{"id":461,"date":"2013-01-24T22:46:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T11:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conspiracyofwords.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T04:18:09","slug":"24-january-1986-death-of-l-ron-hubbard-founder-of-scientology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conspiracyofwords.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"24 January 1986 \u2013\u00a0death of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>When L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, used to write a pet advice column&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear L Hubbard,<\/p>\n<p>My cat, who used to be very friendly and affectionate, has become snooty and superior. Although his name is Skeebles, he now only answers to Greystoke Havisham and he refuses to eat anything other than export quality pickled herring from The Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know a good supplier of pickled herring?<\/p>\n<p>Cat-Lover of Tallahassee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">Dear Cat-Lover of Tallahassee,<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">While everybody assumes that cats \u2013\u00a0naturally prone to thinking of themselves as celebrities \u2013\u00a0would make great scientologists, this is rarely the case in fact. They won\u2019t sit still to have the e-meter fitted for one thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">More importantly, they are all over the tone scale. I once came across a cat, pre-clear, a house-cat, you understand? Never did a lick of work in all its days. It\u2019s perched right at the top of the tone scale for present experience, you know? Right up at 4.0, experiencing present time as pleasure non-stop. You almost got to envy the darn thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">Then you look a little closer and you start to wonder. One moment it\u2019s full of excitement and exhilaration, right at the tippy-top of the tone scale, because some bird has got into the apartment and he\u2019s thinking of how \u2013 in his own very direct, precise and forthright way \u2013\u00a0he\u2019ll be messing with that bird soon and separating it into all of its tiny bird parts to see how it ticks. And then having a scrumptious little meal as a bonus. You know, a cat is nothing if not full of doingness, causativeness, at a moment like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">But his owner, you know, not clear, not Operating Thetan, barely even at 1.1 on the tone scale, exhibiting complete lack of interest or intention, he just shoo-s that old bird out of the door with a broom. Leaves the cat swinging in the breeze. And that cat, which you thought was so self-contained, so free of blockages, suddenly plummets on the tone scale and is now all unexpressed resentment and hostility. Right down around 1.1, maybe 1.0 come to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">So that cat is going to enturbulate his owner. He\u2019s now got a set of vicious hidden intents towards the owner \u2013\u00a0and he\u2019s looking at inflicting a whole new set of engrams on him you know. Tripping him up as he walks to the lounge with his cup of coffee, leaving half a rodent right next to the dining table, barfing under the bed. That guy\u2019s going to need a lot of auditing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">So, make sure to buy my book, <i>Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science<\/i> for more help.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________<\/p>\n<p>Dear Doctor Hibbard,<\/p>\n<p>My chameleon won\u2019t change colour. He just sits next to a stick in the terrarium and glares at me. I\u2019m starting to wonder if the guy at the shop has sold me an iguana or something.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">Dear concerned,<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">What do you want out of your chameleon? Colour changes? Are you kidding? Once that chameleon is Operating Thetan \u2013\u00a0willing and knowing cause over life, matter, energy, space and time \u2013\u00a0changing colour is the least of what he\u2019ll be capable of. Even if he is an iguana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">You really should buy my book, <i>Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health<\/i> to move that lizard towards Clear.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________<\/p>\n<p>Dear Elron,<\/p>\n<p>My daughter collects bugs in a jar. She\u2019s had a caterpillar in a cocoon stuck in there for nearly 8 months and it still hasn\u2019t turned into a butterfly. I just don\u2019t know how to answer her constant questions, \u201cWhen is it going to turn into a beautiful butterfly?\u201d \u201cHow beautiful is the butterfly going to be?\u201d \u201cDo butterflies always take this long?\u201d Is it a butterfly yet?\u201d and it\u2019s breaking my heart.<\/p>\n<p>What should I do?<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Schnagel<br \/>\nMilwaukee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">Dear Milwaukee,<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">Ho boy, here we go. You\u2019ve got comms lags and ARC breaks all over the place. That\u2019s Affinity, Reality &amp; Communication since you\u2019re obviously pretty out of touch. If you want that butterfly to emerge, you\u2019re going to need to take control of the situation. You\u2019ve already got the havingness. The caterpillar\u2019s already in the jar, you know? Now you\u2019re going to need to show a bit of doingness. Giving clear, precise commands, you need to make sure that your communication impulses or particles are delivered straight from you \u2013\u00a0the source-point \u2013\u00a0to that cocoon \u2013\u00a0the receipt-point. Keep repeating those commands until the comms lag has been stabilised and you\u2019re starting to see some duplication, some response from the cocoon. Otherwise you won\u2019t bridge that distance for the effect you\u2019re after, which is, let me remind you, a beautiful new butterfly in the jar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">Now maybe you\u2019re something less than a five-goal Clear and you don\u2019t think you\u2019ve got the wherewithal to run an ARC Straightwire on that reluctant caterpillar, but I think you\u2019ll find my book,<i> Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought<\/i> invaluable here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typewriter\">As for your daughter, that girl has serious problems. I have no idea what you can do with her.<\/p>\n<p><i>File under:<\/i> avuncular agony aunt | doctor doolittle remixed<\/p>\n<p>(Image source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/uknews\/6672296\/L-Ron-Hubbard-snubbed.html\">telegraph.co.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When L Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, used to write a pet advice column&#8230; &nbsp; Dear L Hubbard, My cat, who used to be very friendly and affectionate, has become snooty and superior. 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