See the little squiggle at the bottom right of his signature? It's initials, the person who signed the letter. I imagine it's the person who dictated the letter too. The typist's initials are in the lower left after "DM:". The Dwarf himself probably never even saw the things.
I used to be a Letter Reg for a few years at Saint Hill in the 70s and dictated and signed over 1000 letters a week. I read each one before I signed it (or not) to make sure the typist hadn't made any, er, transcription errors. Sometimes they did.
Paul
You mean that letter I got from LRH, back in the 70's......might actually be from you Paul?
So funny. More info please.
No. I worked in the Letter Reg Section at AOSHUK. Letters to/from LRH were handled by the SO#1 Line (Standing Order No. 1: All mail addressed to me shall be received by me. LRH [a blatant lie, but what's new?]) at Flag/Int. It could be that such answers were submitted by the local LRH Comm as he/she could be expected to have the most applicable up-to-date info on the letter-writer, but I'm not sure about that.
Letter Reges flood letters out to people in Central Files because Hubbard said it was important to do so.
Paul
No. I worked in the Letter Reg Section at AOSHUK. Letters to/from LRH were handled by the SO#1 Line (Standing Order No. 1: All mail addressed to me shall be received by me. LRH [a blatant lie, but what's new?]) at Flag/Int. It could be that such answers were submitted by the local LRH Comm as he/she could be expected to have the most applicable up-to-date info on the letter-writer, but I'm not sure about that.
Letter Reges flood letters out to people in Central Files because Hubbard said it was important to do so.
Paul
When I first found out, (on the internet somewhere) that letters from Ron were not genuine it made me so.... sad. That is such a huge basic fundamental betrayal of something that was supposed to be, well, sacred for lack of a better term.
Feeling good about having open eyes though.
-No One
2nd post wooo
When I first found out, (on the internet somewhere) that letters from Ron were not genuine it made me so.... sad. That is such a huge basic fundamental betrayal of something that was supposed to be, well, sacred for lack of a better term.
I'm not here to defend the fat dead bastard, but not ALL SO#1 letters were fakes. I have a couple from him in his scrawly handwriting, as I'm sure many others here do,
When Scn was at its peak numbers, the number of letters would be more than any person could answer, and still have time for anything else.
One major importance of the SO#1 line, was that situations could be independently communicated to Flag Management.
PS: Welcome aboard! We'd love to hear your story! DO NOT post info which could be used to identify you, since OSA monitors this board (unless, of course, you don't care, in which case fire away)
Yes, occasionally LRH would really reply. I don't know what the criteria were to get a letter sent to him, but it did happen that he would actually get a letter and personally reply. I have a friend who got such a reply, in response to an injustice done to him as an SO member. The injustice got handled.
Thank you! Been lurking for years upon years. So much of me wishes I could tell my story, but details details details would lead straight back likely, immediately.
Family still in, no bueno. Got an ip addy blocker thing set up also... that is how concerning it is.
Huge respect to those with the courage.
Raised in, Staff, then SO, very limited time as a public if any.... Maybe someday...
-No One
Yes, if your story has too many identifying details, which would lead to your being ID'd and family disconnections, then hold off on it.
I have a lot of interesting connections from family that would make it way wayyyyyyyyyyy too easy, but WOW I'm feeling so .... much weight lifted, just finally being able to post here today and feel safe doing so now with the blocker finally set up. It's really great. Thanks again for your warm welcome. I know sometimes noobs can be distrusted but I feel right at home already.
I remember that one of the LRH Comm's stat key stats was number of letters to LRH. But I think there was also a stipulation that such letters couldn't be forced, coerced, or even solicited. It was just the concept that if the LRH Comm was doing his job, then LRH's presence would be felt and people would want to communicate to him. So, you can imagine how that went down.
"Of course, you don't HAVE to write a letter to LRH. I just assumed that you would WANT to. I mean it would be pretty strange if you DIDN'T want to communicate to LRH. Could indicate some kind of out ethics situation we'd have to investigate. Anyway, I'll just leave this paper here and check back later."
One major importance of the SO#1 line, was that situations could be independently communicated to Flag Management.
I read both of these letters thinking "where have I heard term 'very well done' recently..." and remembered I'd just read a Vanity Fair article about Tom Cruise's relationship with Nazanin Boniadi and how David Miscavige interfered with it. Here's the quote: If Cruise found fault with anything she said or did said:"Very well done" or VWD is something a case supervisor writes on an auditor's worksheets after a session if everything in the session was done standardly.
It is used so often that scientologists tend to use it in everyday conversations.
When I first found out, (on the internet somewhere) that letters from Ron were not genuine it made me so.... sad. That is such a huge basic fundamental betrayal of something that was supposed to be, well, sacred for lack of a better term.
Feeling good about having open eyes though.
-No One
2nd post wooo