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The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
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The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
August 21, 2019 at 4:48 pm
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RE: The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
August 21, 2019 at 5:31 pm (This post was last modified: August 21, 2019 at 5:32 pm by onlinebiker.)
Is there ANYTHING about that dude that isn't nuttier than rat crap in a pistachio factory?
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RE: The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
August 22, 2019 at 12:17 am
Sure, he was nuts or just an opportunist who wanted to make money off gullible people, but this story is kind of interesting: it's about a professor who discovers math formula so that he can teleport himself to wherever he thinks about.
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RE: The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
September 26, 2019 at 7:22 pm
That guy was a real nut. His material reads more like fiction than reality.
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RE: The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
September 26, 2019 at 7:39 pm
(September 26, 2019 at 7:22 pm)factseeker Wrote: That guy was a real nut. His material reads more like fiction than reality.

You know that he was primarily a writer of fiction, correct?

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RE: The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
September 26, 2019 at 7:50 pm
Is that the stupid dimension? If so, L. Ron royalty is royalty there.
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RE: The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
September 27, 2019 at 12:41 am
(August 22, 2019 at 12:17 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Sure, he was nuts or just an opportunist who wanted to make money off gullible people, but this story is kind of interesting: it's about a professor who discovers math formula so that he can teleport himself to wherever he thinks about.

Why can't it be both? Everything I've read tells me he was almost certainly severely mentally ill (apparently, at one point, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, although he seems a bit more lucid than many I've listened to), and also figured out how to make enough money that he could live on cruise ships (which he owned) for the last decade plus of his life with  only followers so devoted to him they ADOPTED HIS MANNERISMS to interact with him.

Also, a math formula that allows a person to teleport?

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RE: The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard
September 27, 2019 at 6:29 am (This post was last modified: September 27, 2019 at 6:29 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:Also, a math formula that allows a person to teleport?

Why not?  L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt postulated the use of syllogisms to enter alternate universes.  Heinlein built the last third of his career on 'World As Myth'.

Hubbard's story is fiction.  I think it's important to remember that.

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