Though there has been an “official L. Ron Hubbard biographer” since I first hired him in 1991, there is still no L. Ron Hubbard biography.
“LRH biographer” or more often now “The Biographer”, Dan Sherman spends his days penning prolix fluffery for David Miscavige to read from a teleprompter at his “international events” and Ideal Org ribbon yankings.
Over the span of 25 years, the silver mullet and his team of biographical “researchers”, headed by Andy Lenarcic, have gathered an enormous amount of information, photographs and artifacts about the life of L. Ron Hubbard. They have literally scoured the world and have amassed a great deal of information. They have spent enormous amounts of time and effort seeking to prove L. Ron Hubbard’s version of his life to be true.
And therein lies the rub.
What do you say in an “official biography” about Sarah and her daughter Alexis? Hubbard claimed he didn’t have a second wife in one of his only TV interviews. She exists nowhere in scientology’s literature and certainly not in the volume of the L. Ron Hubbard Series about his family (how odd, here isn’t one…). The LRH biography people have tried for years to come up with any proof that Sarah was in fact a Russian spy as Hubbard claimed. Or that Alexis was not his daughter (even though he kidnapped her and took her to Cuba and dedicated the first edition of Science of Survival to her) though one glance at a photo of Alexis and there is NO DOUBT she is one of Hubbard’s 7 children.
Or his infamous incident of letting off depth charges when he alone found a “Japanese submarine” off the coast of Oregon. Scientology hired, at enormous expense, sophisticated underwater equipment and boats to find the evidence to prove Hubbard’s tale was right. No luck there either.
And then there are the rest of his war records and his numerous statements about the combat he saw which have no substantiation. Or the bankruptcy of his Foundations or stealing Jack Parson’s yacht. Or what really happened in Rhodesia. And his heart attacks and other physical ailments in the later years of his life after he had claimed to have the cure for all illness.
And there is much, much more.
So much was covered by Russell Miller in his excellent and carefully researched unauthorized biography Bare-Face Messiah, now supplemented by internet researchers, most notably Chris Owen, There are just too many holes that an official biography could not credibly paper over. And of course, scientology would NEVER publish a biography that even hinted that the life of L. Ron Hubbard was not perfect.
So, Miscavige has done a bait and switch. While still introducing Dan Sherman each March 13 as “The Biographer” he has in fact abandoned any biography and instead taken selective events in the life of L. Ron Hubbard and then published into a series of glossy “coffee table” books that they try to sell for $800 (nothing comes cheap in scientology, even after Miscavige announced they have the largest in-house digital printing plant in the world).
This is now “the epic saga of a life like no other” — but it is not actually a saga. There is no accounting of his early life other than a few embellished anecdotes about him being with Blackfeet indians and “America’s Youngest Eagle Scout.” No information about what his life was really like with interviews of those who knew him at the time (like Miller has), delving into his proclivity to tell tall tales from a young age. There is nothing about the court cases filed over the failure of Dianetics in Wichita etc etc etc.
So, there is a “series” of small, carefully selected snippets parading as a saga of his life. Even those are not accurate. Photos of Hubbard with Sarah have her photoshopped out. Same with Mary Sue and his children. The “saga” of a life includes not even a MENTION of his 3 wives and 7 children? Really?
Miscavige knows nobody has “the fucking rank” to ask where the long-promised biography is. Because everyone knows in scientology you NEVER ask a question that might even be interpreted as “critical.”
So, I will answer the question: The L. Ron Hubbard biography is going to be released when OT XV is released.
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I didn’t realize toilet paper was so expensive.
Hopefully they won’t leave out of the Biography the fact that L Ron Hubbard first brought surfing to the beautiful beaches in Encinitas, just north of San Diego. At the 8:31 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4yDU6MbkM8
The real biography of Ron has already been released. A couple of them, in fact. They’re available on the interweb. FAScinating reading.
they can’t HANDLE the truth!
it’s a shame Tubby didn’t promise what he could actually DELIVER. All the lies just kept digging him (and scn) in deeper and deeper. What he could deliver wasn’t itself too bad. Feeling good is something people willingly pay well for — and they don’t bitch and moan after. How many recipients of a ‘happy ending’ will report their masseuse to the cops? OR help prosecute them? Only the ones who didn’t get fair measure. ; – )
One of the last purchases I ever made from Co$ was this set of “biographical” volumes. The set it sitting untouched, each book still wrapped in cellophane on a bookshelf in my lounge. Useless. Worthless. As are the two sets of basics in my cellar. But what the hell do I do with them? Don’t want to sell them or even give them away as I would consider it a tragedy if anyone got their hands on them and felt compelled to go into an org. What a waste.
I ripped the covers off every book I had, burnt some and put the rest out for recycling. I put 2 e-meters just right in the old rubbish bin and the nice big truck came and ate it all up. 🙂
I did the same for all the Hubbard fiction I had as well. I wouldn’t sell any of it or donate it, dangerous goods need to be disposed of mindfully.
I did pretty much the same with everything I had, my collection included all the ACC lectures so it was a huge pile of stuff to get rid of. As much as I deeply regretted spending a fortune on this useless crap it did feel immensly satisfying junking it all, to see all those shiny new cases and disks shatter as they hit the ground was cathartic in itself.
yesssssssssss.
and for my certs I made a fire. I burnt each and every one. Those were not for the rubbish bin, those I particularly made a fire for…..
I busted them out of the cheap-ass frames, threw the frames in the bin, and then burnt the certs.
I had auditor certs, admin certs, staff certs, social “betterment” certs, my clear cert, OT certs…right on up. I burnt them all. I saved the highest for last and watched it burn. (I also filmed it and sent it to the one person I could)
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for me… leaving scn was a light switch move – I was 100 percent in, and then I was just out. I burnt those certs within 5 days of coming to my senses. I was rid of everything inside of a week of it all. Almost 4 decades in, flushed in a heartbeat.
(recovering has taken longer, it’s a process)
I’ve saved my clear/OT bracelets… I have some plans with those….just in case I need them as a cover.
🙂
Fuck ’em all.
If you sell books on eBay, I think they most likely go to members who are trying to avoid paying bookstore prices – meaning you’re depriving Scientology of revenue, and at least getting some fraction of your money back. A few may go to outside critics studying Scientology as a high control group or cult.
I think that nowadays, the chance of a complete outsider getting involved because they happened to see a book and somehow decide to pay good money for it, are almost non-existent. And if such a thing were to happen, I think it would most likely be because someone bought a real bargain bin book for on a lark because it seemed worth a shot, and there’s no stopping lots of Scientology books getting into bargain bins.
Actually, it occurs to me, it might not be a bad thing to sell materials – and include with them an account of your own bad experiences with Scientology and reasons for leaving, along with links to critical sites. That would probably ensure that any outside purchaser would get thoroughly inoculated against getting involved, and might have some chance of getting a member thinking or questioning.
If you choose to become a scientologist, please know that there is no ass that shouldn’t be licked if it is above you in rank.
Scientology is not a bridge, but a cruel pyramid of upper-ranking asses to be kissed, with your family relationships at the whims of the goddamned fucking “sirs” above you.
And should you choose to chase higher positions, expect to be encouraged to abuse and destroy those beneath you.
This “beautiful” religion attempts to paint a false portrait of its sociopathic conman founder, but the Genie is out of the bottle, Pandora’s box is open, and a simple Google search will tell you all you need to know about the sick and twisted world of LRH’s scientrology.
There’s no analysis or insight anywhere in this vast “encyclopedia”. Certainly no description of the tech. The first rule of Scientology is you can’t talk about Scientology (upstat acclamations and exclamations are allowed).
For those of you who watch the Disney Channel you may have seen a young actor named Jacob Bertrand. I took a look at this kid and he is a dead ringer for a young David Miscavige! I’m serious! And he’s just the right size, too! I want to cast him as the lead in my upcoming motion picture: Miscavige And The Collapse Of Scientology. Maybe they’ll air it on the Scientology Channel.
How about Kevin Quinn as Marty Rathbun?
Tenzing Norgay Trainor as Mike Rinder?
Jenna Ortega as Leah Remini?
These are all young Disney actors, by the way.
I wonder if the story that LRH was telling at the Portland Org. about how he passed himself off as a doctor while he was a patient, and cured the German prisoners of war is in his books. LOL. I had to laugh right out loud at that one, Probably good thing that the place was empty. Loads of people walking by the org however without going in. LOL.
As I recall, he was shot in the back, and was blinded, and then crawled into a rubber raft and went through shark infected waters for something like a thousand miles of open ocean to safety. Oh, and he cured himself of his wounds. What a guy!! LOL.
It seems that since they started on the biography project, things have indeed changed that make it impossible to complete, including the revelation of a lot more of the embarrassing truth about Hubbard’s military career and life, the failure of Scientology’s own efforts to find evidence for Hubbard’s claims, not to mention the rise of the internet giving people ready access to the inconvenient truths.
I wonder how the people like Sherman who have worked on the project justify continuing to themselves continuing to forward the false hagiography? Do they imagine its all true, but that they’re in some sort of shadow war with “psychs” who are getting to evidence and witnesses before they can? Do the just get lost in the details, so that they can remain in denial about the bigger picture? Have they developed some justification like the current line of thought we seem to see in loyalists here, that Hubbard was undeniably terribly flawed, and yet somehow – and in spite of the underlying principle of the hagiography, that Hubbard having a virtuous and virtually miraculous life somehow necessarily undergirds his “work” – he became the one and only conduit for an eternal and perfect “tech.”
It occurs to me that Sherman has to be kept busy, and somewhat papered, because he knows too much and would be an enormous liability if he defected. I image that he is also occupied working on LRH exhibits – presumably all sorts of things will be planned for LRH Hall – and on media like the series for ScnTV, and so on.
If Little Davey C. knows a true biography would and could only paint LRH as a total fraud then it follows Mismanage is already quite aware the whole of $cientology is a total fabricated scam which only makes him a more evil, reprehensible character.
I wouldn’t goddamn read any so called scientology biography of that shit stack if you fucking paid me to?
When Adolph Hitler first learned of L. Ron Hubbard in 1932, the future Nazi leader was shocked at the threat Hubbard posed to German Psychiatry and to greater Germany itself. Consider the sweeping extent of Hubbard’s genius in 1932:
* Hubbard had a Ph.D. in nuclear physics.
* Hubbard had an extensive knowledge of Freudian Psychotherapy.
* Hubbard had traveled the East extensively and had learned the spiritual secrets of Tibetan monks.
* Hubbard created Scientology in 1931 while attending GWU. This is why the egg-headed professors in the Psych Dept were so terrified him and got him falsely placed on academic probation. It was all a Psych frame up.
* Sgt. Hubbard USMC was an accomplished military man who had killed many men in combat while working covert operations for the US in the Caribbean. Ron also fought in the Great Emu War in Australia in 1932 and had almost singlehandedly eradicated all of the pestiferous emu in Australia.
* Hubbard had mastered the art of glider flight.
* Hubbard had baffled the Psychiatrists at his university.
* Hubbard had traveled the Orient with an officer of the British Navy. The two men explored the pleasures of the love that dare not speak its name.
* Hubbard had commanded ocean expeditions to Puerto Rico to survey for minerals.
Hitler saw in Hubbard an accomplished bisexual mystic, physicist, aviator, expedition leader, and military genius. Hitler at once understood the threat: Hubbard could glide unseen into a pre-radar Germany. Once inside of Germany, Hubbard could work his mystical sexual charms on Ernst Rohm and take command of the Brown Shirts away from Hitler. Using his skills of military leadership, Hubbard would organize the Brown Shirts and the Army into an effective fighting force that he would use to destroy German Psychiatry and then bring Scientology to Germany and thence to Europe, Russia, and the entire world.
Because Nazism was simply a front for Psychiatry, Hitler organized all of Germany into a war machine that was needed to secretly fend off the threat L. Ron Hubbard posed to German Psychiatry. To ensure the destruction of Hubbard, who was the most powerful being ever, Hitler enlisted the aid of Japan. Together, they began WWII with the secret motive to destroy L. Ron Hubbard.
WWII began. German moles in the US Navy conspired to get L. Ron Hubbard assigned to sub patrol boat USS PC-815. The trap to assassinate Lt. L. Ron Hubbard and end his threat to German Psychiatry was set into motion in the early hours of 19 May 1943 when two enormous Imperial Japanese Navy Kaidai VII-class submarines bristling with deadly torpedoes stalked the USS PC-815. As the subs set up to kill L. Ron Hubbard and end the threat to German Psychiatry, Hubbard’s sonar detected them.
The military genius L. Ron Hubbard immediately salvoed depth charges and destroyed the submarines. Both exploded with a “resounding furor” and the blood and guts and oil of the dead subs came to the surface. But these victories came at a cost: Nazi frogmen who had also been tailing the USS PC-815 in smaller boats stole up on Hubbard’s blind side and machine-gunned him in the back, hips, and legs. The frogmen then fired sulfuric acid bullets into his eyes and blinded Hubbard. Yet Hubbard, a tough sonofabitch, took his knife and killed all of the Nazi frogmen.
Crippled, blinded, and maimed, L. Ron Hubbard was rushed to the nearest hospital in the Secretary of the Navy’s private plane. He was given the Medal of Honor of with Palms, five purple hearts, and 20 other combat medals. However, President Roosevelt ordered “Hubbard’s War” to be covered up so that the public would not be scared. Colonel Fletcher Prouty of the US Air Force went in and sheep-dipped LRH’s US Navy military records so that it looked like Hubbard had depth-charged iron ore deposits.
Crippled and blinded and suffering from untreated gonorrhea — which caused him to piss blood, L. Ron Hubbard used his research on the mind to heal his body. While in the hospital, nuclear physicist L. Ron Hubbard wrote the equations for America’s first atomic bombs and sent them over to Robert Oppenheimer who stole them and claimed them as his own — just like Albert Einstein had stolen Hubbard’s E=MC2 equation that Ron had written for his Eagle Scout badge in science back in 1918.
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“Hubbard’s War” broke the morale of Hitler and Hirohito, for they had failed to kill Ron. Hitler and Hirohito both went down tone into apathy. From his hospital bed, L. Ron Hubbard planned D-Day and MacArthur’s island hopping campaign on a legal pad over the course of a few days. After that work, Hubbard focused his mind on his body and healed it of 154 wounds from machine gun bullets by re-experiencing the trauma of each bullet hitting his heart, lungs, brain, spinal cord, spleen, liver, pancreas, etc. LRH then cured his eyes by running out all of the sulfuric acid using megadoses of niacin. Needless to say, these wounds would have killed lesser men.
Fully healed, L. Ron Hubbard glided into Berlin as the Russians were closing in on the Fuhrer Bunker. Hubbard killed all of Hitler’s guards using jiu jitsu and then stormed in and shot and killed a stunned Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun. Out of bullets, Hubbard fled the bunker and glided back to Allied lines where he briefed Eisenhower. Hubbard’s killing of Hitler was covered up by the Allies so that the USSR would never know about the potent killing machine that was L. Ron Hubbard. A scant three months later, Master Aviator L. Ron Hubbard piloted the Enola Gay over Hiroshima and released the bomb. This too was covered up so that the sinister forces of the USSR would not discover America’s secret weapon: L. Ron Hubbard.
German Psychiatry was lost and WWII had ended singlehandedly thanks to L. Ron Hubbard.
Powerful Nazis fled to other countries with vast fortunes and then did various Psychiatric shit just to piss off L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology.
The End.
All I can say is:
WTF???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agree
Lrn2Satire 😉
Well!!! I guess we can all salute and say: “Well done Sir” Now if LRH would only come back perhaps DM could fly him out to Columbia for a well deserved medal for saving humanity. LOL.
Love your work!
[slowly rising and applauding]
Frickin brilliant. And hilarious!
OTVIII – Brilliant! This coincides with my own research. For the last ten years I’ve been using the Freedom of Information Act to uncover documents to verify the above facts but the FBI and Department of Justice is stonewalling me. I persist.
After his wartime heroics Mr. Hubbard engaged in civilian activities and became an expert in rhetoric and the art of persuasion by studying Belles-lettres and in crowd psychology by studying Gustave Le Bon’s *The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind*. This allowed him to devise clearing techniques which will clear the sector and eventually the universe but his work is incomplete. He continues his research in the incorporeal state.
His location is listed as Target 2 but I believe this is disinformation to allow him to continue his research without interference from incorporeal psyches.
To Be Continued
And then Ron sent the magical flying monkies out of his butt to keep watch while he dutifully reprogrammed the people of Earth. The End
See? I can write stories too. LMAO
They’re probably in the astral plane and difficult to detect. Maybe Ron decided clearing humans one at a time is too slow and he’s working on a new program?
I’d much prefer a copy of, “The Life & Times of Eric the Garden Slug.”
You do realize that was LRH’s first book?
Oh, yeah! He wrote it in 1920 when he was in fourth grade!
Yes, it is true! Those nice Sea Org kids told me so at that L.Ron Hubbard Exhibition thing in Downtown Hollywood! It’s right up the street from that anti
psychiatry place, See See HRPuffnstuf or something like that.
Well, there ya go!
The question that burns for me is… “what would Eric do?”
He would go talk to those nice kids in that Sea Org!
Mike – or anyone who might know – does DM actually ‘believe’ Scientology and all the stuff he spews – or is he just a snake oil salesman who knows it’s all bs? Is he just as brainwashed as his sheep?
Sue, I’ll give it to you straight: he’s a pathological liar.
I was listening on line a while back now, perhaps 6 months. There was a message saying DM phone call. I clicked on the message and it was DM talking to someone on the phone. DM was saying that he knew that Scientology was a fraud and full of lies. In the background Tom Cruise was laughing like a loon, and DM finally told him to go out to the shop area and make sure he buys something.
The message was taken off. I just wonder if anyone else ever heard of this message while it was on line.
This one? Fake but hilarious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzURbn12fFU
I’m no tree-hugger, but I am at this moment feeling very sad for all the trees that lost their leafy lives to make the paper that these tomes of drivel are printed on. Untold numbers of soybeans gave their little lives to make the ink. And landfills everywhere are groaning under the weight of all those discarded books.
It’s not “We’re Clearing This Planet”; it’s “We’re Polluting This Planet.”
My husband volunteers for a local community theater that was cleaning out its warehouse earlier this year. Among the props and costumes was the LRH Series. No one had any idea how it got there. Knowing I am a Scientology watcher, he excitedly brought home the Ron-o-pedia home for me, but unfortunately, it was mildewed and the pages were stuck together. This must be a metaphor for something…
Oh, that’s so sad!
Scientology, NOT the land of happy little trees.
The one on hiring the crew to search the sea bottom to prove run sunk a Japanese submarine is a good one. I wonder how much the Church has shelled out over the past 40 years searching the world for everything that has ever existed from or about Hubbard, and also to find evidence to prove his claims true and critic claims that he was lying as untrue. Must be millions and for nothing. It is true there will never be a biography and can never be a biography and the whole Danny Sherman biographer bit is a complete joke. Danny has made a living for decades not writing the Biography. Nice work if you can get it.
Nor will they dare to include how he looked while he was hiding in the trailer before he died – long hair, a disorderly small place, the drugs he was consuming and the amount of cash he had by his side.
No matter how much they hide the facts behind glossy pages and ridiculous prices, his life is now known via the Books like Russel, Lawrence Wright and other valid documents.
But hey, this makes money, why not?
When I first got into Scientology, I was very surprised at the amount of attention and importance Hubbard ‘s life was given.
I remember sitting though my first LRH Birthday event and wondering why, in God’s name, was I supposed to care about all this. I didn’t get it at all.
I was in Scientology for many years and still didn’t get it anywhere along the line.
At University I studied Physics. I didn’t need to know anything about the private lives of Newton and Einstein.
Never saw why this was different. The tech either works or it does not. What else is there?
The fact that most of the details of his life were falsified makes this even more ridiculous.
That’s because it’s all MAKE BELIEVE! There’s nothing real in Scientology. It was all made up from Hubbard. And they talk about 30 years of research. Why have we never seen this body of work? Because it doesn’t exist. In fact, it NEVER existed. Hubbard wrote everything from the top of his head. Scientology is one of the biggest frauds on planet Earth today. Thankfully we have the internet.
I should enjoy reading a true account of his life and lies. I mean he gives Barnum and Bailey a serious run for their money as showman of the world. Who wouldn’t be interested in the true account of the world’s biggest liar? Hey! That’s a great idea for a reality show. A million dollars for anyone who could out lie Hubbard. I’d say my money was safe.
That’s the difference between cults and reality. In cults, you have to “sell” the founder(s) as super-geniuses with a unique ability to see the truth. That will make you obedient to them, and it will also enable you to believe stuff without thinking critically about it. If you are conditioned to think that Isaac Newton was the smartest guy ever, then you’ll be more likely to accept whatever Newton says as true.
And remember that cult doctrine is usually something that people who think critically would never believe. The Xenu story is crap, and it’s not even particularly well-crafted crap. A critical thinker would cross-check the claim that the volcanoes in Hawaii described in the story are really 75,000,000 years old and would find that they’re not. A critical thinker would question the idea that the universe is trillions of years old, when all available data says the real number is like ten billion or so.
Questioning the dogma of the cult turns people into ex-members, so any trick that gets you to stop questioning is important. One of the easiest is to program people to believe the leader is a genius and that everything he said is right. That’s easier than spending the money to have thousands of staff members do “ethics handlings” on others. It’s a testament to how ludcrous Scientology doctrine is that they do have to spend all that money and effort on punishing disbelief, since the stuff is so ludicrous that the thought reform programming is so ineffective.
Because both Hubbard and especially the upper echelon in Scientology need to create the idea that Hubbard’s birth was supernatural, think Jesus, but also think the founder of the North Korean state.
Scientology operates in much the same way the USSR operated. An inconvenient relative, acquaintance, or someone out of favor with the great leader, you just manipulate the photograph and remove them. It’s uncanny how the leadership, meaning the great short one (hmmm Stalin was short too) borrows so much from the workings of totalitarian states. There’s a recently released comedy movie titled The Death of Stalin. I would like the former upper echelon folks, like Mike Rinder, to opine about how when DM leaves this mortal coil the same terrorizing lunacy will occur.
Small question.
If I go to the local library do I look under Fiction, or under Science Fiction, or under Fantasy?
Yes. 😉
Look under all three: Fiction, check. Science Fiction, check. Fantasy, check. The Fantasy category intrigues me. You could do all kinds of things with that one.
I’ll tell ya mine if you tell me yours…
You’ll find it immediately in the “LIES & BULLSHIT SECTION”….
At my library it was under Religion. I went to the front desk and asked them why as our government does not recognize them as such. They’ve still not moved them.
Cathy,
LOL That is a library section that I would never have thought to go to when looking for Hubbard’s works.
Sixteen copies for $800.00, that is $50.00 each. I looked at the first 5 books kindle shows for anti scientology and they total less than $50.00 starting with Leah’s book. Much better reading.
and i wonder how it can be “complete” when it states selected photos. Doesn’t sound complete to me.
Having been by Hubbards side for 11 years starting at the age of 12, stories that no biography will ever be able to tell are in my Commodore’s Messenger series. Book 1 A Child Adrift in the Scientology Sea Organization was released last year and Book II Riding out the Storms with L. Ron Hubbard is in final proofing stages now and will be released 1 Sept 2018.
I was just thinking this morning, “Isn’t Janis’ book due soon?”. I’d better write an OT Success Story!
No, they hand feed you your Success Stories now. You don’t have to do a thing. Just sign your name at the bottom.
I’m looking forward to checking it out.
Now, Janis, THAT’S a book I’m going to buy to add to my BDA “Basics”, LOL..
I checked on eBay, and that one volume shown can be had used for as little $4.70 – shipping included (there are, not surprisingly, ex-library copies going cheap, dumped due to lack of interest). Two new still-sealed 16 volume sets sold within the last few months, one for $10 and the other for $45. A couple of other brand new single volumes sold for around $25 – I suspect sales like that come from members trying to get books at cheaper princes than from the org bookstore.
As for Hubbard’s claimed sub incident, the other major problem with it is that the US and British tracked and logged naval activity through observations and intercepts, and the Japanese Imperial Navy kept records that became available after the war, and they didn’t have any subs in that area at that time, much less that were lost. Of course, Scientology has hired hack apologists who have came up with an explanation that the incident – as well as Hubbard’s whole war record – was the subject of some secret cover-up. It occurs to me that it’s an interesting example of Hubbard’s ability to convince himself of things that didn’t really exist.
Stolen Valor …… it’s a crime!
Ok…ok. I’ll give the damn thing back! I didn’t want Stolen Valor anyway!
I shamefully bought a bunch when the price was 99 cents, and 1.99, and then sliced out the color photos, and today the photos ring my cat perches in my apartment. Some of the photos were quite interesting, the ones of “Rifle” a some of the other dumb ones.
My all time favorite, is the final selfie Hubbard took of himself.
The final selfie is emblamatic of him. He shot his shadow into his swimming pool at Creston, so one sees only his shadow slightly wavering in the bottom of his Creston final home’s swimming pool. That must mean something.
Isn’t that very near the beginning of Peter Pan? A boy who refuses to grow up chasing his shadow? Off to Neverland,
The records were sheep-dipped! ?
Incidentally, Dr. Jeff Wasel, a military veteran and top-notch amateur military historian, extended Chris Owen’s impressive work recently, uncovering even more new evidence that details of the impossibility of Hubbard’s war heroism. Check it out on our site, http://www.reasoned.life.
My particular favorite of the stories omitted from the Ron-o-pedia is the story of Rhodesia. It’s simply delusional that Hubbard thought he could waltz into a country, scribble together a constitution and show them a few other assorted feats of brilliance and the locals (a bunch of Oxford-educated white guys) would fall at his feet and elect him king. Instead, they summarily threw him out like a bum getting the rush from a fancy restaurant. Oh, that and the part about how he ran around in drag emulating Cecil Rhodes as some witnesses have reported.
Ron-o-pedia. Love it!
And yes, Jeff’s work has added to the evidence — “Ron the War Hero” volume is not going to be appearing on the Bridge Publications website any time soon.
Honesty compels me to point out that “Ron-o-pedia” is not my term, but that of an unknown commenter from Tony Ortega’s site years ago. I also enjoyed it, which is why I made sure to use it.
Jeff’s got another piece coming in the next couple weeks on another facet of Hubbard’s military career, one that hasn’t been covered as thoroughly as some. He’s actually traveled to the “scene of the crime,” as it were, and conducted interviews with some of the surviving people who were at that place when Hubbard was there to come up with what could be a really impressive debunking of another part of the Hubbard military myth.
Love your and Jeff’s work and take on all things Hubbard.
I recall Hubbard once saying in a very early Dianetic lecture that he just makes up social stuff that people will believe so he can get them “into session.” It was a set procedure apparently using any made up information he believed the client wanted to hear so he could elicit co-operation. WW2 was on everyone’s attention in his day. Geezers, hasn’t that sort of behavior made a mockery of him now, no wonder they are very, very selective on his history.
This made up war hero stuff is sickening. I’ve shared some time with a number of genuine combat veterans back in the day and it’s something very sobering to ever hear them (which they did very rarely) talk of their experiences. It was mainly when they were full of booze and it was quite scary to see the effect it actually had on their lives. The ‘discipline of service’ has a very unique effect, it smothers human emotions & points it somewhere else, but never entirely. Hubbard never saw nor lived in the real world as he claimed, it was all ‘story telling’ to him. He did and said anything to have an audience.
My great great grandfather. my father’s mother’s grandfather’s father, was a prolific writer. I have several bound handwritten volumes of his. Most of them were poems or short tales.
After reading through these writings a little at a time, I have been able to glean that he was a servant at a castle in England before he emigrated to America, and that he fell off a horse when the horse went under a tree. This is hundreds of pages.
This, to me would be what it would be like to wade through the books about LRH. The difference? No one pretended that my great great grandfather was anyone but a writer and a dreamer.
As a matter of fact, he was quite often derided by his peers because he usually spent his productive time writing, not working.
His legacy was that my great grandfather was a very hard worker who started working the fields when he was 10 years old and ended up owning hundreds of acres of land because of his industriousness. He took care of his father all his life.
LRH had delusions of grandeur. People believed them. They are still tooting a horn that has long since proven broken.
I particularly enjoy hearing people say what they think about Sherman, as I loathed him from the very first look.
I had loved LRH and his work very deeply and sincerely, but without sappy veneration, I never worshipped him, nor spoke of him in a quavering voice. 🙂 We had an LRH comm who would deliver sob choked readings at staff meetings, tears streaming down her face. I always gakked at it.
Then along comes the Sappy Mullet – I needn’t add my own descriptive terms of his style of writing and speaking, you all have his number perfectly. I hated it from the get-go and I thought it was a disservice to Hubbard and Scn both. He’s just so full of himself. Barf.
It’s not something you ever put down on the end-of-event survey, nor do you voice it during or after the event. My smoke breaks at events always coincided with him taking the stage.
It’s so relieving and freeing to hear people speak the obvious truth about him.
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(a small thing, in the huge vast ocean of freeing truth I’m experiencing as a UTR, but singular and personally significant and oh so enjoyable)
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as for Hubbard and his bio, every lie uncovered is helpful in moving away from the trap and mind conditioning.
I wish I would have had a set of those a few months ago while camping in Joshua Tree National Park. We could NOT get the fire started our first night. Those books would burn so beautifully.
That would be one EXPENSIVE fire.
But well worth the effort.
The price of freedom revisited.
What Hubbard did with his life is contained between the lines of his lectures, tapes and writings. He started with Neo-Platonism and found a market for it. He copied Plato, Iamblichus, Blavatsky, Freud, Crowley and a few others. He created a false picture of the mind and the spirit. He then sold it all claiming that he had something when he had nothing. He made a fortune doing it. He got me for about $120,000. He told me that he was a Gnostic Luciferian in 1988. He could have told me that the first day in 1972, but he had to have the money. He had to prove that he was someone. He could not use science so he covered it up with science fiction and the Occult. Bye, Bye Ronnie!
The damage was done.
For a second there, I thought you wrote Gnostic Lutheran.
Interesting but gee, you can read all about him on the internet – for free. When I read all about it, it really is like reading a science fiction novel (gee, wonder why that is). You keep waiting for the psycho evil entity (driven to even more madness due to, perhaps, an STD?) to get exorcized.
In my ending all those who were living in the alternate universe it had created in their mind come walking out into the sunshine, their families and friends coming to take them home. The evil entity has been dissolved and locked in a rubber room where it has to listen to a continuous loop of a music box version (sung by Munskins) of It’s a Small World”. The end 🙂
What a waste of paper. The true life of Lron Hubbard would fit on a matchbook.
“Scientology hired, at enormous expense, sophisticated underwater equipment and boats to find the evidence to prove Hubbard’s tale was right. No luck there either.”
I know some fools were trying to raise money to do a survey of wrecks in the area of the ‘battle’, but they never got enough money to even start that job. On a historical note, review of Japanese records show that there never were Japanese subs off the Washington/Oregon coast.
With the exception of a brief raid by 9 Japanese subs on December 18 to the 24th of 1941, the Japanese were never off the west coast of the US. That was a huge mistake on their part. They could have attacked the scourge of the Atlantic, the Commodore of Corvettes had they been in place in 1943.
If life was crazy on board L. Ron Hubbard’s private ship, the SS Liliput or whatever the hell it was named, I can’t imagine the insanity that must have reigned aboard Hubbard’s warship as he dropped depth charges, ordered the guns to be fired, put up flares, sailed in circles, set the watch to look for bubbles and oil slicks, ordered an endless amount of jibberish sent en clair over the radios so everybody all over the world on that frequency would know there’s a maniac in command of a naval vessel somewhere.
Lord knows I grew up with a WWII combat naval officer as my old man and that was so crazy that it sent me into the waiting arms of the Army. And my old man, according to the guys I met at his reunions, knew what hell he was doing and he was able to get his ship, an LST, from the invasion of Normandy to NY, to Pearl Harbor to Saipan and on to China and back to Japan. Then he came home in 1946 without half the insanity I’m sure Hubbard created in his abbreviated seagoing billet. The only guy who comes close to the latter was John Kerry who had himself filmed as he thrashed through the swail after a wounded VC who was crawling painfully along until Kerry, decked out in helmet and ballistic vest replete with all his famous toothy grimaces and grunts, finally gets up the gumption to slaughter the supine bleeding man at his feet.
War is indeed hell, for those stuck with L. Ron Hubbard and those jammed in a PBR with the folderol bawling Kerry.
Perhaps a terse wartime movie will be made someday entitled “Mr. Hubbard.”
Hubbard: The Biggest Fruad in the World
I challenge stolen valor, just as I challenge those who deny valor justly recognized. I think you somehow continue to believe the well-discredited aspersions cast upon John Kerry’s Vietnam service record. The book and campaign claims by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth had only one intent, and that was not to show truth, but rather to defame John Kerry’s service record during his campaign for the Presidency in hopes he would lose the election. Their wild vilifications led to the invention of the term “swiftboating” to describe any untrue, unfair political attack. In any event, Kerry did lose, barely, in an election in which it was widely claimed many millions were denied their right to vote for various reasons, and other millions of voters did not get their votes accurately counted. However, as the American public later came to see the true character of Kerry’s running mate, perhaps Bush’s victory was the best thing for our country after all.
I will leave off any more political comments other than to say if you want to compare service records among politicians I will be happy to point out the draft deferments and incomplete service history of certain politicians who should have served during the Vietnam era, or who did serve but caused more damage to their own than to the enemy. Mr. Kerry’s fine service record can stand on its own without me, and the draft dodgers and guys who quit before their time have easy-to-obtain service records, all without me needing to go any further with this.
But if you want to put John Kerry into the same ‘boat’ as L. Ron Hubbard, it only shows how little you know about either of them.
As a veteran, I want to commend you, Ammo, for taking a stand for the truth. You have my deepest respect. While I am not a John Kerry fan, I do acknowledge his service record and applaud him for willingly risking his life in the middle of an unpopular war. How very different from LRH who shelled Mexican coastal cities in his destroyer while thinking that he was bombing Japan!
I’ve always wanted to own the ‘Ron Collection’ coffee-table volumes, but for satirical photoshopping purposes only — all those pictures of Tubbo Tublard just begging to be shooped. And of course to scan them into PDFs and put them all online for free. $800 indeed!
In the past I offered to scan a POS errr COS book a few times. It was funny to see that always turned out to be not necessary, as it already had been scanned.
So before you do a lot of work take a good look if it’s not been done already.
Probably due to nausea at having to confront so many images of Old Flabbychops, the LRH series seems to be the one exception to your rule ;(
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Whoa, it looks like you can obtain at least one of these sacred Hubbard tomes for as little as $0.49 from Amazon.
Apparently, and I can’t say this for sure until all the facts are in, Hubbard’s life appears to be far less valuable on the open market than it does to his acolyte, the COB.
All my best to Leah, Mike and this terrific blog, and all the readers, who have brought me peace and further understanding.
What a load. Ben Kugler (the one that did the video for the church explaining the lies he told to my son about me) gave me this set for my birthday about 6 months before he disconnected from me. Scientologists are harangued to buy sets and sets of stuff. So, I knew this was either an extra set he had or just a set he didn’t want. That’s all I saw when I opened it. A symbol of haranguing and false stats. I gave them back. I knew they were bullshit. As a Still-In said to me, “Everyone knows scientology lies.” So Still-In’s continue to buy the bullshit. And then try to pawn it off on someone else.
Mary K – gawd this is funny! “Scientologists are harangued to buy sets and sets of stuff. So, I knew this was either an extra set he had or just a set he didn’t want”
$800 for these 16 volumes? I think they should have a different. How about: “The L. Ron Hubbard Series: There’s a Saga Born Every Minute.”
No suckers?
Sherman missed a few of Hubbard’s awesome moments.
http://www.formerscientologistmagazine.com/2018/07/14/l-ron-hubbard-facts/
Chris, that’s a great web site you made!
I agree. A lot of work went into that and the associated YouTube and facebook pages.
That’s hilarious! Is this a new magazine? Ex-Scientologists? New to me, anyway. Needless to say, I’l be subscribiing.
Moving right along: Hubblard wrote poetry?? Well, move over, T.S. Eliott and E.E. Cummings. I CAN wait to read it. A long time.
Moving further along: It’s time for me to read Miller’s excellent book again. Had to get rid of a lot of books when we moved across country, but certainly not that one, and a few other anti-scion classics.
By the way, I belong to a Buddhist meditation group (or used to). All of their books, excellently printed, are given away FREE. That’s correct; absolutely free. You can make a free-will donation if you find value in the item, but there’s absolutely no dunning involved. There is a centuries-old tradition of generosity (Pali word ‘dana’) and giving the teachings freely in Theravada Buddhism. How different from the bogus “religion” of scientology!
Now that’s Buddhism! If you want to donate, that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine. And Fatso thought he was Buddha incarnate. Liar, liar…
I got one coffee table book about L Ron Hubbard…
RON THE NUT!
That is the one that set me free – thanks to all of you before me that dare tell the truth about the criminal con man – L Ron Hubbard.
That is very funny!
I’ll buy 30 when OT XV is released, Davey tells us where Shelley is, pays Ephrem his money, goes to jail for THAT little caper, allows Masterson to be tried by a jury of his peers, cancels ALL disonnection orders, and starts paying Sea Arghhh living wages.
@smorbie mmkay! I’m holding my breath until you buy it. pppbblltt. Or not.
Smorbie, you forgot: “when hell freezes over.”
I wanted to give him a realistic goal.
That’s very good of you, smorbie.
You might be waiting a long time.