Imagine if he had found himself in the right set of historical circumstances, he could easily have become another Hitler or Stalin. I think we really dodged a bullet there.
@sparkle Plenty, I'd say that David Miscavige has gone into hiding for fear that someone will serve the summons' which are outstanding for him to testify in various trials, and one or more where he's accused of criminal acts. Little guy (He's at most 5-foot 1 inch) is fighting pretty hard to not be served.
In a small way, aboard his small "fleet" of "Sea Org" boats he WAS a ruthless dictator. He never much influenced or affected anyone out of his direct circles, but had a bevy of nymphettes(called Messengers) to serve his every whim and a small cadre of others who served his other needs. Look carefully and he matched the profile of a sociopath neatly.
They "beat" the IRS because the leadership had every loyal Scientologists create and pursue false charges against the IRS and specific and random IRS agents, if pursued to the fullest, even if found to be false, would have cost the US judicial system millions. They had a meeting and essentially headed tax exemption for the dropping of all the charges.
A close friend of mine got into Scientology, got brain cancer, refused to take medicine, and later died while I was with him. He was thirty-four. Nothing about this fraud of a man is funny. Quite simply, he was a loathsome weeping sore upon the face of humanity.
It's a tenet of Scientology. Medicine for the brain is part of psychology, and thus bad. Also, it was in the American south and the medication was expensive. His sister said the cost was why. But he rejected medicine years before he got sick.
@@CaptainLog i believe the sister, that he could not afford the medication for his brain cancer. Rejecting medicine is a personal choice and has nothing to do with Scientology, which means study of wisdom or "knowing how to know". Some people are asked to see a doctor first before they receive scientology or Dianetic counseling. They need to be healthy to get best results. If they have a medical problem, and they did everything the doctor told them to do, tried everything, tried alternative medicine, and they still have the problem, then they will accept person for counseling, because the physical problem could be caused by a mental problem. I worked at a scientology organization in Florida. I supervised a man on a program to release drugs and toxins from his body, and the doctor said he could spend time in a sauna, daily, for about 3 weeks. I found out 3 days later he had a brain tumor. He went to the hospital and the doctors put him into a coma and he passed away. He made his own choices about the treatment of his tumor. Another man I worked with had high - blood pressure and the doctor said he could be in the sauna , but I had to take his blood pressure daily. He had no worries about his health. I was the one freaking out, wondering if he was going to drop dead on me. 😊He made it through the program just fine. Hubbard and scientologists are not against medicine , surgery, dentists, etc. We are against pshychiatric drugs for depression and mental problems, because they cause brain - damage in about 2 years. Mental illness can be caused or worsened by lack of sleep, unknown infections where the toxins go to the brain and inflame the brain, medical problems, not enough zinc and copper, sugar, etc. Brain cancer is not the same as a mental problem. You have to do what you need to do to stay alive, and how you do it is a personal choice. Contrary to popular belief, scientology staff members like to send people to the doctor first, before starting any serious mental counseling. 👍
You are part of the problem. My friend conflated cancer medication with psychiatry and died gasping a few feet away from me. You have no business advising anyone about their health.
Ron Jeremy is a better writer than L Ron Hubbard. You will never forget reading one of his books. No matter how hard you try. L Ron Hubbard is a psychopath who figured that killing people was too painless on the victim. If you read one of his books you suffer for the rest of your life.
One reason why he became the most published author of all time , was that he would send his disciples into the book stores to buy his books back. He then resold these books. This was found out, because one of the book store chains, marked their books, with their company name, prior to selling them. They began receiving new "Dianetics" books that had already been marked with their company name.
yes but it was not just L Ron, actually this is a very common way to get on a best seller list There are actually companies that exist to plan your best seller success-mainly like you said by buying up your book so as to indicate the books popularity
Dahrk Mezcalf I ordered the Dianetics book probably 25 years ago because one of those infomercials was so convincing. They still send letters every few weeks (after 25 years!) wanting me to join and enter the program. $$$$$
The most "interesting" story of LRH's military career is when he ordered his ship to fire on Mexico, a US ally. This "mistake" caused a significant international incident.
yeah his military record is riddled with gross incompetence The Mexican incident nonwithstanding he fought an hours long duel with a Japanese submarine wasting thousands dollars worth of depth charges-post war analysis of Japanese activity indicated there were no Japanese submarines in the area, he was nervous and was chasing whales He also discovered a bomb inside a ship-very likely placed it there himself If all naval officers acted L Ron the US would have lost the war His war record is riddled with absolute incompetence indicating he was unfit for a position of responsibility
Liberty GiveMe that’s why I don’t listen to a single one of those elitist. Most of them are mentally ill. Especially when you consider most of Hollywood types, more so today’s Hollywood types, make it big then commit suicide or destroy themselves with drugs.
@@probusexcogitatoris736 drugs are not supported by study of scientology (study of wisdom or "knowing how to know"), unless it is a medical drug or antibiotics needed to save a life. You can use scientology to end drug addictions. It is a program called Narconon and no drugs are used to replace the drug you are addicted to. You can't accomplish anything while being addicted so I don't believe he was addicted to drugs. If he was addicted, and I do not think so, someone would just get him off of the drug. And it would be easy because a well - trained scientologist knows how to do it, with the support of a scientology organization.
Famous for saying that if you want to get rich, start a religion. Which he did, twice. A con man, 3rd rate sci fi author and founder of cults, which is just two letters away from what he was.
I like reading science fiction. I stumbled across one of his books once and decided to read it out of curiosity. As a novel, it was one of the worst written books I'd ever seen. Wow.
When I was a kid I spent most of my money from birthdays, allowances and paid chores on books. I was allowed to read anything I was able to get my hands on, and in eighth grade my reading level was already at college levels. I can't tell you how many times I picked up "Dianetics" at the grocery store paperback rack and put it back down again. My preference was for more biographical or historical books and novels, thankfully. I can't imagine what reading that book as an impressionable pre-teen might have meant to my mental health.
What a loss m8. I read Dianetics when i was 15, and i was absolutely impressed (best book in the world). The book is beyond amazing, and it is mostly true, but not totally correct. I would say at least 60% of Dianetics is right. Some ideas from it are odd, but that's because Ron had no idea about reincarnation when he discovered and wrote Dianetics.
It would have been comparable to those teens, mostly males, such as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Allen Greenspan the former head of the Federal Reserve, who we know picked up the toilsome trash that Ayn Rand wrote such as "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" and no doubt thought her philosophy of avarice, selfishness, and every other sadistic inclination one might have surging through their grey matter an epiphany and the way their lives should be directed. Yet even Rand who perceived any altruistic consideration as an exercise of self denial had the good sense to reject the idiocy of religion. Yet the result of both these cults Scientology and Objectivism produces the same kind of people who are cruel and indifferent to human suffering and notwithstanding Rand's rejection of religious dogma a sort of religion itself, a religion based on inveterate lying and greed and a rejection of one's fellow man. And despite the fact these people might be highly educated easily duped into believing preposterous things. There is no greater example of this than Greenspan's reply to Senator Bernie Sanders in the wake of the manifestation of the 2008 "Great Recession". The thrust of Sanders question was what went wrong with the financial markets and Wall Street and why the fed didn't see it on the horizon. Well Greenspan frustrated at being put on the spot by a thoughtful man of the people could only respond that he thought those entities would have self regulated themselves and would not have engaged in such egregious and reckless behavior as if he thought greed wasn't a part of the equation. And this man was in charge of money policy and financial regulation. Sanders you can be sure was simply gobsmacked at the gullibility of this bespectacled fool. The United States is full of these dolts and obviously why we keep sending these bastards to Washington who in turn allow the donor class to rob us blind.
You are completely correct about mental health. I read Battlefield Earth a long time ago and words cannot express how terrible it was. You wouldn't think that something could damage your mental health and be boring at the same time but he pulled that off. Jeffry Dahmer only killed and ate a few people but millions were subjected to the 'writing' of L Ron Hubbard.
I love how you always tell respectable and non bias biographies. On all of them. U base them off of documentation and we need more of this in the world.
It never fails to blow my mind that so many people gravitate toward an individual, company or cause in spite of the individual or entity very cleary stating their true intent, most obvious & relevent example below: "You do not get rich writing science fiction. If you want to become rich, you start a religion." - L. Ron Hubbard He says this, than he DOES just that...and yet people still flock to him. This quirk, in particular, within human nature is just insane.
H VonWolfenstein Sometimes he talks just a little bit too fast as if he's in a hurry and running out the door and some of my family and friends noticed this too
My first job when I was at uni was working admin at the "Church" of Scientology office near campus. I was expected to work full time hours (though I strictly stuck to part time), and my time there was classed as "voluntary". So after my first fortnight working 40 hours, I was paid $5.50. I was told I could get paid more if I took an auditing class, but the cost of that would be taken from my wages...meaning that when I left I would owe them money. They offered me a free "audit" and I spent an hour basically bullied into exposing my deepest secrets (including a time when I considered suicide). Afterwards I was told if I tried to leave the "church" they would expose my "sins" to the public. I told them I didn't care and walked out. I was only 18 at the time and pretty impressionable, and honestly if I hadn't told my family what was going on there I could easily have been sucked in. They were also idiots for not making me sign a non-disclosure agreement, so I openly talk about what happened there.
Well done for walking out. That blackmail that they tried to subject you to is probably what keeps the film stars stuck in Scientology. They fear having their most personal secrets exposed to the world. Blackmail is a criminal activity.
As you say, you might have been impressionable. However, you were grounded enough to make a good decision to get away from those lunatics. You are to be commended.
One time my mom and I walked into this L Ron Hubbard museum without knowing who he was. Halfway through we realized what we got ourselves into and looked at each other like “help.” Anyways they tried to audit us, sell us their books, and push membership on us and it was the weirdest experience of my life.
Simon! I’m so happy to see you have started a new channel. I’ve been following you since the start and think you are fabulous. Thanks for spreading the knowledge!
"Scientology" was originally the product of a lot of human guinea pigs. The "lower grades" before "Clear" were the product of group contribution. The "processing" did seem to relieve people of neuroses, many subjects felt unburdened. Then Hubbard took credit for all of it and went off on his own. He always took credit, everything was "Hubbard" this, "Hubbard" that. Eventually he became demonstrably insane, as did hangers-on. Most "Scientologists" are either dead or glad they escaped. Hubbard cared far more about attaining money and power than about "Clearing the planet." He was not a smiling Santa Claus. He did take pleasure in subjecting people to punishment. His "Sea Organization" was a joke. He died a failure, in obscurity and ignominy.
Other bright spots in his US Navy career: he depth-charged a big underwater rock, and he actually fired his deck gun at Mexico! Luckily no one was on the Mexican island. He should have been dishonorably discharged.
He’s in Guinness only because Scientology keeps republishing his pulp fiction in book form, then buying it themselves. I actually found one of their red cardboard book displays in a second hand bookstore in Saskatoon, still full to the brim with LRH pulp fiction reprints. Besides Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Leonard Cohen supposedly dabbled in it. He references it in Famous Blue Raincoat - “...on the night that you planned to go clear, did you ever go clear...” and in Joni Mitchell’s song about Cohen she mentions it too.
Hubbard was a Hack. a Mediocre Sci Fi Author who was way in over his head. How the HELL he was able to con so many people including well known Celebrities like Tom Cruise,Issac Hayes,Nancy Cartwright,John Travolta,Kristi Alley,Leah Reami, and even Lisa Marie Presley is beyond me.
Terrible person. Deserved to die with nothing and doesn't deserve to be remembered. He was a lair, a con man, a bully and probably even a murderer but worse than all that, he was a cult leader. People should celebrate his death never his life. He ruined more families and people than most. Hopefully his legacy and his cult will soon die with no way for the sadists who now run the place to rebuild it.
I had a co-worker who bummed cigarettes off of a Scientology recruiter back in the late 70's, early 80's, and he talked about how hard this recruiter pushed to get him to join. When he explained he had no real skills to offer the organization, the recruiter mentioned how Sea Org needed bodyguards. This apparently involved total commitment to the "church", no pay (you did get room and board), and months on end at sea with few chances at shore leave. Eventually my co-worker either found someone else to bum cigarettes off of or a new job, because he had no intention of never seeing/contacting his family again as what was essentially a slave.
Years ago I went into a small bookstore (when those still existed) and I was just chatting with the owner. I saw a copy of Battlefield Earth and I asked the owner how did a book that bad become a bestseller. He said there were 2 factors that made it happen. First, he would have people who would buy a whole box of the same book. When he asked them why, they would say that the church of scientology urged them to buy multiple copies and give them away as a recruiting tool. The other way was that if a display of them did not sell he would rip off the cover and send those covers back to get a refund for the books and throw away the uncovered books. He was told (when he asked the publisher) that the only the scientology people would list those books as sold for bookkeeping purposes, other would list them as a loss. That is how so many of his books became bestsellers.
In my previous life, I was a city bus driver. One of the routes that I drove was routed along Hollywood Boulevard. I was always amazed watching the acolytes of Scientology move robotically up and down the street!!!!
Person 1: What's Scientology. Me: South Park explained it to a T. Then the church tried to go after the creators but most everything they found was already public knowledge.
The polymath Bertrand Russell once referred to Crowley as "the greatest waste of an intellect [he] had ever met." I would love to see Biographics episodes on both of these men.
@@ralphhenderson5276 That's his opinion and when i hear someone make a statement like that i think fool ! God forbid somone has a different view on spirituality than the masses.
Interesting series - thank you. Just one point though: I notice a couple of times whilst you’re reading the quotes, you don’t say the correct word. You said the word “mentally” when it was written “medically”. Not necessarily a minor point when people are listening rather than reading along. Keep up the good work though Simon
Thank you for another very interesting channel Simon! Maybe you should consider starting to do voice overs! You have a very nice voice to listen too, in my opinion!
Crowley was at least honest about his penchant for drugs and the occult. He called himself "The wickedest man alive." Hubbard was a narcissistic scam artist. The latter is far more dangerous.
If you love Toptenz and this channel you might also like Today I found out (tifo) and Visual Politik EN. However the last one is very much about politics worldwide, so if you don't find politics interesting the last one might not be for you! But Today I found out is very interesting and a very broad spectrum of topics! Simon is a very busy bee on youtube, that's for sure!
Most published author thing is HOGWASH. Most of his output is not due to his fiction career, but due to all the Scientology books that came out. This includes bound volumes of what were essentially office memos that were sent out to all Scientology facilities. Some of this stuff was ghost written or heavily edited. Most of his fiction consisted of short stories. He did write a few full length novels, but the number is only about 20. His last work of fiction published, the ten volume Mission Earth series, was based on detailed outlines and written by somebody else. There are several authors that wrote more fiction than he did.
In battlefield earth in the authors forward he stated that he started scientology on a bet, as well as talking about being a pulp fiction author during the 30's. Note that battlefield earth in all its volumes was meant to be the longest science fiction novel (all 4000 pages or more in 10 volumes) ever written.
Tom Cruise I don't like you or any movie you've been in. Except Legend, but only because Tim Curry was amazing in it. I'm waiting for the assigned sea Org people to start trolling the comments. They are a hoot and have very ineffective methods to stop the truth.
Internationally recognised (terrible) writer in the same way that Hitler is an internationally recognised (terrible) painter. It would seem that sadistic fantasists tend to be quite similar.
@William Chamberlain quipped: ""internationally recognised writer" of largely second-rate science fiction. 'Second-rate' is a big step up from the quality of his work.
@Maria Kelly, IF it's true that Cruise said they shouldn't film Battlefield Earth, it's news to me, and completely out of character for the super-scientologist that he was, may still be, though the available evidence indicates not.
Another great video, as usual. Informative & well researched. Thanks Simon. Constructive feedback; please stop jumping from mid-close up to close up, as it's very disconcerting, and difficult to watch.
Thank you so much for sharing this video with us, I learned a lot of things about the so called church of Scientology that really disturbed me, well done indeed again Simon, I am so very grateful for your expose of this cult!
Well done Simon,for all the educative videos you put out there.. Kindly find the time to do other personalities requested in the comments section.. You never disappoint
That leukemia statement is the dumbest statement I have ever heard. My god, I shred to think what would happen if that became accepted by the mainstream medical society. L Ron Hubbard was a dangerous swindler in every sense of the word.
Mao Tse Tung is actually the most published author of all time. Over 3 billion and counting. Which makes sense because every Chinese citizen was required to carry The Little Red Book and the unending essays and manifestos published. That said another great Biograpic. Well done, you never disappoint.
Depends what one means by most published, in total printed copies or in total individual works : "The most published works by one author is 1,084 by L. Ron Hubbard (USA) whose first work was published in February 1934 and the last in March 2006." www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-published-works-by-one-author
I read from a creditable source that the book Dianetics stayed on the best seller list because members of the religion bought thousands of books to keep it there.
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He fought the log, and the log won.
That was the CAPTAIN'S log !!
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He also depth charged Iron Ore deposits off Oregon.
Bwahahaha🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Absolutely amazing joke!!!! ❤ X x
Imagine if he had found himself in the right set of historical circumstances, he could easily have become another Hitler or Stalin. I think we really dodged a bullet there.
@sparkle Plenty, I'd say that David Miscavige has gone into hiding for fear that someone will serve the summons' which are outstanding for him to testify in various trials, and one or more where he's accused of criminal acts. Little guy (He's at most 5-foot 1 inch) is fighting pretty hard to not be served.
In a small way, aboard his small "fleet" of "Sea Org" boats he WAS a ruthless dictator. He never much influenced or affected anyone out of his direct circles, but had a bevy of nymphettes(called Messengers) to serve his every whim and a small cadre of others who served his other needs. Look carefully and he matched the profile of a sociopath neatly.
Scott Peterson there was one picture there with what looked like the Irish flag colours please tell me they ain't in Ireland
It’s a pity uncle joe wasn’t around to send him and this lot of to a gulag somewhere in Siberia to work till they bled out there asses .
@@halfcantan1208 Sadly yes it was !
"The IRS reinstated the church's tax exempt status in 1993. No explanation was given."
Snow White worked.
It's somewhat terrifying to know that the mob, the cartel, and even foreign nations can't defeat or intimidate the IRS, but Scientology can.
They "beat" the IRS because the leadership had every loyal Scientologists create and pursue false charges against the IRS and specific and random IRS agents, if pursued to the fullest, even if found to be false, would have cost the US judicial system millions.
They had a meeting and essentially headed tax exemption for the dropping of all the charges.
A close friend of mine got into Scientology, got brain cancer, refused to take medicine, and later died while I was with him. He was thirty-four.
Nothing about this fraud of a man is funny. Quite simply, he was a loathsome weeping sore upon the face of humanity.
Captainlog. Can you say why he refused to take medicine for brain tumor?
It's a tenet of Scientology. Medicine for the brain is part of psychology, and thus bad. Also, it was in the American south and the medication was expensive. His sister said the cost was why. But he rejected medicine years before he got sick.
@@CaptainLog i believe the sister, that he could not afford the medication for his brain cancer.
Rejecting medicine is a personal choice and has nothing to do with Scientology, which means study of wisdom or "knowing how to know". Some people are asked to see a doctor first before they receive scientology or Dianetic counseling. They need to be healthy to get best results. If they have a medical problem, and they did everything the doctor told them to do, tried everything, tried alternative medicine, and they still have the problem, then they will accept person for counseling, because the physical problem could be caused by a mental problem.
I worked at a scientology organization in Florida. I supervised a man on a program to release drugs and toxins from his body, and the doctor said he could spend time in a sauna, daily, for about 3 weeks. I found out 3 days later he had a brain tumor. He went to the hospital and the doctors put him into a coma and he passed away. He made his own choices about the treatment of his tumor. Another man I worked with had high - blood pressure and the doctor said he could be in the sauna , but I had to take his blood pressure daily. He had no worries about his health. I was the one freaking out, wondering if he was going to drop dead on me. 😊He made it through the program just fine. Hubbard and scientologists are not against medicine , surgery, dentists, etc. We are against pshychiatric drugs for depression and mental problems, because they cause brain - damage in about 2 years. Mental illness can be caused or worsened by lack of sleep, unknown infections where the toxins go to the brain and inflame the brain, medical problems, not enough zinc and copper, sugar, etc.
Brain cancer is not the same as a mental problem. You have to do what you need to do to stay alive, and how you do it is a personal choice.
Contrary to popular belief, scientology staff members like to send people to the doctor first, before starting any serious mental counseling. 👍
You are part of the problem. My friend conflated cancer medication with psychiatry and died gasping a few feet away from me. You have no business advising anyone about their health.
Also, if he couldn't afford his medication, how could he afford audits at his Org.?
Tom Cruise and John Travolta are gonna pay you a visit.
Not if the one true God Nicolas Cage shows up to stop them.
yay! they can give me tricks to dodge balding...so i need 140k to buy books...SOLD! ALL HAIL XENU!!!
Bring 'em on!I'll go Hubbard on their asses!
Ron Jeremy is a better writer than L Ron Hubbard. You will never forget reading one of his books. No matter how hard you try. L Ron Hubbard is a psychopath who figured that killing people was too painless on the victim. If you read one of his books you suffer for the rest of your life.
@@littlemissgothyork Tom Cruise is too busy making Mission Impossible movies nowadays to chase Scientology critics.
One reason why he became the most published author of all time , was that he would send his disciples into the book stores to buy his books back. He then resold these books. This was found out, because one of the book store chains, marked their books, with their company name, prior to selling them. They began receiving new "Dianetics" books that had already been marked with their company name.
yes but it was not just L Ron, actually this is a very common way to get on a best seller list There are actually companies that exist to plan your best seller success-mainly like you said by buying up your book so as to indicate the books popularity
I still remember the Dyanetics commercial they played every break on all channels during the 80s. That alone made me crazy.
Dahrk Mezcalf I ordered the Dianetics book probably 25 years ago because one of those infomercials was so convincing. They still send letters every few weeks (after 25 years!) wanting me to join and enter the program. $$$$$
You should have read it and you wouldn't be crazy.
@@christofl6523 so you still couldnt shake them off, you poor sudd.
@@wilhelmushoffmann8054 I'm doing just fine.
They had tv commercials for it?!
First thing I learned... his name isn’t Elron
lol :~)
Hahaha
poor kid... who gets named elron
His real name is Elron Hoyabembe... He was really a black man
ELRON HOYABEMBE
L. Ron Hubbard, the most successful snake oil salesman in history.
Indeed... but Alex Jones is giving him a run for his money.
He might be better at that than Donald Trump!
We'll have to revisit this comment in a few years :D
Careful, you might get sued for saying that
The United States blood is made of snake oil.
The most "interesting" story of LRH's military career is when he ordered his ship to fire on Mexico, a US ally. This "mistake" caused a significant international incident.
yeah his military record is riddled with gross incompetence The Mexican incident nonwithstanding he fought an hours long duel with a Japanese submarine wasting thousands dollars worth of depth charges-post war analysis of Japanese activity indicated there were no Japanese submarines in the area, he was nervous and was chasing whales He also discovered a bomb inside a ship-very likely placed it there himself If all naval officers acted L Ron the US would have lost the war His war record is riddled with absolute incompetence indicating he was unfit for a position of responsibility
Controversial figure? The man was a whack-a-doodle and the tax exempt status of his "church" should be immediately and irretrievably revoked!
Kristin - COULD NOT AGREE MORE!!!! What a 'Demon'! And of course so-called "Celebrities" DRINK IT ALL UP!!!!
No churches should be tax exempt.
Sam J Yes!! Agreed. Don't even understand why the hell they even qualify for it in the first place!
Liberty GiveMe that’s why I don’t listen to a single one of those elitist. Most of them are mentally ill. Especially when you consider most of Hollywood types, more so today’s Hollywood types, make it big then commit suicide or destroy themselves with drugs.
Scientology only calls itself a "church" because of the tax+legal benefits. It is a for profit scam empire mafia - not a church.
How did he die? Shouldn't dianetics have removed his health problems?
Dianetics doesn't claim to prevent ageing and death so no it shouldn't have. According to Hubbard his soul (thetan) will be in a new body right now.
Maybe he didn't "Read the book"
@@probusexcogitatoris736 drugs are not supported by study of scientology (study of wisdom or "knowing how to know"), unless it is a medical drug or antibiotics needed to save a life. You can use scientology to end drug addictions. It is a program called Narconon and no drugs are used to replace the drug you are addicted to. You can't accomplish anything while being addicted so I don't believe he was addicted to drugs.
If he was addicted, and I do not think so, someone would just get him off of the drug. And it would be easy because a well - trained scientologist knows how to do it, with the support of a scientology organization.
@Barbara Lainhart i believe all of his organs and his colon were just fine when he died. Travolta and Cruise were not there when he died.
He didn’t pay Satan his tributes and Satan came to collect that day.
Famous for saying that if you want to get rich, start a religion. Which he did, twice.
A con man, 3rd rate sci fi author and founder of cults, which is just two letters away from what he was.
Well said, haha !
I like reading science fiction. I stumbled across one of his books once and decided to read it out of curiosity. As a novel, it was one of the worst written books I'd ever seen. Wow.
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Be careful. Those scientologists might come after you.
Perfect.
When I was a kid I spent most of my money from birthdays, allowances and paid chores on books. I was allowed to read anything I was able to get my hands on, and in eighth grade my reading level was already at college levels. I can't tell you how many times I picked up "Dianetics" at the grocery store paperback rack and put it back down again. My preference was for more biographical or historical books and novels, thankfully. I can't imagine what reading that book as an impressionable pre-teen might have meant to my mental health.
What a loss m8. I read Dianetics when i was 15, and i was absolutely impressed (best book in the world). The book is beyond amazing, and it is mostly true, but not totally correct. I would say at least 60% of Dianetics is right. Some ideas from it are odd, but that's because Ron had no idea about reincarnation when he discovered and wrote Dianetics.
the book sucked i borrowed it from someone, fell asleep after a few pages, Hubbard was a hack writer
The book was THE BEST THING I READ IN MY LIFE. I bet you started to read it with tons of prejudices.
It would have been comparable to those teens, mostly males, such as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Allen Greenspan the former head of the Federal Reserve, who we know picked up the toilsome trash that Ayn Rand wrote such as "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" and no doubt thought her philosophy of avarice, selfishness, and every other sadistic inclination one might have surging through their grey matter an epiphany and the way their lives should be directed. Yet even Rand who perceived any altruistic consideration as an exercise of self denial had the good sense to reject the idiocy of religion. Yet the result of both these cults Scientology and Objectivism produces the same kind of people who are cruel and indifferent to human suffering and notwithstanding Rand's rejection of religious dogma a sort of religion itself, a religion based on inveterate lying and greed and a rejection of one's fellow man. And despite the fact these people might be highly educated easily duped into believing preposterous things.
There is no greater example of this than Greenspan's reply to Senator Bernie Sanders in the wake of the manifestation of the 2008 "Great Recession". The thrust of Sanders question was what went wrong with the financial markets and Wall Street and why the fed didn't see it on the horizon. Well Greenspan frustrated at being put on the spot by a thoughtful man of the people could only respond that he thought those entities would have self regulated themselves and would not have engaged in such egregious and reckless behavior as if he thought greed wasn't a part of the equation. And this man was in charge of money policy and financial regulation. Sanders you can be sure was simply gobsmacked at the gullibility of this bespectacled fool. The United States is full of these dolts and obviously why we keep sending these bastards to Washington who in turn allow the donor class to rob us blind.
You are completely correct about mental health. I read Battlefield Earth a long time ago and words cannot express how terrible it was. You wouldn't think that something could damage your mental health and be boring at the same time but he pulled that off. Jeffry Dahmer only killed and ate a few people but millions were subjected to the 'writing' of L Ron Hubbard.
Goddammit I watched this and now Tom Cruise won't come out of my closest
MOOOMM! TOM CRUISE IS IN MY CLOSET!
Hahahaha I remember that ep so funny
RobotGoggles
Tom won't come out of his own closet either. At least John will, after all those photos of him getting it on with that dude came out.
What's he up to in there? Packing fudge?
Send R Kelly after him.
Alarming what happens when one person's delusional thinking and narcissism is allowed to run rampant.
Jim Jones / Jonestown comes to mind.
Hitler anyone?
You're right, Ms Gatto; so, please don't vote for Trump in 2020.
Like our president...
@GrassFedMeats said to MichaelJohnAngel in deflection, unable to accept the red stain around his own mouth.
I love how you always tell respectable and non bias biographies. On all of them. U base them off of documentation and we need more of this in the world.
"MOM TOM CRUISE IS IN THE CLOSET AND WON'T COME OUT"
What did you say to him?
I just told him that the guy who played Napolean Dynamite is a better actor.
Oh geez, okay.
With Travolta!!🤣🤣🤣
It never fails to blow my mind that so many people gravitate toward an individual, company or cause in spite of the individual or entity very cleary stating their true intent, most obvious & relevent example below:
"You do not get rich writing science fiction. If you want to become rich, you start a religion."
- L. Ron Hubbard
He says this, than he DOES just that...and yet people still flock to him. This quirk, in particular, within human nature is just insane.
Andrew A: This quote was actually from another author years earlier and people who hate Hubbard attributed the quote to Hubbard. Do some research.
Well, that is easy. Said individual has probably never read the above quotation.
There's a sucker born every minute. P.T. Barnum
@@christofl6523 What's your thoughts on the religion as a whole?
@@diypictures I don't care for the Church of Scientology at all but love the Freezone.
You are a fantastic orator, Simon! I appreciate all the behind the scenes work as well. Thanks team!
H VonWolfenstein
Sometimes he talks just a little bit too fast as if he's in a hurry and running out the door and some of my family and friends noticed this too
We build a church around him Simontology 😂
My first job when I was at uni was working admin at the "Church" of Scientology office near campus. I was expected to work full time hours (though I strictly stuck to part time), and my time there was classed as "voluntary". So after my first fortnight working 40 hours, I was paid $5.50. I was told I could get paid more if I took an auditing class, but the cost of that would be taken from my wages...meaning that when I left I would owe them money. They offered me a free "audit" and I spent an hour basically bullied into exposing my deepest secrets (including a time when I considered suicide). Afterwards I was told if I tried to leave the "church" they would expose my "sins" to the public. I told them I didn't care and walked out. I was only 18 at the time and pretty impressionable, and honestly if I hadn't told my family what was going on there I could easily have been sucked in. They were also idiots for not making me sign a non-disclosure agreement, so I openly talk about what happened there.
should have filed a wage theft claim
Sydney?
Dang that’s crazy. Thanks for sharing that
Well done for walking out. That blackmail that they tried to subject you to is probably what keeps the film stars stuck in Scientology. They fear having their most personal secrets exposed to the world. Blackmail is a criminal activity.
As you say, you might have been impressionable. However, you were grounded enough to make a good decision to get away from those lunatics. You are to be commended.
One time my mom and I walked into this L Ron Hubbard museum without knowing who he was. Halfway through we realized what we got ourselves into and looked at each other like “help.” Anyways they tried to audit us, sell us their books, and push membership on us and it was the weirdest experience of my life.
Sorry, you had a weird experience. The Dianetics book does make a lot of sense. I hope someday you will take the time to check it out.
patphatcat its a dangerous cult book.
@@bogboy90210 can't be dangerous if it works. I got over the death of my mother, quickly, because of Dianetics.
patphatcat tell that to xenu, the secret of otIII
@@bogboy90210 I do! Every night before I go to bed! 😉
I have more faith in this channel and less in L. Ron Hubbard.
TIFO, Top Tenz, BioGraphics. My holy trinity of TH-cam learning.
I agree!
Don't forget VisualPolitik EN
Aon - Seriously?!
So true. I look forward to the uploads so much it’s amazing all the things I’ve learned since I found this wonderful network of channels!
Aon Arts ...let's start our own church based on these 3. I get the money. ; ) ......and we could add list 25
'The scientific world was not so quick to agree' 😂 I love Simon's understated cynicism.
Simon! I’m so happy to see you have started a new channel. I’ve been following you since the start and think you are fabulous. Thanks for spreading the knowledge!
Always geeked when I see a new vid from you these are some of the best done biographies on TH-cam
Do Joel Osteen - Another Tax Exempt "snake in the grass".
I would love to hear you do one on David Miscavige
i remember when that book was "all the buzz"; never bought it, nor read it. sounds like the guy was a gigantic scam artist!
Much worse. More like a much more greedy Charles Manson..
Which book?
the book was even more boring than an Al
Gore speech
"Scientology" was originally the product of a lot of human guinea pigs. The "lower grades" before "Clear" were the product of group contribution. The "processing" did seem to relieve people of neuroses, many subjects felt unburdened. Then Hubbard took credit for all of it and went off on his own. He always took credit, everything was "Hubbard" this, "Hubbard" that. Eventually he became demonstrably insane, as did hangers-on. Most "Scientologists" are either dead or glad they escaped. Hubbard cared far more about attaining money and power than about "Clearing the planet." He was not a smiling Santa Claus. He did take pleasure in subjecting people to punishment. His "Sea Organization" was a joke. He died a failure, in obscurity and ignominy.
Really enjoying the Biographics channel! 👍
Other bright spots in his US Navy career: he depth-charged a big underwater rock, and he actually fired his deck gun at Mexico! Luckily no one was on the Mexican island. He should have been dishonorably discharged.
Got to say I like your voice as much as your well presented bios. Good job Mr Whistler.
He’s in Guinness only because Scientology keeps republishing his pulp fiction in book form, then buying it themselves. I actually found one of their red cardboard book displays in a second hand bookstore in Saskatoon, still full to the brim with LRH pulp fiction reprints.
Besides Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Leonard Cohen supposedly dabbled in it. He references it in Famous Blue Raincoat - “...on the night that you planned to go clear, did you ever go clear...” and in Joni Mitchell’s song about Cohen she mentions it too.
Hubbard was a Hack. a Mediocre Sci Fi Author who was way in over his head. How the HELL he was able to con so many people including well known Celebrities like Tom Cruise,Issac Hayes,Nancy Cartwright,John Travolta,Kristi Alley,Leah Reami, and even Lisa Marie Presley is beyond me.
Terrible person. Deserved to die with nothing and doesn't deserve to be remembered. He was a lair, a con man, a bully and probably even a murderer but worse than all that, he was a cult leader. People should celebrate his death never his life. He ruined more families and people than most. Hopefully his legacy and his cult will soon die with no way for the sadists who now run the place to rebuild it.
Everyone dies with nothing but their reputation.
No
we do need to remember him. So we can look out for people like him. He isn't the first, he isn't the last, but he was a dang good modern example.
The fact he is the most proficient sci-fi writer of all time should be a bit a red flag for any sane person regarding his “religion”.
I had a co-worker who bummed cigarettes off of a Scientology recruiter back in the late 70's, early 80's, and he talked about how hard this recruiter pushed to get him to join. When he explained he had no real skills to offer the organization, the recruiter mentioned how Sea Org needed bodyguards. This apparently involved total commitment to the "church", no pay (you did get room and board), and months on end at sea with few chances at shore leave. Eventually my co-worker either found someone else to bum cigarettes off of or a new job, because he had no intention of never seeing/contacting his family again as what was essentially a slave.
Scientology….Probably one of the best most thorough pyramid schemes ever to be concocted….
Your content is pure gold, so glad I came across your (you and your team's) channels mate!
One love Simon! From #Kenya
Kenya? 🤮
Definitely glad I found this series. Love all different channels and such you narrate and subject matter of. I like to learn.
The guy was an insane nut. How can people be so completely gulible or so lost that they swallow this crap. They are evil.
The guy, failed SF writer, who created a religion based on UFOs, smh.
sounds successful to me
He wasn't failed the books were successful
@@innosanto Wasn't very good though
He appears to have been a charlatan. His book says the kind of nonsensical obvious things like ''the future lies ahead.''
The past has happened. The present is now happening. The sky is above. The land is below. Can I write a best-seller, based on banal ideas?
“Appears to have been a charlatan”???
Pretty sure it’s all but certain
Hubbard mesmerized his followers with words. He kept them in line with threats.
@@JamesRichardWiley As does Trump. The parallel is obvious.
Years ago I went into a small bookstore (when those still existed) and I was just chatting with the owner. I saw a copy of Battlefield Earth and I asked the owner how did a book that bad become a bestseller. He said there were 2 factors that made it happen. First, he would have people who would buy a whole box of the same book. When he asked them why, they would say that the church of scientology urged them to buy multiple copies and give them away as a recruiting tool. The other way was that if a display of them did not sell he would rip off the cover and send those covers back to get a refund for the books and throw away the uncovered books. He was told (when he asked the publisher) that the only the scientology people would list those books as sold for bookkeeping purposes, other would list them as a loss. That is how so many of his books became bestsellers.
Wait, bookstores don't exist anymore? Wtf?
@@vulpes7079 I have seen a significant reduction in small bookstores over the years, I am not talking about the chain bookstores.
In my previous life, I was a city bus driver.
One of the routes that I drove was routed along Hollywood Boulevard.
I was always amazed watching the acolytes of Scientology move robotically up and down the street!!!!
Love the video brother learned so much Thank you for the amazing video
Nice video! Do one for Anton Lavey
Wow, I had no idea that he was in with Crowley, Parsons, and the Occult. That's fucking insane.
Person 1: What's Scientology.
Me: South Park explained it to a T. Then the church tried to go after the creators but most everything they found was already public knowledge.
Thanks Simon! Love these videos
This man was what my father called 10lbs of BS,in a 5lb bag!
Great breakdown my friend. Love this channel. But ya did leave out at onetime he lived with Alister Crowley.
Oh my gosh please do one on Crowley!!
The polymath Bertrand Russell once referred to Crowley as "the greatest waste of an intellect [he] had ever met." I would love to see Biographics episodes on both of these men.
I agree. I would really like that.
@@ralphhenderson5276 and Aldous Huxley
@@miltonperez3421 Crow Farm. Idk.
@@ralphhenderson5276 That's his opinion and when i hear someone make a statement like that i think fool ! God forbid somone has a different view on spirituality than the masses.
Interesting series - thank you. Just one point though: I notice a couple of times whilst you’re reading the quotes, you don’t say the correct word. You said the word “mentally” when it was written “medically”. Not necessarily a minor point when people are listening rather than reading along. Keep up the good work though Simon
And people follow this man's teachings because...?
- They are lost,
- They are confused,
- They are fucked in the head.
Because weak-minded
Because spending lots of money on useless crap is a status symbol, I guess.
ever heard the saying "more money than sense", scientology is the manifestation of the saying
There is a sucker born every minute.
Don’t have time to watch the whole video, but as usual, I see Simon, I click the like button.
Mr. Whistler, you have gained a new fan, love your work!
Thank you for another very interesting channel Simon! Maybe you should consider starting to do voice overs! You have a very nice voice to listen too, in my opinion!
In my view a wicked evil deceiver. I had no idea he was a disciple of Alister Krully another man who deceived the masses.
Marc Scordato Aleister Crowley* Yeah, they were both nuts. Crowley was more physically dangerous though.
Crowley was at least honest about his penchant for drugs and the occult. He called himself "The wickedest man alive." Hubbard was a narcissistic scam artist. The latter is far more dangerous.
Yeah, I'd love to do a line with Crowley...same can not be said re: Hubbard.
Aleister Crowley.
Very common knowledge
Thank you, Simon. I watch both Top Tenz and this channel every day. Keep up the great work!
And visual politik EN
A fan of Baertaffy?
If you love Toptenz and this channel you might also like Today I found out (tifo) and Visual Politik EN. However the last one is very much about politics worldwide, so if you don't find politics interesting the last one might not be for you! But Today I found out is very interesting and a very broad spectrum of topics! Simon is a very busy bee on youtube, that's for sure!
There is an important lesson here. If you are afraid of being attacked by giant logs, become a Scientologist.
L Ron Hubbard Failed Naval officer and charletan
Nice, I love how precise these videos always are. This series is the best thing you have done yet. Could you maybe consider making one on JFK?
why? everyone knows about him - maybe it would be good cause he'd explode the myth surrounding him - Robert Kennedy would be better..
You forgot the part where he tried to take over a small island with his three-ship navy.
"There's a sucker born every minute" PT Barnum
He was a fucking super villain that enslaved his followers and destroyed his enemies. It's people like him that make you hope there is a hell.
I think the hell is called "Scientology."
His success was public relations and conning rich people.
Most published author thing is HOGWASH. Most of his output is not due to his fiction career, but due to all the Scientology books that came out. This includes bound volumes of what were essentially office memos that were sent out to all Scientology facilities. Some of this stuff was ghost written or heavily edited. Most of his fiction consisted of short stories. He did write a few full length novels, but the number is only about 20. His last work of fiction published, the ten volume Mission Earth series, was based on detailed outlines and written by somebody else. There are several authors that wrote more fiction than he did.
Hi Simon! Loving all these videos! Can you do one on Ayrton Senna or Ozzy Osborne
7:33 “He was one to never understate his achievements.”
Those eyes... That picture near the end freaked me out, I got chills.
The "L" stands for Lunacy or as Bill Maher coined him, Lucifer.
Mr Layfette Ronald Hubbard
In battlefield earth in the authors forward he stated that he started scientology on a bet, as well as talking about being a pulp fiction author during the 30's.
Note that battlefield earth in all its volumes was meant to be the longest science fiction novel (all 4000 pages or more in 10 volumes) ever written.
He reigns still as one of the biggest cranks of all time. Not just anyone can do that.
HA!!
Be careful Simon, Galactic Lord Xenu's going to come after you!
That's a good one! 👍👌👏 😄
What is it about alien religion? 👽👾🛸
You better sleep with one eye open Simon.
Tom Cruise I don't like you or any movie you've been in. Except Legend, but only because Tim Curry was amazing in it.
I'm waiting for the assigned sea Org people to start trolling the comments. They are a hoot and have very ineffective methods to stop the truth.
..... gripping your pillow tight.
Madame Raven I don't like Tom Cruise either but Risky Business is a good movie, the one of only one with him I like
i cant stop laughing at this. i know its a troll but i can imagine tom doing this
rotfl, why Tommy boy paid big bucks not to be a servant in this whacked out cult
Great as usual. Small US note. Montana isn’t what’s referred to as the Midwest, that ends in Minnesota, Iowa area.
When one actually begins to believe one's own scifi stories....
He had a lot to say
He had a lot of nothing to say
Took me years go realize that the villain of my favorite book is based on this guy.
what book?
Very interesting. Thank you for the learnings.
Call him for what he was, a sociopath and a leader of a crime organization
L Ron Hubbard is like a successful Charles Manson.
Had a guy with last name Hubbard. I called him elron for a week before having to explain it to him.
"internationally recognised writer" of largely second-rate science fiction.
Someone should do some gene splicing, grow a Hubbard/Crowley Frankenstein monster and unleash it on David Miscavige.
Hey! Dont compare Hubbard's trash to A.E Van Vogt's work!
Internationally recognised (terrible) writer in the same way that Hitler is an internationally recognised (terrible) painter. It would seem that sadistic fantasists tend to be quite similar.
@William Chamberlain quipped:
""internationally recognised writer" of largely second-rate science fiction.
'Second-rate' is a big step up from the quality of his work.
@Maria Kelly, IF it's true that Cruise said they shouldn't film Battlefield Earth, it's news to me, and completely out of character for the super-scientologist that he was, may still be, though the available evidence indicates not.
Another great video, as usual. Informative & well researched. Thanks Simon.
Constructive feedback; please stop jumping from mid-close up to close up, as it's very disconcerting, and difficult to watch.
He had a lot of nothing to say we'll miss him
0:40 - Chapter 1 - Early life & acting career
3:10 - Chapter 2 - Military
6:30 - Chapter 3 - Scientology start
14:20 - Chapter 4 - Later years
Proof of how ignorant people can be, yes you Tom Cruise, John Re-Volta. Anonymous please crash their computer systems again...Thank you...
Anonymous is dead. They haven't done any real action since about 2004
This isn't proof of anything. This is a list of claims with no sources added.
Rod Severson cruise and Travolta probably have ulterior motives like money power and hiding aspects of their personal lives
Love that you literally repeat facts great video
Thank you so much for sharing this video with us, I learned a lot of things about the so called church of Scientology that really disturbed me, well done indeed again Simon, I am so very grateful for your expose of this cult!
Well done Simon,for all the educative videos you put out there..
Kindly find the time to do other personalities requested in the comments section..
You never disappoint
That leukemia statement is the dumbest statement I have ever heard. My god, I shred to think what would happen if that became accepted by the mainstream medical society. L Ron Hubbard was a dangerous swindler in every sense of the word.
He was truly a Saint to those who believed and still believe in.
R.I.P "resurrect in peace"
Sir L.Ron. Hubbard
Ok you got L. Ron Hubbard, now lets do a bio on Alister Crowley.
When you accidentally forget this is the guy who created Scientology and not the guy who created Conan the Barbarian.
Mao Tse Tung is actually the most published author of all time. Over 3 billion and counting. Which makes sense because every Chinese citizen was required to carry The Little Red Book and the unending essays and manifestos published. That said another great Biograpic. Well done, you never disappoint.
Depends what one means by most published, in total printed copies or in total individual works :
"The most published works by one author is 1,084 by L. Ron Hubbard (USA) whose first work was published in February 1934 and the last in March 2006."
www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-published-works-by-one-author
Agreed
I read from a creditable source that the book Dianetics stayed on the best seller list because members of the religion bought thousands of books to keep it there.
L. Ron Hubbard Mad scientist and Cult leader =D