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I just read through this entire thread again
from the beginning.
One of the most entertaining and interesting threads I've ever
read.
Especially good for new "ex" people or curious visitors.
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Likewise, I just took a peek at the thread's first post and ended up hooked and re-read the entire thread again as well.
Epic revelations!
It summarizes (
far better than Cliff's Notes ever could)
70 years of non-stop pathological cult lying by Hubbard, Miscavige and all the rest of the "elite senior management" shore story-tellers, proxies, heirs, assigns and co-conspirators. They all became, without exception, TR-L. Ron Hubbard.
As far as the "
I am the Anti-Christ" claim, perhaps the most plausible explanation for what Hubbard intended by that deranged "revelation" is the one articulated
on this thread by J. Swift. However, I'll mention in passing that the term "Anti-Christ" lacks one definitive definition and is the subject of considerable debate amongst scholars. By way of example here is a
LINKED ARTICLE ("Who is the Anti-Christ?") that offers up quite a number of varied and contradictory meanings for that term.
I mention this for a particular reason, and it has
nothing to do with trying to figure out what Hubbard meant. The sheer cryptic ambiguity of it is the actual point! To wit, imagine that we all now are able to TIME TRAVEL back to those Senior Int secret meetings where COB and his coterie of cult collaborators discussed this compelling subject:
HEY, THE OLD MAN DROPPED DEAD AFTER HE WROTE
THAT HE IS THE ANTI-CHRIST. DOES ANYONE HAVE
ANY IDEAS OF WTF WE SHOULD DO NOW?!
Because we successfully time traveled back to that moment, imagine what would happen
if we asked COB and every other one of the creepy conspirators for the precise definition of "Anti-Christ". And what do you think they would answer?
CONCLUSION: I maintain that
none of them would have had the slightest clue what Hubbard meant, even if they offered up lamely uninformed guesses. Give that a moment of consideration. Get it? In Scientology the
most vital tech you learn on your very first day is to "never ever go past a misunderstood word!". And in the OT VIII materials, Hubbard finally leaks his
most vital personal revelation ever! All those years where Hubbard's "mystery sandwich" tech teased parishioners about who exactly he was and how he performed all these miracles. Remember this? "We shall not speculate on how I came to rise above the bank." However, when he finally revealed the secret of all secrets,
"I am the Anti-Christ!" (
goo-goo-ga-joo)---they all decided to happily publish the biggest discovery of the past 417 quadrillion years, even though they all had an epic MU on the term and no idea whatsoever what he was talking about.
FREE BONUS SECTION: The
revelation about being the "Anti-Christ" is just like every other breathlessly delivered "cosmic breakthrough!" in Scientology. There are literally tens of thousands of such moments (
e.g. engrams, Xenu, smoking more cigarettes cures lung cancer, gorilla goal implants, miraculous OT superpowers, et al) and they all have the identical origin, nature and tell---MIB
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* MIB: A new phenomena discovered by Don Hubbard (
see avatar) that refers to the cult of Scientology's
Mad Improvisational Bullshit technology, which is used by the cult's founder, leaders and managers in extreme moments of stress--where parishioners' donations are downwardly spiraling and they begin asking entheta questions about why the tech didn't work--or just disinterestedly walking away. At that critical moment, even messiahs become discombobulated and begin sputtering hastily patched together gibberish.
[example: When Hubbard held a massive public event in 1950 at the Shrine Auditorium to celebrate "The World's First Clear!", Sonya Bianca was miserably unable to demonstrate her "perfect memory". In fact she couldn't even remember the color of Hubbard's tie thought he was standing directly behind her. As the 6000 assembled Dianetic enthusiasts and believers began to loudly grumble and walk out, a shell-shocked Hubbard desperately searched for an explanation. When questioned by reporters about the epic fail, Hubbard madly improvised some remarkably inept bullshit, explaining that: "When I called the world's first Clear Sonya Bianca from the wings to take the stage, I gave her the command 'Will you come out here now, Sonya?' The word 'now' got her stuck in present time." This scientifically explains why Sonya was able to perfectly remember back to a pre-natal engram, yet was unable to remember 10 seconds earlier.]
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