This is an email sent around to scientologists recently by one of the bubble zealots.
The words of LRH are sacred. I don’t think they even read them before they pass them on half the time. They know they will look smart and get agreement if they quote LRH. So they send out anything and everything. And include the exact source reference — something from the 50’s is valid today simply because it’s “important data by LRH.” Everything LRH ever said is “important data.”
Now, the truth of what he says about being bombarded by “heavy particles,” by even a cathode ray tube TV is debatable. I am not well enough versed in these things to know, though I suspect this might be a claim on the order of not smoking enough causes cancer. What is not debatable however, is that you couldn’t find a “tube tv” anywhere these days. They are all “flat screen” — LED, OLED, Plasma. I think the last CRT Tv may have been sold in the 80’s… But that doesn’t stop any good scientologists from sending out an irrelevant quote like this as an urgent thing that everyone must read.
But it really made me wonder about Carole Eddington’s cognitive dissonance. She probably sent out an email the following day promoting the wonders of ScientologyTV.
LRH says TV is bad. We have our own TV station and TV channel and promote it like crazy, telling everyone to watch….
These sort of contradictions never even cross the minds of scientology zealots.
From: Carole Eddington
Date: November 11, 2020
Subject: IMPORTANT DATA ABOUT TV BY LRH!
“Another thing, an individual can be found glued in front of many television tubes if he’s a television fan. Because there’s heavy X-rays come through those television tubes, there’s heavy matter actually in those rays, comes through those screens. Anybody sitting in front of a television screen is under a continuous bombardment of heavy particles, radioactive particles.
“Yeah, the television industry doesn’t let this out very carefully. They have never solved the problem of shielding…
“Television is riding a very, very, very dangerous little point right there because if the public at large were to connect the bombardment of television with the deadliness of the atom bomb rays, they would not let their kids sit in front of it.
“Actually, it hangs anybody up on the track. It’s the most wonderful advertising mechanism in the world because it sticks the preclear in every ad and that’s about the way it works. You run somebody who customarily watches television, you’ll find him stuck in front of TV screens…
“So an individual who has watched an enormous amount of entertainment, has gotten to the point of where when you say “Go elsewhere,“ like a picture says to him “Go elsewhere,“ he just fixes himself a little tighter in his head…
“If you wanted to start organizing a country right now on a slave state basis, you would organize it via TV. Most wonderful thing there— the way George Orwell, in his 1984, paralleled and probably took from early electronic societies and these, of course, specialize in such things as TV which can be heavy-wave bombardment.
“All right. So much for that.“
LRH. 3rd American Advanced Clinical Course, Review on Havingness and Demonstration, Lecture 56, pages 146, 147, 149.
Not only is the quote sent out of context, the EXACT quote is a decoherent thought pattern that is not logically constructed. EM waves are not heavy particles, nor radioactive. They are electromagnetic waves, root word electro; similar to Electron or Electron Particle. High-energy EM can cause problems with organic material, such as disintegrating a protein or switching an amino chain in DNA to cause cancer.
From a historical perspective, I’ve never heard of high-energy EM cause any psychological issues. The psychological issue with TV is primarily associated with the violent programming and the indoctrination into a consumer mindset. There is a researched case of a young girl who got cancer from a microwave, by putting her face up to it while making popcorn over many cycles of this over a period of time (months?). There is also common knowledge of bombarding millimeter waves on patients in 1930s causing a slight fever, which was used for a period of time as a medical procedure to induce fever to fight infection… until they found this practice is harmful. Whatever LRH is talking about here, heavy particles, is mostly gibberish based on a poor understanding of the subject. I am sure he was relying heavily upon the poor understanding of this phenomena in his time period so nobody could question him directly while ‘In-Body’.
While still in and as a parent of a young child, I was shown an LRH passage like this concerning the ills of television. What I wondered then (and now) is how does this line up next to the extraordinary worship of television and movie celebrities, everything from on-camera to behind-the-scenes professionals. Most any edition of “Celebrity” magazine pays homage and grants loads of “altitude” to individuals in these professions.
It’s being said here in this blog conversation and I do agree: cognitive dissonance.
Yes, if I’d only filed theft reports the several times my TV was confiscated. We were supposed to be able to check it out on weekends to use the DVD player but no one could find their TV amidst the 500+ others.
LRH was nuts.
The real truth was probably more like finding out crew were watching it.
I’m a little confused and if someone can please help me on this as I’ve only just started looking on here after watching and reading everything Mike Rinder does!
If they cannot watch, then why are they allowed to watch anything with Tom Cruise? Does this mean television shows like ‘James Cordon Late Late Show’ are also allowed? I only say that as I’ve seen a few things he has done with him, normally I avoid anything with Tom Cruise in it.
Also, if Tom Cruise is exempt to the rule then what policy is used there then? Does that mean that the rest of the A Group celebs like Leah too had this exemption?
Sorry I’ve missed a comment already on this.
Early e-meters could detect radiation and the emotional tone level of plants.. . . . . . (joke)
Someone at the Las Vegas Org who knew Ron said he avoided Vegas because it was “still too hot with radiation” from the atomic bomb testing in the 1950’s. . . . (true)
Please don’t shut down scientology TeeVee. It is good for so many laughs for the tens of dozens who tune in, once in a blue moon. And those empty orgs certainly aren’t going to fill themselves up on their own.
On a side note, look up incompetence in the dictionary, and there is a photo of David Miscavige.
In addition to watching a romcom on TV, you now have the opportunity to check out the latest roncon.
😅😅 Nice one.
Very nice one! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I am 66 years old.When I was a child,every kid my age now were told by their parents not to sit too close to the television screen.It was bad for us and eventually destroy our eyesight.I was not allowed to watch much television.I guess my mother thought it would somehow rot my brain.As soon as I started school and learned how to read,she got me a library card and off we went once a week to the library.She would always ask the librarian for a list of books two grade levels above my current status so as to improve my reading.As for Scientology TV,I already am watching a program about them.It is called American Horror Story.
In the 1950’s there was a TV show called “Winky Dink”. You could send away for a plastic covering and an erasable marker. You put the covering on the TV screen and connected dots on the screen and Winky would send you a secret message. My eyesight is still good.
Here you go my friend:
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/winky-dink-howdy-doody-and-you/
Bozo The Clown….Soupy Sales…..Howdy Doody……..
This once again shows just how ignorant Lafayette was…
In the early part of my career, I was certified in industrial radiography (Level III, MIL-STD-410D). I was going to explain how there’s no such thing as ‘heavy X-rays’ and that they don’t contain ‘heavy matter’ nor radioactive particles, but it looks like jim rowles already alluded to that. X-rays fall between UV light and gamma rays in the electromagnetic spectrum. While X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation (potentially harmful), there’s is zero radioactivity. Once the tube current is shut off, the X-rays cease at once with no lingering radiation.
All I can say is thank you for what you do. I have never been in the “church” of Scientology, not had any contact with the “church”. However, their tactics are abhorant and I feel so badly for anyone who has been hurt by the church and anyone who has been separated from their families by the “church”. Keep going, and my thoughts are with you and your family still in there.
If all they ever did was to call themselves a “Church” that alone would be sufficiently abhorent to get them thrown into a penitentiary. JMO, but it sure does take one whole Hell of a lot of chutzpah to try to get away with calling that evil scam a Church. For shame! For shame!
I’m sure what Carole meant to say is Scientology TV good. Netflix bad. The Aftermath on Netflix has the clams going crazy
“cathode rays” is just an old-fashioned term for an electron flow.
The old style TV monitors did emit a small amount of radiation but at very low intensity and so this was harmless. The modern flat screen TVs are even safer and do not emit any appreciable amount of radiation at all.
Hubbard touted himself as one of the first nuclear physicists but was supremely ignorant of the whole subject. His original book “All About Radiation” contains all kinds of craziness. The rewrite with Dr. Denk removed a lot of the more controversial content.
For example, he claimed that holding a newspaper in front of you was a good way of protecting yourself from the fallout of a nuclear bomb.
I got into trouble at Flag once because I said this was nonsense.
Any type of radiation stirs up the BeeTees. Ron omitted that in his writing because it’s confidential information.
Yeah, um, xray radiation is gamma rays. No television in any era has ever emitted gamma rays so, of course Elron was completely and utterly wrong or he was just lying to keep followers from watching television 🙄
Wonder if any in the OSA, which I presume has to read here, is actually believing this crap;
“Heavy X-rays… Radioactive particles”…
OMG… Hopefully they have to start to look and make their own research by themselves…
Wish I would have read this crap1980 or so, then I perhaps would have left this SCAM earlier than 1982:-)
I am amazed to find something he said that I agree with. But I fully support shutting down this thing.
I just don’t want to appear to look like these crazies who try to shut down a TV network because they fear the effects of one or more of its programs.
I’m sure y’all know who I mean.
Hubbard hated TV and this quote from him tells little Davey Miscavige the way to make more slaves with his TV channel. Miscavige directly violated LRH policy. Thank you Carole for exposing the insanity of your cult.
“If you wanted to start organizing a country right now on a slave state basis, you would organize it via TV. Most wonderful thing there— the way George Orwell, in his 1984, paralleled and probably took from early electronic societies”
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Sigh.
So much verbiage, and nothing said. I did radiation safety for 25 years and view Ron’s opinions as at the High School Dilettante level in these matters. There is no such thing as ‘heavy x-rays’ or ‘heavy matter ‘ discussed in the scientific field literature. X-rays are not ‘radioactive particles’. Shielding does ‘solve’ the problem.
In the 1960s and 1970s CRT color TVs were known to produce X-rays up to 35 kev. The manufacturers wanted strong colors in their picture tubes so they increased the voltage and current of electrons from the emitters at the back of the CRT. The electrons hitting the phosphors on the inside of the glass face did produce better colors and, incidentally, detectable X-rays. Calculations were made that ‘if’ a youngster were to sit within two feet of the picture for ‘hours’ a day they could get cataracts later in life. The manufacturers responded by making thicker glass CRTs (to absorb the low energy x-rays) and added flat glass faces in the consoles (same reason). They soon engineered better TV s and went to solid state imaging as we now have. NO more x-rays.
As to creating a slave state I think Ron did produce one with the Sea Org. It seems to have become identical in outcome to Orwell’s 1984.
An engineer friend of mine bought a Heathkit color TV in the early 70s. He spent so much time fiddling with the adjustments that he ended up with a mild sunburn on his face, Of course he was probably inches from the screen as he twisted those silly tabs around, and the unit may have been misaligned in a way that allowed the beam to strike parts oi the tube that it shouldn’t, resulting in more x-rays than usual.
A friend and I used to make pocket change fixing tube TVs at the Big Blue in LA. Lots of Sea Org TV watchers there in the very early 80s using ancient tube TVs. Until an order came down from Hubbard saying the same thing about TVs hypnotizing the viewer. All those TVs ended up in the dumpster.
After that it was “no TV for YOU” for most of us, though of course Dave Miscavige had satellite TV and loved watching the Superbowl every year.
The one exception was right after 911, when we set up CNN in the crew dining room so we could watch the “shock and awe” part of the Afghanistan war.
Yep, Bruce,
10-20 hours at 2 inches within 2-3 days would have probably done the trick. The lens of the eye is is the organ of concern, in that cataracts happen from too much low energy x-rays and UV from the sun. Ageing will do it too.
‘All About Radiation’ was lacking in science (no surprise) but Hubbard did speak accurately about the psychological effects of fear and panic. I never got into a flap with scienos because rad safety was my profession ,even when I called out Hubbard’s lack of knowledge on the subject.
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As always, Lron was a putz. The plethora of TV channels provides a lot of ‘entertainment’ and a lot of shit. I see Joel OSteen is preaching this morning on one of my local channels. I changed the channel to something else. I despise Osteen.
As in all of life, you have to shift through the all the crap to find gold. Or maybe just a good beer. $cientooogy can’t find any voice to preach the word of Lron.
As for TV ‘radiation’., if you sat 1 foot away from an early color TV, you might have received a few milirem. If cal mag and auditing cure radiation exposure, why not just watch more TV?