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L. Ron Hubbard was born 100 years ago today (vanity)

Posted on 03/13/2011 8:46:01 AM PDT by Borges

All I could find in the media was PR garbage issued by his 'church' which I didn't think was worth posting. But it's still a good time to ponder this strange Sci-Fi cult.


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KEYWORDS: 1stclassazzhole; cultleader; evil; evilman; evilsob
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1 posted on 03/13/2011 8:46:07 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
No mention of $¢i€nto£og¥ is complete without a link to Operation Clambake

Hail Xenu!

2 posted on 03/13/2011 8:50:11 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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To: Borges
And Lord Xenu celebrates!
3 posted on 03/13/2011 8:51:35 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: Borges

Here is a fairly objective bio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard


4 posted on 03/13/2011 8:51:53 AM PDT by rwa265 (Christ my Cornerstone)
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To: Borges
Science fiction writer turned his pathetic attempts at clever story line into a multimillion dollar religious venture. I guess that is an accomplishment.
5 posted on 03/13/2011 8:52:07 AM PDT by svcw (You will never understand Grace until you understand you do not deserve it)
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To: Borges

Stan Marsh from South Park is hundred years old who knew LOL!


6 posted on 03/13/2011 8:52:24 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: Borges

Elron’s 15 minutes are clearly up.


7 posted on 03/13/2011 8:52:35 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
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To: Borges

Ron the “War Hero”
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/battle.htm


8 posted on 03/13/2011 8:53:39 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Borges
He died?
9 posted on 03/13/2011 8:53:44 AM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: KarlInOhio
So you have questions about Scientology...
10 posted on 03/13/2011 8:55:13 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 781 of our national holiday from reality. - tic. tic. tic. It's almost 3 AM)
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To: SevenofNine

Maybe now we can get John Travolta and Tom Cruise out of the closet.


11 posted on 03/13/2011 8:56:56 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: KarlInOhio

12 posted on 03/13/2011 8:57:22 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
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To: Glenn

No. He dropped his body in order to continue his spiritual research into areas that are too intense for a body to survive. </True Believer>


13 posted on 03/13/2011 8:57:44 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 781 of our national holiday from reality. - tic. tic. tic. It's almost 3 AM)
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To: rwa265

Objective? It was probably written by Tom Cruise.


14 posted on 03/13/2011 8:58:06 AM PDT by svcw (You will never understand Grace until you understand you do not deserve it)
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To: svcw

Back about 1950 Elron made the statement that a true achievement would be to fabricate a world class religion. In this he would seem to have been successful. How he did it remains a mystery. Anyone who has had an initial contact with Scientology and is reasonably normal must pick up on the inherent strangeness of them. I lived in California in the mid-70’s and attended Scientology outreach session along with other pseudoreligions such as EST and Ekancar also had. The Scientologists were by far the best organized and the wierdest. I just wanted to get out as quickly as possible.


15 posted on 03/13/2011 8:58:24 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: svcw

Hubbard wrote grade B pulp science fiction and hundreds of thousands of stupid people accepted it as their religion;it just shows how gullible and desperate some people are to find solace and how cynical are those like Hubbard and others who promote false religions.


16 posted on 03/13/2011 8:59:23 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: Borges
Not dead enough: NSFW
17 posted on 03/13/2011 9:00:44 AM PDT by Salo
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To: Borges

I have the proud distinction of having read all ten volumes of “Mission Earth.” OK....it ain’t exactly great literature, but it did help kill a nice chunk of uncomfortable time for me.

Anyone else read it all? Anyone else think that Vol. 10 was written by someone other than L Ron?


18 posted on 03/13/2011 9:00:44 AM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: Borges
It is widely believed that the creation of Scientology was the result of a bar bet between L. Ron Hubbard and Robert A. Heinlein. The story says L. Ron Hubbard dared that he could create a religion all by himself. According to Scientology critic Lindsay[4] this is "definitely not true", no such bet was ever made, it would have been "uncharacteristic of Heinlein" to make such a bet, and "there's no supporting evidence". However, several of Heinlein's autobiographical pieces, as well as biographical pieces written by his wife, claim repeatedly that the bet did indeed occur.
--Bar Bet
19 posted on 03/13/2011 9:01:12 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Salo

LOL!


20 posted on 03/13/2011 9:04:09 AM PDT by samtheman
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