L. Ron Hubbard

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If you read the above section and thought that L. Ron Hubbard was a great guy you may want to take this free personality test I have... I mean, you should keep reading.  Hubbard was a bold faced liar, period.  Few Native American tribes practiced "blood brotherhood," and its pretty much impossible to earn 21 merit badges before age 10.  He did go to GW but he actually had a GPA equivalent to a D.  When he enlisted in the Navy (reserve) they initially gave him a desk job until he annoyed enough of his superiors to transfer him to a sub chaser in San Diego where he engaged a magnetic anomaly and the South Coronado islands in combat.  Unfortunately those islands were in Mexican waters.  This naturally resulted in an angry Mexican government and a court martial for Ron.  After his stint in the Navy he founded his cult and the rest is history.<ref>http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm What would we do with out you Operation Clam Bake?</ref>
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If you read the above section and thought that L. Ron Hubbard was a great guy, you might want to take this free personality test I have... I mean, you should keep reading.  Hubbard was a bold faced liar, period.  Few Native American tribes practiced "blood brotherhood," and its pretty much impossible to earn 21 merit badges before age 10.  He did go to GW but he actually had a GPA equivalent to a D.  When he enlisted in the Navy (reserve) they initially gave him a desk job until he annoyed enough of his superiors to transfer him to a sub chaser in San Diego where he engaged a magnetic anomaly and the South Coronado islands in combat.  Unfortunately those islands were in Mexican waters.  This naturally resulted in an angry Mexican government and a court martial for Ron.  After his stint in the Navy he founded his cult and the rest is history.<ref>http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm What would we do with out you Operation Clam Bake?</ref>
  
 
==Science fiction by Hubbard==
 
==Science fiction by Hubbard==

Revision as of 21:43, 26 December 2009

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For those living in an alternate reality, Conservapedia has an "article" about L. Ron Hubbard

L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer and drug fiend who engaged in the ultimate experiment: to create a religion founded on utter bullshit, yet endowed with the sociological and psychological components that "make religions work". To that end he wrote "Dianetics", proving to all the world just how mediocre a writer he was, and yet how gullible some people are (also proving him to be a brilliant con artist). His enduring fame is that his "joke religion", called Scientology, to this day actually has new adherents.

All hail L. Ron!

The joke is on you.

L. Ron was also the author of a notorious work of junk pseudoscience, All About Radiation. It was so bad that he left his name off the first edition and credited it to "a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor". L. Ron Hubbard is neither, of course.

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Official biography

According to the Co$ L. Ron was probably the single greatest human ever. As a child he became a full "blood brother" with the Pikuni Indian tribe (part of the Blackfoot nation) and was best friends with Calvin Coolidge Jr. (son of the President). While in Montana he managed to become an Eagle Scout by the age of 10 (the BSA has since ceased issuing the "bullshit" merit badge). In his teens he went on a mystic journey to Asia where he met all kinds of spiritual gurus who knew that he was something special. When he got back home it was time to go to college where he enrolled in "Columbian" University (which is an old name for George Washington University). While there he shot right to the top of his class, took courses in nuclear physics, and even graduated early. For the next ten or so years Ron worked as a freelance writer but then World War II broke out, and Ron being the patriot enlisted in the US Navy and was commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. He fought and was heroic in nearly every major engagement in the Atlantic and Pacific (simultaneously) and won 21 medals (take that Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz![1]). Once the war ended he returned to civilian life where he became involved with some of the more esoteric branches of religion. But this gave him crucial insights into Dianetics, and by the 1950s a full fledged religion had been established.[2]

Debunked biography

If you read the above section and thought that L. Ron Hubbard was a great guy, you might want to take this free personality test I have... I mean, you should keep reading. Hubbard was a bold faced liar, period. Few Native American tribes practiced "blood brotherhood," and its pretty much impossible to earn 21 merit badges before age 10. He did go to GW but he actually had a GPA equivalent to a D. When he enlisted in the Navy (reserve) they initially gave him a desk job until he annoyed enough of his superiors to transfer him to a sub chaser in San Diego where he engaged a magnetic anomaly and the South Coronado islands in combat. Unfortunately those islands were in Mexican waters. This naturally resulted in an angry Mexican government and a court martial for Ron. After his stint in the Navy he founded his cult and the rest is history.[3]

Science fiction by Hubbard

See also

No relation

  • Elrond the half-elf of Rivendell

Biography

References

  1. See the Wikipedia article on Chester Nimitz.
  2. http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm
  3. http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfmconte.htm What would we do with out you Operation Clam Bake?
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