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Thanks for the summary, Grant. Can you say a bit more about how Hubbard was
making such money with his system?
Lawrence
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> Of Grant Callaghan
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> Subject: Re: Scientology
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> >Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:27:56 -0500
> >
> >On 01/10/02 07:24, tazzie said this-
> >
> > >Could I have a desricption of exactly what is *scientology*?
> >
> >http://skepdic.com/dianetic.html
> >
> >The organization itself is considered to be criminal in some countries.
> >
> >- Wade
>
> If I remember correctly (it's been a while) Scientology began with the
> publication of a book by L. Ron Hubbard back in the late 40s as
> an answer to
> the problems of psychiatry that psychiatrists seemed unable to
> cure. Hubbard
> declared it a religion when the govenment sent him a huge tax
> bill for the
> money he was making with his system. The government has been
> calling him a
> criminal ever since and has denied Scientology the status of
> religiion for
> tax purposes. Hubbard has since died and the people who took over his
> "church" have been accused of brain washing and other crimes. In
> the later
> years of his life Hubbard withdrew from his church and had little
> to do with
> the running of day-to-day affairs. He spent most of his time on a yacht
> where the IRS could not easily get their hands on him. He is basically a
> science fiction writer who hit on a new idea and found ways to make a
> fortune with it. My own view is that he never did anything I would call
> criminal. I can't say the same for the people who took over his
> "church."
> I've been following his career off and on since I was eighteen.
> Ron's last
> gasp before he died was to write a ten-volume science fiction series that
> demonstrated he still had a way with words. It was mostly
> action-adventure.
>
> Grant
>
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