If you heard this week’s Group Therapy podcast, you may have heard Pete Griffiths reminding us that he’d sent over a really remarkable Scientology document.
That’s all very well, but the only person who can make authoritative statements about $cientology is defendant David “he is NOT insane!” Miscavige. And you are not worthy to know how to reach him.
The cognitive dissonance has grown in Scientology.
Because the world has become considerably worse as more ideal orgs are created.
Miscavige has a total fail on his hands and the results of the US election, and current war in Ukrain and Isreal and now Syria are not good omens.
“We have the technology to build a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war. Your org and the individual Scientologists in your field, working together, are the vehicle to bring this about. Your Clear Expansion Committee will make a huge difference in making the aims of Scientology an actuality in your area.”.
If Scientology has the technology to achieve these sky high goals, then whatever Miscavige and his crew are doing is NOT Scientology Tech because the world is in the worse shape it’s been since WW II. Or more factually, Scientology makes whatever it touchs worse.
Delusions run rampant in the $cienoverse. A 'purif' in every city? A planet without drugs? What about insulin? What about drugs for headaches, decongestants for colds, and booze? Yeah, the planet is going to give up good scotch and bourbon. This plan has all of the hallmarks of Doctor Evil and his mini-me trying to get one million dollars. And getting only 3 minions who fight over the sauna franchise.
There are so many natural remedies. Pharmaceutical drugs, made out of oil, kill more people than anything else on the planet. I've heard "good" doctors say, the only time one should take a pharmaceutical drug is when they're in the emergency room. That said, sometimes we need a fast remedy and wholistic medicine is not a fast solution, but to be on drugs forever is bad for our overall health.
Well, shouldn't be a surprise. That's always the sky-high goal of low-minded dolts.
The world is a complex place, filled with competing ideologies that can't all be right. To simplify it, suddenly realize that it was the lizard people all along, for example. Look at the faces of those who accept it, it suddenly all makes sense now! Take an observation from someone with an agenda, draw the line on your pegboard to another observation. step back and observe - it connects! The pattern is clear to see! Why didn't somebody think of that before?
Instead of a miasma of conflicting half-truths and probabilities, we have certainty. And certainty, as Hubbard often said, is truth. Combine that with the ability to draw patterns out of random data, a valuable skill from our hunter-gatherer days that often trips us up when faced with modern complexity, and the agony of indecision all goes away.
Sadly, the Scientologists are not alone in their passion to save the world from itself by simplifying it out of existence. Yeats' famous poem "The Second Coming" was written in 1919, long before Hubbard was making his foolish claims. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity".
Plus, when Hubbard acted looney, my justification was the William James' writing titled "The Varieties of Religious Experience" where James notes loads of loonies were religious leaders.
So looney delusional megalomania goals of Hubbard, fine, in context.
Chuck, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! (Shakespeare)
I was walking around with a copy of Isaac Asimov's "Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology", reading about the alchemical works of Isaac Newton and Cavendish's misogyny. You could make a decent rationalization that Hubbard was a kook but so was Giordano Bruno.
An inspired weirdo or a weird inspiration? Does wisdom fall from the mouths of fools or, as they say, in vino veritas? (In the wine we find the truth, or get them drunk to make them talk truly).
The ultimate test, no matter who came up with the idea, is does it work? In Scientology's case the answer is a resounding NO!
Groups of Scientologists not staff with a specific purpose. Example, going into hospitals with stuffed animals for children to create good publicity for the local org. Or creating a purification center delivering the Purif as a business connected to a local Scientology doctor, or a gung-ho group to pass out way to happiness during thanks giving through new years.
Makes me think that L. Ron was on drugs, having a drug high, when he gushed all the wonderful things his Scientology quackery was going to do for earth. L. Ron Junior revealing how much drugs Hubbard took in the early 1950s, that connected the dots for me.
Hubbard was delusional about himself, a megalomaniac, which even when he watered down his megalomania a bit, his now leftover cult multi echelon bureaucracy dishes out his watered down megalomania.
Professor Kent was right to peg Hubbard as a malignant narcissist.
And that's light.
Hubbard himself thought of himself as a cross between multiple of his pulp fiction characters and some Christianity and Buddhist persons (George Smiley, Ol Doc Methuselah, Buddha even, Lucifer, Cecil Rhodes, an outer space race car driver, etc, etc.)
The movie the "Master" centers on the role of being a "Master" which is a light version of the space interplanetary hopping spiritual savior, "Messiah" which Hubbard ordered Nancy Many and others to survey if the public would buy Hubbard leaning on the "Messiah" label.
Admitted "Madman" from the Granada Productions interview on the internet.
Hubbard's "beingness" was messed up.
No need for anyone to waste any more time doing the Hubbard quackery past lives pseudo-therapy and exorcism.
Scientology can't even admit publicly what Hubbard wrote about XENU and CHUG.
"Appears mental" succinct comment by the FBI in the early 1950s, about Hubbard, nails it.
But, what still kept me in the cult, til I later quit, was William James' writing called "The Varieties of Religious Experience" where religious boss founder people were so often looney, inspired loonies.
It's reason to do more reading in life, and put the inspired loonies in the curiosities category and not forward their crap.
If they clear the planet will the Scientology bridge become cheaper? Years ago when I was given a free personality test I thought about the eventual cost and decided I could live without being clear.
But instead of talking about clearing the planet and building new ideal orgs they should relish that they are a small obscure group. “At least we are not a bunch of sheeple.”
That’s all very well, but the only person who can make authoritative statements about $cientology is defendant David “he is NOT insane!” Miscavige. And you are not worthy to know how to reach him.
The cognitive dissonance has grown in Scientology.
Because the world has become considerably worse as more ideal orgs are created.
Miscavige has a total fail on his hands and the results of the US election, and current war in Ukrain and Isreal and now Syria are not good omens.
“We have the technology to build a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war. Your org and the individual Scientologists in your field, working together, are the vehicle to bring this about. Your Clear Expansion Committee will make a huge difference in making the aims of Scientology an actuality in your area.”.
If Scientology has the technology to achieve these sky high goals, then whatever Miscavige and his crew are doing is NOT Scientology Tech because the world is in the worse shape it’s been since WW II. Or more factually, Scientology makes whatever it touchs worse.
Delusions run rampant in the $cienoverse. A 'purif' in every city? A planet without drugs? What about insulin? What about drugs for headaches, decongestants for colds, and booze? Yeah, the planet is going to give up good scotch and bourbon. This plan has all of the hallmarks of Doctor Evil and his mini-me trying to get one million dollars. And getting only 3 minions who fight over the sauna franchise.
There are so many natural remedies. Pharmaceutical drugs, made out of oil, kill more people than anything else on the planet. I've heard "good" doctors say, the only time one should take a pharmaceutical drug is when they're in the emergency room. That said, sometimes we need a fast remedy and wholistic medicine is not a fast solution, but to be on drugs forever is bad for our overall health.
Well, shouldn't be a surprise. That's always the sky-high goal of low-minded dolts.
The world is a complex place, filled with competing ideologies that can't all be right. To simplify it, suddenly realize that it was the lizard people all along, for example. Look at the faces of those who accept it, it suddenly all makes sense now! Take an observation from someone with an agenda, draw the line on your pegboard to another observation. step back and observe - it connects! The pattern is clear to see! Why didn't somebody think of that before?
Instead of a miasma of conflicting half-truths and probabilities, we have certainty. And certainty, as Hubbard often said, is truth. Combine that with the ability to draw patterns out of random data, a valuable skill from our hunter-gatherer days that often trips us up when faced with modern complexity, and the agony of indecision all goes away.
Sadly, the Scientologists are not alone in their passion to save the world from itself by simplifying it out of existence. Yeats' famous poem "The Second Coming" was written in 1919, long before Hubbard was making his foolish claims. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity".
Plus, when Hubbard acted looney, my justification was the William James' writing titled "The Varieties of Religious Experience" where James notes loads of loonies were religious leaders.
So looney delusional megalomania goals of Hubbard, fine, in context.
Chuck, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! (Shakespeare)
I was walking around with a copy of Isaac Asimov's "Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology", reading about the alchemical works of Isaac Newton and Cavendish's misogyny. You could make a decent rationalization that Hubbard was a kook but so was Giordano Bruno.
An inspired weirdo or a weird inspiration? Does wisdom fall from the mouths of fools or, as they say, in vino veritas? (In the wine we find the truth, or get them drunk to make them talk truly).
The ultimate test, no matter who came up with the idea, is does it work? In Scientology's case the answer is a resounding NO!
Scientology gets the big no!
I love the "No OTs" song, for it just pulls the rug out from Scientology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyigdRxPOR4
"Gung-Ho Group Activities" <-- what is that?
Groups of Scientologists not staff with a specific purpose. Example, going into hospitals with stuffed animals for children to create good publicity for the local org. Or creating a purification center delivering the Purif as a business connected to a local Scientology doctor, or a gung-ho group to pass out way to happiness during thanks giving through new years.
This was, I think, the first time I had ever heard that term/name, so thank you!
Makes me think that L. Ron was on drugs, having a drug high, when he gushed all the wonderful things his Scientology quackery was going to do for earth. L. Ron Junior revealing how much drugs Hubbard took in the early 1950s, that connected the dots for me.
Hubbard was delusional about himself, a megalomaniac, which even when he watered down his megalomania a bit, his now leftover cult multi echelon bureaucracy dishes out his watered down megalomania.
Professor Kent was right to peg Hubbard as a malignant narcissist.
And that's light.
Hubbard himself thought of himself as a cross between multiple of his pulp fiction characters and some Christianity and Buddhist persons (George Smiley, Ol Doc Methuselah, Buddha even, Lucifer, Cecil Rhodes, an outer space race car driver, etc, etc.)
The movie the "Master" centers on the role of being a "Master" which is a light version of the space interplanetary hopping spiritual savior, "Messiah" which Hubbard ordered Nancy Many and others to survey if the public would buy Hubbard leaning on the "Messiah" label.
Admitted "Madman" from the Granada Productions interview on the internet.
Hubbard's "beingness" was messed up.
No need for anyone to waste any more time doing the Hubbard quackery past lives pseudo-therapy and exorcism.
Scientology can't even admit publicly what Hubbard wrote about XENU and CHUG.
"Appears mental" succinct comment by the FBI in the early 1950s, about Hubbard, nails it.
But, what still kept me in the cult, til I later quit, was William James' writing called "The Varieties of Religious Experience" where religious boss founder people were so often looney, inspired loonies.
It's reason to do more reading in life, and put the inspired loonies in the curiosities category and not forward their crap.
If they clear the planet will the Scientology bridge become cheaper? Years ago when I was given a free personality test I thought about the eventual cost and decided I could live without being clear.
But instead of talking about clearing the planet and building new ideal orgs they should relish that they are a small obscure group. “At least we are not a bunch of sheeple.”