Dianetics ( Book? )
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I did it. I read Dianetics. I thought that there might be something good in there, and I decided to give LRH a chance. Whoops. This is such a disaster that it’s amazing anyone could even get through it! The only reason I finished it was because I have OCD and can’t stop reading a book once I started it.
I’d like to start off by saying that nowhere in Dianetics did I read anything about Aliens or Alien intelligence tinkering with Earth life. I’m not doubting that Scientology DOES preach that elsewhere, but it is not in this text. So, it has that going for it I guess. This book starts off slow, gets even slower, comes to a dead halt, I think probably reverses time at some point around page 300, and then just sort of pudders to the end. He doesn’t say anything the entire time!!!
Basically, we are all wrought with past memories and blah blah blah. Basically we have these engrams and we need to get rid of them to achieve “clear” status, where we will be able to have perfect vision, be immune to colds, and remember everything that ever happened to us, even if we were unconscious or asleep. I don’t really know what else it says in the other 500 pages. It was honestly so ridiculous that I didn’t retain anything. He throws around the term “scientific fact” so often that even if whatever followed it WASN’T already ridiculous, I wouldn’t believe it. It’d be like a real scienctific report to say “It’s a scientific fact that frogs are actually purple”. If that was the case, you wouldn’t need to write “it’s a scientific fact” before saying it you jackass!!
Also, the opening of the book starts with saying that if you ever read something in your life, and you get to a word you don’t know, it’s not worth reading any further until you go and look up with that big word meant. I sort of see where he is coming from here, and maybe even agree with him, but from that point in Dianetics on, he has footnotes for every word more than 2 syllables. It’s so obnoxious. Obnoxious would be defined at the bottom of this post if this were Dianetics. I’m dead serious. It’s written for a 10 year old.
I can’t urge you strong enough to skip this book. Whatever Scientology has to offer, it is NOT in this book, trust me. If you really want to get into LRH, go to a Scientology Clinic and get a stress test and sign up, because this book is worthless. Even though I borrowed this book, I burned it after reading, which my friend was fine with when I told him.
