“My Philosophy” is one of the Hubbard scribblings they refer to and proudly republish often.
It even gets its own constantly recurring video on the scientologyTV!
In this piece, Hubbard is very lofty sounding and appears to be thoughtful, compassionate and generous. It’s why they use it so much. But nobody should be fooled. It is a compendium of lies.
Here are some select passages and my thoughts about them:
Surrounded by protective coatings of impenetrable scholarliness, philosophy has been reserved to the privileged few.
The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of the commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
In fact, the first principle of his philosophy is that it is ONLY made available to those who PAY to access it. This is hardbound policy — some quotes from just one, HCOPL 9 May 65:
I can say with complete case histories that giving free service to those who demanded it or sought it has never resulted in any useful gain for Scientology. On the contrary some of our biggest headaches administratively come from those who continually sought free courses and free auditing.
A Registrar’s matter of fact attitude about paying for auditing or training is a valuable asset. Giving the person a problem about how and what they’ll pay is poor Registraring. Don’t make them choose about paying in full or not paying in full. Just tell them “Go to the Accounts Cashier”. An evil laugh when they advance the idea of some tiny down payment on auditing and a remark, “Well, that would put you on the waiting list and give you a new student,” might be very effective.
He goes on to parallel himself with Will Durant, like he has fought the noble cause to “bring wisdom to the people over the objections of the ‘inner circle’.” Sheesh
Selfish scholars seldom forgive anyone who seeks to break down the walls of mystery and let the people in. Will Durant, the modern American philosopher, was relegated to the scrap heap by his fellow scholars when he wrote a popular book on the subject. ‘The Outline of Philosophy’. Thus brick bats come the way of any who seek to bring wisdom to the people over the objections of the ‘inner circle’.
Perhaps the most outrageous content in this is not about his altriusm and how his work is freely offered, but the lies he tells about his life, the pain he suffered and how much of a victim he was “terror and pain uneased by a single word of decency or humanity.”
I have seen much human misery. As a very young man I wandered through Asia and saw the agony and misery of overpopulated and underdeveloped lands. I have seen people uncaring and stepping over dying men in the streets. I have seen children less than rags and bones. And amongst this poverty and degradation I found holy places where wisdom was great, but where it was carefully hidden and given Out only as superstition. Later, in Western universities, I saw Man obsessed with materiality and with all his cunning. I saw him hide what little wisdom he really had in forbidding halls and make it inaccessible to the common and less favoured man. I have been through a terrible war and saw its terror and pain uneased by a single word of decency or humanity.
His “wandering” through Asia is well documented in Russell Miller’s excellent unauthorized biography Barefaced Messiah — he makes himself sound like he hitch-hiked through Asia. Far from it. And of course, he dropped out of George Washington University.
But he reserves his biggest and boldest lies for his military “accomplishments” which Miller covers, but is expanded upon in Chris Owen’s meticulously researched Ron The War Hero: .
Blinded with injured optic nerves, and lame with physical injuries to hip and back, at the end of World War II, I faced an almost non-existent future. My Service record states: ‘This officer has no neurotic or psychotic tendencies of any kind whatsoever,’ but it also states ‘permanently disabled physically.’
He was NOT “blinded” and his only recorded “injuries” were an ulcer. Why he has to mention that his service record states he has no neurotic of psychotic tendencies is very odd. He doesn’t state “this officer is not a murderer” either? The reason for this is that Hubbard himself wrote to the Navy and claimed he had mental health issues in order to try to get money…
And so there came a further blow . . . . I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple arid a probable burden upon them for the rest of my days. I yet worked my way back to fitness and strength in less than two years, using only what I knew and could determine about Man and his relationship to the universe. I had no one to help me; what I had to know I had to find out. And it’s quite a trick studying when you cannot see.
Again, not true. He abandoned his wife and 2 children.
Yet I came to see again and walk again, and I built an entirely new life.
He repeats the lie that he was blind and crippled and somehow miraculously made himself able to see and walk again. This is the backstory to the miracle of Dianetics. Having cured himself — in fact brought sight to the blind and restored the cripple’s ability to walk — he would now offer the world these miraculous methods for everyone to be able to cure their ailments. And this IS the promise of Dianetics. And he made a LOT of money peddling his cure. And this is STILL pitched today.
It’s a fundamental. Hubbard cured himself with Dianetics. You can too. Just buy the book and buy some auditing. And then some more. And then some more. And more.
He wraps it up with more altruistic sounding generalities that are contradicted by his ACTIONS. His final sentence is prophetic.
The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails.
Hubbard’s “truth,” has been exposed as falsehood, and in the end, has not prevailed.
In short, Hubbard was the covertly hostile Suppressive that he always warned everyone about.
I agree on suspending belief in general, but watching Battlefield Earth solo from rental video, having a few friends around to provide a laugh track would have been a better experience.
Tubby’s, like Demento, philosophy is plain straight greed for money.
By the way: the word “philosophy” as we now it today does not come from the ancient Greek. Around 600BCE a wandering Irish Celt had made his way to Greece for knowledge. He struck up conversations (after learning Greek of course) with teachers and thinkers who were so impressed with the strangers depth of knowledge that they decided to name the new school of thought they had been working on for years after the stranger who had come from so far away.
“What is your name stranger?” asked Thales.
“My name is Phil O’Sophy,” replied the man as he turned to begin the long walk to return to his homeland.
Scientology has donors to its IAS at all levels, from a few thousand dollars to tens of millions. I have yet to see a clear exposition that explains why someone would hand over sums that they often can not really afford. Is it a tax dodge? Are they being blackmailed? Do they think they are buying immortality, or paying off their debt for sins known and unknown? It hardly makes financial sense, even when adding in the “free” room and board provided to its slave-like Sea Org workers, or the comfort of working for a Scientologist-run business with its sense of permanent employment because one is a fellow Scientologist.
The scam is far-reaching, but thankfully only includes a small population of true believers. Imagine if Hubbard’s impossible dream came true, an entire country or state run on his principles, with its constant snitching through a blizzard of KSW reports, its Ethics commissars doling out punishment for any minor transgression, while turning a blind eye to major crimes, always giving great weight to the person’s total family financial donations. Every construction and cleanup sight would have people running hither and yon with black rags tied to their arms. One group would be forced to run around a pole in the hot sun as punishment, a second group paying huge sums to run around a very similar pole, but in air-conditioned comfort, with vague promises of ‘spiritual avancement’ for their efforts.
Add in these and all the other nonsensical rules Hubbard dropped into the mix over the years, and the country would not need any armed forces, because who in their right mind would want to take over such a mess?
Why, it almost reads as if Hubbard is unique among men for being so noble and saint-like. And humble too!
Excerpt from Keeping Scientology Working:
“We will not speculate here on why this was so or how I came to rise above the bank.”
My question is, why not Ron?
Ron used what he learned writing for the pulps to craft his philosophy — it’s just another type of fiction. In the movies, people suspend their disbelief to enjoy the show. They walk out of the theater in a couple hours. Scientologists, on the other hand, get stuck in a never ending story, and unwittingly find themselves in Hubbard’s movie which goes on forever.
Off to word clearing with you, Hubbard! “Philosophy” and “wisdom” are not synonyms. For all your years spouting your philosophy, there was not a shred of wisdom that you didn’t steal from someone else.
In retrospect, I perceive a dysfunctional pathos that drove him his entire life. He suffered from the youthful trauma of never having sat at the cool kids’ lunch table. As a result he spent his entire existence in a desperate quest for recognition and respect. And it was only his megalomania that allowed him to get as far as he did. (I’m not a psych, but I play one on social media.)
Hubbard contridicts his own philosophy in more ways than one. It has been proven that he is a fraud and a liar. And unfortunately he was good a lying and scamming people.
It’s no coincidence that a judge defined him as a pathological liar (pathological!).
What’s most disturbing is that those currently at the top of scn know well that he was a liar, but they continue great the tradition of lies.
What i learned through reading about Hubbard is that most of his “truths” are mostly lies, and that people have proved that his life is practically made of lies and so is his little cult.
It is only a miracle of the gods that he was sent to us. The following excerpt from Scientology’s background on L. Ron Hubbard is a testament to his greatness (the sarcasm Klaxon horn just activated)…
L. Ron’s biographical sketch at the Scientology website:
“Although best known for Dianetics and Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard cannot be so simply categorized. If nothing else, his life was too varied, his influence too broad. There are tribesmen in Southern Africa, for example, who know nothing of Dianetics and Scientology, but they know L. Ron Hubbard, the educator. Similarly, there are factory workers across Eastern Europe who know him only for his administrative discoveries; children in Southeast Asia who know him only as the author of their moral code and readers in dozens of languages who know him only for his novels. So, no, L. Ron Hubbard is not an easy man to categorize and certainly does not fit popular misconceptions of “religious founder” as an aloof and contemplative figure. Yet the more one comes to know this man and his achievements, the more one comes to realize he was precisely the sort of person to have brought us Scientology—the only major religion to have been founded in the twentieth century.
So how would we expect to characterize the founder of such a religion? Clearly, he would have to be larger than life, attracted to people, liked by people, dynamic, charismatic and immensely capable in a dozen fields—all exactly L. Ron Hubbard.”
😂😂😂😂😂
The remaining 3,259 words mix gobbledygook stew and hyperbole broth that not even maggots would sniff.
I submitted this short biographical sketch to Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, and here is the response (BTW, I hid the references to Hubbard and Scientology by substituting the phrases “our founder” and “philosophy”)
Gemini👇
“Yes, the biography does sound hyperbolized to the point of being unbelievable. Here’s why:
Unrealistic Scope of Influence: The claims about the founder’s impact are sweeping. It’s statistically improbable for one person to have such a wide-ranging and deep influence across continents and cultures, especially in such diverse areas as education, administration, morality, and literature (including novels in dozens of languages).
Lack of Specificity: The biography mentions accomplishments but provides no details. For example, it doesn’t name specific educational methods, administrative discoveries, or the titles of any novels. This lack of concrete information makes the claims feel vague and unsubstantiated.
Superlative Language: The constant use of superlatives like “the only major religion founded in the twentieth century,” “larger than life,” “dynamic, charismatic, and immensely capable in a dozen fields” makes the founder sound mythical rather than real.”
Hubbard could never stop lying about anything. He contradicts things he says in so many different ways. And he is supposed to be the creator/founder of the most humanitarian organization.