for20
09-02-2001, 05:07 PM
http://members.nbci.com/Gator999/hubard.htm
DARK AND TERRIBLE FANTASIES: THE SHAMEFUL RISE AND FALL OF SCIENTOLOGY'S L. RON HUBBARD
Copyright 1995 by Love Ministries, Inc. Worthville, Kentucky United States of America
Emai [email protected]
He is a god, to sad and gullible followers. But his own son, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Jr., says that ninety-nine percent of everything his father ever said about himself was nothing but a pack of lies.
L. Ron Hubbard, born in 1911, had delusions of being a superhuman god. He had fallen victim to his illusions to such an extent that he spread innumerable rumors about a supernormal childhood, and an adult life filled with incredible adventures. The founder of the cult of scientology, which teaches that everyone can and should achieve superhuman status, Ron, in his biography, appears pathetically human.
The claim to have grown up on a ranch that covered most of Montana, for example, stands in stark contrast to the reality of a tiny house in Helena; the only known real estate owned by his family. The claim to have won more than twenty medals in military service also contrasts pathetically with the reality. Ron had only four, and they were the four given automatically to all personnel. Ron did not graduate from George Washington University, but dropped out after two years. He could not maintain a high enough grade-average-- and this from a man called by followers "the greatest genius ever to live."
The facts demonstrate beyond doubt that Ron was highly paranoid, a manic-depressive, and an extremely unscrupulous perpetrator of falsehood. He had his followers beaten, and their reputations and businesses ruined. In time, his scientology group established its own police-army force, whose job it was to harass and to dispose of "traitors" to the cause. Members who did not conform to the Gospel of Ron, and worship him, were called "S.P.'s" or suppressive persons. Other scientologists were told that they could like to, cheat, trick, and abuse any S.P.
Ironically, perhaps no one has ever been more suppressive than Ron himself has. He told so many lies about himself and his adventures that he spent his entire adult life engaged in phony businesses, tax evasion, and flight from the law. One writer has called him a "mixture of Adolph Hitler and Charlie Chaplin." His father was a clerk, and Ron spent his youth not on a vast and mighty ranch, learning wisdom from native Americans, but in a series of cheap rented apartments. He also lied when he said that his grandfather was a wealthy rancher and distinguished sea- captain; in reality, he was a small-town veterinarian. His father was also not a descendant of a long line of distinguished Hubbards, but an orphan. Nor was Ron's father very educated; while he briefly attended a business-school in Iowa, he dropped out, unable to obtain a degree. While, like his son, Ron's father wrote stirring tales of adventure in the navy, but honestly labeled as fiction, he was in reality a recruiting clear. After serving as a theater-usher and boo-keeper, he ended up in the navy as one of the oldest ensigns, at age thirty- two.
In his younger days, a man named "Snake" Thompson, who, in turn, had studied with Freud, and was therefore strongly influenced by the bizarre concepts of the old psychoanalytic schools, influenced Ron. When Ron was only twelve, this questionable teacher began revealing Freud's sexual theories to the impressionable youngster. Later, research was to demonstrate that "Snake" had possibly lied in his claims to be associated with Freud in anyway.
Later, Ron claimed, to have wandered the Orient at the age of fourteen, studying "secrets" with vague "wise men." In China, he claimed, an old magician had especially influenced him. The truth is, by contrast, that when Ron's father was transferred in the navy (by 1924, having become a lieutenant), Ron went with him, bringing along his ukulele.
While in that part of the world, far from respecting the ancient Orientals, he referred to the natives as "gooks". "A Chinaman cannot live up to a thing," he wrote. "He always drags it down." His racial intolerance was to reveal itself later, against blacks as well. "The trouble with China is," he wrote later, "there are to many *****s here."
In eleventh grade, he dropped out of school in Helena, Montana. He then failed the entrance examination to the naval academy at Annapolis. Medical tests revealed a severe myopia, which alone would have been enough to block his entrance. When he finally did get into college, the "great genius" got a grade- average of "D".
Typical of Ron's "adventures" was the Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition. Sailing to the Caribbean, Ron claimed to have catalogued knowledge of great scientific value, but records show no evidence of underwater hydrographic films. The University of Michigan disclaimed any of the many specimens, which Hubbard claimed to have given it, and the New Your "Times" has none of the photos, which Ron claimed that it purchased. In the West Indies Mineral Survey, Ron is claimed to have completed the first mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico. However, the U.S. Geological Survey knows nothing about it, and the Puerto Rican Department of Resources also has never heard of it.
In his second year at George Washington, Ron received an "F" in molecular and atomic physics, despite his later claim to be a nuclear physicist. In electrical and magnetic physics, he received a "D". And while followers still claim that their god wrote many millions of words in the early thirties, between 1933- 41, he published only 160 articles, which sounds like a lot, until one realizes that they were all printed in cheap pulp- magazines. Also, research has shown that he never left North America during the years in question. IN 1932, in fact, he wasted a great deal of time searching for gold, although his prospectors yielded nothing. His lust for gold, in fact, was to be a continuing theme of his life.
That same year, he married his first wife, Polly Grubb, and in 1933, had managed to earn less than one hundred dollars. Ron was starting a life-pattern of evasion and irresponsibility. Later, he wrote pulp-fiction for detective, mystery, western, and science-fiction magazines. He began to crank out poor-quality assembly-line fiction in such stories as 'Dead Men Kill," and "The Carnival of Death." And while Ron claimed to have been a popular writer for films, his name can be found on only one popular success, "The Secret of Treasure Island."
Family life was never a hindrance to his self-centered career, as he continued to churn out junky fiction, working all-night and sleeping half the day. He was completely unconcerned with the mounting bills, and bought things on credit, stating that he never planned to pay for them. Leaving his family regularly for "business" trips to New York, he was actually seeing another woman, and his wife Poll suspected. Living in an obsession with himself and his won needs, neglecting the family, it was perhaps inevitable that Ron would develop a theory that explained all human behavior on the basis of sheer survival. His egocentricity knew no bounds. "I have high hopes," he said, "of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form." He was a legend in his own mind....
:bandit:
DARK AND TERRIBLE FANTASIES: THE SHAMEFUL RISE AND FALL OF SCIENTOLOGY'S L. RON HUBBARD
Copyright 1995 by Love Ministries, Inc. Worthville, Kentucky United States of America
Emai [email protected]
He is a god, to sad and gullible followers. But his own son, Lafayette Ron Hubbard, Jr., says that ninety-nine percent of everything his father ever said about himself was nothing but a pack of lies.
L. Ron Hubbard, born in 1911, had delusions of being a superhuman god. He had fallen victim to his illusions to such an extent that he spread innumerable rumors about a supernormal childhood, and an adult life filled with incredible adventures. The founder of the cult of scientology, which teaches that everyone can and should achieve superhuman status, Ron, in his biography, appears pathetically human.
The claim to have grown up on a ranch that covered most of Montana, for example, stands in stark contrast to the reality of a tiny house in Helena; the only known real estate owned by his family. The claim to have won more than twenty medals in military service also contrasts pathetically with the reality. Ron had only four, and they were the four given automatically to all personnel. Ron did not graduate from George Washington University, but dropped out after two years. He could not maintain a high enough grade-average-- and this from a man called by followers "the greatest genius ever to live."
The facts demonstrate beyond doubt that Ron was highly paranoid, a manic-depressive, and an extremely unscrupulous perpetrator of falsehood. He had his followers beaten, and their reputations and businesses ruined. In time, his scientology group established its own police-army force, whose job it was to harass and to dispose of "traitors" to the cause. Members who did not conform to the Gospel of Ron, and worship him, were called "S.P.'s" or suppressive persons. Other scientologists were told that they could like to, cheat, trick, and abuse any S.P.
Ironically, perhaps no one has ever been more suppressive than Ron himself has. He told so many lies about himself and his adventures that he spent his entire adult life engaged in phony businesses, tax evasion, and flight from the law. One writer has called him a "mixture of Adolph Hitler and Charlie Chaplin." His father was a clerk, and Ron spent his youth not on a vast and mighty ranch, learning wisdom from native Americans, but in a series of cheap rented apartments. He also lied when he said that his grandfather was a wealthy rancher and distinguished sea- captain; in reality, he was a small-town veterinarian. His father was also not a descendant of a long line of distinguished Hubbards, but an orphan. Nor was Ron's father very educated; while he briefly attended a business-school in Iowa, he dropped out, unable to obtain a degree. While, like his son, Ron's father wrote stirring tales of adventure in the navy, but honestly labeled as fiction, he was in reality a recruiting clear. After serving as a theater-usher and boo-keeper, he ended up in the navy as one of the oldest ensigns, at age thirty- two.
In his younger days, a man named "Snake" Thompson, who, in turn, had studied with Freud, and was therefore strongly influenced by the bizarre concepts of the old psychoanalytic schools, influenced Ron. When Ron was only twelve, this questionable teacher began revealing Freud's sexual theories to the impressionable youngster. Later, research was to demonstrate that "Snake" had possibly lied in his claims to be associated with Freud in anyway.
Later, Ron claimed, to have wandered the Orient at the age of fourteen, studying "secrets" with vague "wise men." In China, he claimed, an old magician had especially influenced him. The truth is, by contrast, that when Ron's father was transferred in the navy (by 1924, having become a lieutenant), Ron went with him, bringing along his ukulele.
While in that part of the world, far from respecting the ancient Orientals, he referred to the natives as "gooks". "A Chinaman cannot live up to a thing," he wrote. "He always drags it down." His racial intolerance was to reveal itself later, against blacks as well. "The trouble with China is," he wrote later, "there are to many *****s here."
In eleventh grade, he dropped out of school in Helena, Montana. He then failed the entrance examination to the naval academy at Annapolis. Medical tests revealed a severe myopia, which alone would have been enough to block his entrance. When he finally did get into college, the "great genius" got a grade- average of "D".
Typical of Ron's "adventures" was the Caribbean Motion Picture Expedition. Sailing to the Caribbean, Ron claimed to have catalogued knowledge of great scientific value, but records show no evidence of underwater hydrographic films. The University of Michigan disclaimed any of the many specimens, which Hubbard claimed to have given it, and the New Your "Times" has none of the photos, which Ron claimed that it purchased. In the West Indies Mineral Survey, Ron is claimed to have completed the first mineralogical survey of Puerto Rico. However, the U.S. Geological Survey knows nothing about it, and the Puerto Rican Department of Resources also has never heard of it.
In his second year at George Washington, Ron received an "F" in molecular and atomic physics, despite his later claim to be a nuclear physicist. In electrical and magnetic physics, he received a "D". And while followers still claim that their god wrote many millions of words in the early thirties, between 1933- 41, he published only 160 articles, which sounds like a lot, until one realizes that they were all printed in cheap pulp- magazines. Also, research has shown that he never left North America during the years in question. IN 1932, in fact, he wasted a great deal of time searching for gold, although his prospectors yielded nothing. His lust for gold, in fact, was to be a continuing theme of his life.
That same year, he married his first wife, Polly Grubb, and in 1933, had managed to earn less than one hundred dollars. Ron was starting a life-pattern of evasion and irresponsibility. Later, he wrote pulp-fiction for detective, mystery, western, and science-fiction magazines. He began to crank out poor-quality assembly-line fiction in such stories as 'Dead Men Kill," and "The Carnival of Death." And while Ron claimed to have been a popular writer for films, his name can be found on only one popular success, "The Secret of Treasure Island."
Family life was never a hindrance to his self-centered career, as he continued to churn out junky fiction, working all-night and sleeping half the day. He was completely unconcerned with the mounting bills, and bought things on credit, stating that he never planned to pay for them. Leaving his family regularly for "business" trips to New York, he was actually seeing another woman, and his wife Poll suspected. Living in an obsession with himself and his won needs, neglecting the family, it was perhaps inevitable that Ron would develop a theory that explained all human behavior on the basis of sheer survival. His egocentricity knew no bounds. "I have high hopes," he said, "of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form." He was a legend in his own mind....
:bandit: