Oh, and after Pierre sold Trey L's material for several thousand dollars, and people were then coming to Trey rather than dealing with Pierre's bizarritude, Pierre was saying that Trey's L's material (acquired from Pierre for $$$) was bogus, and only Pierre had "the real thing". :roflmao:
No, Pierre merely supplied the L's material to Trey for several thousand dollars and then badmouthed Trey when customers started coming to Trey for L's auditing instead of Pierre. Pierre was a gargantuan asshole by any standard. Back in the day, he tried to imply that there was something wrong...
They were what Hubbard wanted them to be, what Hubbard made them. He sought the high military command status he never could accomp-lish in the real world.
(Edit) Actually, that's not the entire explanation. Hubbard self-servingly gave his loyal indoctrinated stooges license to indulge in their...
I knew Nate peripherally when I audited as paid noncontracted staff at CCNY, and his wife Laurie was the ED and my PC. Didn't know the history. I knew Nate's late, estranged (ex-Scn) brother Amos better, nice guy, spoke of Nate, who disconnected from him, as "my mother's son" with a wry smile...
I remember having a discussion with Phil about how enraged Hubbard was in 1965 when he wrote "Keeping Scientology Working", basically a manifesto ridden with lies, 10 different ways of saying "thou shalt take no other god but me" intended to engineer a subliminal association with the ten...
I was Lead HGC auditor at the NY org at that time, I remember Reynolds at the podium. By this time, to me, almost everything going on outside my auditing room was exasperating idiocy. I thought it was all supposed to be about providing "case gain", and none of this reflected any interest in...