Ron Hubbard's Narcissistic Traits

 

 
The following post is a collection of statements from several posts on Ron Hubbard that have remarked on his narcissistic traits . This list is certainly incomplete but hopefully is a start .

I believe he truly obliterated his conscience and humility in a compulsive attempt to deny his own worthlessness and inadequacy as a man .
He did so much evil his only answer was to avoid it entirely in his perception of his own conduct while constantly projecting it out onto others .

Really , the extreme abuser sees themself as far superior to their victims . And that even abusing or raping or murdering them is a kind of favor. As it gives attention from the " wonderful " abuser to the "lowly" and "unworthy" victim .

We seek clear answers on Hubbard and to me learning about cult leaders and malignant narcissism and traumatic narcissism in depth are required to understand Hubbard's fractured mind . Robert Jay Lifton and Margaret Singer in my opinion had the best descriptions of cult leaders . Con men who can believe their lies but know they are lies and constantly work to hide them at the same time is the twisted mindset these men (and women ) have .

The truth about Hubbard's mind will not be found by considering a normal mind . His was severely abnormal in many aspects and that needs to be understood to understand him and his cult .

Hubbard followed the pattern of using or discarding people as sources of attention . He fit the description of a narcissist seeking new and better supply . He did it with his affairs , his constantly bringing in new supporters and then throwing them away when they got attention or wanted decent treatment or credit for their work.
Hubbard acted as if he was the only person who was real and mattered . Narcissism to the highest extreme .

The Scientology cult annihilates boundaries with the TRs and indoctrination subtly so the victim submits their identity and by confessing everything they surrender to the cult totally . This is an abusive relationship . The cult is a power holder / abuser/ narcissistic entity over the submissive slave/victim/ co dependent cult member. The cult violates the boundaries , that is narcissistic or sociopathic behavior . The cult member allows this , that is co dependent behavior . That dance is an abusive relationship .

Malignant narcissism is a great description for an abuser who sees himself as Hubbard did and abused others in the exact manner he did . Then adding God and god maker suits his megalomania and delusions of grandeur. When I first heard of these mental phenomena I wondered how they could be so unrealistic and extreme. Hubbard showed how you surround yourself with believers and feed them outlandish claims.

Apparently , in additional to following the classic narcissist's pattern of acquiring , using then disposing of people like objects to be used , until they catch onto him - then viciously turned on and ruined utterly , Hubbard also used women like objects to stroke his megalomaniacal ego .
He wanted to bang his way into history . He treated all people like objects to use and grew frustrated and infuriated when they failed to submit to him . As he saw himself as the only real person with worth and all others are far inferior in every way possible it makes sense .

In his fractured mind he had to always assert his godlike perfection via lies , as a constant denial of his inner worthlessness and absolute uselessness and inferiority. He never resolved this - it would have taken compassion , honesty and humility . Tools many would argue Hubbard long abandoned.

For a malignant narcissist like Hubbard facing their vulnerability , character and limitations takes accepting realities about themself and others . The superiority/inferiority dichotomy they struggle with is false - all if us have moments of stupidity , anger , selfishness and failure .

And most have moments of success , intelligence and usefulness .The majority have some kindness, compassion and self reflection and humility .
If Hubbard faced who he was and who we are he might have found a true measure of peace of mind and happiness he never attained . We are all limited , fallible , imperfect and in great vulnerability and need at all times . It has been said there are two opponents who stand undefeated - father time and mother nature .
Perhaps we should find what decency and happiness we can until they end our opportunity.

Think of it this way : a normal person can in a moment of anger use age regression and projection of negative emotions and be petulant , belligerent and cruel.

Most of us do this temporarily and come out of that and even though we don't always understand and admit being wrong we behave more like our normal selves and can have regret , shame self reflection and try to avoid negative behavior for the most part .
The severely disordered have -either from childhood trauma or rarely adult experiences or possibly other factors - minds that function differently . They project constantly and are permanently age regressed to early stages of development and never come out of it .

Imagine always having the maturity of a three year old , no conscience as you constantly see others as targets for hate and the source of an ever present unhappiness that can seem squashed in moments of dominating and destroying others , but as this is just avoidance via misdirection it is just a momentary distraction and leaves the abuser unsatisfied .

This is why some offenders get obsessed with brutalizing victims : it is the only way they hide from overwhelming feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy .
In their fractured minds they cannot accept their very humanity : to be human is to be flawed , imperfect, vulnerable and to have flawed character , behavior and knowledge.
Accepting that with humility and self compassion can allow and encourage compassion toward others .

The severely disordered lack that . They are doomed to misery as that nature cannot be successfully denied forever and certainly can't be escaped with cruelty towards others . Try as they might .

Due to projection they mistakenly see others as the source of their unhappiness with themselves . So they incorrectly see destroying or dominating others as the solution to this .

They have psychological defense mechanisms running amok . It severely impairs their reason .

He was what is called a self aware narcissist . He knew how we think and feel and how he was not like us . He saw himself as superior .

I have looked at extensive material on narcissistic personality disorder and malignant narcissism.

A small percentage of people are theoretically completely without compassion and humility . They also lack decency and mercy.

In one hypothesis a person idolized and treated as inhumanly perfect can be called a golden child and as a coping mechanism deny their very humanity and fears and imperfections and develop the fractured mind and identity of a narcissist to survive.

Hubbard has been described as having a grandfather and aunts who spoiled him and asserted his superiority and perfection. Then he ran into classmates who were all too willing to deny the lie.

I am not justifying his life or conduct . I am trying to help show how he was so unlike other people and the road he took to get there. He could have , like other idolized or abused children quite often do,  gone through a period of acting out and being angry , hurtful and immature and then deciding he wanted to do and be better .

Many millions are idolized or abused as children , or alternately one then the other and the vast majority grow up and make a sincere and often largely successful effort to be decent people.

If you truly find his cruelty and inhumanity a sticking point I have found information from groups that are survivors of narcissistic abuse clearly explains this at it is seen as essential to recovery.

They have hundreds of descriptions of people much like Hubbard and Miscavige. The most severe sociopaths may be one or two percent of the population in many models, but their influence is disproportionate to their numbers . By learning about them you are armed to protect yourself .

Ron Hubbard worked double time to make his iron grip on his cult complete .Really this dovetails with the most totalitarian doctrine of thought control in the KSW and "study technology" and "ethics technology" . All of which were written up in the mid sixties.

The legal strategies and espionage tactics fit the separation of the cult from society and the condemnation of outsiders and dissidents and even scapegoats as inferior and undeserving of rights and even existence in the cult's extreme polarizing black and white thinking.

The humorous predictability of Hubbard as a malignant narcissist in this is clear.
He pretended in Scientology doctrine to be of the finest moral character and stated their is no more ethical group on the planet and humbly claimed the title of mankind's greatest friend for himself. The false self as perfect and righteous beyond question.

Then the dark hidden reality of an inner self that utterly lacks morals or a trace of decency as he will stoop to any low to control those he can and destroy those he cannot. The underhanded and utterly dishonest and dishonorable tactics he used are par for the course for the inner self that loathes any defiance or disagreement with his omnipotence. This is because the facade or veneer of godlike perfection is a refutation of his own self image as the hidden inner worthless self .

By reminding him of this suppressed and denied feelings of impotent rage at a world he sees himself as never good enough for are avoided by age regression and projection viciously onto that very world a lie of invincible , all knowing , impeccable perfection in every way. An assertion of superiority that relies on continuous degradation of everyone else. Fueled by envy , it is expressed with disdain.

The hypocrisy is mirrored in the cult doctrine exquisitely : just as Hubbard pretended saintly kindness and altruism while secretly loathing , abusing and mentally enslaving people with promises of a paradise that can never be so to does the cult pretend religious righteousness and unquestionable conduct while truly being a criminal organization committing a conspiracy of fraud , broken promises and the deepest and most personal of betrayals.

This is exposed by Jeffrey Augustine and if you contrast the lies and crimes he has exposed against the cult's claims of supporting human rights and the universal declaration of human rights it becomes abundantly clear.

They now have videos proclaiming their support of the declaration and encouraging people to learn the rights therein.

But with the waivers Scientologists waive their very rights routinely . They also are called religious volunteers to waive their rights to a fair wage and healthcare in the declaration . For the introspection rundown they waive their right to be free from unlawful detainment - kidnapping. They also have no right to form a union as described in Scientology doctrine despite the declaration proclaiming that very right . With Scientology's SP doctrine the right of free association described in the declaration is also nullified .

The declaration is more a step by step guide to rights to eradicate in Scientology than anything else .

Humorously in his TV interview Hubbard was quoted as saying a suppressive person isn't someone who is critical it is someone who denies the rights of others . Hubbard denies the rights of any who enter Scientology and sees himself as above allowing rights to anyone beneath him - conveniently that is everyone else.

So he denies the rights of everyone and has it as mandatory as cult doctrine but said someone who denies the rights of others just as he does is a suppressive person . Hmm.
With the understanding of his outer facade and inner world his behavior and the cult that reflects this goes from bizarre and contradictory to simple , clear and predictable . Once you see how unlike normal people guided by humility, honesty , compassion and standards of decency Hubbard truly was it all makes sense .

 He wasn't like us . That fundamental difference is essential to his con : almost no one suspects such inhuman character .It is so alien as to seem impossible .

By showing the Scientology cult as it hides itself the dark reality can be faced , bit by ebon bit . This service is essential for recovery for many in my opinion and worthwhile for that reason whether this leads to the dreamed of goal of the cult's loss of tax exemption and subsequent criminal charges or not. And it is quite useful for education as well.

How To Keep Scientologsists Away In Person !

A few days ago I spoke to a very uninformed never in in Buffalo NY who listens to Howard Stern religiously and he heard a conversation where Howard pretended to be an expert on Scientology and Howard said " Tom Cruise is a thetan five " and proceeded to butcher the facts .

So this never in who is sure Howard is always right told me ( a 25 year Scientologist and now prolific critic with hundreds of hours of researching Scientology) that he knows Scientologists say " I am a thetan five" , despite my polite statement that a Scientologist would not say it that way .

So, he has a relative working by the org in Buffalo NY and when the Scientology staff try to lure him in the org he, and others , say "I am a thetan five " over and over to get the staff to stop bothering them .

The staff get baffled as no Scientologist would say that BUT they cannot figure out how the public almost know what to say . He describes staff looking shocked and freezing with their mouths half open . Not sure what to do .

Enjoy the comedy potential this story has .So , tell all your friends in Buffalo NY they keep Scientologists away by saying "I am a thetan five , I am a thetan five " over and over .

No Guru Or Enlightenment Here

For anyone who might mistakenly think I have any extraordinary education or superior wisdom or judgment - I have to say you may be quite disappointed on several counts. I am certainly no saint and have quite often made far less than ideal choices.

 I am a guy who was fooled by a conman into believing he was a demigod for twenty five years, so I have a much firmer claim to being dead wrong and gullible than anything else. I have no authority or stamp of cult expert from God.

I am quite experienced in being a fanatic and zealot blindly following Hubbard to personal ruin.

In the process of leaving Scientology I have spent hundreds of hours trying to undo the lies and influence from Ron Hubbard and his Scientology cult by education. By reading about thought reform, hypnosis, rhetoric, narcissists, sociopaths, abusive relationships, the true history of Scientology and other cults and critical thinking and logical fallacies I have strived to start to find out what actually happened to me and others in Scientology.

I have no profound wisdom and am not an enlightened...anything. I have more uncertainty and doubt than certainty and definite answers to hundreds of issues.

Sometimes people can be impressed by a vocabulary or familiarity with several subjects. Well, honestly I have worked to get whatever information I have learned but work doesn't equal value.

Another way to put it for anyone who is impressed is to say think of an example : often high school students realize the only difference between them and their teachers regarding knowledge about their courses is that the teacher's textbook has the answers while the students doesn't.

At best I merely have read a little more or something different than someone else .By just reading a bit anyone can catch up,  or pass me. For any ex cult member I advise you to consider any claims I make one by one on their own merits and always remember I get some things wrong,  it is unavoidable. Also I can read,  accept and pass on incorrect information. So, by remembering that exes can keep perspective on anything I or anyone else puts out. I do not want anyone following me as we did Hubbard. I prefer equals.

If an equal tells you something you evaluate it hopefully without bias. That's all I ask for or deserve.

Questions About Scientology Part 1

 


Here are some questions on Scientology I have attempted to answer online in various forums gathered together . People are encouraged to ask more in comments or at ESMB or the Underground Bunker. I hope the format is easy to understand .

• Blog Archive by Topic

I am a never-in and I have a question. Are Scientologists (especially at the lower levels) existentialists... Does Scientology have a philosophical foundation of existentialism? (The belief that life is objectively empty and meaningless aside from the meaning that you create for yourself.)

Mockingbird  •

Scientologists and Hubbard hold different views . He believed ideas best reflected in the affirmations , letter to his wife known as the "Skipper" letter and ideas generally not represented in Dianetics and Scientology.

Scientologists believe life holds absolute meaning .The further one progresses the more they believe that they are Gods with the current power to either regain Godhood or decline to a degraded state that is eternal blindness, amnesia , pain , self loathing and insanity. The state is considered too low to pick up a body.

Scientologists consider life to hold meaning - with absolute certainty. They have strong convictions and feel their beliefs account for every possibility and encompass all of life. Existentialism has elements in direct opposition to Scientology .

Off topic question but why do you think Miscavige in all the time since the release of OT VIII, didn't attempt to write himself (not likely) or have someone else write up some fake OT levels. It's not like Hubbard was responsible for writing all the OT material anyway. It seems like if people are in that deep they would believe just about anything. In all the research I've done on Scientology, this question still bugs me. The best I can think is that since OT VIII wasn't received well, he didn't want anyone to see it. Now instead of completely getting rid of the level, he just keeps everyone at OT VII except a select few for PR purposes. I do understand that there are other reasons for keeping people on VII, make a lot of money on those sec checks.

Mockingbird 

OT IX and X were promoted heavily as coming out when every class V org reached and maintained old Saint Hill size.

That has a long checklist that has varied but included two hundred full time staff and lots of students and auditing .You will never see it met . All the old guard Scientologists from the nineties and before remember that and would have to be disposed of quietly and without sorrow before that could be edited out without any fuss .
DM either has to get a hundred or so orgs with two hundred staff and a thousand or so dedicated public and about twenty five to forty thousand Sea Org members to run them and support them with books , CDs etc .

He would need to recruit one hundred and fifty thousand hard core Scientologists who all stay or R2-45 several thousand exes and current Scientilogists without raising any questions .

So , I think OT IX and X are permanently off the table.

When Hubbard died, or exteriorized, or whatever, weren't the faithful told that he was busily continuing his researches? And aren't they still actually waiting for him to come back? This part of the story has never made any sense to me. I mean really never made any sense. Are they still waiting for the return of Hubbard? Wouldn't New Hubbard keelhaul Miscavige?

Mockingbird  • 

We fanatics and zealots were told Hubbard had written up OT levels up to XV before departing to target two to give Scientology to another world .
We were told he realized just thinking of Earth was too small an order of magnitude for Scientology and beneath Hubbard's actual abilities.
In his grand magnanimity he sacrificed his chance to depart this universe and all its many traps to labor heroically and save another world out of his kindness and infinite generosity.
Now , I know it is all like the rest of Scientology bullshit.

So if his mind doesn't have enough brain cells to store his vast amount of info, where does he keep it? Mini-Storage? SMH
This guy is like Fox News. Frustrating and painfully inaccurate.

Mockingbird  

Hubbard claimed you have an electronic field around your body with millions of mental image pictures all through it .And that they made you crazy and he could free you from them .A con .


What do Scientologists think of critics ?

Mockingbird 

When you are in deep you consider all critics as crazy and look for inconsistencies - like the claim that Scientology is money obsessed - most staff and Sea Org think "You dumb fucks I don't make any damned money !!!" and by seeing that one criticism as obviously false they feel all the rest are also false .

You use your belief in the care free euphoric states auditing brings( with hypnosis , age regression and dissociation ) and the ecstasy and self hypnosis study tech brings as irrefutable proof of the miraculous technology you alone have ! In study tech you get confused via contradiction and have cognitive dissonance then have your mind taken off of it with the red herring misdirection of word clearing then in the moment of blankness the dissonance produces you get hypnotic commands from Hubbard implanted !

But he cleverly redefines all of this and tells you it makes you brilliant and able ! And as he redefines what experiences mean you come to accept it more and more , and he implants fallacies over and over to impair your reason more and contradicts himself over and over tying your mind up in the double think until it becomes a confused jumble in double binds - solved by submitting your will to his further and further .

Scientologists think and talk alike because their thoughts are just parroting Hubbard's doctrine as they become mental clones of him .
That is why they have meaningless circular nonsense conversations - in submission to him that is what is left in their minds . And they cannot even see it .

What is the end goal of Scientology for the individual Scientologist and if  you guys do not know and believe the Xenu story what do you believe ?

Mockingbird 
I was indoctrinated around when OT VIII came out .The completions talked in a different way and we lowly folks who had not done the advanced levels mimicked them to pretend status .

In some of the doctrine , like SOS and the factors Hubbard uses a lie that resembles certain gnostic ideas . In it his thetans long ago were much more powerful and capable . They did not need bodies and could affect reality by will alone . The fraud goes on to say thetans have eternal infinite power and potential knowledge .

As you get more of it the entire physical universe including time is described as illusion in the minds of thetans who came to play a game .

The idea he sells is that you personally were and are still a god with a capital G of your own universe .

Like the monotheist's idea of a creator who can make or destroy or influence ANYTHING within your universe.

In theory in the con you came through several universes , got confused , lost power by doubting yourself and lowered yourself to be vulnerable by your own gradual decisions over hundreds of quadrillions of years .

From BEING the eighth dynamic to being less and the seventh then the sixth then the fifth then the fourth then the third and second then down to running one body for one life .

It is seen as a dwindling spiral or series of concentric circles that collapse as a being fails at one they withdraw to the next and eventually have withdrawn to nothing . In this model the thetan became human and vulnerable to human suffering from killing countless trillions as it blew up planets in space opera .

It is seen as having the next stop being permanent eternal amnesia, blindness, deafness , pain and self loathing with no end . That is the lie Hubbard sold . He claimed to restore the full God status at the end of the bridge . I am not exaggerating one bit . In several references he claimed you could restore your full abilities and entirely escape this universe and all of its liabilities forever with Scientology .

Carl Sagan may have considered that an extraordinary claim .

Sunk Cost - Crushing Gravity Of Scientology

Sunk cost is a kind of appeal to emotion - relief from cognitive dissonance . When you have sunk so much of your identity or worth or ego into an idea turning back is overwhelming and disorienting - that is cognitive dissonance .

I know as a 25 year Scientologist who did a great deal of harm to relationships while using the "rightness and certainty " of Scientology as a way to deny responsibility. For many of us harm done to ourselves , immediate family and friends and careers and other cult members comes to mind as something to be willing to face to overcome the overwhelming bias sunk cost accumulates over time . Sunk cost is flanked and bolstered by habituation - the more we do things the more we tend to do them again without question or thought . Together they often enable permanent divorce from reason and critical and independent thought regarding topics . Hubbard depended on this , as does DM .

Sunk cost and habituation rely on similar but not identical factors . Sunk cost is similar psychologically to gravity as a physical force . Gravity is an accumulative force - that is to say concentrating more mass in a smaller space makes gravity grow stronger in local effect . It overwhelms the other forces at some point despite being many , many times weaker than them . That is how stars collapse to neutron stars as the atomic structure is crushed , them even the neutrons are crushed as their integrity fails .

Similarly enough sunk cost stops consideration of contradictory evidence . Some atheists would say the sunk cost of the indoctrination children receive and their identity and that of their families as Christians prohibits them considering evidence the bible and Christianity are possibly less than perfect . But that is a fight for the Dawkins of the world - I am unqualified to discuss God . I don't know what she is like .

Regarding Scientology for me once I had enough hypnotic experiences in the course room I let Hubbard define as mental and mystical ones I was so fooled the accumulative effect of the other persuasive methods just compounded and compounded to overwhelm all reason quite well and grow for decades .

Hubbard's trap is set to grow subtly at first then via key experiences lower your guard permanently bit by bit ( often the crucial experience is hypnotic but defined differently by Hubbard ) and then be like a star that grows from , say a disc that settles in some theories , . Via confirmation bias the Scientologist only seeks to confirm Hubbard's rightness and dismisses any evidence that contradicts him .

 And it is easy - he says critics are always liars and SPs so by SEEING them, as such their information is swept aside without examination and their criticism is seen as proof of Hubbard's rightness !

That is similar to the idea of the settling star reaching a magnitude of size where comets and other bodies that could disrupt it are instead vacuumed in and add to its mass and gravity as they are too small to break up the star . The growth is increased and the chance of matter escaping decreases .

Then with the mind well closed the Scientologist sees all info as either confirming Scientology or irrelevant ( this includes things denied or dissociated from ) or affirming Scientology by showing the Scientologist they need to learn more Scientology to make sense of them and biased toward that end . This is similar to the transference issue in therapy. When a patient in many forms of mental therapy has little or no trust many forms of therapy produce no change. When the therapist gains trust and the patient starts trusting the therapist's mind more than their own and treats the therapist as infallible that makes the patient too submissive and the the therapist too influential. No one over about twelve years old should be in that dependent state . Therapy is harmful in this relationship.

Hubbard cleverly made it seem that you needed to do the entire bridge ( both sides bottom to top ) and all Sea Org training and then listen to his lectures and read all his writings then...pretty tough with a reported thirty five million words of doctrine to do a quick study brush up on to be qualified to have an educated opinion and conversation on Scientology !

Any unresolved problems ONLY require that before you are seen as having given Scientology " a fair try " !

So , back to the star analogy the Scientologist is so close minded they are like the star in allowing very little to influence them or knock them off their course as the gravity grows with the star it becomes a more influential and difficult to influence force of nature .

Especially if it is concentrated to the neutron star and then black hole levels of density . It is an example of one force overwhelming the others and losing balance . Similarly the Scientologist can have the sunk cost and accompanying psychological defense mechanisms including fallacies overwhelm any balance of reason within their mind . What is true is what is true for you cancels all other views but Hubbard made sure his view covertly replaced yours along the way . Slavery has been defined as letting another decide reality for you and Hubbard certainly fits that description perfectly .

. Fortunately unlike a star that transforms into a black hole due to its immense localized gravity a Scientologist can escape the cult mindset even after decades of concentrated reinforcement and bolstering - we leave everyday . But , we can be quite dense in our close minded and arrogant defense of Scientology .

Why So Many Semicolons In Science Of Survival ?

Recently the story of how Hubbard had a ghost writer transcribe Science of Survival and contribute to its creation came up on the Underground Bunker with accompanying details .

Oh , here the semicolon removal issue has been brought up again . DM famously said Science of Survival had three thousand , eight hundred and twenty five punctuation " errors " that went totally unnoticed by Hubbard despite his personally supervising students and auditors and CSing for decades .

Look , SOS was written with a horrible mash up of rhetorical techniques to overwhelm and confuse readers . If you study rhetoric and hypnotic writing techniques and methods of hypnotic induction it can become clear what methods Hubbard tried to stack or combine in creating this monument to pseudoscience and incomprehensibility. I know Hubbard used a ghostwriter but the final product has these methods laid down throughout the entire book.

In particular Hubbard used complex and confusing terms , information overload , new and vague terms , contradictory and vague statements , outrageous and unbelievable statements and other basic methods to make an audience more suggestible. Now these methods are only partially effective on some people on the most effective and efficient of attempts . They only work to a limited degree .You can only fool or significantly influence a small percentage of people with this . But that has been thought to be capable of being dramatically improved with the most basic and powerful of persuasive methods : repetition.

Hubbard in SOS sought to combine the persuasive methods of confusion aka paradox , repetition , attention control via focus or division and mimicry . These were all the most basic forms of his beloved subject hypnosis.

In constructing SOS it is an attempt or experiment in my opinion in combining the confusion method from conversational hypnosis and loaded language to covertly influence and tons of vague and complex terms to further confuse and scientific sounding new terms mixed with many , many medical terms to seem scientific with no substance . Hubbard combined the fasle tone scale , the plagiarized theta mest theory to use sublime writing , repackaged Nazism and his other stolen and hidden ideas to try to ambitiously pound a superconcentrated combination of rhetorical techniques.

Humorously SOS flopped and has never caught on despite being promoted as the backbone of the science in Scientology for decades and even required on courses like the heavily promoted PTS/ SP course.

My opinion is Hubbard succeeded far too well in confusing readers - by far , far too much overload of confusion technique he just confused them without persuading them . That can happen if you overdo it and he certainly did by a mile .

He unfortunately got better at this by the advent of study tech and learned a better recipe for thought reform by then . He had been stealing ideas and trying things and with study tech he knew that could covertly do the job.

But the point of this whole trip down hypnotic and rhetorical memory lane is this : Hubbard knew semicolons divide attention between one part of a sentence and the next . Attention division with semicolon after semicolon was meant to increase suggestibility .

 It may seem absurd but that was Hubbard's intent . He wanted you to read a sentence see a semicolon - think what follows elaborates on what you just read and so keep a little attention on the earlier statement . And by doing this hundreds of times Hubbard sought to knock out your critical and independent thought regarding the material you were reading.

So , in my opinion the semicolons were intentional and ineffective in persuading people. So DM can stop blaming a "transcription error" on some scapegoat.

Scientologists Equating Scientology To Jews And Critics To Nazis

 

This thread is to ask for and highlight info on a particularly loathsome and offensive tactic Scientology management and celebrities have been doing for decades . Many times in the past Heber Jentzsch has been noted for attempting to forge a bond of identity between Scientology as a persecuted minority and specifically as Jews facing a Holocaust from critics and enemies who he puts in the role of Nazis .

Further , Scientologists have made a point of dressing as Nazis to protest being persecuted as Jews equals on several occasions . Scientologists dressed as Nazis to protest in 1979 and again in 1997. This is an action encouraged and supported by the management of Scientology .

There is an excellent article on this for reference .
Wooing the Jews | Scientology Racism - Solitary Trees
I am going to quote portions of that here for brevity .

When German Chancellor Helmut Kohl visited Australia in July 1997, he was greeted by jeering Scientologists in Nazi-style uniforms with swastika armbands. They confronted him with placards reading "Hands Off Our Religion" and "Is Germany Really A Free Country?"

The Church of Scientology in Germany has, for years, linked itself with the treatment of the Jews under Hitler, claiming the shared experience of persecution.

Though church President Rev. Heber Jentzsch says Scientology's comparison of its treatment in Germany to that of the German Jews under the Nazis has officially stopped because of objections from Jewish leaders, the theme still threads through Scientology publicity.
The comparison with Nazi Germany has irked not only mainstream Jewish organizations but also high officials of both the U.S. and German governments as well, who call it an insult to all Holocaust victims.

Scientology's anti-Germany campaign appears to have backfired. Intensifying in 1994 with full-page newspaper ads using images from the Holocaust and continuing into late 1996 with a letter to Kohl from Hollywood celebrities in the International Herald Tribune, Scientology made more enemies than friends.
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, called the ads a "trivialization of the Holocaust." U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright termed the comparison "historically inaccurate and totally distasteful," and even former State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, whose agency has criticized Germany's treatment of Scientologists, called the assertions "outrageous."


As for the "Never Again" campaign, Jentzsch says it was stopped more than a year ago, and he called the Australian demonstration an aberration. "We made a mistake early on by making this comparison. It was offensive to the Jewish people." He says some rabbis agreed to back him on the discrimination issue, but that they also told him, "'You have to understand how we feel with anything that deals with something so horrific as the Holocaust.'"
So the campaign stopped, but that doesn't mean the Church of Scientology has stopped trying to win the support of Jews.

Jentzsch declined to name other Jewish supporters, saying they "are afraid of entering the fray and I understand." But, "frankly, I have had a top Jewish scholar say to me, 'This is the beginning of an attempt to destroy rights, and that is a danger signal. Pray God,' he said, 'it would never turn into the Holocaust.'"
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Now , I want to point out that Heber "being permanently tortured so I can never threaten DM " Jentzsch played a trick - he agreed to stop comparing Scientologists to Jews during the Holocaust and then quoted an unnamed source as saying exactly what he just promised to stop saying !

He found a loophole to say exactly what he said he would not ! He went with the "everybody , or an authority says " generality !




Further , aside from the official equating of Scientologists to Jews and enemies to Nazis  - Scientology also equates psychs to Nazis by stating they are behind the Holocaust in numerous ways . They have a Psychiatry an Industry of Death Museum to sell the lie that psychiatry is behind the Holocaust .

And now in more recent years Scientology has public celebrities always strive to answer any negative questions with an evasion and equating Scientology to Jews and enemies to Nazis . ALWAYS . It is what they are told to say by Sea Org members and staff .

Kirstie Alley has done it . Danny Masterson has done it . Jenna Elfman has done it . Bodhi Elfman has done it . Danny Masterson did it in an interview in Papermag http://www.papermag.com/2015/02/danny_masterson_scientology.php . Bodhi Elfman did it in a famous tweet .

I am looking for any and all references to times celebrities and/or cult spokespeople have made the claim . ALL . 100% . I want to know every time , place , form and event down to the last detail .

To expose this as a planned coordinated effort to do one thing : Hide the Nazi components Hubbard placed covertly in Scientology by making it appear absurd and protected by the personal incredulity fallacy . If a fact is the exact opposite of what a person has heard over and over time and again perceiving that fact or even examining evidence of it is often blocked in people's minds . That is why Scientology must at every opportunity have the image of being identical to the Jews as victims of Holocaust persecution . The image makes realizing the truth almost impossible for Scientologists and very often for others as well .

Please , please share any additional information you have on this particularly documented incidents with newspaper articles and interviews that can be confirmed . I want to compile the most iron clad case possible . When exposing Nazism one faces several obstacles . First , the personal incredulity fallacy . People simply have a hard time believing things that are not overtly dressed in swastikas and praising Hitler openly are based on Nazism .

 An appeal to emotion also stands in the way - disgust . Many find thinking of Nazis disgusting and unpleasant - solution any complex examination or discussion is avoided by simply saying " leave that ugly business in the past " . And an appeal to another emotion - the sense of progress - some people often think of mankind as progressing past evil conduct like rape , genocide , child molestation , slavery and discrimination . That is a pleasant idea - and demonstrably untrue . Sometimes children when hearing of the genocide of Native Americans and slavery of Africans brought to the US say "that kind of stuff doesn't happen now" . As if mankind as a whole has grown well past that . But it is not true . There are reportedly tens of millions living in slavery . Genocide is a daily fact of life on earth . Rape happens to millions of women and children every year .

The point of this is not to get you to put a gun in your mouth or hang yourself - it is to show how the idea that the world is nice and people are generally pleasant is more enjoyable than the alternative so many just pick the belief that feels better . Now the earlier statistics I mentioned need to be taken in the perspective that there are multi-billions of people who never rape anyone or enslave anyone or commit major crimes and try to be decent for their whole lives pretty successfully .

But I want to gather any information to help support the exposure of the trend I see of Scientology using the 180 degree lie of being the victims of Nazis to hide their cult being modeled after the Nazis . Please share anything that can help with this effort here .