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"LRH = Survival, and an FN is an FN," so really nothing else matters does it?
Hubbard's desire may have been fulfilled. His mental-healing-coated, trickery-utilizing, blackmail-collecting, money-sucking and money-laundering personality-cult may last a thousand years.
The mental-healing part, initially, even has some redeeming characteristics. All the better to befuddle. The manipulative part is an art and a science - a tech in itself - and manipulating "Saps" is an Hubbardian Scientology specialty. Blackmail collecting is a long standing practice, as is money-sucking and money-laundering. And the personality-cult, with its ultimate Scientological implant of "LRH = Survival," glues the unsuspecting nicely to the treadmill.
And the treadmill now has an established existence outside the formal organization of Scientology, as does the LRH fan(atic) club (with appropriate PR camouflage), so the objective of a separate self-sustaining personality-cult has been attained.
Here's the good news: Important information on the secretive subject of Scientology, and its background, has become available for examination and analysis.
The negatives will be understood and discarded, and the positives will be salvaged and further developed.
Hubbard's desire may have been fulfilled. His mental-healing-coated, trickery-utilizing, blackmail-collecting, money-sucking and money-laundering personality-cult may last a thousand years.
The mental-healing part, initially, even has some redeeming characteristics. All the better to befuddle. The manipulative part is an art and a science - a tech in itself - and manipulating "Saps" is an Hubbardian Scientology specialty. Blackmail collecting is a long standing practice, as is money-sucking and money-laundering. And the personality-cult, with its ultimate Scientological implant of "LRH = Survival," glues the unsuspecting nicely to the treadmill.
And the treadmill now has an established existence outside the formal organization of Scientology, as does the LRH fan(atic) club (with appropriate PR camouflage), so the objective of a separate self-sustaining personality-cult has been attained.
Here's the good news: Important information on the secretive subject of Scientology, and its background, has become available for examination and analysis.
The negatives will be understood and discarded, and the positives will be salvaged and further developed.