I could decide to give up my life and do this to help the world, but i couldn't make these choices for my children.
You'd sleep about an hour or two hours a night. You were in such a mental state that you're very controllable, very suggestible.
“Did David Miscavige physically assault you?” “Those allegations are absolute, utter rubbish.”
They all came out of the hole! They went back to the hole ! “Here's the bottom line—There is no history of violence in the church.”
People are so indoctrinated and have been in XX a really long time or they've grown up in it and they don't know anything else.
It's so scary to them to have to start all over and it takes a really strong person to stand up to them and say no.
Maybe my entire life has been a lie. You just don't see it happening to you. You justify so much.
They prep on people, suggesting you should be able to think for yourself and then tell you exactly how you have to think or get out. And if you get out, there will be consequences.
We lock up a portion of our own mind. We willingly put cuffs on. We willingly avoid things that could cause us pain if we looked. If we can just believe something, then we don't have to really think for ourselves, do we?
And so I can't damn these people who aren't coming out, or who are hiding once they come out because they're ashamed.
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