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Language is powerful and is a method of controlling thought and emotion all by itself.
His own son even noted his “research” usually consisted of a series of one – either himself or someone he talked to – and he then wrote voluminous treatises on how everyone responded and behaved according to the principles Hubbard just dreamed up as he went along.2
When Dianetics went bankrupt in 1953 due not only to lawsuits for false medical claims but also for gross malfeasance and financial mismanagement, it was nothing at all for Hubbard to take the handful of followers he had left and convert them over to religious adherents by founding the Church of Scientology in Camden, New Jersey in December, 1953.
In the end, there really is no question about it. Scientology is a destructive cult, a money-making scam dressed up as a bona fide religion which abuses its members for as long as they will allow it to before it casts them aside, taking as much of their time, money and energy as it can get away with.
Scientology makes its members sign contracts giving away all their rights before they are allowed to do any services including their right to not be defrauded.2
all this was done specifically to "make their life a living hell",
There is a phenomenon amongst us not-so-great people to tear down our heroes after a time and try to bring them down to our level. With the luxury of hindsight and having gained the benefits of their sacrifices, sometimes gained at the cost of their very lives, we look back on some of these great leaders and criticize their sexual orientation or try to redefine their lives through some petty quarrel with a compatriot or some other such nonsense. The things which made these people great were not their foibles, but the fact they were able to overcome what we cannot and make their dreams come
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Hubbard was a plagiarist and stole as much from Crowley’s Magick symbolism and occult practices as he did from other sources when he formulated Dianetics and especially when he put Scientology together.
A key principle in critical thinking is to not make assumptions or jump to conclusions before you conduct the experiment.
In the end, Scientology has been and continues to be about one thing and one thing only: generating money and power for one man. At first that man was L. Ron Hubbard. Now it’s David Miscavige. Everything else is window dressing, designed to entrap and ruin the very people it is claiming to save. And that is Scientology.
because to know about this is to know how the sausage really gets made behind the flashy facade Miscavige presents to his followers.
(Hubbard and then Miscavige) continued to run it in a criminal fashion
It's just anyone should have the freedom to experience any emotion they need to, appropriate for the situation.
