Why do you want to include only people who WORKED PERSONALLY with Hubbard?
99.9% of people on this board never met him, yet post positive or negative comments (mostly negative since this is the ex-scientologists board).
Do you demand that critics of Hubbard had to work with him, too, before posting their negative comments?
ANY discussion about Hubbard is already unfair because the man is dead and cannot defend himself.
There is no need to make it even more unfair by demanding that benevolent/neutral views about Hubbard have to be uttered by eye witnesses.
KNN, You cannot see the forest because the trees are in the way.
Alongside several negative comments made about Hubbard, there are positive ones as well. The difference between us is that I knew him and worked with him for quite a while, whilst most other posters did not have that opportunity.
The picture I present is of how Hubbard actually was, his good side and his dark side.
What you have are your own extrapolations drawn from what you have read, listened to and been given as "facts" by the cult.
The general opinion drawn by Scientologists is that Hubbard thought up, created and wrote everything that is "copyrighted" by Scn. According to the propoganda theme as spouted in " My Philosophy", Hubbard was the greatest living being ever to grace this planet.
Well, sorry to introduce a bit of reality into that nice, warm, fuzzy feeling.
A LOT of what Hubbard claimed copyright on has been around in other technologies for decades before him.
Most of the tech was developed by others within Scn and Hubbard lay claim to it all.
It should be said that most processes came from piloting and contributions from org staff.
The platens for the CC and OT2 were developed from data from students running goals processes back in the early 1960's.
Hubbard was first and foremost a man. He was obsessed with the dream of being the most powerful being in the universe. Alongside his many qualities, there were equally a number of faults. He was a showman, had charisma, gathered a group of syncophants around him whom he could cdommand and control and set out on his quest.
Hubbard was brought up in a racially divisive society at a time when there was active prejudice against ethnic minorities. This, in turn, imprinted itself on him as he grew up. Hubbard held racist and homophobic views because that is what he was exposed to.
He may not have expressed them in his writings or speeches, because it was expedient not to.
But express them in private he did. Make NO mistake, Hubbard was a racist.
Dart