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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gaiman's Scientology background:  https://www.mikerindersblog.org/neil-gaimans-scientology-suicide-story/[/quote]

I mean, is this meant to be an excuse?[/quote]

I think of it more as a partial explanation for how someone becomes the sort of person who does what Gaiman is accused of doing.

Most people who commit horrific acts of violence against other people had really messed up childhoods. It's incredibly common.[/quote]

A lot of people who had really messed-up childhoods don’t commit horrific acts of violence. Don’t try to excuse the behavior.

Also, I’m not sure I’d take the word of a blogger who sounds crazy himself. [/quote]

You don’t seem to know who Mike Rinder was. He was high up in the Scientology organization as a spokesperson and perpetuated abuse until he could no longer do it. He then left the organization—was followed and spied on by Scientology, including people hired to pretend to be his friend and to search his trash—and worked to expose the violence and abuse of this fake church, which threatened individual IRS employees in order to get nonprofit status.

You will see no US President will speak out against them. That’s how powerful they are.

This connects to Neil. Scientology has the Sea Org where minor children would go to live on the open sea (no laws) with the cult founder Hubbard (died 1986). What could go wrong with an old man and all those young children on the lawless sea without oversight.

But you can see where Neil might have learned his tricks to get vulnerable victims and take them somewhere remote. Same idea.

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Thank you. I was trying to understand why he mentioned kids being put down in the hold.

No excuses. The context helps.

Shudder 
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