If L.Ron Hubbard lied about his past, don't you think that he probably lied about "Dianetics"/"Scientology"

Answer 1

He lied about pretty much everything.

He spoke out vehemently against psychiatry and prescription pharmaceuticals, but it was discovered after his death that he had the anti-anxiety drug hydroxyzine (Vistaril) present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric and pain medications Hubbard ingested over the years.

Scientologists charge you for "auditing" (a recounting of your past negative experiences while holding tin cans connected to a machine that "reads" your electrical resistance) which is purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 and $9,000 for advanced sessions. They make you sign a contract upon reaching a certain "level" in the church, a contract in which you agree never to reveal the secrets that are disclosed to you. Here is the secret they are bound never to tell:

The evil alien ruler Xenu killed a lot of aliens (Thetans) from around the universe by bringing them to earth and blowing them up inside volcanoes. They believe the souls of these aliens (these souls are "Body Thetans") have attached themselves to us and cause many of our mental and physical ills. They tell you this, then charge you vast amounts of money to "cure" you.

As was previously mentioned, the “church” (according to the "teachings" of Hubbard) has taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry and psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life. They deny the reality of chemical imbalance as well as profound mental illness and disturbance. Accordingly, they do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).

Scientology is undeniably a cult. For more information on what a cult is and what their damaging effects are, please visit the link provided at the bottom of the sources. Just know that Scientology DOES qualify by meeting these 5 criteria:

(1) It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members. (2) It forms an elitist totalitarian society. (3) Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma. (4) It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds & recruit people. (5) Its wealth does not benefit its members or society.

Answer 2

If you are actually concerned about the truth........ (which I doubt)........ Here it is:

Scientology is an applied religious philosophy. When I say "applied" I mean you actually use it in your life to change or improve existing conditions. This is different from a religious practice. All religions if you learn about them have a basic philosphy, but they also have certain dogma, rituals and observances, and a certain faith or belief is required. There is nothing wrong with this, but Scientology is not that kind of religion. It does not intrude on anyones faiths of beliefs particularly in the area of God , the Supreme Being, or the Infinite. This area is left totally up to the indivdual, which is why you can be a practicing Jew,for example and still use and apply the priniciples of Scientology in your life. It does not conflict. If anything it will enhance your understanding of your chosen religious practice.
You can have no specific religious beliefs and still benefit from using it.
And it is only true for you according to your own observation and experience with it.
It is a non denominational religion . The dictionary definition that applies:
Religion: The spiritual or emotional attitude of one who recognises the existence of superhuman power or powers.

The most basic principle of Scientology is that YOU are your own immortal soul, that this is not a "thing" you HAVE but what YOU actually are.
The whole purpose of Scientology is to increase an individual's understanding and awareness of himself. And thereby his native abilities .
When you do this the sphere and zone of his positive influence increases and moves outward into his life, his family ,his friends, his groups and mankind which he is part of.

How this result is achieved is the "technology" of Scientology, which was developed by L.Ron Hubbard after his extensive research and the discoveries he made, about the human spirit. The basic religious philosophy and knowledge of Scientology is very old, going back 10,000 years at least to the Veda or Vedic Hymns from the East. The developement of the technology is new.
He completed his research before his death in 1986 and left all of his results and copyrights
to the Church of Scientology along with most of his considerable personal estate, when he died.

He published a book in 1951 to communicate the basic principles he discovered called: " Scientology The Fundementals of Thought"
There are currently over 10 million Scientologists in more than 163 countries world wide. However we are a new religion, only 53 years old.
The true story of Scientology as a religion goes like this:
1. A philosopher developes a philosophy about life and death.
2. People find it interesting.
3. People find it works.
4. People pass it along to others.
5. It grows.

This is just an overview.
L. Ron Hubbard explained fully the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 2,000 tape-recorded public lectures.

Answer 3

He lied about everything. He himself said the best way to get rich was to start a religion. Scientology is a lot like Dungeons and Dragons only for gullible adults instead of nerdy high school kids. You have spooky language, continuous financial investment in the hopes of advancing, weird ceremonys, a wildly implausible backstory and celebrity endorsement. It's Almost like living in an episode of Star Trek.

Answer 4

Lying is without doubt NOT appropriate to Jesus Christ! Never! Now, here is a little bit of fact for you: you're exaggerating to name that quote a blatant lie. The fossil list is a ways from entire; except which, I consider the individual you quoted might quite simply be fallacious approximately it (the fossil list, that's). Or possibly *you* are fallacious, hmm?

Answer 5

Most likely, I studied Scientology for a short time, and when it was stating that you put people on a scale, that was all she wrote. I quit going, because I don't believe that any person is above or below anyone else. We are all sons and daughters of God, Our Heaven;y Father, and any one that feels that they are better than anyone else, is saying that God showed favoritism.

Answer 6

The rumor I heard that he started up Scientology to prove that anybody could start a religion. Apparently it worked.

Answer 7

There are 10 million of Scientologist in the planet living happy and fruitfull lives.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/10/24/2003333176
Last years Scientology opened 1,300 missions including missions in Nepal, India and Japan. http://www.scientology.org/html/opencms/cos/scientology/en_US/news-media/briefing/2005/vm/seindia/050406.html
http://www.scientology.org/html/opencms/cos/scientology/en_US/world/news/missionary/pg000.html
Over 40 academic schoolars have found that Scientology is a bonafide religion.
http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/index.html
Scientology is composed of 58 organized and self evident Axioms.
http://www.bonafidescientology.org/Append/01/page09.htm
Scientology isn't a faith system but a series of proceses that a person uses to find his own truth. Here are some of the principles.

1. What is true for you is what you your self observe to be true.

2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body.

3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowlege and experiance. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes this pictures are acompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suposed that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situacions. This is what we call in Scientology an aberation (a conclusion that is impose to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram; A pain memory that affects your judgement and free will.

4. A spirit is capable of considerations and ideas and this ideas are solely based on uglyness and beautyfullness. The spirit reject ugly things and intends on making everything beautyfull. Do you like your car, you house, your job, your friends? Are you friends nice with you? Can you improve things in your life? All these are ideas based on uglyness and beautyfullness. This is why the spirits rejects the ugly memories and by rejecting the ugly memories (not confronting them) he is unknowingly affected by them.

5. You can discharge the energy in this pictures true communication. This is Auditing, the Auditor directs your attention to this pictures regardless of how ugly they are and you confront the picture and discharge the energy of the picture true the communication line. Is like if you have battery, in order to discharge the battery you need to discharged against something. If you try to discharge it against your self is just going to chock you.

6. Unethical behavior and wrong doings are the #1 reason a spirit diminishes it power. In order to stop your self from hurting others, you hinder your own abilities and force. The rehabilition of your own abilities and force is dependent on you taking full resposability for your actions.

7. You are fully resposible for your condition. Blaming others for your condition will never solve that condition. It doesn't matter what that condition is, blamming other will never help. Only by fully taking ownership of you condition can you solve that contidition.

Scientology is a very interesting religion that takes years of study to master. I just mentioned a few fundamentals. Scientology is so advance and so different that people can't understand it. People think that they know everything there is to know about life. And when they see Scientology they jump to conclusions when in reality they don't have a clue what are they talking about. The reality is that man attacks what he can't understand. That's why Scientology gets so much bad press.
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1
Lie? It is up to me determined if the information that I'm studying is true or false. I have studied that information and found out that it is workable and true.

Answer 8

It's always possible he was insane enough to actually believe what he was saying. Personally, I think he knew what he was doing and that it is all a lie. You never know what the truth is though.

Answer 9

He probably did, all the religious zealots lie for their own reasons.
These clowns have Tom Cruise who is just not respectable in any way,

Answer 10

you're being illogical. just because somebody lied in the past, that doesn't mean everything they say is a lie. come on think. you know this. you don't need to waste bandwidth with questions you should be able to figure out yourself. sheesh.