veverzayFeb 4
#dianetics #lronhubbard
JdeBPOct 7

#HubSpot is using the same advertising tactic that Scientology used for #Dianetics in computer magazines back in the 1980s, long-since debunked.

'Did you know that your company is using only 2% of its data?'

Yes, HubSpot.

That's because the other 98% follows the fifth root of Sturgeon's Law.

It is quoted reply chains in LookOut, signatures, memes in corporate chats, inapplicable all-employees messages, accidental replies-to-list, high resolution Zoom/Teams calls with fake backgrounds, databases in spreadsheets, random characters to satisfy forced comment fields, test data in production, and so on.

The 2% is the good stuff that remains after properly throwing the crap out.

#SturgeonsLaw #CorporateLife #AdvertisingLures #Marketing

RamenCatholic 🐒🌈Jul 14, 2024

WTF is wrong with me that I have a (smol) collection of used #scientology books & materials?

Newest addition: 'The Science of Survival Lectures' (1st annual conference of hubbard dianetics auditors, 1961), book & cd sets.

I think its because I want to make sure that my cult is fully #AntiScientology & that I don't go all Evil Leader. But I can't even stomach finishing #Dianetics, so I don't think I'll be goin through this anytime soon.

#UsedBooks #Cults #CultLiterature (lol "literature")

J❀yJan 3, 2024

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Text instead of screenshots: https://cohost.org/lurkjay/post/4065043-going-clear-sciento

#reading #nonfiction #books #religion #cults #scientology #dianetics #bookstodon

The Skeptic's Book of ListsOct 18, 2023
Yes. I do own this issue of Astounding Science Fiction.
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#dianetics
HarpisteSep 5, 2023

A commercial from the 1980’s promoting the book #Dianetics tried to read it a couple of times, couldn’t read more than 60 or 70 pages, the book is really hard to read.

https://youtu.be/BHoCJzymz_Y?si=1vN__d242C1NRnl4

Scientology commercial from the 80's

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RamenCatholic 🐒🌈Jun 2, 2023

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.

Show threadRamenCatholic 🐒🌈May 3, 2023

#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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Show threadRamenCatholic 🐒🌈May 3, 2023

#Dianetics chapter 1 #KeyPoints

β€’ Dianetics is a "science of the mind" & "an answer to the goal of thought"

β€’ Provides an history of humanity and of "aberrations" of mental health and illnesses

β€’ Argues there is a "single source of all insanities ... and social derangements"

β€’ Defines various psychological terms regarding said "insanities"

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

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RamenCatholic 🐒🌈May 3, 2023

#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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