Comments on: Hubbard, his Photographs and the IRS

By: ClearOffLRH

ClearOffLRH — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 04:18:40 +0000

Firstly, congatulations Leah and Mike and all involved, on your new recognition as one of the best TV shows in the last 10 yesrs.
I am realy posting about Ron the photographer.
For anyone who has printed black and white photos with an enlarger in their home made darkroom, I wonder if anyone has picked up the totally wrong procedure Ron talks about in the tapes on The Student Hat?
He is talking, should say waffling on, about how to burn in and hold back parts of a print when printing. As I have done some darkroom work of my own, I immediately picked up that the correct procedure was totally in reverse from what he was telling you and if you did it his way, you would get the totally wrong result, ie. no result. Makes me wonder if he ever printed anything of his own or just read about it. In the days of Black and White, it was 50 % of getting a great final product. The other 50%, of course, taking the photo.
I mentioned this to another Scientologist I met once who was a well known professional photographer in his country and asked him if he had spotted it. He said sheepishly that yes he had. At the time The Voluntee Ministers Handbook had come out with the so called professional photos by Ron. The room sets had been built out side relying on the natural sunlight as lighting, so had no mood or substance and a cheap and nasty way of lighting the sets. The photographer said he would not get away with such low quality where he worked. I think the word crap was used in his sentance.
Also in that book with the photo of all the religious leaders on the mountain, I believe one is meant to be Muhammad. From what I understand in Islam religion it is not permitted to render any likeness of him in a photo or cartoon. Even in a positive light. Some news papers I know have recieved all sorts of flack for doing so. I wonder how the NOI feel about that.

By: LRH Master Photographer

LRH Master Photographer — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 14:06:58 +0000

[…] is a follow up to an earlier post entitled LRH, his Photographs and the IRS where Hubbard had talked about “photo stories” and how he was occupied with these. I […]

By: Notmy Realname

Notmy Realname — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:54:44 +0000

In reply to Rip Van Winkle.

Oh …. and the films …. those were embarrassing! I never wanted new people to watch the super stupid looking, badly ‘acted’ ridiculously scripted films…..

By: Wynski

Wynski — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:30:31 +0000

In reply to Eh=Eh. LMAO! Eh=Eh, it was off the rails from day 1 in 1952 when he falsely claimed to have created it through scientific research and started claiming super powers. YOU need to do a LOT more studying about saology

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:29:02 +0000

In reply to Mike Rinder. Ah, "Keeper of The Tech". That's like a nutter who protects/collates stool samples, right?

By: Eh=Eh

Eh=Eh — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:20:36 +0000

In reply to PeaceMaker. It's my opinion that Scn went off the rails publicly with the creation of the CMO and Ron's solution to inflation .....or maybe the CMO created the solution to inflation policy.....who knows? It's100% full of either way..

By: Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:59:53 +0000

In reply to Straight up and vertical.

Here’s real delusion:

When I first saw the VM photos, back around ’77, I asked why the looked so hokey, the explanation I got was that every bit was staged and crafted based on whole track research of buttons, this stuff was supposed to go in deep, get in below awareness level, secret technology to really IMPINGE.

Same type of explanation for the garbage-fest Mission Earth books. They are for Wogs, and it’s designed to communicate and pierce the reactive mind resistance.

I marveled at this and found it thrilling and inspiring. LRH was A–MAZING!!!

barf.

(the mission earth explanation gave my conscience comfort, I had been feeling out ethics for being disgusted with the series and had stopped reading them)

By: Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:46:06 +0000

In reply to Ilea.

Google “third party scientology”.

You can read the cult “scripture” ( snort) or scroll down for excellent Ortega reporting.

With all the heroic work of so many Exes and real humans, practically everything Scn related is googleable, giving instant information and warning.

…
And… IRL, it was used as a tool to lay blame on others.

By: Mike Rinder

Mike Rinder — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:24:00 +0000

In reply to Ms. B. Haven. That is the exclusive provence of the COB. He is the Keeper of Tech International and Finder of Lost Tech. Nobody else dare make such suggestions.

By: Ms. B. Haven

Ms. B. Haven — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:34:08 +0000

In reply to Mike Rinder. Basically, what happens to someone who dares suggest that Hubbard's material is just a crappy product and needs to be shelved (or disappeared)? This is obviously happening with the 'tech', e.g. the SHSBC and the red & green vols. no longer available. But there is also Hubbard's attempts at art that are total shit, especially his photography. At some point someone has to suggest that this stuff shouldn't be published. What happens to them?