I'm honestly surprised this didn't get any hate yet. Lol
Here's some hate for you. Specifically, it's instruction, to create hate, from L. Ron Hubbard:
"The only safe public opinion to head for is they love us and are in a frenzy of hate against the enemy. This means standard wartime propaganda is what one is doing. Know the mores of your public opinion, what they hate. That's the enemy. What they love. That's you."
From the confidential
Battle Tactics HCOPL of February 1969
And,
"The objective is to be identified as attackers of popularly considered evils. This declassifies us from former labels. It reclassifies our attackers as evil people."
From confidential
Black Propaganda of January 1972.
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Your video is an excellent description of what is sometimes called "White Scientology." Here are two threads on "White Scientology":
Link to the "White Scientology" thread.
Link to re-titled (for clarification) thread on "White (benign) Scientology."
L. Ron Hubbard designed Scientology to be a mix of both "white" and "black" Scientology.
You are a Reformed Scientologist.
Much of what became the "white" component of Scientology was inspired by Alfred Korzybski.
Link to the Drive Yourself Sane video.
Two chapters -
Origins of Dianetics and
Clay in the Master's Hands (about the Lower Grades) - in the book
Messiah or Madman? - examine Korzybski.
Link to Messiah or Madman?
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Link to Hubbard's Propaganda Tech thread.
Hubbard used propaganda tech on outsiders and also on his own followers. What do people love? Most basically, people love SURVIVAL, and, of course, they love pleasure and happiness, and also living forever, and even being invisible and being able to fly around - which indeed would be great fun.
What do people "hate"? These days, anyone called a "hater" is immediately stigmatized. Thus Scientology is in the habit of labeling those who criticize it "haters."
Is Scientology about love? Not really.
Hubbard's broad circulation piece,
What is Greatness?, which you quote in your video, was PR (public relations). It appeared concurrent with the establishing of the Guardians Office (later renamed OSA), and one year after the appearance of the non-remimeo (semi confidential) Fair Game Law.
Link to the Original Fair Game Law thread.
If you examine the above document closely, you'll see it advocates both arson and murder.
A similar view can be found in the HCOPL
Responsibility of Leaders of 1967. If you have a PDF of that document, do a find on the word "pink," as in "pink legs," to easily locate the relevant section.
You're a good person for wanting to find what's best in Scientology. That's a natural impulse from someone who wants to help others.
To be realistic, however, one must consider the entirety of the subject.
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