A question - if I may
Has anyone read any Ron L Hubard books??
( KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:24, 12 replies)

Nope, but I was dragged into a Scientology seminar once.
It frightened the pants out of me.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:31, closed)

I had my thetons measured once
They kept asking me why i was stressed. I kept telling them that I was not. They insited that as their ponced up multimetre revealed my hidden stresses. I insisted that it was the excess static built up from my wool jumper.
They called me insane.
( KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:36, closed)

erk
Also, anyone of you Londoners got involved with those scary 'Landmark' people (Scientology's mental little brother)? They seem to be everywhere now.
( rofl harris, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:37, closed)

Is he anything like L. Ron Hubbard?
No in both cases. Strange person, fiddling with his initials so his name's all wrong.

What's this 'Landmark' business? I've never heard of them and I've been living in London all my life, except for the first twenty-seven and five-sixths of a year. I'm now twenty-eight.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:47, closed)

landmark
It's an offshoot of Scientology. Created by some bloke who was apparently kicked out of the Scientology cult for being too extreme.

They've been recruiting/running seminars etc in London for a good few years now.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark_Education
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/dec/14/ameliahill.theobserver

Pattern seems to be - you go, pay a load of cash, become brainwashed, then once the course if over they encourage you to stay on as a "volunteer" for free.

I have a few friends who've joined and have been turned into utter weirdos.
( rofl harris, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:57, closed)

Has anyone
I have - they are OK but Robert A. Heinlein is much better IMHO
(whiskas loved by 8 out of 10 cats, Fri 16 May 2008, 16:33, closed)

I'm afraid so
about 4 which got me into scientology

Dianetics, The Science of Survival, Scientology 0-8 and The Fundamentals of Thought along with bits from his other stuff(and none of them mentioned the Xenu nonsense - which I only found out after I left)

it was reading Russel Millers 'Bare Faced Messiah' which got me out again
(The Goat www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com, Fri 16 May 2008, 16:36, closed)

I started to read Dianetics
It was very disjointed - half the time he's writing for a highly educated audience and then starts writing like we're all five years old.

Very confusing syntax and phraseology, too.

/didn't finish it.
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Fri 16 May 2008, 16:36, closed)

I've never managed more than a few pages of Dianetics
There's a cracking line about how he will try to avoid using any polysyllabic words. There's a footnote (there are a lot of fecking footnotes in that stupid book!) stating that polysyllabic means words with many syllables, particularly five or more.

Did we underestimate Ron's sense of humour?

Courtesy of an ex, I've got a copy of the Big Scientology picture book which covers much of the same ground. Each page is A3 size and written for five year olds. It has creepy pencil drawn pics of zombie people too.
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Fri 16 May 2008, 23:03, closed)

What are your crimes?
(if you don't get the subject line, paste it into youtube's search window for some funny angry Scientologist ranting.)
(not here, Mon 19 May 2008, 0:43, closed)

I started Invasion-Earth
Read the first few and then got bored. The first one was quite fun.

I love scientology. A religion invented for a bet.
( flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Mon 19 May 2008, 12:30, closed)

One, well about half
I will read some rubbish sci-fi and make it to the end but this book was by far the worse pile of drivel i have ever picked up in my whole entire life!
(The Ginger Penguin la la la la la la, Mon 19 May 2008, 14:59, closed)