L Ron Hubbard, Founder of Scientology
Despite the idiocy of the above, what's my major beef with Scientology? It's simple. They make promises they cannot keep. They claim wonderful things and cannot prove that they actually occur. They reject established medical pratices because they "know better." Families are broken up due to their disconnection policy. They pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to recieve auditing and their courses to become better. Members are locked into rooms for reg cycles, which are basically high pressure sales environments where they're forced to give "donations" to the Church. This will all be explained in the next blog.
This entry is about how Scientology defends itself from legitimate inquiry about their methods and actions.
The proof is in the pudding as they say. Or rather, the lack of proof is in the pudding in Scientology's case.
Let's head back to the magical age of 1950. L Ron had just written Dianetics, the core book of Scientology. At a Lecture in Los Angles he showed 6,000 people the first clear. Hubbard claimed that she had perfect recall.
But I get ahead of myself. You're sitting there saying "What the hell is a clear?" Well, the answer isn't so simple.
A clear is a person who has had all of his or her engrams removed or addressed through a process called "auditing". Auditing is basically a one on one discussion where the person performing the audit is in control of an e-Meter. These e-Meters basically measure the resistance value of the individual.
The e-Meter: A primitive lie detector. Costs about $5 to make, they charge their members thousands for the device. And it is only good for a couple of years, after that it has to be "recalibrated" for another huge cost.
Why resistance? Because Hubbard thought that when a person thinks of a situation where he/she has had a negative thought, the resistance of the individual's body goes up. Yeah, I know.
Anyways, engrams are bad experiences that are locked away in the human mind and preventing the individual from being his or her true self. An example of an engram may be that when you were 3 you bumped your head on a table and now you bear ill will to tables (no, I'm not making this up).
So, auditing (one on one counselling) with the e-meter (device to detect engrams) is designed to confront (face) these engrams (mental locks on specific events).
Back to the story. Hubbard claimed that the clear had perfect recall. That is to say she could remember anything from any time. Even if things happened before she attained perfect memory. The questions flew in. What was the equation on page 217 of this science book? "I don't know." was the reply. What did you eat for breakfast on August 17th, 1946? "I don't know." What colour is Hubbard's Tie (while he was turned away from her). "I don't know."
The 6000 people poured out of the room, calling L Ron a con-man. He was devastated.
This, in my opinion is he source of the phrase "Never defend, always attack." Because his position often was untenable. It's far easier to say "Why do you hate my religion" to a legitimate inquiry of something that was said then to provide evidence. Evidence he did not have.
Anyways, I thought I'd provide you with a few videos showing how Scientology "always attacks, never defends". The first video comes from Mark Bunker, who has a channel on youtube called "XenuTV". It's there that he talks about the Anonymous movement against Scientology (more of that in a later post) and has several videos of him dealing with the attacks of Scientology.
Oh, one other thing. When someone causes a stir in Scientology, the church sends out some of it's more "advanced" members to deal with the person. To make them go away so to say. They'll generally act like jackasses to anyone who doesn't totally agree with what their cult says. The proof is in the pudding (below).
Mark Bunker at a 4th of July Event!
A Protest with a Crazy Lady!
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