As usual, Carmelo, your uncommon common sense makes sense.
Thanks, Rog…what you say is very sensible and well thought, as is what MAB and Ted have said.
I’m gonna throw some “of the wall” stuff up “on the wall”. 1, 2, 3….etc.
I do not claim to have any special reality or insight …quite the contrary…the one thing I am certain about is, in the grand scheme of things, how little I am certain of. Nothing that follows is intended as “personal” to or about any of y’all, so please don’t personalize anything I say. I am, however, telling some fairly “personal” stuff so please remember; I did not come here to lecture and pontificate…I’m here to dialogue and learn.
I’ve re-read the following several times and, after several hours of contemplation, have decided to “let ‘er buck!”
1. I do not doubt that others here are truthful and correct that they have had interaction with El Ron post ’86.
2. I had my own “perceptions” and “stuff” re: El Ron pre and post ’86 which, over time, have resulted in my own personal “take”.
3. I have permanently resolved nothing per se and this “take” is why I’m “agnostic”, one way or the other, re: El Ron “The Great Being” or Hisself’s current activities, “wellbeing” and “whereabouts”.
4. I’ve already commented regarding some of my comments to Carmelo.
5. I also commented to Carmelo that, in my view, El Ron got caught-up in some real nasty “shit” with some real nasty “folks” and “stuff’ and was, off and on, a “dupe”…a willing puppet if you will.
6. Some “literally”, and a lot “figuratively”, I find Mystic’s “Tulpa” take to have some merit.
7. I saw El Ron exhibit wide, discordant variances of “persona” and beingness. It was real spooky…the “energy” I perceived at times from Hisself “felt” to me as though it was not emanating from Hisself but via Hisself and it wasn't nice "stuff" at all...the "intent" and content was, for want of a better term, gravenly nauseating and perverse.
8. For anyone in “theta comm” or whatever comm with El Ron, I wouldn’t trust an f’n thing ya “hear”. Panda posted a brilliant observation over on the “Thumbnail Sketch thread:
“One thing that has always interested me about Hubbard is how he managed to appear to be whatever people thought he was.
He was many things to many people. Apparently, he still is.
I think he reflected as much as he projected.”
9. I think that, in the end, whatever “being” there was there “bought it”, is a gonner…aint comin’ back here no more and all that’s left of Hisself are the “vestiges” or strings that were attached to the puppet.
I know that all sounds harsh. I know that all sounds crazy. I know it doesn’t sound very “accepting” of Hisself. Remember, I’ve got brain damage so consider the source. I may be one of those “lesser beings” that isn’t ready for the “Spiritual Big Leagues”.
This isn’t all of my “take” but I’ve already been more blunt here than I ever thought I’d be on an open board and I think I’d best let this sit on the wall for now.
I have nothing wrong with giving El Ron credit where credit is due. Problem is, I don’t really know whom is due what credit for which or which and there’s sure enough stink around Hisself’s shit that I’m not given out any, “Thank you for telling me that El Ron…you’re needle is floating.”
Having said all that, I still don’t regret my time in Scn, the SO or with El Ron. I never wished Hisself ill…only he knew, truly, what he wished for Us…we already know plenty about what El Ron wished for Hisself.
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