So this is the guy who founded the basis of Tom's belief system? This explains things.
Adapted from the following source and edited for grammar by ultrafabviolet, 2006:
Wikipedia. "L. Ron Hubbard." Accessed 18 April 2006.
Available Online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
18 April 2006.
CHAPTER 1: L. Ron Hubbard Anticpates Tom and so Invents a Cult
(L'Ron speaks)
During the 1920s, I traveled twice to the Far East.
(O.K, so I actually went to visit my parents during my father's posting to the United States Navy base on Guam.)
I graduated in civil engineering from The George Washington University as a nuclear physicist.
(O.K, so University records show that I attended for only two years, was on academic probation, failed in physics, and dropped out in 1931.)
I obtained my Ph.D from Sequoia University in California.
(O.K., so Sequoia University in California is a mail-order diploma mill.)
I next pursued writing, publishing many stories and novellas in pulp magazines during the 1930s. I became a well-known author in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and also published westerns and adventure stories. Critics often cite Final Blackout, set in a war-ravaged future Europe, and Fear, a psychological horror story, as the best examples of my pulp fiction. My 1938 manuscript "Excalibur" contained many concepts and ideas that later turned up in Scientology.
(O.K., so I basically made up the whole scientology thing.)
I married Margaret "Polly" Grubb in 1933, with whom I fathered two children, L. Ron, Jr. (1934–1991) and Katherine May (born 1936). We lived in Bremerton, Washington during the late 1930s.
(O.K., so I was a mortal human at some point in my pre-Uber-Thetan existence. So were Buddha, Mohammed, and Elvis. Your point?)
In June 1941, with war looming, I joined the United States Navy as a lieutenant junior grade. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, I was posted to Australia but was returned home, after quarrelling with the US Naval Attaché, who rated me "unsatisfactory for any assignment.” Subsequently, I was given command of the harbor protection vessel USS YP-422, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Again, I fell out with my superior officer, who rated me "not temperamentally fitted for independent command."
(O.K, so these statements are in stark contrast with official Scientologist literature, which often portrays me as a brave and heroic figure during the war.)
I was relieved of command and transferred to a naval school in Florida where I was trained in anti-submarine warfare. On graduating, I was given command of the newly built subchaser USS PC-815 (based in Astoria, Oregon). Shortly after taking the PC-815 on her maiden voyage from Astoria to San Diego, California, my crew detected what I believed to be two Japanese submarines near the mouth of the Columbia River. We spent the next three days bombarding the area with depth charges, after which I claimed at least one Japanese submarine had been sunk.
(O.K., so a subsequent investigation by the US Navy concluded my vessel had in fact been attacking a "known magnetic deposit" on the seabed, and postwar casualty assessments found no Japanese submarines had been anywhere near the Columbia River at the time.)
Shortly after reaching San Diego, I ordered my crew to practice their gunnery by shelling one of the Coronado Islands, a small Mexican archipelago off the northwest coast of Baja California, in the belief it was uninhabited and belonged to the United States.
(O.K., so neither assumption was correct. The Mexican government complained and following a brief investigation, I was relieved of command with a sharp letter of admonition.)
Most of my wartime service was spent ashore in the continental United States. I was mustered out of the active service list in late 1945, and continued to draw disability pay for arthritis, bursitis, and conjunctivitis for years afterwards.
(O.K., so this continued long after I claimed to have discovered the secret of how to cure these ailments.)
In June 1947 the Navy attempted to promote me to Lieutenant Commander.
(O.K., so I appear not to have learned of this and so never accepted it; consequently I remained a Lieutenant. I resigned my commission in 1950.)
In later years, I made a number of claims about my military record that are difficult to reconcile with the govenment's documentation of my service years.
(O.K., so, for example, I claimed I had sustained wounds "in combat on the island of Java" [5], but my service record offers no indication I came anywhere near Java.)
I claimed to have received 21 medals and awards, including two Purple Hearts and a "Unit Citation". The Church of Scientology has circulated a US Navy notice of separation--a form numbered DD214, completed on leaving active duty--as evidence of my wartime service.
(O.K., so the US Navy's copy of my DD214 is very different, listing a much more modest record: the Scientology version, signed by a nonexistent Lt. Cmdr. Howard D. Thompson, shows I was awarded medals that do not exist, boasts academic qualifications I did not earn, and places me in command of vessels not in the service of the US Navy. The Navy has noted "several inconsistencies exist between my DD214 [the Scientology version] and the available facts.)
End Chapter One
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So this continues to be the guy who founded the basis of Tom's belief system? This continues to explains things.
Adapted from the following source and edited for grammar by ultrafabviolet, 2006:
Wikipedia. "L. Ron Hubbard." Accessed 18 April 2006.
Available Online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
18 April 2006.
Chapter 2: Moving Toward the Time of the Tom (L’Ron Invents Dianetics)
In May 1950, I published a book describing the self-improvement technique of Dianetics, titled Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. With Dianetics, I introduced the concept of "auditing," a two-person question-and-answer therapy that focused on painful memories. I proposed that dianetic auditing could eliminate emotional problems, cure physical illnesses, and increase intelligence. In my introduction to Dianetics, I declared that "the creation of dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his inventions of the wheel and arch."
(O.K., so maybe I skipped a few of those anthropology, sociology, biology, physiology, and psychology classes that I was never enrolled in as part of those degree programs that I never completed in fields for which I was in reality not awarded degrees at schools that exist only beneath postage stamps. So?)
Unable to elicit interest from mainstream publishers or medical professionals, I turned to the legendary science fiction editor John W. Campbell, who had for years published my science fiction stories. Beginning in late 1949, Campbell publicized Dianetics in the pages of Astounding Science Fiction.
(O.K., so the “Fiction” part may be more important than the “Astounding Science“ part, and so the science fiction community was divided about the merits of my claims. And, yes, Campbell's star author Isaac Asimov criticised Dianetics' unscientific aspects, and veteran author Jack Williamson described Dianetics as "a lunatic revision of Freudian psychology" that "had the look of a wonderfully rewarding scam." I just don’t see where there’s a problem.)
Campbell and novelist A. E. van Vogt enthusiastically embraced Dianetics. Campbell became my treasurer, and van Vogt—convinced his wife's health had been transformed for the better by auditing—interrupted his writing career to run the first Los Angeles Dianetics center.
(O.K., so this really doesn’t have anything to do with anything. Hey! How about those Mets?)
Dianetics was a hit, selling 150,000 copies within a year of publication.
(O.K., so with success, Dianetics became an object of critical scrutiny by the press and the medical establishment. In September 1950, The New York Times published a cautionary statement on the topic by the American Psychological Association that read in part, "the association calls attention to the fact that these claims are not supported by empirical evidence," and went on to recommend against use of "the techniques peculiar to Dianetics" until such time it had been validated by scientific testing. Consumer Reports, in an August 1951 assessment of Dianetics[8], dryly noted "one looks in vain in Dianetics for the modesty usually associated with announcement of a medical or scientific discovery," and stated that the book had become "the basis for a new cult." The article observed "in a study of L. Ron Hubbard's text, one is impressed from the very beginning by a tendency to generalization and authoritative declarations unsupported by evidence or facts." Consumer Reports warned its readers against the "possibility of serious harm resulting from the abuse of intimacies and confidences associated with the relationship between auditor and patient," an especially serious risk, they concluded, "in a cult without professional traditions." JimJonesJimJonesJimJonesJimJonesJimJones. . . .)
On the heels of my book's first wave of popularity, I incorporated the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Branch offices were opened in five other US cities before the end of 1950.
(O.K., so most brfanches folded within a year, and I soon abandoned the Foundation, denouncing a number of his former associates as communists. The first year is always tough for start-ups.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch. . . .
My private behavior had become the subject of unflattering headlines when my second wife, Sara Northrup, filed for divorce in late 1950, citing that I was, unknown to her, still married to my first wife at the time I married Sara. Her divorce papers also accused me of kidnapping our baby daughter Alexis, and of conducting "systematic torture, beatings, strangulations and scientific torture experiments." Obviously, Sara would never be Thetan material.)
[Editor's nonte: did you catch the part about "kidnapping our baby daughter Alexis, and of conducting "systematic torture, beatings, strangulations and scientific torture experiments?" There's your historical source of church of the seismology babies.]
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