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#HubSpot is using the same advertising tactic that Scientology used for #Dianetics in computer magazines back in the 1980s, long-since debunked.

'Did you know that your company is using only 2% of its data?'

Yes, HubSpot.

That's because the other 98% follows the fifth root of Sturgeon's Law.

It is quoted reply chains in LookOut, signatures, memes in corporate chats, inapplicable all-employees messages, accidental replies-to-list, high resolution Zoom/Teams calls with fake backgrounds, databases in spreadsheets, random characters to satisfy forced comment fields, test data in production, and so on.

The 2% is the good stuff that remains after properly throwing the crap out.

#SturgeonsLaw #CorporateLife #AdvertisingLures #Marketing

WTF is wrong with me that I have a (smol) collection of used #scientology books & materials?

Newest addition: 'The Science of Survival Lectures' (1st annual conference of hubbard dianetics auditors, 1961), book & cd sets.

I think its because I want to make sure that my cult is fully #AntiScientology & that I don't go all Evil Leader. But I can't even stomach finishing #Dianetics, so I don't think I'll be goin through this anytime soon.

#UsedBooks #Cults #CultLiterature (lol "literature")

A photo of a large, cheap plastic case, in gray. It is mostly covered in a sticker with a black & white picture of a leafless tree on a hill. Most of the text is in red, but the bottom line is gray.

Text:

The Science of Survival Lectures
L. Ron Hubbard

First Annual Conference of Hubbard Dianetic Auditors • Wichita, Kansas • May - June 1951

A photo of the cheap, plastic box in the previous photo. It is open & the contents are laid out for the picture:

There is a workbook style reference guide, a spiral notebook of the actual lectures and a smaller cheap, plastic box with CDs. These all have the tree/hill picture from the previous photo & red text reading:

The Science of Survival Lectures
L. Ron Hubbard
Lectures 1-6

There is also an ad for a portable cd player with headphones, and postage pre-paid postcards for "free" culty crap.

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Text instead of screenshots: https://cohost.org/lurkjay/post/4065043-going-clear-sciento

#reading #nonfiction #books #religion #cults #scientology #dianetics #bookstodon

The anticipation surrounding the release of OT III was intense, so when Hubbard finally made it available to a select group of Sea Org members, in March 1968 aboard the Royal Scotman in Valencia, a thrill radiated through the entire crew. The saga of Hubbard’s research in Tangier and Las Palmas led them to think that this was the breakthrough that would lead to the salvation of the planet. They—the Sea Org—would be the vanguard of this movement, newly empowered by the revelations that Hubbard promised.

In a lecture aboard the ship, Hubbard said that in researching OT III, he had uncovered two “incidents”—which, for him, meant implants—that prevented thetans from being free. Incident One was a kind of Garden of Eden fall from grace that occurred four quadrillion years ago, which is when Hubbard dates the origin of the universe. Before Incident One, thetans were in a pure, godlike state. Suddenly, there was a loud snap and a flood of light. A chariot appeared, trailed by a trumpeting cherub; then darkness. This incident marked the moment when thetans became separated from their original static condition and created the physical universe of matter, energy, space, and time (MEST). In the process, they lost awareness of their immortality.

Incident Two is central to the OT III saga. This one took place seventy-five million years ago in the Galactic Confederacy, which was composed of seventy-six planets and twenty-six stars.

“The world we live in now replicates the civilization of that period,” Hubbard said. “People at that particular time and place were walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute.… The cars they drove looked exactly the same, and the trains they ran looked the same, and the boats they had looked the same. Circa nineteen-fifty, nineteen-sixty.”

A tyrannical overlord named Xenu ruled the Confederacy. “He was a Suppressive to end all Suppressives,” Hubbard told his followers. Xenu had been chosen by a kind of Praetorian guard called the Loyal Officers, but they realized that their leader was wicked and they decided to remove him. Xenu had other plans, Hubbard said. “He took the last moments he had in office to really goof the floof.” Xenu and a few evil conspirators—mainly psychiatrists—fed false information to the population to draw them into centers where Xenu’s troops could destroy them. “One of the mechanisms they used was to tell them to come in for an income-tax investigation,” Hubbard related. “So in they went, and the troops started slaughtering them.” The preferred method was to shoot a needle into a lung, paralyzing the thetan with an injection of frozen alcohol and glycol. The frozen bodies were packed into boxes and loaded onto space planes, which resembled the DC-8 jetliner. “No difference—except the DC-8 had fans—propellers—on it and the space plane didn’t.”

In this fashion, billions of thetans were transported to Teegeeack, the planet now called Earth, where they were dropped into volcanoes and then blown up with hydrogen bombs.

Thetans are immortal, however. Freed from their corporeal incarnations, they floated along on the powerful winds created by the explosion. Then they were trapped in an electronic ribbon and placed in front of a “three-D, super colossal motion picture” for thirty-six days, during which time they were subjected to images called R6 implants. “These pictures contain God, the Devil, angels, space opera, theaters, helicopters, a constant spinning, a spinning dancer, trains and various scenes very like modern England. You name it, it’s in this implant.” The implant included all world religions and “a motion picture studio” complete with screenwriters.

Xenu didn’t have much time to gloat over his victory. Some Loyal Officers remained, scattered around the galaxy. There was a civil war, and within a year, the Loyal Officers had captured Xenu and locked him up in an electrified wire cage buried in a mountain. “He is not likely ever to get out,” Hubbard said.

Because Teegeeack was a dumping ground for thetans, it became known as the Prison Planet, “the planet of ill repute.”

The Galactic Confederacy abandoned the area, although various invaders have appeared throughout the millennia. But these free-floating thetans remain behind. They are the souls of people who have been dead for seventy-five million years. They attach themselves to living people because they no longer have free will. There can be millions of them clustered inside a single person’s body. Auditing for Scientologists at OT III and above would now focus on eliminating the “body thetans”—or BTs—that stand in the way of spiritual progress.

More than individual salvation was at stake. Hubbard said that the Prison Planet had been civilized many times in the past, but it always arrived at the same end: utter annihilation. No matter how sophisticated mankind became, there was a trigger implanted in the imprisoned thetans that led them to blow themselves to pieces before they could escape their fate and go on to higher levels of existence. The goal of Scientology was to “clear the planet” and save humanity from its endless cycle of self-destruction.

Hubbard never really explained how he came by these revelations. “We won’t go into that,” he told the crew, saying only that he was fortunate to have somehow escaped the cataclysm so many eons ago. “You are the chosen,” he told them. “You are the Loyal Officers. We made the agreement way back when that we would all get together again. This time no one is going to stop us.”

Yes. I do own this issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
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#dianetics

A commercial from the 1980’s promoting the book #Dianetics tried to read it a couple of times, couldn’t read more than 60 or 70 pages, the book is really hard to read.

https://youtu.be/BHoCJzymz_Y?si=1vN__d242C1NRnl4

Last night, I was thinking about getting back into my I read #Dianetics #SoYouDontHaveTo project. But I decided I wasn't in the mood for #CoS nonsense.

Then I fell asleep, and dreamt that the ghost of #LRonHubbard gave me a copy of #GoingClear by #LawrenceWright (an anti-Co$ #book)

I really, really hope that was just my subconscious; I don't want to be haunted by L. Ron or his #thetans ... even if he/they are sorry the whole #Scientology thing. Fuck 'em.

#LRonHubbard promises the reader that #Dianetics is:

1) "an organized science of thought"

2) which "contains a therapeutic technique ... with assurance of complete cure"

3) that "produces a condition of ability and rationality" and "gives a complete insight into the full potentialities of the mind"

#LRH then makes some pretty strong claims that imply that Dianetics is the Universal Theory of Science of the Mind, but provides no evidence of any research.

🧵3/4

#Dianetics chapter 1 #KeyPoints

• Dianetics is a "science of the mind" & "an answer to the goal of thought"

• Provides an history of humanity and of "aberrations" of mental health and illnesses

• Argues there is a "single source of all insanities ... and social derangements"

• Defines various psychological terms regarding said "insanities"

• Claims that this book's goals include creating techniques to cure, and prevent, these issues.

🧵2/4

#Reading #Dianetics #SoYouDontHaveTo
#Scientology #nonsense

Chapter 1 - The Scope of Dianetics (pages 7-13)

#MyThoughts - The purple prose hurts my brain. I can see why people think his earlier fiction is hard-to-read. I do, however, appreciate all the foot-notes.

#CW - This chapter contains some casual racism that was common to the era. I will not quote or reference those statements in this thread.

🧵1/4

Back home and attempting to read #Dianetics by #LRonHubbard #SoYouDontHaveTo

Page 3, "How to Read this Book" on using simple language to convey ideas:

" 'Basic Language' has been used, much of the nomenclature is colloquial; the pedantic has not only been employed, it has also been ignored."

That's an awful lot of $2 words for that particular topic. #Hubbardsplaining

I'm considering doing an "I #read #Dianetics so you don't have to" thread, so I've started the first chapter.

Y'all.

I've listened to SO MANY #LRonHubbard interviews & watched SO MUCH #Scientology trash that I'm "hearing" it in his voice & his cadence.

I've gotten through the forward and whatnots, and I am only only page 3 of the book. I don't know if I can do this.

There's some woo that is just so far out that I wonder if it's even real... For example, actual flat earthers. Yet here I am, not three metres away from a stall promoting #Dianetics.

#Dianetics

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