RE: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
April 16, 2015 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2015 at 1:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It (the xenu narrative) was most likely pomp when it was lectured, and most will never read or see it. However.....allow me to propose an L Ron Hubbard as a tragic figure, manipulated and cloistered away by the very organization built atop a mountain of pathological lies - which...if he knew them to be false at some point...he most likely did not by the end - a situation many of us will find ourselves in someday. It's difficult to actually lay the blame for scientology on L. Ron...even in the majority. The entire organization was (and is) run by a clique of absolutely horrible individuals all hoping to achieve their personal aims - and largely accomplishing that under the cover of religious observance. The St. Pete Times is your go to for Scientology Stories...trust me, google that shit. The completely mundane and humdrum truth of what scientology is and does is more amazing than the stories L. Ron told about alien souls (if, for no other reason...than that it works at all and hasn't evaporated). It's run of the mill avarice and human frailty from every angle.
No sinister genius - but not a deranged or maniacal fanatic either. He told stories for a living, a gifted writer of pulp fiction - with some batshit ideas on human health and well-being (not uncommon for the time). Poor old Ronnie seems to have fallen prey to the trilemma, and, as with christ....the truth is probably along the lines of "none of the above".
Thing that really mystifies me, what I'd really love to find out some day, is why the ground was fertile for scientology. Was it just the wave of batshit health books floating around when Dianetics came out? Why were people looking, what were they looking for...and what does scientology offer to it's adherents (obviously noting that it does not actually do what it claims to do) that puts it in a positively valued place for them? The Clearwater site was big for drug addicts, this much I know (and there are far fewer needles in the sand on clearwater beach nowadays.....lol). I can see how constantly parting an addict with his cash and subjecting him to rudimentary lie detector tests in front of his peers might help to tweak the knobs a little. Kind of macabre, but for some it seems to have worked. : shrugs : -that's just a small bit of it though, what about the rest of the loonies?
No sinister genius - but not a deranged or maniacal fanatic either. He told stories for a living, a gifted writer of pulp fiction - with some batshit ideas on human health and well-being (not uncommon for the time). Poor old Ronnie seems to have fallen prey to the trilemma, and, as with christ....the truth is probably along the lines of "none of the above".
Thing that really mystifies me, what I'd really love to find out some day, is why the ground was fertile for scientology. Was it just the wave of batshit health books floating around when Dianetics came out? Why were people looking, what were they looking for...and what does scientology offer to it's adherents (obviously noting that it does not actually do what it claims to do) that puts it in a positively valued place for them? The Clearwater site was big for drug addicts, this much I know (and there are far fewer needles in the sand on clearwater beach nowadays.....lol). I can see how constantly parting an addict with his cash and subjecting him to rudimentary lie detector tests in front of his peers might help to tweak the knobs a little. Kind of macabre, but for some it seems to have worked. : shrugs : -that's just a small bit of it though, what about the rest of the loonies?
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