“’The position is L Ron Hubbard [and others] acquired premises somewhere in Los Angeles which they had registered as a university called Sequoia and immediately awarded each other doctorates.’”
what an awesome idea! hey anybody want to go in and start a “University” so we can award each other degrees?
What a clever man. Charlatan yes but he had some great ideas that made him a mint apparently.
I’ve been told by a very knowledgeable novelist friend that Hubbard, a sort of mid-level sci-fi writer, bet another writer that he could invent a religion and get people to believe in it. He won the bet with “Dianetics” which later became “Scientology”. I wonder how God reacts when these poor dummies die and are called to the judgement? He might just let them off the hook as “mentally deficient” and not responsible for believing this stupid crap.
In this life, I figure they serve a useful purpose, though, by giving Jehovah’s Witnesses somebody to laugh at.
“anybody want to go in and start a “University” “
The Hugh Series Institute!
“hey anybody want to go in and start a “University” so we can award each other degrees?”
That is an often used “creation scientists” approach. No attempt to thread hijack; but it is common for “religious” organizations seeking to bamboozle the easily impressed to give themselves meaningless degrees from diploma mills that they own.