L. Ron Hubbard

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How I Feel About the Founder of My Religion: L. Ron Hubbard
Mr. Hubbard, above all else, was genuinely interested in other people—in their happiness and success and ability to know and understand and appreciate the beauty of life.
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How it Felt to Be Treated Like a Nazi
When I was in third grade, I had a teacher who despised me. It wasn't because of anything I'd done to her, and it wasn't that I was a difficult student. In fact, I loved learning, was an avid reader, and was pretty social, so school was a perfect fit. Except for Mrs. Goldwitch.
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How to Get Others to Change Their Minds
How many times have you tried to change someone’s mind about something by indicating where they were wrong? Did that work for them or for you?
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In the World of Crisis Headlines, Is Philosophy a Waste of Time?
Philosophy is one of those topics that seems to belong in some ivy-covered building being discussed by men in vests who punctuate pronouncements by pointing with a pipe stem and woman in fine dresses holding tea cups with their pinky fingers aloft.
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Inside Scientology: The Art of Critical Thinking
It takes a very humble person to admit that, compared to the truth, they don’t matter.
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It’s Time to Shed the Stigma of “Organized Religion”
I’ve heard people speak of organized religion rather distastefully. Organized government takeover or organized guerrilla warfare might seem lighter, more acceptable subjects today.
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L. Ron Hubbard’s Greatest Gift to the World on His Birthday
The granting of life to another opens the door to understanding and makes the twin curses of bigotry and exclusion impossible.
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Lessons in Tolerance from South Africa
I guess there is bigotry everywhere, but—oddly enough—I don’t experience too much of that here in South Africa. If you look for it, you will probably find it, but bigots are no longer welcome here.
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Life After Death—What Scientology Did for Me
It became apparent she was fighting for life, not for herself, but so her family would not have to suffer her death. Realizing that, we told her not to worry about us, but to do what she must do to get well or—unsaid—that other thing, if her pain and suffering became too much.
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Look, Don’t Listen
Everyone knows the heart pumps blood in the human body, circulating it throughout the system over and over. Right? In the 2nd century, however, Galen,—a noted philosopher, physician, and surgeon in the Roman Empire, believed the liver was the source point of blood, being created by eating food.