Wait, I thought scientology was NOT fiction?
The true indication of a cult of personality. Everything about the person is seen as being perfect/important/amazing. So, Hubbard’s fiction is seen as the “best” and people are expected to go along to their local scientology organization and sit and listen to one of these silly stories about “Howdy” and be impressed. Impressed by what? Hubbard’s talent for spinning tall tales? Like “Revolt in the Stars” (the story of Xenu he turned into a stillborn film script).
Just stop and think about this for a second. It’s actually creepy.
How weird would it be if Christians were all enamored with some rough-hewn tables because Jesus was a carpenter?
Is that Tom Cruise running in the background?
I was at dragoncon this past weekend and scientology had a booth peddling L Ron sci-fi books. The ppl manning the the booths looked dead inside lol. I took pictures from a safe distance.
I remember the first time a reg tried to sell me LRH fiction books. I was so confused. I thought we were saving the planet. Where does fiction Sci-fi books fit into that?! That was one of many signs that clued me into the scam. Sad that it had to take much much more for me to wake up.
You think Scientology’s view of Ron is unique among religions?I
God never makes mistakes.
Jesus lived a life without sin.
Ever hear of a Christian disagree with Christ ?
Ever hear of a Muslim disagree with Mohammed?
Ever hear of a Buddhist disagree with the Buddha?
Ever hear of an Orthodox Jew disagree with Moses?
Ever hear of a Mormon disagree with Joseph Smith?
* and I’m not talking about EX members of the above.
Admission may be free, but getting back out can cost you and arm and a leg.
I don’t think all cults of personality take things this far. It’s an artifact of Hubs egomania and the insane ethics actions his paranoia drove. Hubs could not have anyone believe him to be inferior at anything, and it got built into Sec Checks to try to use a meter to decide if someone was less than 100% gung-ho with their ‘hip hip hooray’ adulation.
(Certainly nowhere in the Bible do we find Jesus extolling his wondrous carpentry or telling his followers that he’s the better vintner because he turned water to wine, or he’s a better baker and fisherman because he multiplied a few loaves and fish to feed a large crowd.)
Pure and unadulterated Greed.
“Reign of the Gila Monster” is hoary, hackneyed, outdated, overworked, threadbare, and just plain awful crap even for 1937.
Goobye Todger walked into town looking for an equine repair shop (his horse got a puncture several hours earlier and he didn’t have a spare) when he saw the evil Marshal Marshall doing naughty things with a prairie dog powered smooth wooden sex toy. He decided to rid Coupedeville of this vile man. Willie sneaked up on Marshal Marshall carefully drew out his bowie knife with his left hand and then…then…hit him over the head with heavy shrubbery kit he was carrying in his right hand. And that the end of Marshal Marshall.
Oops, I forgot to mention that “(his horse got a puncture…” was paraphrased from an episode of The Goon Show.
I think you can guess which movie the bit about the shrubbery came from. Oh yes, Todger’s full name is John Thomas Todger. Now you groan all you like. 🙂
No Zane Grey?
More like Inzane Gibberish.
Hubbard was had no great talent for anything he did except for the ability to pull batshit crazy ‘tech’ out of his ass on the fly and getting others to sell it for big bucks. I would count him as one of history’s great grifters.
He was supposedly a great philosopher, crooner, author, musician, photographer, nuclear physicist, humanitarian, war hero, husband & family man and friend to all. Not even close. Not even close to being close on any of these counts.
If you took all the conspiracy theories of 40’s ,50’s & 60’s ,you may find it inbuilt in the teaching of Cults of that era.
That’s why internet ( or world wibe web to be precise) is the bad omen for Cult industry.
It exposed all the lose ends of Cults teaching and get them obsoleted and much faster pace.
Cults survived in obsession, mental conditioning and isolation.
You let them ( followers) access the fact they are gone for ever.
Only way to survive for this industry is Stockholm syndrome.
Have you not seen the new cult in town? The adherents exhort you to “do your own research”, so any old gibberish can suddenly seem significant. Q.
When I worked at ASI, and these events were held even way back in 1993-5 when I worked briefly at ASI (92-95), the ASI regges (sales people) would just hit the attendees up for subscriptions in the “Classic Fiction” series of leatherback books that contained the full lineup of the LRH pulp books.
Even booze was free, and John Allcock, then Deputy ED ASI, would bar tend, but us ASI staffers, and really only John, would nurse a drink to just “fit in” all night.
The ASI lounge and it’s nice big white leather couch, and luxury casual settings, for the actors, sometimes a real B list actor would show up, and read, even back then in the early 1990s.
The clientele who showed up, all through the years, to the ASI “readings” of LRH’s pulp classics, is part of the implementation of the LRH “ASI strategic” orders, which are the “ASI advices” and it’s all part of carrying out LRH’s wishes, ordered to ASI, to have his pulp material get out, get sold, and the ASI and Bridge co strategies, are to show people the path from LRH’s fiction works, into Scientology.
Not pushy, and almost no one from raw public showed up, but B and C and D level Scientology celebrities could bring along friends to the ASI LRH Pulp readings, and few came. Not many, but that was a way to show that LRH’s pulp fiction wasn’t all that “bad.” LOL. but it was, mostly.
“One Was Stubborn” truly is the most important tie it all together LRH pulp story, that deserves way more in depth study ,to compare what LRH stated in 1940 in the “One Was Stubborn” pulp story, to today’s Scientology.
Anyways, what Hubbard wrote for the 1940 “One Was Stubborn” pulp story guru/cult-leader’s accomplishments in that fiction cult, far far far, infinitely far exceeds Scientology’s false claims.
– Chuck Beatty
ex ASI staffer May 1992 til Dec 1995
Galaxy magazine was edited by Jim Baen. Baen would work there before moving on to a paperback publisher to edit their Science Fiction line. Galaxy magazine would resume its descent into oblivion with the publication of what were mostly trunk stories and in the final issue a rip off of the movie Star Wars. I never knew if the story was actually pathetic as I’ve never read it
In my opinion these people need to be chewed a new one.
Admission is free. Tells me what the event is truly worth.
Back when I worked staff at Author Services Inc, (ASI), the Legal Dir ASI would screen ALL attendees, to ensure no “SPs” or raucous degraded beings types shows up, LOL.
I know, I worked the computer branch of ASI (the sole computer guy for ASI, from 1992 to late 1995) and I had to periodically request that the “SP/ExSeaOrg List” which Senior HCO Int in the HGB building upkept, get a copy to Ryland Hawkins, the Legal Dir ASI, so he could ensure all attendees to the ASI pulp readings were okay to attend.
The main item ASI tried sell each reading, was the LRH Classic Fiction subscription service, which was one LRH pulp book a month, and it stretched out for about 50 or more months of subscribing to get all of them. Some volumes of the “LRH Classic Fiction” leatherbound books held several stories in them.
This is true, LOL.