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Det är en sak att upptäcka hur man kan hjälpa andra, men en helt annan sak att kunna hjälpa sig själv. Hubbard har aldrig sagt att han är ofelbar. Tvärtom, faktiskt. Sen vet jag inte vilka av mig nämnda mentala problem som du anser att Hubbard led av, så det får du nog förklara lite närmare.
Söderqvist1: jag påstår inte i det sammanhanget att han har mentala problem. Men jag hävdar att han har kvar fysiologiska problem som han påstår Dianetiken kan bota!
My Philosophy by L. Ron Hubbard
Blinded with injured optic nerves, and lame with physical injuries to hip and back, at the end of World War II, I faced an almost nonexistent future. My service record states: “This officer has no neurotic or psychotic tendencies of any kind whatsoever,” but it also states “permanently disabled physically.”
And so there came a further blow . . . I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple and a probable burden upon them for the rest of my days. I yet worked my way back to fitness and strength in less than two years, using only what I know and could determine about man and his relationship to the universe. I had no one to help me; what I had to know I had to find out. And it’s quite a trick studying when you cannot see. I became used to being told it was all impossible, that there was no way, no hope. Yet I came to see again and walk again, and I built an entirely new life. It is a happy life, a busy one and I hope a useful one.
http://www.ronthephilosopher.org/phlspher/page84.htm
The Founder, L. Ron Hubbard by MR Justice Latey High Court of London 1984
To promote himself and the cult he has made these among other false claims:
That he was a much decorated war hero. He was not. That he commanded a corvette squadron. He did not. That he was awarded the Purple Heart, a gallantry decoration for those wounded in action. He was not wounded and was not decorated. That he was crippled and blinded in the war and cured himself with Dianetics techniques. He was not crippled and was not blinded. That he was sent by U.S. Naval Intelligence to break up a black magic ring in California. He was not. He was himself a member of that occult group and practised ritual sexual magic in it.That he was a graduate of George Washington University and an atomic physicist. The facts are that he completed only one year of college and failed the one course in nuclear physics in which he enrolled.There is no dispute about any of this. The evidence is unchallenged.
http://www.xenu.net/archive/audit/latey.html#3
Söderqvist1. Hubbard påstår att hans militära papper säger att han var permanent fysiskt handikappad och ansåg att han inte hade några framtids utsikter samtidigt påstår han att marinen hade get han i uppdrag att infiltrera och bryta upp det svarta magi sällskapet i Kalifornien!
1984 Judge Breckenrigde superior court of the State of California
THE COURT: All right, Mr. Flynn.
DIRECT EXAMINATION (Resumed) BY MR. FLYNN:
Q Mr. Armstrong, I believe you explained yesterday why you sent 500 triple Q to me in connection with the fact that in 1947 Mr. Hubbard was seeking an eye examination from the Veterans Administation; is that correct?
A Yes. This ties in with another letter, I believe we had, from 1947 concerning that examination.
Q And with regard to 500 triple R, why did you send that to me, Mr. Armstrong?
A this letter from Mr. Hubbard is dated 1958,
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April 2, 1958, and it is to the Veterans Administration and in my mind there was a conflict between the fact that here he is asking to have his V.A. checks sent to a particular address in 1958, and in all the publications about Mr. Hubbard he had claimed that he had been given a perfect score, perfect mental and physical score by 1950 and by 1947 had completely cured himself, and here he is still drawing a V.A. check for this disability, and maybe it is okay to do that. It seems like there was at least a contradiction and possibly an unethical practice on his part.
Q And that was on April 2, 1858?
A Yes.
Q And do you know what the percentage of disability that he had under his Naval pension?
A Originally it was at 10 percent. I believe it went up to 50 percent.
Q And do you know whether between 1945 and 1950 he was continually filing appeals with the Veterans Administration to raise the disability?
A There were a number of such documents.
Q And directing your attention to exhibit 500 triple S, why did you send that to me?
A This is another letter from Mr. Hubbard to the Veterans Administration, January 27, 1948, and in here he mentions that he is penniless, that he was ill and broke in November 1947, and it has to do with some debt that he then owed the Veterans Administration. They had overpaid him at some point.
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This is by a date which he had — was per his own handwriting he had been totally cured.
Q And does he state, "My health has been bad and I feel that if I could just get caught up financially, I could write a novel which has been requested of me and so remedy my finances"?
A Yes.
Q Now there is a document that has been marked as an exhibit both by the plaintiff in the original handwriting of Mr. Hubbard called "My Philosophy" and by the defendant, which is exhibit 5 of the plaintiff’s, and by the defendant in a published form by Mr. Hubbard which you have testified earlier you believe was widely disseminated called "My Philosophy."
Do you recall representations in that publication about Mr. Hubbard not having any psychotic or neurotic tendencies but being permanently disabled physically?
A Yes.
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Q And that he completely cured himself within two years after World War II?
A Yes.
Q And was that publication of some significance to you, Mr. Armstrong, in sending me the documents that are now being marked as exhibits?
A Yes. Originally the fact that the man had cured blindness, cured some crippling illness or crip- — lameness, crippling injury, I believe he called it, using what was then the very crude antecedent of Dianetics had a great impact on me. That had great signficance.
I had not heard of people curing blindness since the days of Jesus Christ. And that the man was claiming that he had done it had at the time a great deal of significance.
And to find, in fact, no such injury and no such blindness ever existed had an equally great impact.
http://www.gerryarmstrong.org/50k/legal/a1/2495.php