Last night, I was thinking about getting back into my I read #Dianetics #SoYouDontHaveTo project. But I decided I wasn't in the mood for #CoS nonsense.

Then I fell asleep, and dreamt that the ghost of #LRonHubbard gave me a copy of #GoingClear by #LawrenceWright (an anti-Co$ #book)

I really, really hope that was just my subconscious; I don't want to be haunted by L. Ron or his #thetans ... even if he/they are sorry the whole #Scientology thing. Fuck 'em.

#LRonHubbard promises the reader that #Dianetics is:

1) "an organized science of thought"

2) which "contains a therapeutic technique ... with assurance of complete cure"

3) that "produces a condition of ability and rationality" and gives a complete insight into the full potentialities of the mind"

#LRH then makes some pretty strong claims that imply that Dianetics is the Universal Theory of Science of the Mind, but provides no evidence of any research.

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#Dianetics chapter 1 #KeyPoints

• Dianetics is a "science of the mind" & "an answer to the goal of thought"

• Provides an history of humanity and of "aberrations" of mental health and illnesses

• Argues there is a "single source of all insanities ... and social derangements"

• Defines various psychological terms regarding said "insanities"

• Claims that this book's goals include creating techniques to cure, and prevent, these issues.

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#Reading #Dianetics #SoYouDontHaveTo
#Scientology #nonsense

Chapter 1 - The Scope of Dianetics (pages 7-13)

#MyThoughts - The purple prose hurts my brain. I can see why people think his earlier fiction is hard-to-read. I do, however, appreciate all the foot-notes.

#CW - This chapter contains some casual racism that was common to the era. I will not quote or reference those statements in this thread.

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Back home and attempting to read #Dianetics by #LRonHubbard .

Page 3, "How to Read this Book" on using simple language to convey ideas:

" 'Basic Language' has been used, much of the nomenclature is colloquial; the pedantic has not only been employed, it has also been ignored."

That's an awful lot of $2 words for that particular topic. #Hubbardsplaining

I'm considering doing an "I #read #Dianetics so you don't have to" thread, so I've started the first chapter.

Y'all.

I've listened to SO MANY #LRonHubbard interviews & watched SO MUCH #Scientology trash that I'm "hearing" it in his voice & his cadence.

I've gotten through the forward and whatnots, and I am only only page 3 of the book. I don't know if I can do this.

Remember that this is the "religion" that believes children are just adults in tiny bodies.

Hubbard even stated the following in #Dianetics

"The seven-year-old girl who shudders because a man kisses her is not computing; she is reacting to an engram since at seven she should see nothing wrong in a kiss, not even a passionate one."

"Scientologist Caught & Arrested On "To Catch A Predator"" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/rL7j_svgwuM