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Going Clear

Scientology and the Prison of Belief
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Sep 25, 2018
Back around WWII, when science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, was still a radical progressive [he would later devolve into an unthinking rightwinger], he was approached by aspiring SF writer, Ron Hubbard, who had failed miserably at getting any stories published. Hubbard asked Heinlein for some story suggestions, and RAH outlined a story, based upon a cult, founded as a future SF scam of sorts. Hubbard, instead of using his idea as the basis for a story, founded a cult on RAH's fictional story suggestions. Heinlein would never speak to the fraudster Hubbard again! Back in the 1970s, a New York magazine article on SRI International [ostensibly some flimsy think tank which had previously attempted to falsely affiliate itself with Stanford University with its name {Stanford Research Institute} and was court-ordered to change it] and a number of the so-called // physicists \\ who were also Scientologists who made some incredibly bogus statements, negating any possibility they were really scientists! All the scams and bogus stuff and history surrounding this cult truly stupifies a normal person's brain!