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Tampa “Ideal” Org and Ron’s Fiction

May 7, 2020 By Mike Rinder 42 Comments

These are the last two Tampa “ideal” “St Hill Size” “newsletters” that are sorely lacking in news.

You can compare this one immediately below to the previous one that follows.

They’ve only got some extension course “successes” to report, but they’re promoting a different video about how viruses spread… It’s pretty harmless, giving rudimentary information about bacteria and viruses, though it’s oddly “scientologese” with constant reference to “the body.” What it doesn’t do is explain what scientologist actually believe about illness — that it all comes from connection to Suppressive Persons.

To be “on Source” they promote the “Ron Series” with a ridiculous quote about how the 17-year old “Ron” supposedly “mastered” the language of a tribe in the “hills of Luzon.” Tall tales to be sure. He was in the Philippines for 2 days transferring to a ship to travel to Gaum. Russell Miller covers this exact incident in his thorough unauthorized biography Barefaced Messiah. Hubbard actually wrote in his diary that he “got his hands on” a list of 300 words that had been reduced to phonetics by a missionary and he sat up one night and memorized them. This was his “mastery” of the language — he didn’t claim to have even met this “primitive tribe.”

They send these out every couple of weeks. They had a Clear in the last one, but just one.

And another tall tale about Ron’s accomplishments.

I cannot recommend highly enough Miller’s book. It documents all these stories that Hubbard told about his life and gives the ACTUAL information about his exploits. He did a lot of things in his life, that’s for sure. But he turned small experiences into swashbuckling tales of accomplishment and heroism right out the pages of his pulp fiction novels. Almost everything he ever said about his life was fictional or at least dramatic embellishment. And it is perpetuated today to try to make him seem superhuman and explain how he alone solved all the problems of the universe.  It’s all part of the package. Ron’s best fiction were the tales about his own life.

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Filed Under: Ideal Orgs, L Ron Hubbard Tagged With: Barefaced Messiah, COVID-19, extension courses, L. Ron Hubbard, Russell Miller, tampa org

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  1. Linear13 says

    May 8, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    I’m always a day late and more than a dollar short but under those ads for the “What would Ron do?” series of books there is what I take to be a hyperlink in the original post that says “Rod, GET YOUR COPY NOW”. Either they’ve misspelled Ron’s name or we’ve just doxxed your inside contact. If that’s the case and your insiders name is Rod you might need to remove that… it’s so small it might not have been seen. If it’s a typo on their part of Ron’s name then more proof they’re circling of the drain.

    If this is a dox of your insider you do not need to print this post on the blog as I don’t want to point it out to OSA if they’ve not caught it.

    Reply
  2. Balletlady says

    May 8, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    What it all comes down to is that as far as being a “Science Fiction Writer/Author”….THIS was one of his BEST stories..Lron hit is out of the ballpark with his infamous fictional tales of COS & Thetans.

    Still able to sell “The Program” & all it’s books, tapes, CD’s…..to keep the $$$ coming in. He’s not here to enjoy the $$$ anymore…but David Miscavige is living a damned good life…..how sad is that?

    Remember the song “Venus”…(hey Venus, oh Venus)….here’s my version:

    Xenu if you will
    Please send me another sucker I can shill
    I’ll hook them with all my charms
    They’ll fall into my arms……

    Reply
    • Loosing My Religion says

      May 9, 2020 at 1:43 pm

      Ballet Lady. It was pointed out to me that I was wrong to write your username. I have written Battle Lady several times. I apologize. I really hope you didn’t take it seriously. Thanks again.

      Reply
      • Mike Rinder says

        May 9, 2020 at 8:54 pm

        Honestly, I thought it was a great complement.

        I wouldn’t mind being referred to as Battle Man…

        Reply
        • Loosing my Religion says

          May 11, 2020 at 1:40 am

          Mike true. Based on her cooments I got the idea of someone who really fight for right things.

          Mike you Are a Battle Man!

          Reply
  3. disco george says

    May 8, 2020 at 12:17 pm

    I’m firmly convinced that “Brendan” is a CGI creation that someone made up as an homage to the Infamous Tom Cruise Turtleneck Video.

    Has to be, right?

    Reply
  4. Roger Larsson says

    May 8, 2020 at 7:04 am

    People looking forward towards a cleared planet find people running around a pole. Are they charged with power or are they empty of charge? People running around a pole clear the planet?

    Reply
    • jere Lull (39 years recovering) says

      May 8, 2020 at 11:49 am

      Roger Larsson asked:”Are they charged with power or are they empty of charge?”

      In either case, they’re emptied of any spare CHANGE. Finances have been devastated, as a matter of policy.

      Reply
  5. WhatAreYourCrimes says

    May 7, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    It’s so yucky to observe the LRH bootlicking that scientologists constantly exhibit. But I can’t look away!

    Human nature being what it is, these fine people would rather dig a deeper hole than admit they have been conned.

    Oh well, there are indeed fewer and fewer active scientologists, but the Forever-Ins provide an entertaining cringe bonanza in the fawning of their particular conman, so there’s that.

    Reply
  6. MW says

    May 7, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    Boy I wonder even if their own sheep believe the tall tales. They keep making up so many things … how can one human DO as much as they claim he did? The answer is, one human cannot. Not in the span of 76 years. Sorry. BS meter is off the charts here.

    Reply
    • Loosing My Religion says

      May 8, 2020 at 4:16 am

      MW. I would be surprised if someone inside had the courage to say just something.
      He would immediately receive a KR and would end up in HCO for some time.
      Certainly many suspect it or know that the bullshit put together is a little too much, but they keep that idea carefully for them and keep clapping and smiling to what the regime says it is truth.

      This is known also as fascism.

      Reply
    • Dead Men Tell No Tales Bill Straass says

      May 9, 2020 at 12:45 am

      LRH died when he was 74. He also said that whatever you do in life, do it as a professional. So they are professional criminals and belong in prison.

      Reply
  7. Peggy L says

    May 7, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    Gee, when I receive my insurance information it also provides in print in probably at least a dozen different languages. Maybe I could translate it from the English information. I could then claim to know a dozen languages – that’s soooo cool!

    Reply
  8. Skyler says

    May 7, 2020 at 12:04 pm

    What would tubby do? He would find a way to exploit the situation and dupe people into giving him some money. That is what he would do.

    What would the Rat do? He would find a way to give someone a good beating resulting in them coughing up some money in the form of some kind of “donation” in order to make the beating stop. That is the difference between those two insects.

    Reply
    • Old Surfer Dude says

      May 7, 2020 at 2:14 pm

      15,000 members. Worldwide. Hey folks! They ain’t gonna make it. At all. No chance. They’re screwed. They’re never going to make it. No way, no how.

      In other words: Bwahahahahahahahahahahah!!!

      Hey, you gotta find something to laugh about every day!

      Reply
      • Cindy says

        May 7, 2020 at 4:35 pm

        Let’s hope when they finally don’t make it for sure, that it is quick and soon enough so that families can be reunited with their loved ones and the SP label can be discarded. Disconnection will fail just as the church will fail.

        Reply
        • Imaberrated says

          May 7, 2020 at 5:57 pm

          Scientology’s destruction was always inevitable. It was a matter of how quickly it would happen. They’ve got a lot of money, which will keep them going for some time, but they can’t get in new people, and they’re losing people to death and disaffection, so new money will dry out. I hadn’t thought about a pandemic keeping people away from the orgs, and potentially losing people more rapidly due to their waking up. This must surely be accelerating the decline.

          Reply
          • Cindy says

            May 7, 2020 at 6:06 pm

            Iamaberrated, I think you are right, that it wasn’t a matter of IF, but of WHEN and HOW SOON. The CV crisis is speeding things up. They have whales that will be dying, others who will leave the church after being locked down and unable to get their constant drug drip of Koolade from the church, and they may go googling Scn and learn a lot during this sequestering time. And with no new people, either staff or public coming in, it will speed up the decline. Maybe toward the end, when there are almost no people left in, DM will use his billions to pay actors to come in and fill the pews to keep the Potempkin alive.

            Reply
            • Loosing My Religion says

              May 8, 2020 at 3:22 am

              Cindy. Sure. In the mother scene of that film, when the baby carriage goes down the stairs, we could make DM play that role (the baby)

              Reply
          • Old Surfer Dude says

            May 7, 2020 at 7:03 pm

            Imaberrated, it is going nowhere. Only 15, 000 worldwide die hards left. And everyday someone leaves. Tic Toc, tic toc…

            Reply
        • Annie Oakley says

          May 8, 2020 at 7:46 pm

          If this is Cindy Temps, I sure hope so. The quicker the better so you can be reunited with your kids.

          Reply
      • Loosing My Religion says

        May 7, 2020 at 4:39 pm

        OSD, LOL. They are just “clearing” parishioners bank accounts

        Reply
        • Old Surfer Dude says

          May 7, 2020 at 7:08 pm

          Yep! They’re feeding on each other now!

          Reply
  9. otherles says

    May 7, 2020 at 11:38 am

    If LRH had told the truth about himself he’d be looked upon as a hero. But he insisted on lying, and LRH is now looked upon as a liar.

    Reply
    • Wynski says

      May 7, 2020 at 1:01 pm

      If Hubtard had told t he truth about himself the gov’t would have executed him otherles

      Reply
    • Gordon Weir says

      May 7, 2020 at 1:01 pm

      A hero? Hubbard was not capable of telling the truth. He did nothing heroic in his life. He betrayed everyone who got close to or followed him.

      Reply
  10. Loosing my Religion says

    May 7, 2020 at 11:22 am

    These Ron series have always seemed an exaggeration to me. Even when we were forced to read them.
    In everything he was a supreme being. He was really too exaggerated to believe even for those who were like me on the staff.
    Then gradually you discover that almost everything is either false or altered and far from the real facts.
    Just look at his family situation which is truly unique.

    I would say disappointing, (wanting to be polite).

    Reply
    • Imaberrated says

      May 7, 2020 at 5:52 pm

      I certainly wanted him to be the godlike figure promoted to us. The whole “religion” rested on his being superhuman. If he weren’t, he wouldn’t have seen the trap and risen above it.

      Reply
      • Loosing My Religion says

        May 8, 2020 at 3:35 am

        Imaberrated. Sure. If one spend lots of money in the cult or drop real life to join staff, he then hopes really that that man is not just a bunch of PR and lies.
        We got ‘fucked’ only because we were good people and wanted to help.
        And if you check this is the button that they keep pushing all the time in all directions.
        Bunch of losers.

        Reply
  11. jere Lull (39 years recovering) says

    May 7, 2020 at 10:43 am

    George, EVERYTHING Tubby said about himself or his “tech”(niques) was a lie, as far as I can determine. Guy was an obsessive lier/fabulist who never let the truth gain an even nodding acquaintance to the stories he told, representing EACH one as the absolute, unvarnished truth. The proof is in the pudding, as they say: NOTHING that he promised came to pass; I’m fairly convinced he never intended to deliver on them.

    Reply
  12. Gordon Weir says

    May 7, 2020 at 9:14 am

    You would think that if someone was joining $ci or a dedicated member that they would want to read everything they can about Hubbard. The above picture speaks volumes.

    Reply
  13. TT Greco says

    May 7, 2020 at 8:36 am

    I’ve recently found out how Miscavige handled a red Tag on Tom Cruise, when he was being audited at the Int base. He did not have a Floatiing needle after session,but was sheduled to leave the day after. According to HUbbard this is called Red Tag, which means something had gone wrong in session and a repair session had to be done to repair the flaw within 24 hours. Normally a correction list will help resolve the scenario. But the pc was Tom Cruise and Miscavige had to invent some special Handling and so he did. He personally wrote a Communication for Tom (Reality Factor) Telling him he was great and all was fine. This is an extreme violation of the so called Standard Tech and if done by anybody else on the planet would have cost the offenders very very harsh punishment. But that could not apply to Miscavige, who was also practicing Case supervision of OT 7 and 8 without any technical training for it.

    Reply
    • Wynski says

      May 7, 2020 at 1:03 pm

      Who cares TT? It is ALL bull shit anyway. Hubtard didn’t follow his own “tek” & “policy” either.

      Reply
    • Mary Kahn says

      May 7, 2020 at 2:31 pm

      Yes. I’d love for Cruise to get the sec checking and auditing and ethics that I got. But then he’s too big of a being to pull in such horrible treatment.

      Reply
      • Loosing My Religion says

        May 7, 2020 at 4:47 pm

        Mary. Laughing, when I left the SO I got 3 months sec checks about every day (while was on mest). I end up confessing for several sessions only past life overts (just hoping to leave). Tom may need something like this to get back into present and out of his ego.

        Reply
    • Imaberrated says

      May 7, 2020 at 5:49 pm

      I admit to all of you here that I committed the High Crime, on a number of occasions, of failing to handle a red tag within 24 hours. I am evil unto this world. I didn’t resolve, with bullshit, an activity that was bullshit to begin with. I was right to be declared.

      I probably would have done that out-tech “r-factor” with a high-profile PC like Cruise.

      If you reject Scientology, suddenly all those out-ethics acts are nothing. It’s a great relief!

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      • TT Greco says

        May 8, 2020 at 9:50 am

        Man is basically good, so by the power invested in me you are forgiven.
        However another thing I cannot quite forgive to both LRH and Miscavige is the fact that I am not of native english Language yet to succeed in my service as staff member had to become able to communicate in 4 main languages while them both keep only English as their sole Language. What a poor show!

        Reply
  14. Mary Kahn says

    May 7, 2020 at 8:08 am

    The young man Faris went Clear and discovered “…who I am and why I was aberrated….”

    I (almost) want to cry for him (or maybe for the younger me). He’s got so many more hoops to jump through (and dollars to spend) in the world of scientology to discover why he is REALLY aberrated. Then, if he’s lucky and brave, he will discover that it’s really the tech of scientology with its accompanying greed that is driving him out of his mind and leave. Then real life and discovery will begin.

    Reply
  15. George M White says

    May 7, 2020 at 8:00 am

    I always laugh when you post that particular photo of Hubbard. What amazes me is that he allowed it to be taken and he is trying to smile. Anyone with half a brain can figure out that he is a broken old man.
    The picture emphasizes the fiction that was always running through his mind. Hubbard claimed that he was a Buddhist monk named “Dharma” who lived 10,000 years before recorded history. Very interesting because if you track the language the word was “Dhamma” which is the antecedent to Pali. Everywhere you look Hubbard’s story is full of lies.

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    • Loosing My Religion says

      May 7, 2020 at 2:32 pm

      George. Please correct me, but Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) was around 2500 years ago. Thus being a Buddhist monk 10000 years ago is a light anachronism. Right?

      Reply
      • George M White says

        May 7, 2020 at 3:14 pm

        You are correct. That was Hubbard who made the comment. I think it was his Thelemic background. Crowley and Hubbard looked into Egyptian religion. Hubbard would say anything that entered his mind especially about religion. Buddha specifically says he had no teacher yet Hubbard claimed to have been Buddha’s teacher. Everywhere you look Hubbard was wrong.

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        • LoosingMyReligion says

          May 7, 2020 at 4:27 pm

          Thanks George. I remember seeing a couple of Advance magazines (about 72 or 73) where on the cover (it was a drawing) there was the Buddha and the image of Metteya who had Hubbard’s face.
          This was enough to tell me almost everything about the curtain of lies and the scam.

          Reply

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