Currently 300 pages into this. It's stunning really; I had

I prefer Zizek if you want to talk about "fake" beliefs desu

Its a great record of Scientology. Last third of the book was just piling so many terrible things upon terrible things that I couldn't finish.
I think what's interesting is how few Scientologists there probably actually are, which makes me less concerned.

>>8278435
I have no clue but Gold Base is a fucking horror story, the way they go after anyone who says a word against their religion is...... spooky

>>8278450
I think if I read it when I was younger I would have admired Hubbard's audacity, but I suspect he was a very haunted, angry person.
I don't feel sorry for the rubes but I don't hold Hubbard or other high muckuty mucks in the Church in any esteem. They all seem like testosterone junkies in a sociopathic competition of their own making.

What nobody gets is everyone's a victim.

There are no perpetrators here.

>>8278476
OP here. What I find so interesting is that Hubbard's belief system must actually help on a short term basis the people who choose to believe in it. However it seems a system designed to repress issues rather than resolve them, making the followers troubled and volatile yet utterly convinced of their sanity. It's terrifying to think of such people.

>>8278624
Of course it makes people feel "helped" otherwise there'd be no glue to stick to it.

It was made by a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic so not surprised of its problems.