...snip... L Ron Hubbard must have had doubt about his own tech to have insisted that it be preserved in such a manner. If the tech actually worked, there would be no need for the impervious preservation of it. Perhaps a bit of a stretch but, again, hmmm . . .
Thanks chuck.
Over the years, several places in policy, LRH was thinking way ahead, realize he was one of the worried adults living through the 1950s when nuclear destruction was a daily threat on the public's mind. Bomb shelters, bomb raid drills, etc.
He'd had for some time, the 1950s, thought of placing all his "tech" in South Africa, away from the northern hemisphere and the cold war threat of nuclear destruction of the northern hemisphere.
And then later, if you read his "Archives" orders, he mentions quite a lot of "space opera" stuff.
You really have to read a lot of LRH's stuff, and think about why he thought the way he did.
He did talk a lot of whole track, over the years, to his closest staff.
Look at the INCOMM policy letter even,which mentions long ago space civilizations that ran on computers successfully. He wrote a lot more privately about space opera computer stuff, even than what is public.
LRH in the tech films, has several tech films with science ficture future scenes in them.
When you really study ALL of LRH's writings and lectures, and look at how his thinking evolved, and if you also read all his fiction stuff, and you try to think like LRH thinks, then his reasoning for having his works buried, on metal plates, and also in paper form also, the paper books are special archival paper kept in titanium capsules, with the air removed and argon gas injected, so the paper books last longer.
But the big Archives/CST cost is the stainless steel plates.
In one of the CST/Archives advices he mentions that his stuff needs to be preserved so that someone later, like tens of thousands of years, can return and find it.
Which if you look online, there are some photos of the Archives vaults, and near each vault, there are these "crop circles" which are really the Kool cigarette package logo with diamonds in the center of the circles. My guess is LRH, who thought up the symbol, the symbol being the interlocking circles with a single diamond in each circle, THAT is the CST logo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Spiritual_Technology
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112601065.html
My educated guess, is that LRH, through smoking Kools for so many years, inadvertently chose the interlocking circles from the Kook packages he must have spent so many years gazing at, while smoking.
If you Google some of the articles and YouTube videos on the CST sites, you'll see the aerial views of the CST symbol.
My guess is, that we'd have to ask the former CST staff member, named Russ Bellin. Russ blew the Int Base a couple years ago, but apparantly was recovered, not sure if he's in or out.
Russ would know about the circles, as I think he is the one who bulldozed them.
http://www.xenu-directory.net/news/library.php?t=Church+of+spiritual+technology
The above link has a ton of excellent information, and if you add up all the money they've absorbed, you see it's over 80 million bucks!
Scientology has a ton of assets spread around the world.
The subject is here to stay.
I think the best that can be done is expose the worst of Hubbard's policies and the illegal stuff should obviously stop or be prosecuted.