He-man
Hero extraordinary
I believe DCAnon first posted this and I think it's still relevant to my interests:
My tummie is hurting... thx!
The Way to Happiness
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My tummie is hurting... thx!
La La Lou Lou
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Way to happiness is to Ethics what readers digest is to the British library.
secretiveoldfag
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The Way to Happiness is currently (April 2011) being distributed to the people of Cartagena, Colombia and probably to others elsewhere.
When this publication was discussed on this board in 2009 people said they felt it was borderline useful as a guide to ethical thinking for children, embarrassingly naive, drastically at odds with the home life of our dear Tubbie.
Two posters saw a deeper purpose.
Is there any evidence at all, from any country in the world, that TWTH has succeeded in softening up people into a positive acceptance of Scientology? Do numbers of converts go up after Happiness campaigns?
Does anyone have any further insights into what CoS is hoping to achieve by distributing TWTH to third-world populations?
When this publication was discussed on this board in 2009 people said they felt it was borderline useful as a guide to ethical thinking for children, embarrassingly naive, drastically at odds with the home life of our dear Tubbie.
Two posters saw a deeper purpose.
Is there any evidence at all, from any country in the world, that TWTH has succeeded in softening up people into a positive acceptance of Scientology? Do numbers of converts go up after Happiness campaigns?
Does anyone have any further insights into what CoS is hoping to achieve by distributing TWTH to third-world populations?
Veda
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Many of these third-world populations have never been exposed to wonderful LRH "datums" such as, "A 'feeling of guilt' is no where near as sharp as a knife in the back or ground glass in the soup." They deserve to have a chance to be connected to Source just as we have.
FoTi
Crusader
They're trying to gain public acceptance of LRH and use it as a gentle step to getting people to maybe accept and reach for Scientology. In other words, if they can get people to accept TWTH, then they can try to spoon feed them the next course toward getting hooked into the Bridge and the CoS, and maybe get people to join the SO. Also they make money off the sale of TWTH booklets which the public buys, for them to be given away to all those poor people out there who they think can't live without TWTH, and need it to cognite on how great LRH and Scientology must be.
It's kind of like giving a free sample of a drug in hopes that one will get hooked on it and then pay for more.....hopefully it will create some ARC with the name LRH and get some people interested in following the trail to more. I think it works to help get kids to accept it when they are young, but now with the internet the kiddies can go look it up and find out it might be something to stay away from.
It sometimes helps to fool the police and sheriffs and politicians or political leaders in society ...... they tend to think that it's something good until someone comes along and educates them otherwise. It's designed to try to make LRH and the CoS look good, but if you notice, the CoS doesn't abide by TWTH and neither did LRH. It's totally a front group to try to make the CoS more acceptable in society, just like all their other front groups.
They might find it easier to get their foot in the door in third world countries due to a probable lack of as much bad PR as they are getting in the U.S. and other more advanced areas these days. More suceptable, less educated, "raw meat" for them to turn into hamburger.
There also is another factor in sales.....the more times you can get a person to say yes or agree with what you are putting forth to them, the more likely they are going to say yes when you go to close them on the sale. TWTH booklet is supposedly something that most people can agree on. The CoS is all about sales. .... either selling people on paying for their Bridge or their courses or selling people on the idea of sacrificing their time and their life to be in the SO or on staff..... for the good of mankind and saving the planet, of course.
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ChuckNorrisCutsMyLawn
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To be honest about it I found The Way To Happiness to be one of Hubbard's most useful publications. It worked better to start fires in my fireplace than most of the glossy paper the cult's other rags are printed on. It was easy to light and didn't produce much smoke. I highly recommend it to anyone with a fireplace or wood burning stove.
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Many of these third-world populations have never been exposed to wonderful LRH "datums" such as, "A 'feeling of guilt' is no where near as sharp as a knife in the back or ground glass in the soup." They deserve to have a chance to be connected to Source just as we have.
oooh! devilishly deserved disrespect!
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If Scientology thought they could get away with it, they would have no compunctions whatsoever about editing TWTH for differing cultures to promote the surveyed buttons.
EXAMPLE: For cannibals there would be a precept about how the road to happiness is best traveled when carving out the heart of your enemies and sharing it with loved ones at dinnertime. Even that would be further edited for cannibals on the RPF who would not be allowed to eat humans until they are in a higher condition.
EXAMPLE: For cannibals there would be a precept about how the road to happiness is best traveled when carving out the heart of your enemies and sharing it with loved ones at dinnertime. Even that would be further edited for cannibals on the RPF who would not be allowed to eat humans until they are in a higher condition.
Gadfly
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HH, you do so very well grasp the true nature of Hubbard's "data".
Just like in listing, the aim is to "survey", determine the button (what some person needs and wants, what "indicates"), and then happily, with wonderfully phony affinity, give THIS back to the person as if it were some huge amazing event!
Scientology is so very much a case of "telling them what they want to hear", while also DOING TO THEM something entirely different!
Scientology is simply so DEVIOUS.
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Gadfly
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The point is that THTH book is a "hook", something itself innocuous or possibly even having some value, that has as its purpose to ATTRACT PEOPLE INTO THE BIGGER SCAM. It is part of the gradient to attract and entrap people.
Taken within the overall context of Scientology, it is a "bad thing". It is a flashy little lure used to attract unsuspecting dupes.
Taken out of that context, and applied without ANY connection to Scientology or any Scientology organization, it might have some value to some.
But, to understand anything, one must correctly understand CONTEXT. Nothing exists all alone by itself, and it is often the connections to OTHER things that enable one to define something clearly as to what it is and does.
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Veda
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Under the precept, "Don't do anything illegal," Hubbard wrote:
"In a cloudy - and often crime ridden society - one has to consult an attorney or be specially trained to know them all... It is an action, which if done, can result in punishment by the courts and state; and being pilloried by the state propaganda machine... see that children and people become informed of what is 'legal' ands what is 'illegal'."
As with Hubbard's placement of quotes around a "feeling of guilt" (in his "ground glass in the soup" precept), notice Hubbard's use of quotes here also.
After the person (the "wog" in need of "Hubbard Guidance") reads the booklet, he will then see, in the back of the booklet, that it was written by L. Ron Hubbard.
He is now free from the dangers of ground glass in the soup and from being pilloried by the state propaganda machine, and what can he say but,
"Thank you Dr. Hubbard."
He has taken his first step on the "Bridge to Total Freedom."
"In a cloudy - and often crime ridden society - one has to consult an attorney or be specially trained to know them all... It is an action, which if done, can result in punishment by the courts and state; and being pilloried by the state propaganda machine... see that children and people become informed of what is 'legal' ands what is 'illegal'."
As with Hubbard's placement of quotes around a "feeling of guilt" (in his "ground glass in the soup" precept), notice Hubbard's use of quotes here also.
After the person (the "wog" in need of "Hubbard Guidance") reads the booklet, he will then see, in the back of the booklet, that it was written by L. Ron Hubbard.
He is now free from the dangers of ground glass in the soup and from being pilloried by the state propaganda machine, and what can he say but,
"Thank you Dr. Hubbard."
He has taken his first step on the "Bridge to Total Freedom."
xseaorguk
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TWTH
when the little booklets first came out and I heard about them being distributed in their thousands around the universe etc I felt embarrassed for my cult.
I would have felt ashamed to give that shite to anyone I knew to be honest.
As HH said its all so silly stuff about "be nice to your parents" "don't kill anybody" and "brush your teeth" etc.
They also looked really cheap and bit like the Yellow Brick Road on the front as far as I remember.
Apart from that I now realize that life is not always about being happy all the friggin time.
$cientologists really believe that you could constantly be in "enthusiasm" and still be sane and wonderful.
Load of crap
when the little booklets first came out and I heard about them being distributed in their thousands around the universe etc I felt embarrassed for my cult.
I would have felt ashamed to give that shite to anyone I knew to be honest.
As HH said its all so silly stuff about "be nice to your parents" "don't kill anybody" and "brush your teeth" etc.
They also looked really cheap and bit like the Yellow Brick Road on the front as far as I remember.
Apart from that I now realize that life is not always about being happy all the friggin time.
$cientologists really believe that you could constantly be in "enthusiasm" and still be sane and wonderful.
Load of crap
Challenge
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Cartagena
They are prolly trying to create a scenario wherein they are the 'good guys' ( if a bit balmy) in the eyes of the Colombians.
Cartagena is a very modern city which makes millions of dollars dealing in, growing, and distributing drugs. Cocaine, I believe.
Caratgena has a great seaport, with many vessels putting in there from all over the world. Freewinds can be invisible there, if it chooses. An ideal scene from which to launder money, as well as procure Cocaine/Heroin by the frickin TON.
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'member how the Apollo had the hold stacked with cases of Spanish wine? S'pose the Freewinds has hers stacked with drugs? Easily hidden from the Scn public, and from Staff as well.
chlng
They are prolly trying to create a scenario wherein they are the 'good guys' ( if a bit balmy) in the eyes of the Colombians.
Cartagena is a very modern city which makes millions of dollars dealing in, growing, and distributing drugs. Cocaine, I believe.
Caratgena has a great seaport, with many vessels putting in there from all over the world. Freewinds can be invisible there, if it chooses. An ideal scene from which to launder money, as well as procure Cocaine/Heroin by the frickin TON.
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'member how the Apollo had the hold stacked with cases of Spanish wine? S'pose the Freewinds has hers stacked with drugs? Easily hidden from the Scn public, and from Staff as well.
chlng
Veda
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"Accused of drug smuggling one can show he's a member of the anti-drug league..." PR Series 18, 1972
"I am not interested in wog morality... I can make captain Bligh look like a Sunday School teacher." L. Ron Hubbard, 1969.
Then, ten years later, after Hubbard had been caught applying his Fair Game Law, and it looked as though he might go to prison, and face possible indictment by Grand Juries in Florida and New York - he wrote a little booklet.
It was called 'The Way to Happiness' and was written as protective PR cover, after the court ordered release of documents revealing his extensive Fair Game and covert attack tech, orders, and related covert operations. Hubbard was in hiding at the time, and his wife (who took the rap for him) was headed for federal prison.
"I am not interested in wog morality... I can make captain Bligh look like a Sunday School teacher." L. Ron Hubbard, 1969.
Then, ten years later, after Hubbard had been caught applying his Fair Game Law, and it looked as though he might go to prison, and face possible indictment by Grand Juries in Florida and New York - he wrote a little booklet.
It was called 'The Way to Happiness' and was written as protective PR cover, after the court ordered release of documents revealing his extensive Fair Game and covert attack tech, orders, and related covert operations. Hubbard was in hiding at the time, and his wife (who took the rap for him) was headed for federal prison.
secretiveoldfag
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So basically TWTH is a free lunch but anyone given a free booklet should look out for ground glass in the soup.
This is already happening though not with the sacred scripture. There is a specific black-Hispanic tie-in with Applied Scholastics using the Smith kids as poster kids. This was used some years ago in the Clear Santa Domingo campaign.
I still have no idea how successful TWTH is in real terms in getting raw meat into the orgs, or what else Scientology might hope to achieve with its distribution campaigns. The situation in Colombia seems to be hotting up with regular visits by the failboat from last year and possibly support from Hispanics in the Florida orgs. They have converts or at least contacts in the police and armed forces.
Any Hispanic or Spanish-speaking Exes who could monitor this situation and stop too many meatballs getting into the soup?
This is already happening though not with the sacred scripture. There is a specific black-Hispanic tie-in with Applied Scholastics using the Smith kids as poster kids. This was used some years ago in the Clear Santa Domingo campaign.
I still have no idea how successful TWTH is in real terms in getting raw meat into the orgs, or what else Scientology might hope to achieve with its distribution campaigns. The situation in Colombia seems to be hotting up with regular visits by the failboat from last year and possibly support from Hispanics in the Florida orgs. They have converts or at least contacts in the police and armed forces.
Any Hispanic or Spanish-speaking Exes who could monitor this situation and stop too many meatballs getting into the soup?
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7-1. DO NOT TELL HARMFUL LIES.
Harmful lies are the product of fear, malice and envy. They can drive people to acts of desperation. They can ruin lives. They create a kind of trap into which the teller and the target can both fall. Interpersonal and social chaos can result. Many wars began because of harmful lies.
Do not tell harmful lies.
Yes, Commodore, we duplicate you, sir!
Per your sage advice, we'll knock off those lies and just stick with the other lies, sir.
Harmful lies are the product of fear, malice and envy. They can drive people to acts of desperation. They can ruin lives. They create a kind of trap into which the teller and the target can both fall. Interpersonal and social chaos can result. Many wars began because of harmful lies.
Do not tell harmful lies.
Yes, Commodore, we duplicate you, sir!
Per your sage advice, we'll knock off those lies and just stick with the other lies, sir.
secretiveoldfag
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When he wrote this garbage was he wearing his Boy Scout hat? 
I am still trying to understand how being a good boy or girl would soften up your average Columbian for Dianetics. Not when faced with the nitty-gritty. But CoS is putting a lot of effort and money into its mission to Colombia at the moment.
Does the cult have a blueprint for converting poor hot countries which involves TWTH? Did Tubbie set up something?
What is the official view of TWTH in CoS levels where they have lost their ability to smile?
I am still trying to understand how being a good boy or girl would soften up your average Columbian for Dianetics. Not when faced with the nitty-gritty. But CoS is putting a lot of effort and money into its mission to Colombia at the moment.
Does the cult have a blueprint for converting poor hot countries which involves TWTH? Did Tubbie set up something?
What is the official view of TWTH in CoS levels where they have lost their ability to smile?
Voltaire's Child
Fool on the Hill
It's a simplistic little book. I always kinda thought so.