L. Ron Hubbard made many lofty claims about what he would bring to the world. End war, insanity, cruelty, criminality and unhappiness. Not even a blip. He promised to raise everyone’s IQ, free them from fears, unwanted emotions, upsets, disease and usher them into an eternity of enlightenment and spiritual freedom. Instead, he created a bubble of people who lightened their bank accounts in exchange for status — on one hand certificates that recognized them for achieving states and abilities that they can never demonstrate and on the other handing out pins and bowling trophies for … [Read more...]
Hubbard on Lawyers and Litigation
This is a follow up to the recent post: Scientology Lawyers and Litigation A selection of his orders/dictates that must be followed to the letter in perpetuity. People attack Scientology; I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear. The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK ...those who try to make life hard for us are AT ONCE at risk The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough harassment on … [Read more...]
Grant Cardone Sucking Up To Donald Trump Hard
Grant Cardone is a big fan of Donald Trump like his big Scientology donor friend Trish Duggan. Cardone recently flew to California to speak at Trump’s Coachella rally. He is now promoting his appearance at an upcoming Madison Square Garden rally. I usually try to steer clear of things political here as it is generally off topic and tends to descend into back and forth name calling. But this stuff if putting it front and center, so here goes with my observations. As I have said before, many Scientologists are one issue voters — the fear and hatred of psychiatry … [Read more...]
L. Ron Hubbard: The Metteya (New Buddha)
This is quite strange. Scientology no longer publishes Hubbard’s Hymn of Asia for obvious reasons… Hubbard was never one to hide his light under a bushel. Pronouncing himself a doctor, nuclear physicist, war hero, master mariner, great philosopher, musician, photographer, cinematographer and more, he also claimed he was the second coming of the Buddha. He wrote a poem called Hymn of Asia supposedly to be presented to a Buddhist convention in the mid 50’s. In this book he claims the Buddha is to be reincarnated in 1950 as a golden/red-haired Westerner. Wonder who that could be? The book … [Read more...]
L. Ron Hubbard: My Philosophy
I recently did a post about “What Is Greatness” (L. Ron Hubbard -- Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?). This is a follow up with another of Hubbard's "PR" pieces intended to make him sound magnanimous and benign. These are the two pillars of the Hubbard myth. If you read My Philosophy without blindly accepting what he has to say, it is apparent that his philosophy is to tell a whole lot of lies. I'm not going to document each of the lies with the factual citations — just make note of the most egregious ones in he recounting of "hi philosophy." If you want to know the truth read Barefaced Messiah by … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
The Chan Man is back He is playing football for freedom now? I suspect he is not very good... But there is a free dinner. So maybe some hungry people will come. I get invitations like this all the time -- free dinner and we get to pitch you on our MLM scheme, Time Share, investment planning options or funeral service... Oh-oh... No confidence all those OT VII and Superpowered people aren't going to be able to keep the place safe even though the predictions are that it will NOT hit Tampa Bay? And why move it to the Mission and charge an entrance fee and not offer food? … [Read more...]
L. Ron Hubbard — Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?
Hubbard churned out thousands of writings -- books, magazine articles, policy letters, technical bulletins etc. I have often noted that if something Hubbard said is inconvenient to the current circumstance, you can probably find something else he said that is contradictory and will suit the current need. There are a few writings of Hubbard that were pure self-promotional propaganda. His statement: "the work was free, keep it so" comes to mind, ha ha ha. NOTHING is free in scientology. But perhaps the most blatant of all is his essay "What is Greatness?" It is used by … [Read more...]
An Event You Don’t Want to Miss
Scientology advertises every event as "epic," "monumental" etc etc and every one of them is something nobody can afford to miss. But this one stands out. "In support of the Gothenburg ideal org" it promises to be memorable if only for the choice of title. It is also interesting as there is not a peep about the "ideal org" in Stockholm -- which should be where the effort to build a second ideal org (after Malmo) is directed -- the capital, cultural center and largest city in Sweden. But back to the "Have You Lived Before This Life" event. There used to be a book of that title published … [Read more...]
Hubbard Disconnection Flip Flop
When "attacks" were ongoing in the 60's, Hubbard did what he so often did, issued a policy to try to turn down the heat. The infamous "Cancellation of Fair Game” use of the term but not of the practice PL is the most well-known example: Shortly after this, he also issued an unequivocal cancellation of disconnection. This was in response to a government inquiry that had begun into scientology in New Zealand. He wrote to the inquiry a few months later, stating that he had canceled disconnection and it would not be reinstated. Of course, once the heat died down, d … [Read more...]
L. Ron Hubbard Solves Planetary Pollution
Scientologists actually put out this foolishness -- the saddest part is that they BELIEVE this is true. Like Battlefield Earth telling the story of psych influence on earth, Mission Earth, the 10-volume soft-core porn sci-fi monstrosity is seen by scientologists as Hubbard's commentary on the state of planet earth and his views on sexual perversion and orientation, banking, the media, PR Firms and a whole lot more. Including how to solve pollution on earth -- simple, just dream up a spore that eats pollution. Hey presto! Frankly, though scientology HATES being labelled a "sci-fi" … [Read more...]