Just to clarify, when I said, “He also said…” I did not mean “Also said at the end of the first edition of Dianetics…” I can understand why it might have sounded that way, but I was certainly not intentionally trying to mislead.

Nonetheless, he DID Say (with his strangely beak-shaped mouth) it. Ask around, ask Mike, you won’t find any old-timers that don’t know about the smoking thing.

If you don’t know, that is willful ignorance. I find you strangely (not to say hilariously) righteous on the issue of exactitude regarding facts and sources for a defender of Hubbard, who (in the best possible reading) had little regard for citing sources, and (more likely, given any complete reading of the man and his life) had so little disregard for his deluded minions that he didn’t even try and justify his facts, preferring to forbid them to read anyone else on any subject he happened to pull out of his ass. (sorry, i don’t have a Hubbard policy letter to cite on the subject, preferring real-life to his imagined Eternity.

And as for the rest of my post, I stand by it.

Hi Mark Marco,Coffee brewing,Jade yowling for breakfast, sunlight streaming in the window and thank you for your sweet post!Smiles to you forever across the miles!Love and evermore,Ann.

richelieu jr: “Read the end of the Original Dianetics (before he started doctoring it)..”

Mike allows discussion on his blog and when I participate I try to verify what is being said and not just throw out opinions and hearsay with no backup for them. I checked out what you stated was in DMSMH and it just isn’t the case – not in any part of it, including the end.

IF you are sincerely interested in the truth about what was stated in DMSMH regarding cancer, go to http://www.stss.nl , where you can download the original edition, and do a word search on “cancer.”

I don’t for a minute say there is no wrong in Scientology. But in the experience of many of us, there is also a lot of right. Even Sara Goldberg, in the film “Going Clear” and in the recent Q&A session with Mike, gave credit to the good parts. I say “even Sara” because it would be understandable if she could no longer see any good.

In answer to what you wrote about “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic AFTER it has sunk,” my reply to you is that you are the one who is unwilling to accept anything but the bad, including hearsay.

That essay, above, is just misplaced…
but I’m talking about the Q ‘n A that Mike and Sara did in the theater after the showing of Going Clear in Florida.

If I had been there, at that Q ‘n A?…
-A lady from the audience was talking on camera when she suddenly stops, interrupting herself, says, “…wait, isn’t that…?” and the camera pans to the right and here is this other big, fat guy in black holding a video camera up to his face and this, this bozo-smirk on his face just happy as can be to be getting a camera pointed at himself, doing this.
People in the audience, you can hear the din rising, starting to get agitated and then this other cat, two guys on the side, jump up and want to plug Freedom Magazine, for chrissakes, and start in about, what, Mike’s missing child-support payments?
Oh, I would have jumped out of my chair, yes, and I would have attacked this guy but I would have been cool. It would only be so easy to make this guy look like a brainless fool. And then i would have walked right up to him and gotten just a little less cool, demanding security take him out, loud enough to drown out whatever continuing dribble was foaming from his mouth, until he then would have left, as he did anyway…
It just pissed me off, to see it. He did sully the quality of the moment, I’d say. But it did illustrate the unsavory and long-established tactics of these people, attacking their critics and all they way they do, harping on baseless crap, contented to throw nothing more valueable than horse manure into the audience…
And looking pretty stupid as they do it. You would think they would learn, something besides how to use better aim with your footbullets.
Mike, I appreciate your staying calm there. The moderator tried a little too late to get that under control, it was not properly moderated, but you came out of it looking like the level head, i would say. Thanks again for bringing your experience and insight to the table.-mm

Ann, hi!!!
There you are…I was thinking of you.
Thanks for putting that picture of your smile in my mind.

Or, maybe, Omniscient Twat?

Hi Observinginsandiego, Thank you Angel,I have had issues with micro-waves too,but I tell all my electrical components,to behave and play nice! Yesterday I was not so good,feeling wise,but found your post and instant Sunshine! Love,Ann.

Hi Observinginsandiego, Oh those “gone wandering posts”.We’ll just have to set the sea anchors on them!Love U,Ann.

Hi richelieu jr, Thank you for your reasoned,spot-on post.You made me feel a little better too.I appreciate that,Always,Ann.