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July 18, 2005
Scientology Stuff
In honor of Dan, who is just back from vacationing in Philadelphia and DC, I am posting these links about one of the most powerful cults in America. First is Slate's story about how messed up L. Ron Hubbard was. I had heard a lot of this stuff before, but did not know that Hubbard had taken part in Satanic rituals to summon the antichrist, that Hubbard's wife and associates went to prison for their part in a massive anti-government conspiracy, or that Hubbard was using anti-psychotic medication when he died. As Tom Cruise could tell you anti-psychotic meds are a big no-no for scientologists.
Speaking of Tom Cruise, tomcruiseisnuts.com tackles the exploits of the current most famous scientologist with a good bit of anti-scientology humor (via the corner). For the best info on scientology I suggest operation clambake. Notice its url is Xenu.net, Xenu being the intergalactic warlord from millions of years ago who flew aliens to earth on DC-10s and then nuked them after chaining them to various volcanos (according to Hubbard).
Posted by Pete at July 18, 2005 06:02 PM
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Yeah, Hubbard was a real nut-job. I recommend reading Bare-Faced Messiah. You can read it online here:
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm
The author was a former Scientologist and the biography was originally sanctioned by CoS. In the course of his research, though, the guy realized what a fraud Hubbard was. You quickly discover that Hubbard was a fabulist of Munchausen proportions, a general compulisive liar, an able hypnotist, and an exceptional con-man.
Scientology is fun to read up on. It's a great case study in crazy.
Posted by: Dangerous Dan at July 19, 2005 12:17 AM