Is it true? - alt.religion.scientology

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More options May 24 1998, 3:00 am

Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology

From: Whips...@cris.com (WHIPPERSNAPPER)

Date: 1998/05/24

Subject: Re: Is it true?

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In article <MPG.fcd7f4f6a05a33989...@nntp.lightlink.com>,

Starshadow <starshad...@mindless.com> wrote:

>... I heard from his [LRH's] own lips that he started the
>whole thing as a scam. I guess that he was lying, though, or maybe I was
>lying and somehow all the people at Norwescon One were lying that heard
>him say the same thing.

I first saw this statement from StartAtShadows years ago on a small
bulletin-board network. I questioned it then and got nothing but smoke.
It is a unique claim I have seen nowhere else and she has never presented
the slightest proof or corroboration.

Hubbard would never have stepped up to a podium at a public event and
declared Scientology a scam. Had he done so it would have made front page
news.

The obvious conclusion is that StirredShadows is lying. God knows she
hasn't the capacity for self-examination it would take to admit she was
ever wrong. And she probably conceives that her witness to this historic
incident provides her a status boost amongst her fellow armchair bigots.

A possible alternative is that Hubbard uttered some characteristic jest at
which the whole crowd chuckled except some beady-eyed, literal-minded gal
near the back who was, I humorously imagine, too busy fingering Tarot
cards and muttering malevolent incantations to think it through.

- Whippersnapper

"If your mind's gone blank, I have some suggestions!" -- Calvin

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