L. Ron Hubbard on his boat in Alaska
This promotional item was distributed some time ago, I am just getting around to publishing it.
Scientology continues to try to raise money for the “L. Ron Hubbard Hall” — another white elephant that will eventually be paid for by “Sea Org Reserves” as a means of using excess accumulation of funds. But it will be milked for everything possible until then.
It is interesting that scientology has continued to use the Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, a venue that seats 2300, for nearly 3 decades. No graduating to larger venues to handle the massive growth and increases in scientologists in the area. And their plans for the L. Ron Hubbard Hall, where all events will be held, do not anticipate any increase in the size of the audience. What an admission that is.
Someone is enjoying “getting away” from Sea Org life by organizing these boondoggle trips.
This one no doubt focused on the tall tales of Hubbard’s exploits under the Explorer’s Club flag he cherished so much — because it added credibility to the stories of his exploits.
For some education, here are pages from Bare-Faced Messiah that provide the real story. You can bet the name “Polly” (Louise) Hubbard was NEVER MENTIONED to the whales on the boondoggle. Polly, of course, was Hubbard’s first wife and mother of Nibs (L. Ron Hubbard Jnr) and Katie (Catherine). They got no mention either. Nor his second wife (Sara) and third child (Alexis). Even Mary Sue has been written out of scientology’s history…
You can be sure Miller’s description of what happened, taken from interviews with family members, is a far more accurate picture of the true events than L. Ron Hubbard ever provided. He was charitably an inveterate story-teller who invariably portrayed himself in the best possible light. He wrote a Flag Order talking about single-handedly wrestling bears in Alaska, among many other amazing (and untrue) exploits.
I live about 5 miles from Yukon Harbor and have a friend (another never-in) who grew up here. She or her family may have some stories… so might another friend with local roots. I’ll ask to see if there are interesting local stories. The first friend will know them if anyone does!
To think gullible fools actually salute that piece of sh**.
Oh well, the world is an interesting place, I’ll give it that.
I apologize in advance for a thread derail but today I came across with an piece I had never seen before. It was written by Craig Branch and his website is called “The Watchman Fellowship”. In it the article titled “Church of Scientology: A Religious Mafia? ” is a very focused and concise summary.
https://www.watchman.org/articles/scientology/church-of-scientology-a-religious-mafia/
A sample “Scientology is governed by inviolate policies or “Scriptures” of L. Ron Hubbard which, when followed, have produced an extraordinary record of institutionalized abuse, financial exploitation, harassment, intimidation, civil and criminal convictions of its members, leaders, and even the church itself. “
Hasn’t Scientology not only not outgrown Ruth Eckerd Hall, but no longer has to set up tents outside to handle overflow attendance, as they once did? I’m guessing that one of the points of LRH Hall is to have a facility with moving walls so that they can adjust the space to be “full” for whatever size crowd they can still attract – the Dolby in LA, which they downsized some events to from the Shrine, has such a feature.
Well, Ron certainly proved “Maggie” wasn’t up to the “expedition”! Looks like a capable sailboat, but the motor crapped out after only 700 miles, a mere trip ’round the “block” for a cruising SAILor. Sounds like he never put up the sails, just fired ‘er up and shoved the throttle forward until he could fill the tank again, never bothering to do the required maintenance. After awhile, the poor MEST thing just gave out….. much like his body did in ’86. He never did take care of his “stuff”; just got another when one thing broke from his mistreatment. Treated people/slaves the same way: When no longer useful, kick into the trash and find another. LOVED how he stood by MSH after 35-36 years of marriage: Threw her under the bus and made her take the punishment he deserved. Didn’t she later die of cancer? ’twas unnecessary; A couple of my friends beat the big “C” about the same time. But of *COURSE* MSH couldn’t go to a real doctor and get REAL treatment. To do so would be showing that Tubby’s magic didn’t work.
I find your comment here, Jere, to be extremely insightful and spot on. I hadn’t thought about it in that way and it really resonates.
Bare-Faced Messiah was an interesting read. It helped answer a lot of questions about the path and actions Hubbard orchestrated to create $cientology. What a con man, what a complete ass!
As a science fiction fan, I did like ‘Final Blackout & Type Writter in the Sky.’ But Hubbard is still a horses ass.
New system of mathematical computation. Wow! Roped a bear that than climbed into the boat. I am surprised he didn’t take credit for Orson Wells “War of the Worlds ” in the early 1930’s. The trip to Alaska is a year late. A few years ago the could have had a sight seeing trip to “Alaskan Bush People , and got on TV. Both scientology and Bush people are about the same when it comes to truth.
Whoa! You know about Nazi Killer Whales? I thought I was the only one.
First time poster, long time lurker. Co$ hater… Terribly curious about this: $275 seems incredibly inexpensive for all those meals and entertainment… Is Co$ being kind, or are there other fees, in addition to the $275??
Wherever Hubtard was in charge of anything it was SNAFU!
Ah, yes. SNAFU. Situation Normal All Fucked Up. Been there done that…
Thanks for that interesting piece. Miller misses one typical aspect of Hubbard travels – he was so broke, that he left behind unpaid debts:
“The fact of the matter was that the dashing young adventurer’s tired sloop, Magician, nicknamed “Maggie,” had limped into Ketchikan after nothing much more dramatic than repeated failures of its engine. Hubbard found himself looking for work to support himself and his wife, Polly, until he had enough money to get his boat repaired so he could sail south. He found an interesting job in Ketchikan and spent the rest of his time trying to sell enough stories to pay for costly engine repairs.
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Eventually, after spreading his charm around the First City via the airwaves, he borrowed enough money from Ketchikan sources to repair his sloop and sail south. The major source of those borrowed funds was from the First National Bank – a loan of $350 (that would be $4,840.00 in today’s dollars). A year and half later, receiving past-due notices and obviously annoyed, Hubbard mailed a letter to the bank to explain why he hadn’t yet repaid that loan. It read, ‘Your are again informed that the reason for non-payment is the sharp decrease of pay which I was willing to take to help my country!” (Hubbard was then in the Naval Reserve)
http://www.sitnews.us/JuneAllen/Hubbard/011905_hubbard.html
L. Ron Hubbard’s Alaska Adventure
His long winter in Ketchikan by June Allen
January 19, 2005
Hubbard was always a fiction writer at heart. He never could get very far away from that, fiction was the defining aspect of his character.
The fraud of Hubbard.
And for you lurkers: Hubbard died just like we’re all going to do. He had a stroke as well as a heart attack. A second stroke killed him. He was morbidly obese when he died. With his lower teeth rotting away. So much for Super Powers…
Yep, and not even a “so long suckers,” from him either. He just ran away and hid.
He was a coward to the Nth degree.
To say that LRH was a coward is an undeserved compliment.
He was also sporting a nice hippie ‘do’ as I recall. Looked like something you might find in a field of wet straw!
Yo Dave,
Can’t wait for your the next issue of yer magazine. I imagine the clams are circling in anticipation.
Speaking of steamed clams, let’s go out and eat some of our relatives.
Mind if I throw some on the grill? Prefer them that way.
Grill away, gtsix! Let me know when they’re done.
🙂
On it. Hand me a beer, would ya?
Does anyone know if all the materials in the LRH offices in every org were replaced by DM’s version of the tech known as GAT I and GAT II?
As far as I know DM never produced an updated set of Red Volumes Peabody. GAT HCOBs were loose leaf.
Who put the new crankshaft in? Probably not Lron, getting greasy was never his thing.
‘Ron was convinced that the Japanese…’ were what? Planing on suing because American Chop Suey sucked? Because Lron didn’t show proper respect to the Emperor? No, because the Japanese heard Lron’s radio show and hated his taste in music.
Pearl Harbor was Lron’s fault!!!
Self aggrandizing is the least of Lron’s sins. Why didn’t Lron battle Kraken and Nazi Killer Whales while he was up North? He seems to have done everything else.
Poor Polly, I think Lron only took her to cook for him. As Lron and Polly informally separated after this trip, you know Polly enjoyed his company.