(05-27-2022, 12:54 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Didn't the bloke who started it say it was a joke? How we let them into Aus and build/buy land is bewildering...L Ron Hubbard, a SciFi author, and he didn't say it was a joke, the truth is he started it as a bet to win a debate by proving how gullible the wider public could be to some of the shyster like practises of the time including psychotherapy, chiropractics and other questionable welfare practises at the time, and he won the bet!
He also profited quite nicely from it, because he borrowed many of the ideologies from his own science fiction writing, which boosted the sale of his books.
Did you know that the term "Blowing smoke us your ar5e" stems from a real 20th century health practise, much like radium water treatment and anti-asthma cigarettes?
People, the public, in fact probably all of us, are mostly dickheads in one form or another!
But you don't want to write too much about this, they scrape the web and attack anything and anyone that raises the question, the web is flooded with official facts and studies that claim the debate / bet / wager wasn't true, but those "official reports and investigations" are all basically rooted in Scientology or Institutions connected to it. You see to focus on L Ron Hubbard is wrong, he lost control of Scientology long long ago, in fact not long after he invented it when the shysters that profit from it now saw the dollars and weaselled their way into controlling the future momentum of Dianetics. L Ron invented a scam, he didn't run with it. If we talked too much this forum will be under a DDoS attack before dawn!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"