Some newly promoted words of wisdom from the master of doublespeak:
OK, anyone who has ever been in scientology will read this quote and wonder: “WTF?”
This is the EXACT opposite of “education” in scientology. Studying the words of L. Ron Hubbard is viewed as the most important thing anyone can do on this earth. And this is NOT an exaggeration.
One would never describe a scientology courseroom as “pleasant,” “unhurried” or “casual.” Anyone who ran a pleasant courseroom would be designated a dilettante, if not a “squirrel.”
In fact, this is what Hubbard has to say about scientology training in the “bible” of scientology training bulletins “What is a Course?”:
It is the supervisor’s job to get the student through the checksheet fully and swiftly with minimum lost time.
The successful supervisor is tough. He not a kindly old fumbler. He sets high checksheet targets for each student for the day and forces it to be met or else.
As is so often the case in scientology — there is an equal and opposite Hubbard quote for any circumstance.
Can you imagine a supervisor telling David Miscavige or some other senior in scientology “Sir, I read the basics and I found this amazing quote from LRH in Creation of Human Ability and I am applying it in my courseroom.” He or she would be removed from their position and be undergoing scientology “ethics and justice” immediately and would probably be labeled as a “know-best” or even a “Joker and Degrader.”
And why would ANYONE put out a quote like this? As I have said before, they clearly either don’t read them, don’t comprehend what is said, or have no clue about the “real” scientology (as in what is actually practiced, not the nice-nicey stuff that Hubbard spouted about loving his enemies and the “work is free, keep it so.”)
I was introduced to scn while in a rigorous engineering curriculum, nothing as pantywaist as what Hubbard experienced at GWU (which STILL isn’t a well-regarded engineering school 70 years later).Ours was not a party school, but I was less stressed taking 15 credit-hours of math & science than the “pro” TRs course for 6-8 hours in a row. WHO does that much time without a break in ONE subject?? Only scientology, led by a sadist who had it in for we who could easily master subjects he couldn’t be bothered to study.
L Ron never gave his secret grade scale of lies. The lies begin at Tone 40, pleasant little lies, to get you into the door.
Remember, this is the religion thought up by the guy who believes your reality, the other guys reality, and the consensus reality are all separate. He is also the guy that tells how to shatter other’s Stable Datum in order to confuse them. So get the person uptone with some pleasant lies, shatter his/her stable datum, then send in the registrar to get the poor sap to sign over thousands of dollars of credit to the Church of Scientology. Keep bleeding the rock dry until they wise up, become an ex-member, then have perpetual spying against them for life – all because of a pleasant ‘little’ lie while mocking up fake realities.
Scale of Lies.
Really an important contribution to understand people like Hubbard, Stalin, Trump or similar people, With the Charakter of the black triangle of Narcissm, Machiavellism and Psychopathx.
Sure, Hubbard and Miscavige use this scale in every speech and writing.
Really a good Idea!
To flatten the needle to nothing is everything. To make the greatests ever to nothing is something.
Excellent post!
So correct. Anything Hubbard says, or data he gives, you will find him contradicting himself somewhere else. It’s a completely schizophrenic “dogma” that no one can truly follow.
It is Law 27 in the book The 48 Laws of Power that tells how to get control over others by creating a cult. I am sure that chapter used LRon as the research subject.
It’s just like any other dogma, Golden Era, you pick and choose the parts that you like or that you have to know *right now*. Everything else can blow away in the wind, for all you care.
It’s obvious that LRH spouted off so much crap over the years that he couldn’t keep his bullshit straight. In many religions (not that scientology is a religion), spotting the inconsistencies is the first step toward liberation.
Interpretation/Consolidation of Hubbard talking out of both sides of his mouth:
If it involves $$$ going to Hubbard or the Church of Scientology, then “What is a Course?” applies.
Hubbards statement contradicts my decades of personal experiences. Going on course was Always stressful. I would get a feeling in the pit of my stomach as I drove into the Org parking lot. Studying lies under duress is absolutely crazy.
I just remembered.
“Too many cooks spoil the broth.” But …. “Two heads are better than one.” Heh Heh.
I wonder if Tubby discovered these opposites and figured he could spit out double talk that would make him look like a genius. What a fraud!
Talk about doublespeak.
A stitch in time saves nine. But … Haste makes waste.
Familiarity breeds contempt. But … Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Damn! I used to know many of these old sayings that sound so wise. Yet there is always one that is the exact opposite that also sounds so very wise.
It’s like phony wisdom for the masses. I wish I could remember some more.
I think there was an opposite for, “Too many cooks spoil the broth”. Sigh … but I can’t remember.
I think you are searching for “Many hands make light work”
Hubbo must have read Orwell, there are just too many parallels.
Thank you Andy. It would be so nice to publish a list of all these contradictions. I’m sure that I used to know about a dozen or so. It was so funny to see how phony they all were. But they passed for such incredible wisdom.
Much like Tubby had convinced his dupes. But that wasn’t really funny.
Scientology conflates indoctrination with education hoping no one will notice the bait and switch.
Scientology indoctrination is the furthest thing from “pleasant“.
It is highly coercive and deeply intolerant of serious questioning.
Education actually encourages debate and critical thinking, and questioning.
Scientology is much, much closer to a form of brainwashing.
Len Zinberg observed:”Scientology is much, much closer to a form of brainwashing.”
It’s so close as to be indistinguishable, IMO. He also made it a form of punishment.
IIRC, when some
(Messengers, I think) onboard Apollo committed an error, they were ordered to do some outrageous number of hours of Objectives, both as “PC” and “auditor”.
I couldn’t see any redeeming value in the first Objectives I encountered; Book and Bottle as I recall. My only “win” was getting DONE with them. Interesting hallucinations along the way, though.
Meaningful Education is clearly not important. Their leader is uneducated and it ‘shows’. If he wasn’t such an idiot, I would almost be embarrassed for him. Most of their people appear unable to write complete sentences. Enough said….
Here is a bit more on Hubbard’s intentions.
Hubbard made statements in his affirmations (private self-hypnosis commands intended for himself and no one else) that I call the Rosetta Stone of Scientology because they help ex Scientologists decipher the information in Scientology.
I have them posted at Mockingbird’s Nest as
A Psychiatric View With Comments On The Admissions By Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (1947)
I will put a few excerpts here to highlight Hubbard’s intention regarding hypnosis and in general. To understand Scientology I absolutely recommend reading the post in full. These excerpts are just for this post on his intentions.
LRH is obviously L Ron Hubbard
LRH:Your psychology is good. You worked to darken your own children. This failure, with them, was only apparent. The evident lack of effectiveness was “ordered.” The same psychology works perfectly on everyone else. You use it with great confidence.
LRH: Material things are yours for the asking. Men are your slaves. Elemental spirits are your slaves. You are power among powers, light in the darkness, beauty in all.
LRH : Your psychology is advanced and true and wonderful. It hypnotizes people. It predicts their emotions, for you are their ruler.
LRH: No matter what lies you may tell others they have no physical effect on you of any kind.
LRH: Lord help women when you begin to fondle them. You are master of their bodies, master of their souls as you may consciously wish. You have no karma to pay for these acts.
LRH: You can tell all the romantic tales you wish. You will remember them, you do remember them. But you know which ones were lies. You are so logical you will tell nothing which cannot be believed.
LRH: You use the minds of men. They do not use your mind or affect it in any way.
So, Hubbard in his private affirmations clearly described his “psychology” as such that it “hypnotizes” people and that men are his slaves and regarding women that he was master of their bodies and souls. He described himself as being able to lie and be both believed and he was immune to physical effects from his lies. He described himself as the ruler of people who uses the minds of men but they do not use or affect his mind.
Imagine having these goals and using self-hypnosis commands repeatedly for years to bring these things into your mind.
To gain more insight into Hubbard’s intention I want to quote a letter he wrote to his wife Polly, who he called Skipper and it has come to be known as “The Skipper Letter” among Scientology watchers. It was written in 1938 after Hubbard allegedly wrote a manuscript entitled Excalibur that he hoped would give him fame.
“Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods. I turned the thing up so it’s up to me to survive in a big way . . . Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned. Things which stand too consistently in its way make me nervous. It’s a pretty big job. In a hundred years Roosevelt will have been forgotten — which gives some idea of the magnitude of my attempt. And all this boils and froths inside my head and I’m miserable when I am blocked.”
Here is a small excerpt from the article What Motivated L. Ron Hubbard? Historian Jon Atack Follows the Clues (posted at The Underground Bunker blog on August 26, 2013
Hubbard added that he was going to “make Napoleon look like a punk” in comparison to the fame he would come to enjoy.
So, “Excalibur” was not about spiritual immortality, or spiritual anything. Hubbard felt that he had made contact with some underlying force in the universe, and that he was the only person ever so to do, but he wanted to exploit that force not for the good of the world (which finds no mention anywhere in this five-page letter), but to “smash” his name into history.
Believers will say that Hubbard changed his mind, but at the very end of his life, there is a telling confirmation of his “only goal.” When Hubbard dropped his body, almost fifty years later, he had failed to spend $648 million of the monies he’d extracted from the Dev-OTs. A paltry million went to the wife who had endured prison to protect him, far less to his surviving children. But half a billion dollars went to the Church of Spiritual Technology, which lists as its corporate purpose, “To perpetuate the name L. Ron Hubbard.” Not the “technology,” just the name, please note. end quote Jon Atack
Okay, it seems pretty clear to me that Hubbard wanted to control people by enslaving men via his lies, psychology and hypnosis and to control the souls and bodies of women by similar means.
He gave us strong evidence in word and deeds that he sought these goals in life and fame in death.
From a tape on the Philadelphia Doctorate Course lectures in 1952 entitled Structure/Function we get this:
RON THE HYPNOTIST
Structure/Function: 11 December 1952 page 1
“All processes are based upon the original observation
that an individual could have implanted in him by hypnosis
and removed at will any obsession or aberration,
compulsion, desire, inhibition which you could think of – by hypnosis.“
“Hypnosis, then, was the wild variable;
sometimes it worked,
sometimes it didn’t work.
It worked on some people; it didn’t work on other people.
Any time you have a variable that is as wild as this, study it.
Well, I had a high certainty already –
I had survival. Got that in 1938 or before that. And uh…”Ron Hubbard
From the Saint Hill Special Briefing Course lectures we have a couple extremely relevant quotes. The tapes are listed by their number:
SHSBC-402
Of course, we go on a tradition “if you learn anything about man that will help him,
you help him with it.” …
“If you learn anything about man that you can manipulate him
You’re going to manipulate men,
you’ve got to change their definitions
and change their goals
and enslave them and do this and do that.
SHSBC-447
Now, brainwashing simply is the trick of mixing up certainties.
All you have to do if you want to know and develop the entire field
of brainwashing as developed by Pavlov,
is simply to make somebody ….. into a confused or hypnotic state in which he can believe anything. Ron Hubbard
Complimenting this is a quote from Philadelphia Doctorate Course lecture tape numbered 39 from 1952 – known as the games maker tape or lecture
“Now here’s a process that has to do with the making of games, and all this process adds up to, is you just address to those factors which I just gave you, oh, run and change postulates and any creative process that you can think of and shift postulates around, you get a whole process.” End quote
THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
Lecture: “Off the Time Track” (June 1952) as quoted in Journal of Scientology issue 18-G, reprinted in Technical Volumes of Dianetics & Scientology Vol. 1, p. 418. Ron Hubbard
Conclusion:
Hubbard plainly defined “postulates” broadly as decisions, conclusions and this can be called beliefs. Changing postulates in a person is changing their beliefs.
So, he called brainwashing the trick of mixing up certainties. Putting a person into a confused state in which he would believe anything was how he phrased it. He said if you can manipulate men you WILL, not leaving any exceptions for himself ! And he said you will change their definitions and their goals which were their certainties and you will enslave them !
He said he started with hypnosis which could “implant or remove any inhibition, compulsion, aberration or desire you could think of BUT it has the wild variable that it works on the some people but not others and it works sometimes but not others.” So, he was trying to see who it worked on and when and likely how to get it to work as often as possible on as many people as possible. He wanted people in Scientology to shift around the certainties, the postulates, the decisions and beliefs of people to change their definitions and goals, to definitions he wanted them to believe and goals that benefited Hubbard.This all aligns with the “game” he wanted.
His private communication to himself and to his wife Polly make it clear that his ideas regarding “you” using psychology, hypnosis and brainwashing and lying to control people as he described in Scientology doctrine was really him describing his own intention. The evidence is overwhelming.
From
https://mbnest.blogspot.com/2019/04/scientology-ron-hubbard-and-hypnosis-3.html
“LRH: No matter what lies you tell others, they have no physical effect on you of any kind.”
And yet LRH had plenty to say about the physical effects that the telling of lies can have on the liars themselves.
But not on him 🙂
Yet, the fact that he thought he needed to affirm this to himself indicates to me that he was, or had been, worried about it. Or had at one time or any number of times been himself adversely affected, physically, in this manner.
I wouldn’t be surprised if OSA operates on this datum. Without a doubt, Miscavige does!
Wow!
I have to print it, to get the full concept.
I think this quote is one that should join a group of ones on indoctrination to show the hidden intent behind Scientology. I have to recommend the affirmations obviously, as well as the Skipper letter and the games maker tape number 39 from the Philadelphia Doctorate Course.
Here is part of the collection on indoctrination.
Quotes from Ron Hubbard on the Confusion Technique:
[Quote]
Now, if it comes to a pass where it’s very important whether or not this person acts or inacts as you wish, in interpersonal relations one of the dirtier tricks is to hang the person up on a maybe and create a confusion. And then create the confusion to the degree that your decision actually is implanted hypnotically.
The way you do this is very simple. When the person advances an argument against your decision, you never confront his argument but confront the premise on which his argument is based. That is the rule. He says, “But my professor always said that water boiled at 212 degrees.”
You say, “Your professor of what?”
“My professor of physics.”
“What school? How did he know?” Completely off track! You’re no longer arguing about whether or not water boils at 212 degrees, but you’re arguing about professors. And he will become very annoyed, but he won’t know quite what he is annoyed about. You can do this so adroitly and so artfully that you can actually produce a confusion of the depth of hypnosis. The person simply goes down tone scale to a point where they’re not sure of their own name.
And at that point you say, “Now, you do agree to go out and draw the water out of the well, don’t you?”
“Yes-anything!” And he’ll go out and draw the water out of the well.
[End Quote]
Ron Hubbard Lecture, 20 May 1952 “Decision.”
source Lermanet.com
Also, even earlier, in 1950:
[Quote]
One error, however, must be remarked upon. The examination system employed is not much different from a certain hypnotic technique. One induces a state of confusion in the subject by raising his anxieties of what may happen if he does not pass. One then “teaches” at a mind which is anxious and confused. That mind does not then rationalize, it merely records and makes a pattern. If the pattern is sufficiently strong to be regurgitated verbatim on an examination paper, the student is then given a good grade and passed.
[End Quote]
Ron Hubbard lecture 29 August 1950, “Educational Dianetics.”
source Lermanet.com
He also knew that when one is confused they can feel relief (i.e. brighter TEMPORARILY) when they get an “answer”, even if it doesn’t address the confusion!
Scientology uses confusion to control people. Scientology is intentionally designed to use confusion for this purpose.
Scientology techniques are extremely confusing and if you are able to find the right references from Hubbard and look at the techniques with an understanding of the methods he based them on then his intentions are clear.
let’s look at some of the things Hubbard said:
“If you can produce enough chaos — it says in a textbook on this subject — if you can produce enough chaos you can assume the total management of a psyche — if you can produce enough chaos.
The way you hypnotize people is to misalign them in their own control and realign them under your control, which necessitates a certain amount of chaos, don’t you see?
Now, the way to win through all of this is simply to let the guy have his stable data, if they are stable data and if they aren’t, let him have some more that are stable data and he’ll win and you’ll win.
In other words, you can take any sphere — any sphere which is relatively chaotic and throw almost any stable datum into it with enough of a statement and you will get an alignment of data on that stable datum. You see this clearly?
The whole society is liable to seize upon some stupid stable datum and thereafter this becomes a custom of some sort and you have the whole field of morals and mores and so forth stretching out before your view.”
Hubbard, L. R. (1955, 23 August). Axiom 53: The Axiom Of The Stable Datum. Academy Lecture Series/Conquest of Chaos, (CofC-2). Lecture conducted from Washington, DC.
“Another way to hypnotize somebody would be to put him in the middle of chaos, everything going in all directions, everybody shooting at him and suddenly throw him a stable datum, and make it a successful stable datum so that it’s all called off once — the moment he grabs this. And this gives you the entire formula of brainwashing: interrogate, question, lights, pain, upset, accusation, duress, fear, privation and we throw him the stable datum. We say, “If you’ll just adopt ‘Ughism’ which is the most wonderful thing in the world, all this will cease,” and finally the fellow says, “All right, I’m an ‘Ugh.’ ” Immediately you stop torturing him and pat him on the head and he’s all set.Ever after he would believe that the moment he deserted “Ughism,” he would be drowned in chaos and that “Ughism” alone was the thing which kept the world stable; and he would sell his life or his grandmother to keep “Ughism” going. And there we have to do with the whole subject of loyalty, except — except that we haven’t dealt with loyalty at all on an analytical level but the whole subject of loyalty is a reactive subject we have dealt with. ”
Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document date: 1955, 21 September, 1955, 21 September
Document title: Postulates 1,2,3,4 In Processing – New Understanding of Axiom 36, Postulates 1,2,3,4 In Processing – New Understanding of Axiom 36
“A confusion can be defined as any set of factors or circumstances which do not seem to have any immediate solution. More broadly, a confusion is random motion.”
“Until one selects one datum, one factor, one particular in a confusion of particles, the confusion continues. The one thing selected and used becomes the stable datum for the remainder.
“Any body of knowledge, more particularly and exactly, is built from one datum. That is its stable datum. Invalidate it and the entire body of knowledge falls apart. A stable datum does not have to be the correct one. It is simply the one that keeps things from being in a confusion and on which others are aligned.” – Ron Hubbard [ref]
“Any time anybody gets enough altitude he can be called a hypnotic operator, and what he says will act as hypnotic suggestion. Hypnotism is a difference in levels of altitude…if the operator can heighten his own altitude with regard to the subject…he doesn’t have to put the subject to sleep. What he says will still react as a hypnotic suggestion….With parity, such as occurs between acquaintances, friends, fellow students and so on, there is no hypnotic suggestion” (Education and Dianetics, 11 November 1950, Research and Discovery, volume 4). Source Jon Atack
Here’s a longer excerpt:
ALTITUDE INSTRUCTION
“In altitude teaching, somebody is a ‘great authority.’ He is probably teaching some subject that is far more complex than it should be. He has become defensive down through the years, and this is a sort of protective coating that he puts up, along with the idea that the subject will always be a little better known by him than by anybody else and that there are things to know in this subject which he really wouldn’t let anybody else in on. This is altitude instruction … It keeps people in a state of confusion, and when their minds are slightly confused they are in a hypnotic trance. Anytime anybody gets enough altitude he can be called a hypnotic operator, and what he says will act as hypnotic suggestion. Hypnotism is a difference in levels of altitude. There are ways to create and lower the altitude of the subject, but if the operator can heighten his own altitude with regard to the subject the same way, he doesn’t have to put the subject to sleep. What he says will still react as hypnotic suggestion.” (Hubbard, Research & Discovery, volume 4, p.324)12 source Jon Atack
Not confronting the argument but confronting the premise upon which the argument is based is rife in American politics. It would appear that many people don’t spot this and allow themselves to be sidetracked. It makes me crazy when I spot this and others don’t.
“He/she didn’t answer the question, don’t you see? Ask it again! Make him/her answer the question!” (That’s me, screaming in my mind when I spot this in a TV interview or print interview or something.)
There are exceptions: Senator Kamala Harris vetting William Barr for AG. He kept trying to throw her off, giving her non-answers, diverting to premise of the question instead of the question itself and employing other diversionary tactics. She knew exactly what he was doing and having none of it. Coolly, she’d acknowledge him and then return to the question she’d just asked, rephrasing it slightly. She was perfect, smiling a little as he squirmed in his seat and looked desperate to get out of there. A smart cookie, that woman.
Excellent information Mockingbird!!
I will be up for days digging into this and then sharing with others who are really curious how we got so trapped and betrayed in Scientology by L Ron Hubbard.
Thank you so much
TLDR
OT … Hubbard obviously smoked like a chimney. Wouldn’t an addiction to cigarettes be considered a fault as a Scientologist?
Oh, no! According to LRH, cigarettes don’t cause cancer – they help prevent cancer!
Pretty much in line with the trustworthiness of the rest of his garbage…
No, because according to him they didn’t cause cancer.
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-cancer/
OMG! I wish I’d known that back in my days. I have done many courses in Scientology going back to the 60s. In each the supervisors were like little Hitlers who invalidated, oppressed and tortured me to the point where I’d cry my eyes out driving home every night after course let out. And I ain’t no pussy by any means.
Now that I am out I have recovered quite well. The most awakening fact was realizing my first experience in Scientology had reminded me that I was amazingly able, was immortal and had found real truth. Well, that lasted a week and was then followed by decades of degradation, invalidation and no successes or results. Nothing truly helped and that in itself added to the depression as I believed this was all because I was too degraded to have any gains.
The longer I stayed in the longer this lie persisted. I finally confronted the truth, walked out and have recovered so, so well I can’t thank myself enough. And that my friends is the most restorative and meaningful “win” I’ve ever had. I know I am me and that I am very able. I am NOT who or what the cult was continuously trying to force me to be (or believe I am).
And you know what else? Once I confronted and took responsibility for it all, I truly got rid of it. And NOTHING the cult EVER did did that. No, just me being the all powerful and truly able being I am. The tears of joy and relief are dripping down across the brightest smile on my face I have seen in a long, long, long time..
Ok, end of session. Whew.
I am very pleased for you Glenn. Congratulations.
I left after 3 visits and they started phoning me. I found that I could get rid of them by promising whatever they wanted and then hang up the phone and forget about it. Eventually, they stopped calling. I wonder if that is a universal winning approach with this cult.
I remember the first time it happened, I had started their first course and some guy called me and told me that I had to come back or my mind would be permanently damaged. I covered my mouth so the jerk wouldn’t hear me laughing and I told him, “OK. I will be back tomorrow.” Then, I hung up the phone and just forgot all about it. I wonder what else they could do except for coming to my home.
But lying to them was a very easy way to get rid of them and avoid wasting any more of my time.
Brilliant! They lie that tomorrow’s course will solve all your problems, you lie that you’ll be there.
Hey Skyler,
Thanks much for the congratulations. Truly deserved in my humble opinion.
Yes, they can/will come to your house. I’ve had many such visits when I lived in Florida. My best tactic was to simply not answer the door. But believe me, even if you move they will find you and come a knocking. Well, except in Russia. Never found me there.
Glenn
Glenn
I can totally relate. Thank you for your post
Mike, you nailed Scientology with this post! The subject is full of contradictions. In Hubbard’s millions and millions of words, one can find him as soft and as hard. He acts fascist for while and then changes to melodrama. This is exactly why I left Scientology in 1988. On OT VIII Hubbard’s contradictions get really serious. It is so apparent that Hubbard cannot be the anti-Christ and Buddha at the same time! So Hubbard freely admits he is fascist and that his entire intent was to reveal the basic fascism of the thetan. OK that is fine Hubbard but do not hide what you are doing. The stupidity of Hubbard is directly measured by his tendency to hide his basic assumptions. In 1972 Hubbard could have told me he was in reality a student of King Solomon. Hubbard needed to hide his assumptions because they are wrong and have no basis in reality.
George, I’ve seen it referred to Hubbard’s Law of Commotion: In Scientology, for each and every piece of standard tech or standard policy there is an equal and opposite piece of standard tech and standard policy.
Such contradictions can serve purposes in a scam or high control group, including weeding out critical thinkers to begin with, and making members acclimate themselves to cognitive dissonance and not question what they’re told or commanded.
Another example of a “pleasant” Scientology education. New World Corps once threatened to Comm Ev me and send me to the decks, for an auditor error, when I was still a student auditor, not even on the internship yet, which violates LRH policy on student auditors (not supposed to Comm Ev student auditors). And this was after they came to me in desperation to audit one of their staff on an emergency basis. I refused to go the decks, despite being visited, in order, by their Qual Sec, Chief Officer and Commanding Officer, to order me to the decks. Finally their MAA came to see me, I showed him the policy they would violate by their punishment, and he cancelled it and started investigating their Qual Sec. So in the end, it came out OK, but only because I refused to give in to their crap, and it definitely was not “pleasant.”
“And why would ANYONE put out a quote like this? As I have said before, they clearly either don’t read them, don’t comprehend what is said, or have no clue about the “real” scientology (as in what is actually practiced, not the nice-nicey stuff that Hubbard spouted about loving his enemies and the “work is free, keep it so.”)”
It’s a lie they tell themselves. They want it to be true: they want the course rooms to be a pleasant, unhurried place of success, because if it weren’t, why would they be spending so many hours filling out worksheets and doing dictionary drills and getting yelled at by supervisors? It must be effective, because it’d undermine everything they’ve been working towards and all the stress they’ve put themselves through if it weren’t.
Some poor schmo was just trying to put a kinder, gentler face on the scam. I doubt it worked. $cientology is about as welcome as a MAGA hat at a BLM protest rally.
I remember when I used to be Academy Course Supervisor. I was though on the clay demo. But once a $tudent made a three step ladder and labeled it “Gradient”- Immediate flunk, but was approved by my senior, as the $tudent was a big bucks guy!
Lron Tubbard Double Speak:
“I KNOW YOU BELIEVE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU THINK I SAID…BUT I AM NOT SURE YOU REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU HEARD IS NOT WHAT I MEANT”……
Hello Balletlady.
I understand. But where do I send the donation?
good catch, Balletlady. He couldn’t let himself believe that his scribblings were anything less than the clearest, most understandable thoughts ever expressed on the Planet; particularly as he was incapable of stopping to read what he’d just written, much less EDIT for clarity.
Dearest Skyler & Jere….
Being “tongue tied” can be a serious medical condition especially for an infant as it interferes with feeding/nursing. His “double speak” only succeeded in making him look the fool….which he accomplished quite well.
However, after reading all the bullshit he spewed forth…..it’s a head spinner…a nightmare for all of you involved in the mayhem he created based up his SELFISH need for MONEY & CONTROL & making HIMSELF feel important & above all else no matter who it hurt.
Unlike Hubbard & David M….I don’t accept monetary donations….a smile, a thumbs up, letting me know YOU are ok, happy, loving freedom & life…….reward enough!
Tub O’lard, manic, creepy, overblown pulp hack by day. After a handful of pills, a few Kools and glass or two of alckymohol he turned into the superzero…um stupidhero…er, why bother…named:
CONTRADICTO! The creature who could hold two differing points of view in the same sentence and not give a shit if anybody understood what he was on about.
On another note; I am rather impressed with Lovecraft Country and NOS4A2U.
Thanks, Mike. Thanks for reminding me how lucky I am to have my mind back, free of this kook.
Everything used to be Ron and or evaluated against his words…
…
Not a shred left. It’s all a harmful trap of bullshit.
Freedom from the mental prison is priceless.
“Education is as effective as it is pleasant”. LRH
Course Sup: “You are late. You must have crimes because it is obvious you are trying to impede clearing the planet by “being late”. I don’t care if there was a blizzard and the highways are shut down, go see the Ethics Officer”! ( actual incident)
LRH: “Pleasant”?
Twin: “Flunk! Flunk! Flunk! You flinched. I know you have been at this for 7 months and I am your 5th twin (using all the staff cuz there ain’t no public) but mind control doesn’t work unless you become invested by you taking up a lot of your time!
Now do it again! START!” ( another actual incident)
The words of Hubbard are examples of gas lighting
Scientology is nothing what it promises to be. It is all an illusion! Scientology actually is cruel and inhumane!
Soon after I started my first course, my aging jalopy blew an oil line as I hurtled down the highway. By dint of an absolutely mcGuyver-esque bit of mechanical brilliance, I made it to course 2 minutes after their clock struck the hour, and 5 minutes before the time standard, WWV, was due to. No matter that their clock was fast and that I’d actually made it “go right” to get there that day, they ordered me to show up half an hour EARLY to take my punishments for the next week (or so. Oh, if I’d then seen the insanity of it and just said, “NO,”, my next decade might have turned out much less stressful.