This lady says that Hubbard studied all these great philosophers and thinkers, and Hubbard says similar.
****Just to let you know that prior to Scientology I studied law in Mexico for 5 years and I had to study most the philosophers and thinkers and I listened to all 400 tapes in the SHSBC and I must tell you, the man knew his data down cold and was very interesting to learn all these things from the eyes of a lawyer training.
When you look at his actual life history, childhood, youth and leading up to the war etc, even just before Dianetics was written you will notice that he can't have had much time to 'study' any of this.
He probably read a few books,
***Well, I believe him because I myself by the time I was 9-11 years old have read many many books, The Diary of Anne Frank, Ivanhoe, Treasure Island, Little Women, to name a few because my father was a bibliophile and he inculcated the love for reading in me.
I'll give him that, and he seems to have worked in a mental hospital for while, or may have even been in one himself.
***Possibly both...who knows, but he came above and wrote good usable Tech...not that I agree with him 100%...noooooo....and I am fully aware that he had a lot of flaws but so many other great thinkers as well...I never thought of Ron as a super human being....
I have said it before and will say it again, as whacky as it sounds, but I personally believe a great deal of what his son Nibs said in his interview about his father.
***Could be, we don't know...only they know...But I will tell you something...I have four sisters and one of them says the most horrible things about our father, just like Nibs said about his father...yet, the other four do not think that what she says is all true...it is mostly lies...
Who would know him better?
He grew up with the guy after all.
***See above...I grew up with my sister and my father and what she says about him is horrible and yet father, in my book despite his flaws was overall a good father...see how can that be?
Also the personal accounts of people that knew Hubbard from this time tell a similar story.
***I met people in England and US that personally knew him and I heard good and bad...I am sure if people talk about you or me...will be the same...good and bad...some love us some hate us...such is life..
Hubbard was a good fantascist and fiction writer.
He even earned himself a living for whole while writing, so we know that he can write.
***To tell you the truth, as a science fiction writer he bored me to death, I did not like any of his books.
His son said that most of what his father siad about himself was highly exagerated and a a lot of it was lies.
After living 50 years on earth myself and observing people around me I must say I have often bumped into this type of character, who I could now spot more easily.
***Well, good for you...
We all want to beleive in superhumans, special powers and saints or whatever, but reality is.....
There is nobody that can turn water into wine and nobody that can make an ashtray rise just by looking at it.
***Those are parlor tricks that don't do any good for you and those who got into Scn to achieve that got what they deserved...but on the ohter hand show me a person who can grant beingness, who can be pandetermined and who can apply What is Greatness at all times and I will show you an super human, a saint and special powers...that my friend is a better goal than those parlor tricks...
Hubbard was obvioulsly an imaginative writer but also a con-man looking to make a few bob, which he did.
**You are entitled to your opinion and such I respect it...there is more than meets the eye...the con were those who used the Tech for their gains and for their stupidity...I do not have really horror stories while in Scn nothing really bad happened to me...I left because of the alteration of the Tech and the abuses to others...not for a motivator or because look what they done to me...I hated the SO (but not the Sea Org Members)and I made it loud and clear...
Ron made a lot of mistakes and he did a lot of bad things but at the end a lot of his tech has also helped others.
If you happen to live in LA, we can have a cup of coffee....
Diana
PS I never liked the hip hip and always remained in my seat or walked out when they did that shit.