Last week, our helper who dives into old newspaper archives supplied us with some great material about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s nightmare year, 1951. We sifted through it and put together a sort of narrative built from newspaper clippings
Hubbard's excellent final words about the trip are the type he his whole life, including his Scientology writing years, always explaining the most crucial and difficult pivotal issues out of his explanations.
It's clear there was a difference between the hired captain's views of the most important events, and Hubbard's.
It seems Hubbard's chips on Hubbard's shoulders were non stop, his whole life, to his bitter end.
Smarter authorities saw things differently than Hubbard, and this Hubbard writing is a mirror to almost all Hubbard's other broad self justifying writings.
The ship wasn't really ready for the voyage, and the water tanks were the problem.
If "water tanks" are compared to Hubbard's "tech", then that's the story of Scientology and the Hubbard "tech" for Scientology. The Hubbard "Scientology tech (quackery)" simply is not voyage worthy for anyone to join and participate in the Hubbard Scientology stuff.
Further, Hubbard had a deep showmanship image of his Scientology enterprise. "Keep the show on the road" was Hubbard on his Scientology activity. There are countless times in Scientology admin cult bureaucracy writings where he admonishes keeping the show on the road.
"Keep the show on the road" was deep, and this first boating summer enterprise is already Hubbard keeping his show on the road attitude. Despite reality others in authority who overpower his fantasy due to serious life and death omissions Hubbard overlooked.
Hubbard didn't learn enough from this episode, obviously, and the rest of his life was just as justified slapdash as this story. (In hindsight, I so wish the US Justice Dept had done with Hubbard as they did with Mary Sue, he deserved the jail time she instead got for following his orders.)
It sounds like the 'expedition' was rudderless and poorly planed from the start. The 'leadership skills' of Lron seem to be very lacking. Why didn't the 'expedition' have a list of the islands they wanted to visit and some sort of schedule for filming? How many islands did the ship actually visit? Ok, they needed water and food and going to a 'big island' for those things is logical, but why no visit to Tortuga? I can see where Lron got his 'mission into time' engram.
He was upset the crew wanted to actually be paid. Enough said.
Hubbard's excellent final words about the trip are the type he his whole life, including his Scientology writing years, always explaining the most crucial and difficult pivotal issues out of his explanations.
It's clear there was a difference between the hired captain's views of the most important events, and Hubbard's.
It seems Hubbard's chips on Hubbard's shoulders were non stop, his whole life, to his bitter end.
Smarter authorities saw things differently than Hubbard, and this Hubbard writing is a mirror to almost all Hubbard's other broad self justifying writings.
The ship wasn't really ready for the voyage, and the water tanks were the problem.
If "water tanks" are compared to Hubbard's "tech", then that's the story of Scientology and the Hubbard "tech" for Scientology. The Hubbard "Scientology tech (quackery)" simply is not voyage worthy for anyone to join and participate in the Hubbard Scientology stuff.
Further, Hubbard had a deep showmanship image of his Scientology enterprise. "Keep the show on the road" was Hubbard on his Scientology activity. There are countless times in Scientology admin cult bureaucracy writings where he admonishes keeping the show on the road.
"Keep the show on the road" was deep, and this first boating summer enterprise is already Hubbard keeping his show on the road attitude. Despite reality others in authority who overpower his fantasy due to serious life and death omissions Hubbard overlooked.
Hubbard didn't learn enough from this episode, obviously, and the rest of his life was just as justified slapdash as this story. (In hindsight, I so wish the US Justice Dept had done with Hubbard as they did with Mary Sue, he deserved the jail time she instead got for following his orders.)
It sounds like the 'expedition' was rudderless and poorly planed from the start. The 'leadership skills' of Lron seem to be very lacking. Why didn't the 'expedition' have a list of the islands they wanted to visit and some sort of schedule for filming? How many islands did the ship actually visit? Ok, they needed water and food and going to a 'big island' for those things is logical, but why no visit to Tortuga? I can see where Lron got his 'mission into time' engram.