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That opening music sounds like a cross between the first Planet of the Apes movie and the Exorcist. Charlie Heston would be miffed, and Mike Oldfield did his music much better.

"As you may have surmised LRH has completed many levels beyond that." So, after 37 years, where are those new OT levels? The head scammer is dead, but the scam goes on.

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Haha! It reminded me of Jaws.

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Once again, Tony dons his waders and strides through a sea of scientology shit...to deliver this transcript of culty madness.

I can't even finish reading it today. I began to feel sad about all of the folks who have wasted their lives on this toxic sludge...

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Regarding the opening music of that memorial event, it’s a very poor rip off of Stravinsky’s Right Of Spring. That musical statement embodies Scientology. A rip off. I was at that event and we all bought the lies about Hubbard. Hubbard started with lies and ended with lies. I’m amazed how many of us survived the vampire environment carefully set up to feed on us.

Hubbard deserves a top place in the hall of shame. He got the opposite of what he craved, infamy instead of admiration.

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I wonder if the opening music was something Hubbard himself wrote. The Apollo Stars played goofy stuff like that.

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Kate, he could not write. I worked with him on the ship doing music. The musicians took his descriptions of what he wanted and they would write and then after he heard it he would critique it. I think either Hubbard or someone else said copy Stravinsky. He’s a class act you can’t go wrong with him.

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But surely no-one but el Rhum Flubbard is to blame for "Windsplitter?"

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Jens, his lyrics were horrible and musically he was a hummer. So he was smart leaving the creativity to others.

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Geoff, thank you! I had no idea that’s how he did it. Soooooo creepy.

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He was very good at researching and he was good at condensing other people’s wisdom as you know. I never saw him actually create anything; music, art, dance and his photography was below mundane.

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Of course, in our little org, we had no idea who Miscavige was. I very clearly remember at home, after the event, Dad thoughtfully saying that he was impressed with him. He was also impressed with the Broeckers. We ate it up, didn’t see the outpoints.

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I know a transcript always reads more awkwardly than the speech it comes from, but reading this makes it pretty clear how slick, shiny, prepared Dave took over and not Pat Broeker.

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