Dulloldfart
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Is it possible to make the thumbnails bigger as they are not legible.
Click on them! They go full screen for me and are fine.
Paul
Is it possible to make the thumbnails bigger as they are not legible.
Yep, 'tis so. And the real deal is that it demonstrates Hubbard's warped mind that he would decry and attempt to destroy and/or deny a workable tech to people (and not to say probably, actually lie about the issue) because of his peccadilloes.
Then the dog flips again to blame us for his action when he wants to use that which he had shat on!
R
Click on them and they open in a separate window or tab . . . then you can further expand them with a click and + cursor . . . they then are perfectly legible.Hi Rog, my 1967 version has this passage the same as the 1970's version.
Is it possible to make the thumbnails bigger as they are not legible.
Yeah, it's quite telling, isn't it? And this is in his reportedly "good" period of the early 50s when he was supposed to have been at his most OT. It would be good to have a big list of the thoroughly EVIL things he did, like this, just to conteract the "Hubbard was wonderful" line.
Paul
Rog — hadn't Hubbard lost legal control of Dianetics in some way for several years in the 50s? I remember reading about that somewhere. Maybe something about Don Purcell (?) owning the rights (I'm not sure what rights exactly) for several years and then giving them back to Hubbard. It would make sense (to his way of thinking) to denigrate Dn in that case if he couldn't personally get money or power from it.
Yeah, here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/townsend/5.htm. Excerpt:
In April 1952 the Foundation finally went bankrupt. Its assets were bought by Purcell. These included the sole right to the name 'Hubbard Dianetic Foundation' and the publishing rights and copyrights on all the Foundation's publications, including 'Dianetics-Modern Science and Mental Health'.Paul
Hubbard had meanwhile transplanted the Hubbard College to Phoenix Arizona, where he established Scientology. This seems to have been a conscious decision to abandon the Dianetics field for the moment.
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In late 1954 Purcell decided he would give up Dianetics and he would switch his support to the breakaway group, Synergetics. He agreed to return the Dianetic copyrights and publishing rights to Hubbard.
This, five days ago, did it for me concerning Hubbard. For years I had been giving him the benefit of the doubt, to some extent allowing him his "complexity." Now my view is similar to that of the cynical critic, that all along Hubbard was only following the prime directive from his Affirmations of smashing his name into history, through the broken lives of anyone in his way.
I haven't changed my mind concerning the usefulness of some parts of Scientology, merely about Hubbard's motives. Far from complexity, I can see a singlemindedness of purpose. It makes some things much easier to understand: he basically didn't give much of a rat's ass about anything else.
Paul
It's been fermenting for those five days, has it?
It is a bit of a shocker when you put this kind of info together and see how deceitful, stupidly destructive of tech and good works, he was.
I was thinking of starting a thread to do exactly that, my friend. But I couldn't be bothered.
Paul
Yeah, but it would be more a thread listing out examples like the Dianetic one here showcasing his thorough selfishness in regard to tech, whatever its source — not so much evil purposes as depraved indifference. When sufficiently nauseating, it could then be thrust into the face of the fawning "Ron, My Hero" crowd.
Paul
To be objective He sold his rights because he was down on his luck
I don't see how that makes a difference. He first praised Dianetics, then when he could no longer make money from it he nullified it, then when it was back under his control praised it again. That is despicable.
Paul
Volney G. Mathison (also known by the pseudonym Dex Volney) was an American chiropractor, writer, and inventor of the E-meter.
he did the same with the Volney Mathison Meter
Yes, indeed. Well spotted. Maybe you could do the thread.
Paul
To be objective He sold his rights because he was down on his luck
Dear Jenni,
The materials you have are INVALUABLE!
Do NOT let the church of Scientology have them!
They will likely destroy anything that would put Hubbard in a bad light and use every information they can extrapolate to damage the reputation of Don Purcell, your father and anybody who was active at the foundation and stayed with Don Purcell.
This letter gives a different outlook at those times: http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/carto/rxxx.htm
Thank you.
I still see posts from people saying how the original books were just fine and DM's changes of them for 2007 involved worsening them. My response has to be Dox or STFU.
I have not seen one single comparison of the actual texts of the two sets of books apart from the ones I have noted on this thread. I know DM has chopped whole words or sentences out of PDC tapes, but that is a different area. This topic is the 2007 books.
TL;DR version: as far as I can tell from actually eyeballing the damn things, the 2007 versions are closer to the Hubbard original dictation than earlier versions, even if it was DM that did it.
Paul
In the overall scheme of things, is it an important or "good thing" for DM's book versions to be closer to the Hubbard's original dictation?
I prefer the truth of the matter to be known.
Paul