Comments on: L. Ron Hubbard on the Subject of Stink https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/ Something Can Be Done About It Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: GusC https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-593526 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:21:00 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-593526 There was another blurb by the Fatman regarding fragrances that mentioned orange blossom scent as being used as some sort of hypnotic on the whole track or some such BS. I thought it was in this bulletin (I thought it was in the same one about coal tar derivative), but I guess not. Unless this is a later revised version or something. That’s been known to happen haha.

Anyway, I personally can’t stand the odor of laundry detergent and dryer sheets. I figure if someone wants to “smell nice” one can use unscented everything – soap, shampoo, laundry stuff – and then spritz on a bit of high quality perfume or cologne. That’s what I do. Who wants to smell like freakin’ Tide and Bounce??

]]> By: Geoff Levin https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-591805 Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:21:09 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-591805 When I was on the Apollo Hubbard was obsessive about no scented products.

]]> By: Aquamarine https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590256 Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:27:12 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590256 In reply to Anonymous.

I’m nowhere near as smell sensitive as Hubbard was but being trapped in a room or a vehicle with someone reeking of any kind of perfume or drowned in aftershave is torture for me. On the other hand, going into a Chinese hand laundry that has that clean-clothes- and-ironing smell I find delightful! Go figure.

]]> By: Aquamarine https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590255 Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:13:28 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590255 How did Hubbard write this in 1991 if he died in 1986?

Quite coincidentally LRH is preaching to the choir with me. I’ve never liked most perfumes and most artificial scents very much. Real French perfume used to be wonderful when I would smell it on some adults, but that was a long time ago. Perfume is made differently now and even the most expensive French perfume I don’t like and wouldn’t buy even if I could afford it, which I can’t. I’ve never been crazy about men’s after shave either. I do like a kind of soap smell. That doesn’t bother me. The scents I like are natural scents, i.e., fresh flowers like roses, lilac, and then the way the air smells after a spring rain…apple trees with full of ripe apples, ditto lemon trees …hatural scents like these. And then most hand soap smells and shampoo smells are OK with me. Clothes washed in Tide and Downey smell nice to me. Oh, well, how I do run on…like, who cares, right 🙂

]]> By: Constantine https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590210 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:56:37 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590210 Except, what about the hypocrisy where the higher ups, organizations like author services inc don’t have those restrictions, only the finest expensive perfume and makeup. I’m sure the good folks at rtc are also exempt. You know, rules for thee but not for me mentality.

]]> By: ammo alamo https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590183 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 12:56:53 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590183 Being overly sensitive to odors is associated with emphysema, a condition also associated with heavy smoking – and who smoked any heavier than Hubbard, with his chain-smoking of unfiltered and heavily mentholated Kool cigarettes?

As usual, Hubbard’s so-called research consisted of nothing more than a quick observation of one or a few incidents, pulling their consistent properties together and ignoring their inconsistent features, adding in his own fears, imagination, and opinions, and expounding it into a world-wide edict.

]]> By: The Merkabian https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590168 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:31:24 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590168 Man, I love my Dolce & Gabbana, and my Antaeus!

]]> By: Joe Pendleton https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590164 Sun, 08 Sep 2024 06:40:22 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590164 Why is everyone ignoring the psychs’ attempt to hypnotize the world with the abominable outpourings of the individual marketed as “Taylor Swift”?

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590144 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 22:33:31 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590144 It’s called hyperosmia, and among its causes are psychiatric disorders. Shocking, I know. I’m not talking about things like being trapped in a room with someone who has bathed in cologne. As I recall–and someone please tell me if I’m wrong–Hubbard was like that with any scent, which is why his laundry had to be rinsed many, many times before he wore it.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/whats-that-smell-what-you-need-to-know-about-hyperosmia

]]> By: Cavalier https://www.mikerindersblog.org/l-ron-hubbard-on-the-subject-of-stink/#comment-590128 Sat, 07 Sep 2024 17:27:55 +0000 https://www.mikerindersblog.org/?p=2623697#comment-590128 I agree with Hubbard that most odors are particles, not gaseous.

Most gases that do have their own odors are highly poisonous. One could mention Chlorine, Sulfur Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulfide.

Tying all of this to the psychs and most of the rest of this is sheer nonsense.
Seems to me that Hubbard was trying to justify his own phobia.

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