearing about the slaves-of-their-own-minds-and-an-exploitive-Cult victims being tortured at Int Base is listening to the smug Scienophiles who announce proudly that 'It Could Never Have Happened To Me'.
Zinj
Ne Revenimus. We won't be back - but we did what we could while here. Ir might seem wierd at the moment but I love you all!