Scien(ce)tology?

There was a time when I thought L. Ron Hubbard was a fantastic writer. Let's face it Battlefield Earth was a pretty good book. Crappy movie but good book. His ideas were somewhat fresh and original and it was fun to read. Granted I like Science Fiction. Many people don't. So, doesn't that make Hubbard a Science Fiction writer? I think so.

Fast forward a couple of years. I get myself in a situation where I'm standing in a Scientology building. The things we do for love…or at least for something. Anyway, I'm taking their first "class", and these people are all acting like there's some kind of inside joke. I've read their books, before this time and I thought they were pretty good. In a Science Fiction sort of way… It doesn't take long to realize that these guys are trying to get dirt on the people they've brainwashed, I mean converted. The main excercise in this "class" is writing down all of the bad things you've done in your life. Yeah, that's a good idea. I wouldn't tell my own Mother this stuff and I'm going to put it in writing for a bunch of psychos, I mean Scientologists? So I started making stuff up. I'm sure it's still in a vault somewhere along with all the secrets of the stars. I wonder what Tom Cruise wrote down? Maybe something about the one time he accidentally messed up his hair and he still wakes up crying over it…

The bottom line was for me, it just wasn't worth it. I don't know, maybe I'm just not into the "secret club" thing. Except the Buffalo Club of course. Either way, what I was trying to get out of it <G> just wasn't worth it. After all, if I'm going to blindly follow a Science Fiction writer it'd probably be Heinlein anyway. Now word is coming out about how crazy these cats really are. I kind of wish I was in the club. It sounds like a great Science Fiction story!