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Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.
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L. Ron Hubbard (Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought)
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Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the the best way would be to start his own religion.
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L. Ron Hubbard
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Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.
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Jenna Miscavige Hill (Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape)
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I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these two goats [Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard].
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Aleister Crowley
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Life without her would be an endless succession of purposeless days lived with a heavy hopelessness
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L. Ron Hubbard (Fear)
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by its founder, L. Ron Hubbard (LRH), is incredibly alluring. Scientology offers a clearly laid out scientific process that helps you to overcome your limitations and realize your full potential for greatness. It is presented as a well-defined path to achieving total spiritual freedom and enlightenment and a full understanding of yourself and others.
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Leah Remini (Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology)
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Now, Kendra realized, leaving Scientology was about much more than simply deciding not go to church or use language developed by L. Ron Hubbard. It was about learning to live in a world that hadn't in some way been designed by L. Ron Hubbard.
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Janet Reitman (Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion)
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Hubbard was not just gunning for contemporary mental health practitioners; he claimed that 75 million years ago, psychiatrists helped carry out genocide in the Galactic Confederacy.
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Steve Cannane (Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia)
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Back in the day, the story goes, four science fiction writers - Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert and L Ron Hubbard - were hanging out late at night in 1940 in LA, drinking and putting the world to rights. They made a bet, who could dream up the best religion? Asimov explained in a TV interview in the 1980s that it was more of a dare than a true bet, and the goal was not a religion proper but ‘who can make the best religious story.’ The results were ‘Nightfall’ by Asimov, ‘Dune’ by Herbert, ‘Job’ by Heinlein and ‘Dianetics’ by Hubbard. If the first version of the story is true, Hubbard won the bet. They
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John Sweeney (The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology)
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Thus, at twenty hundred hours Friday, the twenty-fourth of January, AD 36 [Hubbard’s calendar: ‘after Dianetics’], L. Ron Hubbard discarded the body he had used in this lifetime for seventy-four years, ten months, and eleven days. The body he had used to facilitate his existence in this MEST universe had ceased to be useful and in fact had become an impediment to the work he now must do outside of its confines.
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Mike Rinder (A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology)
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Economics are as simple as they are not obscured. And as confused as they are made to serve a selfish purpose. Any child can understand—and practice—the basic principles of economics. But grown men, huge with the stature of Government or Chain Banks, find it very useful to obscure the subject beyond all comprehension. The things that are done in the name of 'economic necessity' would shame Satan. For they are done by the selfish few to deny the many. Economics easily evolve into the science of making people miserable. Nine-tenths of life are economic. The remaining one-tenth is social-political. If there is this fruitful source of suppression loose upon the world and if it makes people unhappy, then it is a legitimate field for comment in Scientology as it must form a large 'misunderstood' in our daily lives. Let us see how involved it can be made. If Mankind increases in number and if property and goods increase, then money must also increase unless we are to arrive at a point where none can buy. Yet money is pegged to a metal of which there is just so much and no more—gold. So if Man's expansion is to be checked, it will be checked simply by running out of this metal. And aside from art uses and superstition, the metal, gold, has almost no practical value. Iron is far more useful, but as it is one of the most common elements about, it would not serve the purpose of suppression of Man's growth. MONEY IS SIMPLY A SYMBOL THAT PEOPLE ARE CONFIDENT CAN BE CONVERTED INTO GOODS.
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L. Ron Hubbard
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I came up with a theory: pain must need your attention to exist. If you can direct your attention away from the pain, it can’t continue to exist.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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In other words, my schedule had always been my own. I was a free spirit and an entrepreneur. This, I knew, would change when I joined the Sea Organization.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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Sea Org members become cynical after a few of these painful experiences and adopt the unwritten motto of the Sea Org: “There is never time to do it right but always time to do it twice.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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When you stop dreaming, you die a little, a wise man once said.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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A philosophy is just a philosophy. Nearly everybody follows someone else’s way of dealing with life or makes up their own or creates a blend of the two.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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Many people become interested in Scientology because they have something personal they want to deal with, but when they see it working for them, they think, Hey, this is something that might help a lot of people. Let me do everything I can to help.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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People did not know any other way to live. They were born in to it, and that was life.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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Rather than concentrating on the substance of Scientology, the church today is focused merely on appearances. It just demands donations to fund fancy buildings, which other former church members have documented as being largely empty.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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A person can choose to live a fruitful, productive life helping people, and I firmly believe that you get the most benefit out of life that way. If you begin doing evil stuff, it is going to come back to you somehow. If there is one point where I think Scientology falls down it is this: Hubbard stated time and time again that Scientology was a scientific approach to the mind and life.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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That is authoritarianism and it quickly becomes a cult, which is what Scientology is today. Ever
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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common technique used by cults to brainwash their followers is gradual immersion in cult mythology and philosophy. To put it bluntly, it is often advisable to keep the more wacko beliefs and practices out of your new recruit’s faces until they are sufficiently wacko themselves. Now, the problem for the Church of Scientology is that on the wacko scale the higher level works of Ron hover somewhere near the figure 10. To an outsider it is an immediate farse [sic]. But to a follower who has become psychologically dependent on the Church’s philosophy & society and invested thousands and thousands of dollars in doing so, it is just another step on the road to mental subservience. What
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Steve Cannane (Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia)
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Hold on a minute, I thought to myself, there is something really, really wrong here. That he would have me followed and allow me to die—this guy treasures his position of wealth and power above the relationship with a father. That was hard to face. This
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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Nelson Mandela spoke the God’s honest truth when he said that holding on to anger is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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When you stop dreaming, you die a little, a wise man once said. Is
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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During this second stay, David was a good student in school and got along with others so long as they left him alone. Because he was small, he sometimes got bullied. He wouldn't take it and punched out any kid who picked on him.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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America, built on religious contrarianism, has incubated a far wider and more exotic range of votive beliefs than anywhere else on earth, with the possible exception of India. And without wanting to disparage anyone’s fondest faith, America’s big sky and bigger spiritual yearning has led to some truly eye-bulging and belief-suspending premises for salvation. It’s difficult to imagine that the golden plates engraved with the book of Mormon could have been found anywhere but in the New World, or that L. Ron Hubbard would have found a congregation for Scientology. The fervor of religious experience has been a constant throttle and brake on American life, from the witch hunts of seventeenth-century Massachusetts to the New Age pantheistic hedonism and self-help of twenty-first-century Arizona.
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A.A. Gill (To America with Love)
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Since the first settlers arrived in Jamestown and Plymouth, our common life has been shaped by a succession of fascinating, only-in-America faiths: the chilly Deism of the eighteenth century and the warm metaphysical bath of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Transcendentalism; the Mormon theocracy of the nineteenth century and the New Age movements of the 1960s; Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science and L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology; and many, many more. But
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Ross Douthat (Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics)
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Looking back, I ask myself whether WikiLeaks itself during my last months there had developed into a kind of religious cult. It had become a system that admitted little internal criticism. Anything that went wrong had to be the fault of something on the outside. The guru was untouchable and beyond question. Any external danger encouraged internal cohesion. Anyone who offered too much criticism was punished by being withdrawn from communication or by being threatened with possible consequences. Moreover, WL participants were only allowed to know as much as was absolutely necessary for them to carry out their appointed tasks. In any case, this much can be said: From reading the Scientology documents, and the philosophy and teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, Julian learned only too well how a cult of personality functions.
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Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website)
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information. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it’s hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help
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Jenna Miscavige Hill (Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape)
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What unites all of these individual Scientologists is a belief in their inherent spiritual imperfection, which can be rectified—if not totally reversed—only through intense study of, and rigid adherence to, the teachings of a single man: Scientology’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Though he has been dead some twenty years, Hubbard’s followers regard him as a living, vital entity—a personal Jesus of sorts.
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Janet Reitman (Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion)
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Because David’s mother, Loretta, refused to sign up for that, she and Ron agreed to divorce. She continued in Scientology, rising to the summit as an OT VIII. She worked as an accountant for the law firm of Greta Van Susteren, the television commentator, and her husband, John Coale, both Scientologists, who maintain a mansion on Clearwater Beach.
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Lawrence Wright (Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief)
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The more u try to help men physically, apparently the less progress u make. It was only when we begin to treat man as a spiritual being, who was not really dependent on the body or the flesh that we made any progress at all. Man is a spiritual being, he is not a piece of flesh. And when u begin to handle men on the basis he is a spirit, that he has unlimited ability, that he is not necessarily pinned down into, like everybody has just so much IQ and they can never have any further IQ, and we start that approach you see we lose. But when we say he is a spirit with infinite capability, and we then try to improve that capability, in that way we win, and we win very easily.
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L. Ron Hubbard
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for my whole life I have believed that, regardless of the hand we are dealt, each of us chooses how we play our cards.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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So, early in his career, David acquired status as a messenger. He also acquired
a taste for power. Messengers already had a certain amount of altitude and
therefore power, quite a bit actually; they even had authority over longtime
Scientologists, many of whom had been in Scientology for decades and had
reached its highest levels of auditor training, executive status, and auditing
advancement. This was probably a big mistake on Hubbard’s part, since it meant
that young people without a lot of Scientology experience were making
important decisions based on their position as Commodore’s Messengers but not
a lot of personal experience with Scientology, its technology or administrative
policy. The value of status over experience was a lesson David absorbed early
on, and it became encoded in his DNA. Looking back on it now, I am sure that
this is when he began to change.
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Ron Miscavige (Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me)
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Numerous new philosophies were born and sold during the mid-twentieth century in the United States, many of them led by charismatic leaders who promised scientifically guaranteed remedies for everything from sickness to unemployment. With the exception of a few—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Reverend Billy Graham—most of those prophets have long since been forgotten, along with their techniques. So why did L. Ron Hubbard’s creed continue to exist, and to grow, well into the 1960s and beyond? Perhaps the easiest answer would be the singular force that was L. Ron Hubbard himself.
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Janet Reitman (Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion)
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Scientology processing, which tended to produce subservience amounting almost to mental enslavement.
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Russell Miller (Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard)
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49.TRUE OR FALSE: 2006’S CASINO ROYALE WAS THE FIRST BOND MOVIE THAT COULD BE WATCHED IN CHINA. True. It was the first film in the James Bond series that the Chinese censor board approved. 50.TRUE OR FALSE: THE FIRST INTERRACIAL KISS IN TELEVISION HISTORY HAPPENED ON STAR TREK. True. Although the network originally didn’t want to air it, William Shatner reportedly sabotaged all of the other shoots, forcing the network to run the kiss. 51.TRUE OR FALSE: THE FIRST TELEVISION COMMERCIAL EVER WAS A CAR COMMERCIAL. False. It was actually a commercial for watches, and it aired in 1941. 52.TRUE OR FALSE: ACTOR JIM CAVIEZEL WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING WHILE PORTRAYING JESUS IN THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST. True. Caviezel suffered a large number of calamities during the filming, but this one seemed like a bit of an omen. 53.TRUE OR FALSE: BRYAN ADAMS’ FAMOUS SONG “SUMMER OF ‘69” IS NAMED AFTER THE SEX POSITION, NOT THE YEAR. True. In fact, Adams was just 9 years old during the summer of 1969. 54.TRUE OR FALSE: THE ROLLING STONES PERFORMED IN BACK TO THE FUTURE 3. False. But ZZ Top did! 55.TRUE OR FALSE: THE WORD “FUCK” WAS ONCE SAID OVER 1,000 TIMES IN ONE MOVIE. False. But Swearnet: The Movie came close with the word appearing 935 times—a record amount! 56.TRUE OR FALSE: BATTLEFIELD EARTH WAS WRITTEN BY THE FOUNDER OF SCIENTOLOGY. True. L. Ron Hubbard was a well-known science fiction writer in addition to being the founder of Scientology.
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Shane Carley (True Facts that Sound Like Bulls#*t: 500 Insane-But-True Facts That Will Shock And Impress Your Friends)
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Imi place sa-i ajut pe altii si consider ca cea mai mare placere a vietii este sa vezi un om eliberat de umbrele care-i intuneca zilele.
Aceste umbre par atat de dese si il apasa atat de mult, incat atunci cand descopera ca acestea sunt doar umbre si ca poate vedea prin ele si poate sta sub soare, el este nespus de incantat.
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L. Ron Hubbard
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In letters to his inner circle he used Scientology terminology and later adapted some of it into NXIVM teachings—though in court battles, he later denied being influenced by Dianetics, L. Ron Hubbard’s pseudoscientific theory of mental health.
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Sarah Berman (Don't Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM)