Musings from the Back Porch of Eternity
Scientology, Gods, and Emily Post
Everything’s Cool, Just Hang in There
If some god whisked me away from Earth, granted me eternal life and ridiculous powers, I would still come back and visit my friends. Or I’d at least drop ’em a note. Tell ’em I was okay. “Good roads, good weather,” right?
If you believe in L. Ron Hubbard’s blueprint of the universe, that he dropped his worn out body so he could tend to Target Two and clear more planets, and if you believe he was cause over matter, energy, space, and time—or at least pretty powerful—then wouldn’t you think he would take a few minutes from his busy schedule to let us peons here on Earth know that everything was going to plan and he had everything under control? Like “one hundred forty-five planets cleared; only sixty-eight to go!”
To a fully operating Thetan, time is arbitrary. Without the hindrance of an old, decrepit body, LRH could snap his spiritual fingers and appear on stage at the Fort Harrison Auditorium. In less than the blink of an eye, he could be addressing the faithful about what’s been happening in the Milky Way. What would be more inspirational to the flock than The Founder materializing out of thin air with a handful of just-off-the mimeo-machine HCOBs and PLs? Scientologists across the world would go wild and begin FSMing their little butts off, right?
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free!
Where is L. Ron Hubbard? What’s he doing that’s so important that he can’t message us? Drop us a card. Let us know what’s going on.
We know he didn’t pick up another body here on Earth. Had he chosen another bland one of those, he’d be thirty-two years old, running the church, and instead of releasing OT levels 9 and 10, followers would be drooling at the impending release of numbers 20 and 21. Drones would be obsolute; our bodies would be true temples for the first time in history, and making an ashtray rise off a chair would be simpler than tying our shoes.
Why don’t gods and lesser deities venture down from the clouds these days? What happened to make them turn down the lights, drop the curtain, and hide backstage? Back in the good old days, they used to attend all the ribbon cuttings of every shrine, church, and synagogue our slaves built for them. They’d ply the crowd with wine, straighten a few legs, and heal the sick before calling it a day with a burst of lightning bolts. The buffet tables were amazing, right? So what happened?
Why don’t gods return home periodically to let people know what’s going on? Join us for Thanksgiving? Share cookies and eggnog while opening presents on Christmas morning? Join Reverend Bob at the pulpit once a year with a few words of inspiration?
You’d think LRH would at least show up for the openings of Idle Orgs. If the guy was going to make an appearance, that would be the time, right? Say a few words, pass out a new creed, rule, or code. Address the faithful on the state of the galaxy. What would be more appropriate?
If It Was Up to Me…
If I went all supernatural and flew off to fight the bad guys, I would still come back and visit family and friends. If I was bitten by a radioactive spider and miraculously regained my original, “Before-the-beginning-there-was-a-Cause,” superpowers, I would still hang out and talk with my brothers on the back patio. After I was done, I’d cancel my nephew’s student loan, cure Aunt Angus of her cancer, and feed the hungry. If I was feeling especially generous, I might even whip up a couple of Admin Scales for the United Nations on how to end war and reverse global warming. Like why not?
Last Words
In The Code of Honor, LRH wrote, “1. Never desert a comrade in need, danger or in trouble. 2. Never withdraw allegiance once granted. 3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support.”
And yet if you’re a believer, he violated all three. He left. He deserted mankind. Not only did this messiah, this self-proclaimed reincarnation of Buddha, skip town without leaving a forwarding address, he didn’t tell anyone when he’d be back. He didn’t even say goodbye! Like a real goodbye. Like one posted on Facebook.
Still not Declared,
Terra Cognita
First, the code of honor of LRH, is LRH’s code of himself. And even he found it inapplicable.
Second, honestly if LRH died and reviewing his life before coming back, he will have so much to repair from all his deeds that he will need few lifetimes to do so and pay all the money he embellzed. LRH going to have a hell of a life. The last thing he will allow to do is going back to Scientology. I’m absolutely believing in past and future life which has zero connection with Scientology. This is just me.
“David has her hidden away raising a child to believe he is LRH reborn.”
That’s a picture I can’t un-see, and consequences I don’t want to imagine. I’m SO glad that the one instance of LRH reborn is so patently false; not even a politician, FFS,
Goodbye would be ending a cycle. I don’t think there was any intention of that. I think he truly believed that homo.novis would live to well over 100 years. Belief can only take you so far versus the natural law.
One of the first things that I learned in Physics is that all complex systems decay. Parent, child is proof. It’s the only defense life has against natural decay at a complex life form tier. Natural decay is absolute. We all die, but also all complex systems die.
Perhaps if Scientology had taken into consideration advanced scientific concepts instead of workable psuedoscience, it would not be decaying right now. All they can duplicate is the whacked out arbitrary dictates spawned by merging
LRH’s 50s-Era worldview with metaphysics and ‘spiritual engineering’. Immature concepts if you ask me, as the 21st century is far beyond the outmoded ritualistic drills of ‘touch that wall’ or ‘yell at that ashtray’. Those childish concepts to the potential we have now is like the difference between counting many times LRH references self-auditing in self-analysis to pulling up the same search in Metadata of the book in an occulus-driven VR library. The 21st century has not been kind to LRH’s legacy and deservingly. #KSNW
If they want to create some further OT level docs, maybe they could copy and jumble up the first, fourth and eighth chapters of every other novel he wrote, Translate it into Chinese, re translate it to English, take out all the semi-colons and release it in little red books.
I gotta ask a stupid question. Does David Miscavige think he is a good person? For real? Not “effective”, “powerful”, High Tone etc, but ‘good’?
Expecting Ron to send a telex from T2 is absurd. Terra is just trying to put Dev-T on Ron’s lines and stir up entheta.
It seems Terra Cognita has forgotten the SO 1 line: Any communications sent to Ron will be received by him. The SO 1 line is still in place. Send Ron a letter in care of we in RTC and we will send it to Ron on the next spaceship out.
At present, the next launch to T2 is scheduled after the LRH Hall is opened in CLW. In the meantime, telepathy works. You can always sent a telepathic message to Ron. He is there and likes to hear about your wins.
Heh.
Hubbard.
Just can’t figure out LRH. He wrote that first book from taking the teachings he borrowed from religions, therapists, military experience? Was that pure ego or wanting to make money? Then, once he profited from the advertising genius of Jefferson Hawkins, did he then decide that turning it into a religion really was going to bring in the cash? Did he always believe in scientology as a way people could improve their life or did he only believe it was a way to improve his own bank account? If nothing else he seemed to understand what he needed to do to convince really good people, intelligent people, who sincerely wanted to not just improve themselves but also help to save the planet that his path was the path to follow.
I am reading Battlefield Scientology now. Maybe when I get through I will have a better grasp?
That’s what I’m reading right now Peggy. It’s a fascinating read for sure.
I usually get the kindle versions of books Ann but this one seemed like I would need to be able to mark pages. I really like that there are so many different chapters and two of the questions I had were addressed, one being the death of Shelly’s mother. The other, that really was troubling, to me, was how John Travolta’s son died. It is a real mystery to me in the months and years following that John accepted that the cult didn’t hold any responsibility. He must be completely brainwashed. Just so sad.
Take a listen to Surviving Scientology’s interview on youtube with Bill Franks that was released on the 17th November this year. In there he refers to LRH telling him multiple times he is just in it for the money.
Thank you Randomness. I haven’t gotten notices of replies until today so I am sorry I didn’t thank you before now. I will listen to that. I guess it really is all about following the money.
Peggy I doubt you will ever get the answers you seek. I have asked the same questions over the years and the best conclusion I can draw is that Hubbard may have initially thought that Dianetics had some value but towards the end it was pure ego driven. His lust for power and public adulation knew no bounds.
Seems I am in good company then Scott with wondering just how this could reach the level it has. At the bottom lust for whatever reasons seem so be the fuel that drove him.
Well, Peggy, it isn’t too productive to try to understand Hubbard based on his writings and so on. He was a practiced liar and constantly changed his spiel to match the prevailing winds.A better way to understand him is to carefully review yesterday’s post on this blog about gaslighting. https://www.mikerindersblog.org/gaslighting-a-short-tutorial/ For an even better view, as Mike says, the book “The Sociopath Next Door” by Martha Stout. The Open Minds Foundation https://www.openmindsfoundation.org/ founded by former Scientologist Jon Atack is also a great resource. Really the Scientology cult is a bit player with a tiny following. Hubbard was a piker compared to high control groups like the Jehovah’s Witnesses and FLDS. But it is a pretty good case in point that you can use to study the larger subject. Sort of like those ant farms we used to have as kids. Once you understand how easy it is to manipulate others using lies and fear you begin to see examples everywhere. By all means, learn from the mistakes of former Scientologists like me. Then use those lessons in the larger world.
LOL Bruce, and not funny ha ha but oh so true that trying to wrap ones mind around something so, well, not sure I can even come up with a single word to describe what makes someone like LRH tick. How can any single cult leader get the control over the minds and lives of so many.
Thank you for your suggestion. I will just have to keep doing my homework. I will say that I have to take a step back every now and then though 🙂
Get ready for hours of droning and confusion. And no, it’s the poor writing style and not the words being misunderstood.
Shhh! Don’t tell FP that. He may well have a meltdown.
I will heed your warning Golden-Era Parachute and take another path 🙂 or at least proceed with caution.
KatherineINCali, they do seem to get a conversation going don’t they.
One of the crimes of philosophy and religion that Hubbard created by his colossal betrayal of trust is the denigration of the validity and real benefit of seeking a higher truth.
The subject of God, metaphysics, spirituality, experience of, and faith in, a Benevolent Transcendent Reality has been damaged with many people.
This is sad because some of the greatest thinkers of our age, embrace the subject, as essential to a sense of inner wellbeing.
Not to mention that living the spiritual life is part of the purpose of life.
It’s sad that Hubbard’s evil and greed has undermined the Scientologists original enthusiasm for seeking spiritual truth.
It’s something he will have to pay the piper at some time.
I’m glad I got out while I did, with my enthusiasm for seeking spiritual truth and self realization still in high gear.
Don’t let this greedy evil man make seeing this search as superstition and the mind set of unlettered rubs.
Some of the greatest minds of science and history acknowledge a Transcendent Benevolent Reality.
Hubbard did not know what he was talking about.
We put our faith in a dangerous fool.
The subject is the subject. It’s bigger than Hubbard.
He screwed it up with low rent mental derangement.
Excellently put!
Hubbard, the ignorant, was nothing but a fool.
Somehow or another over the course of human history billions of people have perceived of a universal intelligence as perceived through their cultural filters. “Prove it to me” never has and never will work.
Eventually detecting conscious life elsewhere in the universe remains a possibility. Two opinions.
It’s not outside. It’s inside. The proof is individual not an outside confirmation of some scriptural authority or charasmatic cult leader.
You can’t find it in a test tube or math equation.
It’s revealed intuitively in the practice of deep silence.
Individual happiness is the outcome. A happiness not based on ownership, relationships, fame or name.
But if you have no interest then the topic is meaningless.
Watch Joe Rogan’s podcast with Elon Musk. Three riveting hours discussing advanced technology and not one single mention of a body thetan. The future is AI, mecha, cyborgs, avatars and memory uploads (reincarnation?) Infinitely more interesting than any of Hubbard’s space opera drek.
Life extension has many interesting upcoming possibilities. I don’t know the exact numbers but I think the average human lifespan has doubled in a short amount of time. Depending on how long earth civilization escapes cosmic, planetary and/or human caused mass extinction who knows where it goes.
oops – I almost forgot to mention “divine intervention” although Hubbard went with Thetans/Spirits/Big Beings create and influence the universe(s). He’s not the first or last person to go with that idea.
Possibly LRH made a secretive visit to Clearwater to pick up Shelly Miscavige & LRH convinced the Tiny Tyrant that he just had to let Shelly go with him, so LRH then whisked her off to help clear, umm,ahh, hmm….help clear…..,mmm I dk. Anyway….they then made a pit stop in NYC for a Hot Pastrami & Corned Beef with swiss on Rye at Katz Deli where they bumped into Jimmy Hoffa, Elvis, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & & & ……the dumping of the “old worn out body”….ain’t the afterlife great???
🙂 Balletlady.
BTW, were or are you a ballet dancer? Or just a fan, or both?
Both….injury did me in, lol!
My observation is that any female who was once a dancer always looks at themselves as a dancer. Any guy who ever played football like myself always looks at themselves as a jock. We all gotta have an identity, right?
(joke)
I have often wondered if the reason Shelley is missing is because David has her hidden away raising a child to believe he is LRH reborn.
Perish the thought .. I can just picture His baby in its layette, surrounded by RTC, Spawn of Miscavigel in its tiny bunting outfit with its little horns and claws. Shades of “Rosemary’s Baby”…”Hail, Shelly!”.
A layette for Lafayette.
Yes, this could be the really big secret that nobody is looking at.
yes, this could be the secret nobody is looking at
He’s locked her away be cause she knows (nothing makes me think any different) he’s gay and being a paranoid narcissist he is deadly frightened of anyone finding out.
Wouldn’t that be John Travolta? Also, isn’t the occult moon baby story one that LRH’s son said his father and Parsons tried to create in the JPL days?
Didn’t the late Capt. Bill Robinson do a post Hubbard death lecture about still being “in comm” with him?
It’s amazing the strength of fiarytales and the lengths they infiltrate the mindset as ‘more than a possibility’ by those who have experienced a hard time, tragedy or dramatic shift in life. When those fairytales become “real,” money and allegiances change hands, intentionally motivated from behind the scenes. It’s just the way a particular chapter of life is written I guess. There’s no shortage of things to believe in, nor pay for.
Geezers, Hubbard capitalized on life experience in so many ways. Just the concept of the confusion and the stable datum correctly applied or implied made waste of many belief systems he viewed as competitors. The lengths he went to deceive and channel the thinking processes is staggering. I’m over 20 years out and I’m still uncovering the subtleties of the mindset manipulation of Scientology. But on a brighter note, particularly taking in account the recent gaslighting article, mind control practices can be understood or at least spotted, no matter how unpleasant, once you or someone close to you has been bitten.
I use to think the key was to follow the money for nearly all things of an unpleasant nature as it exposes a ‘who’. But to follow the abuses back or observe what’s common about them also exposes the mechanisms employed – then the who becomes a little less important. (In principle, there is some logic to gun control).
Religion… what a minefield, but witch-doctors wear suits and live in nice houses too you know.
Unfortunately Capt. Bill went the way of all past associates of the Commodore and became Cap’n Crunch.
When Hubbard “dropped his body” in 1986 the official explanation was that he was conducting research so advanced that his body would be an impediment.
Clearly, there is no evidence that even pre-1986 “Dr” Hubbard ever conducted anything that would fit a commonly acceptable use of the term “research.” In fact, his scholastic records make it abundantly clear that he was lacking the basic terms to conduct research even on a freshman level.
However, leaving all of this aside, what is the point of 32+ years of “research” when no one has heard a thing about it? Haven’t we given the 1986 declaration enough of a benefit of the doubt by now?
Given that the announcement was made by a certain David Miscavige, that should tell you something.
O/T – South Africa: Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath on Crime + Investigation, DStv channel 170, Tuesday at 10am.
Leah Remini on her shaken faith in the Church of Scientology.
https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/tv/leah-remini-on-her-shaken-faith-in-church-of-scientology-18189175
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I am sure that almost everyone has seen the video of the lawyer coming out to announce that LRH was in still in a good, healthy body when he left his body to do his great works. Somehow this was supposed to make everyone think that because a lawyer who is perhaps a Scientologist, or at least paid by the cult, should be believed. The medical staff had different ideas.
My thought on this is: I have seen the picture of LRH shortly before he died. Why not plaster the real picture of him all over the internet, and show the world how healthy, alert, and ready for great things you can be at LRH’s level. Might be kind of fun to read any comments the cult has to say.
What picture are you referring to? I would love to see it? The one with the long hair sitting at a typewriter next to a bed/
That was taken by Jim Dincalci in Queens NY in 1972.
Hello Mike.
First of all, thanks to you and Leah for your great show, and exposing this and other cults. Sorry it has taken such a personal toll on both of you.
To answer your question about the picture that I saw of LRH just before he died. I am not sure, but I know I saw it on the internet and it was not the one of him sitting at his desk with the long hair.
The picture that I am referring to had to be taken much later, and just before he died. To say he looked ill is an understatement. It seems that it was taken by one of the “X” members. I wish now that I had made a copy of it. I do know that it is out there, and LRH really does look terrible, and not the “Healthy body, with years of good service” that the lawyer was talking about when he announced that LRH had died.
I know of that photo. I saw it in the early 80’s It was in a magazine that did an article on Scientology. Or it was in a newspaper. Or Readers digest. I never saw that photo again. I can still recall the image. It was utterly shocking. Hubbard was photographed in black and white. It was a head shot. His hair was long unkept oily and was long and stringy. Stuck together as if he had not bathed in a long while. Patches of baldness. His teeth had gone really bad, some missing. He looked as though he had lost some weight, his face was gaunt. He had the most grotesque crooked smile that looked as though he was absolutely stark raving insane. His eyes appeared just wild. I cannot express how bizarre and completely unsettling it was gaze upon it. But it was Hubbard, absolutely no question. I have never seen an expression on someones face that seemed to mirror absolute shrieking madness. It was horrific. It was so unsettling I turned the page quickly. I was still a believer at the time. My cognitive dissonance kicked in and I just cancelled it out. I will never forget it. There is no question in my mind that someone in the church successfully got that photo buried somehow. You’ve heard of a “one shot clear”? Well I can assure you that if any Scientologist today had access to THAT photo of Hubbard..that would be a one shot ex-Scientologist. That photo did not disappear on it’s own. Hubbard looked like a stark raving mad homeless guy who had no personal hygiene for a few years and was literally sleeping in the gutter, just gone simply mad. What made it even more bizarre was that he had a smile on his face the reminded me of Jack Nicholson or Heath ledger when he played the joker. Scary shit.
I am glad that someone else saw the picture of LRH just before he died. Speaking of, should there not be pictures of LRH after death around. If so, I can bet that it shows just how ravished his body was, and not the “Healthy” body that was supposed to just be given up so that he could go and do more “great works.”
I happen to believer that Hubbard is alive and hiding out in Argentina.
Last spotted in Bulgravia having dinner with Elvis.
You guys are both wrong. He’s at an assisted living center regaling seniors with tales of his space opera exploits and how he conned a whole generation to prove Isaac Asimov wrong on a $1 bet they made that he couldn’t pull it off. If anyone wants to see him in action, I’m selling tickets at reduced rates. Mike can give you my email address.
Not true. I went by Argentina and didn’t see him there.
Actually he was spotted in NYC at Katz’ Deli enjoying a Pastrami, Corned Beef & Swiss on Rye…sitting across from Jimmy Hoffa where they both mourned the closing of the Carnegie Deli not too long ago.
All of you J&Ders are just so cynical and so wrong, wrong, wrong!
LRH IS hard at work on Target 2!
Well, OK, leave off the “2” and believe me, he is THERE.
Menswear, 4th floor.
In other words, LRH is currently starring in a Target Two remake of ‘Are You Being Served’.
Is he playing Captain Peacock or Mr. Humphries?
He is Hitler’s pal. Same mind. Did you look well in Argentina? In all the nick and crevices? They are in the hole.
Don’t cry for me L. Ron Hubbard, you were supposed to be immortal.
All thru your wild days, your mad existence, you broke your promise, now keep your distance.
If that’s true, who in the hell mows my lawn every second Saturday?
Every single one of you is wrong! I’ll tell you where LRH is really at right now.
He lives here with me in my apartment! Only problem is he never does a damn thing to help out around here! He just keeps going on about how he’s going up to the Salvation Army and volunteer as a bell ringer! When I ask him why he won’t tell me! He’s got this thing for Rice-A-Roni and insists that I fix it every night. Last night I told him to get his Rice-A-Roni from the Salvation Army!
I just can’t get rid of the guy!
Hey, go easy on ol’ Elron. He’s probably out there battling the Flying Spaghetti Monster as we speak. Protecting us all from being touched by its hideous noodly appendage. Oh, the horror!
What is it with control freaks? Did they not receive enough love from Mommy?
That Code of Honor is interesting. No. 1 makes sense to any decent person. Of course you don’t desert your friends, unless they’re total assholes. No. 2 is subject to time and circumstances. Allegiances are always shifting. Not that it would be OK to be a turncoat. But everything is in a constant state of flux. We were allies with the Soviet Union in WWII, then not so much. I was raised in the Watchtower Borg, now I’m totally anti-Watchtower. Of course, that’s because I’m RIGHT and they’re WRONG. No. 3 just seems like it was designed to serve the cult.
By the by, if anyone’s interested,
https://venganza.org/ordination/
Pay $25.00 for an ordination from the Church Of The Fying Spaghetti Monster ?
PFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTT!
Hell, the Universal Life Monastery will ordain you for free!
I know! I’m an ordained ULM minister and it didn’t cost me a cent!
I asked my auditor, who had to have been the most brainwahed Scientologist in the history of the whole track, why he thought there had been no reports of LRH returning. He said in all sincerity that he was certain that upper management knew where he was.
Hahahaha
“Upper management” didnt even know who was supposed to take over from him!
And Hubbard never made it clear.
After documenting every tiny detail down to how to wash windows, and routinely issuing “Ron’s Journals” and LRHEDs to “brief staff and public” he did no such thing any time before he “causatively left his body”? Not a peep. Not a handwritten note? Not a recorded message to the faithful? Not a thing? Not like Ron.
Maybe he did leave something behind and that’s why Miscavige was so hell bent on moving on the Ranch so fast. It seems incredible to me that such a prolific writer, someone who spent so much time on his HCOBs and Technical Bulletins would simply ignore the future of Scientology. He was adamant about strictly adhering to his written policies without deviation yet he wrote nothing at all for securing the future of his organization? There is no way to know what Miscavige got his hands on in the time he was bulling his way into the leadership after Hubbard died. Maybe the Broekers knew something more, but Miscavige destroyed them.
No. He left nothing. Miscavige was not close to the first person there after Hubbard’s death. Hubbard was a mess at the end of his life. The fact he didn’t forsee his end in time to make his wishes and plans broadly known is an indictment of his ultimate lack of OTness.
I also asked my auditor why Hubbard didn’t live longer, he said that Ron probably said “why bother, I’ve got better things to do”.
I thought the PIs that DM hired confessed that they were hired to watch Pat B. because he was named successor by Ron. DM surpressed the knowledge and kept Pat on his prime watch list. Took over the whole shebang like a tiny Napoleon, who also deemed himself emperor meriticulus much like DM.
I am going off the Battlefield Scientology book you recommended.
Mike, maybe he left no note on who to take over or what to do if he died because he believed he was invincible and would not die. I would like to see a pic of him in later years though.
Great article Terra, you really did nail it on the head. One way this can be all turned on its head is for DM to get sick and then get better and come out and say how LRH took over the body and he is now LRH and he has the NEW “Tech”……….hahahaha………
Lois, don’t give the little buggar any ideas!
“Cancel a student loan”! Sorry that is impossible under any circumstances. All the other stuff, no problem. But you went to far with student loans.
I myself pondered why LRH had not re-appeared. Sitting in my sauna, overcome with a Niacin flush, trying to crawl outside before I was fully parboiled, I got his answer:
He forgot.
He said he found a planet composed entirely of Pinks and Greys. He’s been having a grand old time, writing endless stories on his special personal OT never-ending roll of butcher paper, all the while popping Pinks and Greys.
He seemed to remember old Teegeeack, and promised to show up for True Leader’s funeral disguised as a tall podium.
Then he asked if I knew an intergalactic agent for his writings.
I said the only agents I know are FBI.
The line suddenly went dead.
XD
A side note about “popping pinks and greys.” Back in the day, I took a lot of pills recreationally. There was one called Darvon, a half-pink, half-grey capsule. It was a mild narcotic, not as strong as codeine or morphine, but one could still get a decent buzz from it. I don’t remember any other “pinks and greys,” other than a weak dexedrine tablet that was pink and not muched used by the pills-for-pleasure set. I’m guessing that Darvon is what Hubbard was “popping”.
Now what’s interesting, I just found out, is that Darvon, aka darvocet, was taken off the market because it “has been linked to a potentially deadly heart rhythm abnormality, even when taken in recommended doses.” So, if Hubbard was “popping” this frequently, it may well have contributed to his later and eventually fatal cardiac problems. I’m neither a doctor or a pharmacologist, so this is just speculation. Still, something I thought worth mentioning.
Didn’t LRH recently come back to the Free Zoners? Of course the guy was born with a different name, but I think I read that he changed it to LRH. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe he has developed some new levels/processes, has a website and audits over the internet. Damn! Why didn’t I think of that!?!
He was featured on Ortega’s blog a few days ago with a new offer to take your money…
What could possibly go wrong?! 😀
It’s all good. His story is watertight.
Right down to his rap sheet and prison stint.
LOL…. killin’ me!
I’ve wondered how that clown can make such claims with a straight face.
Even more incredible is that a handful of people have fallen for it. Simply unbelievable.
Sorry, but it’s totally believable. Think of the thousands who fell for the original!
I know two OT8s that are certain their dog that died came back to them in a new body, and a different breed at that! The believed abilities of OT has no limits on mind boggling stupidity.
But, as my old sergeant use to say while cleaning his automatic weapon, “got to have a hobby.”
I knew one OT who told me her mother died and came back as her daughter.
Now, I’ll share with you what I think about humans and animals “coming back” after death.
Ready?
I don’t freakin’ know.
On the one hand, evidence exists that OTHER life forms come back.
The leaves on the trees die and come back.
Flowers die and bloom again.
Us?
I don’t know,
Nor do I know of anyone who can prove it or disprove it.
But one thing I do know: one day I’m gonna find out 🙂
Not too soon, I hope.
Dear Cognita:
Mr. Hubbard will appear when a sufficient number of people have attained OT X and 88% of Orgs are St. Hill size and/or Ideal. This should clarify any remaining questions as to the founder’s whereabouts. Be advised that your article smacks of joking and degrading and I have filed a Things That Shouldn’t Be Report for your ethics folder. It behooves me to respond to what you have written here as it is my duty as a friend to mankind. I strongly advise that you avail yourself of the technology to avoid your inevitable ruin and an eternity of pain and suffering.
Sincerely,
Mr. Simon Peters
RTC Paranormal Investigations Officer
SP:dm
P.S.: Have the Rice-A-Roni ready!
Thanks for giving the lie to ALL of it, not just the LRH and Scientology version, Terra. (I sometimes get a bit bored with the pro-Christianity ramblings among the Scientology non-faithful.) “Brain cancer in children” is the definitive answer to the idea of a loving all-powerful interventionist being of any variety. We can find ways to deal with all the suffering in a humane way, but only because there truly ISN’T anyone in the universe who could snap their fingers and end it, yet capriciously decides not to do so.
Interesting comment, Cat W.
“…the idea of a loving all-powerful interventionist…”
Just my opinion but I think many people NEED to believe that there is such a being, such an entity and that the ONLY way to receive the power and wisdom from this being is via simple, unquestioning BELIEF.
Now, this goes against the grain of what it takes to survive in the world because people with this mindset who go around believing and not inspecting and just having faith get CLOBBERED.
My father used to say, “If God gave you a mind, why not use it?”
That always made sense to me. What good is a mind if you can’t exercise it?
Why believe ANYTHING without questioning it?
But then, that is essence of faith – belief without inspection, belief without question or the requirement of proof. And I don’t like that, somehow. Why shouldn’t anyone be able to question, to examine, anything that one is told is true, if one wants to?
My concept of “God” doesn’t have a problem with questions or doubts or seeking proof.
Is it possible that we were all endowed with all the potential for posing problems and solving problems and that WE are – I hesitate to put it this way – “God”?
It does say in the Bible, after all, that we were made in God’s image and likeness. Maybe all we have to do is acknowledge that and own it.
Oh, well, I’m rambling, going far afield now, so I’ll stop.
I actually agree with you Aqua! ☺
Hubbard gave the Sea Org the motto “We Come Back”. But he never did. Another one of the “do as I say, not do as I do” examples.
Not only has he not returned from his Interplanetary Superpower gig, (circling Uranus), he never went back to any of the places he had to flee for fear of creditors and former girlfriends. New Jersey Phoenix, Saint Hill, Rhodesia, lots of ports in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, various hideouts back in the US, He left behind debts and legal obligations, abandoned his loyal followers, and skipped for greener pastures. Over and over again.
When I was in the Sea Org at the Int Base I used to worry that he would come back and be disappointed at how little got done while he was gone. Sure, we had a really nice giant mansion for him. Music studios and every kind of luxury. But not much in the way of planetary clearing.
But then I took comfort in the fact that he never did really come back even when he was alive. There were nice offices with very stale packs of Kools ready for him in every organization. He just never showed up.
Maybe he will come back some day and we can get some answers to some very pertinent questions. What really happened to Quentin? Where is all the secret cash? Were you really of sound mind when you signed that last minute will? Did you ever actually believe all that malarkey or was it really just a get rich scheme gone stale?
But for Hubbard to come back he would have to deal with Dave somehow. And Dave now holds all the cards. Possibly he did come back and Dave granted him another 21 year leave, complete with concrete overshoes.
Dear Bruce,
Thanks for thinking of me. To quote one of my favorite lines from The Terminator, which by the way, James Cameron stole from me, “I’ll be back!”
ML,
Ron
Look, there’s a very good reason LRH hasn’t come back. He quit smoking.
Interesting viewpoint. Maybe he is still hiding from the Government and Psychiatrists, and for sure from IRS.
Miscabage will also go to Target Two opening Ideal Orgs and, as usual, intending to scam as many millions of extra terrestrials for as much money as he could.
He sure, as LRH, won’t drop a note for the fear that tax collectors will claim his due taxes.
Yep.
All of these things are things I think.
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These are the things that kept me from embracing the concept of a God or Creator who is still around and cares.
Nearly 40 years in, and I was never able to apply this Kindegarten level of Critical Thinking to Scn.
Somehow….verrrrrry verrrrrry early on….. spring-loaded walls and gates were installed in my mind… these would spring up at a moment’s notice: “There IS a REASON for that!”
There’s another bulletin, a tape, an issue coming out, there’s an upper level, there’s a REASON. And we’ll be told if it’s prudent, we’ll find out up the line… it’ll alllllllllllll beeeeeeeeeee explained.
My awareness level will rise, bad hats in management will be hucked off post, amnesties will pick up the victims of injustices…. just like LRH says, “When You Need Reassurance”…
“In Scientology just remember this when all looks dark:
IT WILL ALL COME OUT ALL RIGHT”
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The Shocking and absolute ..crystal Effing Clear easily seen truth of all you have pointed out in this article is one hundred percent impossible for a Scio to see, hear, or believe.
The mind control is absolute. They don’t hear this, they don’t see it… the walls have Long Long Long since dealt with these basic questions.
What was impossible to see when In…is glaringly bright once out.
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it’s good to hear these things and to be able to add a voice and speak the unspeakable.
Wow. Sounds too familiar. “Things not going well? Having doubts? Too many inconsistencies? Leave it in Jehovah’s hands. It will all come out alright. Just read more literature. Study more. It will bolster your ‘faith’. And keep your eyes on the prize – a Paradise Earth, after Jesus kills all non-JWs, in Jehovah’s name, and we can all roll around with baby pandas on a picnic blanket forever.”
TC, you are funny!
The interesting part of all this would be to show your
article to a dedicated scientologist and get all the
explanations of why LRH has not materialized yet.
Meanwhile, at the Intergallactic Whole Track Outhouse Of Infamy, Captain Bubba of The Deep Space Black Hole Exploration Corps is initiating Captain David Blackheart, Chairman of The Whored, into The Brotherhood of Centrifugal Sphincter Entropy. Never mind the screams, that just Davy ecstatically ” blowing charge “!
Mark – LMAO – you are too much!!!! I love all of your comments.
As with many things LRH lied about, like: “never desert a comrade in need, etc….” He lied because he never extended this to himself and said “I never desert a comrade in need…” Hahaha what a joke.
It’s very difficult for a person of goodwill to think/believe that LRH would exempt himself from these high fooluten standards and do the exact opposite.
No “OTs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyigdRxPOR4
thanks for this!
Hi Chuck.
Great video. thanks for the laugh.
Chuck, there are OTs. It’s just that any blatant demonstration of upper level abilities would be out-reality for wogs and lower level Scientologists who would spin in. So the responsible thing to do is to withold those abilities until such time as mankind is further evolved on the evolutionary track. I’m always glad to clarify points when people have doubts or are disbelieving. In cases where this simple explanation does not suffice, a few intensives of TRD is indicated. Hope that helps.
ML,
BDCS
TY Chuck! Made my day ?
This is fabulous!
It’s a shame that at one time, I and my closest friends/co-workers would have been nodding our heads in agreement. THEN, we believed the bovine excrement.
LRH – Lafayette Ron Hubbard – what a total and utter failure.
He did nothing to even remotely save this planet
so how on xenu’s big volcano can he clear any other planets?
Where is this so called “life” on other planets?
Oh yeah – in the imagination of the sci-fi writer – L Con Blubbard
David Miscavige told a big fat lie and it is really hard to believe the members believed this story he gave after L Ron Hubbard was murdered…uh, I mean, dropped his body.
L. Ron can only appear to David Miscavage. That’ why guy at the top can change things arbitrarily. He’s the “Only One” who talks to Hubbard. Kind of like if the Pope talked to God and dished out the good news and/or punishments du jour. I’m glad we got that solved. Now, listen up you miscreants! Send a donation to the IAS! Or else!
Terra,
Absolutely awesome article and viewpoint. You made my morning once again. Thank you. Ever think of writing a book?
Glenn
Did it to occur to anyone still IN Scientology that Ron got a Flunk on Clearing this planet?
This was a great post, with just the right level of snark and it nicely brought in other gods to show just how silly it all is. In the Old Testament, God came down all the time and talked with people, especially when he was steamed. He was smiting people left and right. I guess human beings want to be slaves. They NEED to bow down to something. So guys like Paul find people who are ready to launch the Christian church, Joseph Smith find plenty of suckers in the Midwest and West to become Mormons (make sure you don’t touch yourself “down there” or drink any hot caffeine), and women line up to subject to the will of men in Jehovah’s Witnesses, on and on and on (fill in your favorite religion here).
Meanwhile, the deities are long gone, leaving men to tell us who they were and what they meant. And we fall down on our knees and raise our hands in the air, offering our minds for these men to shackle with their chains. We do it to ourselves. We let them do it to us.
Ken – I totally agree with you. Religion is nothing but a made up system of beliefs to comfort us when we are feeling down or hopeless. The ironic thing is – man kills man over religion more than any other subject. Scientology is no different – the death is slow and painful.
When I hear people say “I am a spiritual being having a human experience” – I get sick to my stomach.
We are human beings period – with a built-in mechanism of wanting to believe in something bigger than ourselves…so we make it all up.
Hard to swallow but true.
Believe in yourself and have hope for others.
I hope this article doesn’t give DM any ideas. I could see a high tech LRH hologram pop up on stage asking for donations to fund galactic clearing!