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JdeBP#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.
RamenCatholic π’πWTF 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")
JβyGoing 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
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HarpisteA commercial from the 1980βs promoting the book #Dianetics tried to read it a couple of times, couldnβt read more than 60 or 70 pages, the book is really hard to read.
Scientology commercial from the 80's
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.
#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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#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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