Philip Boyd, Saving Grace Actor, Rips "The Business That Is Scientology"

[Type4_PTS]

Tony Ortega of the Village Voice interviewed Philip Boyd, an actor that was on Celebrity Center lines around 2007-2008.

He told Tony: ​"If I could save one person from buying into the business that is Scientology, then it would be worth you writing my story."

Below is a short excerpt, the article is located over here:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/philip_boyd_sav.php


http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/PhilipBoyd2.jpg




"I never got to the point of pure excitement about L. Ron Hubbard," he says. "That was one of the things that kind of freaked me out was the way they thought of him."

At gala events, for example, crowds would cheer "Hip-hip-hooray" to Hubbard's portrait, dozens of times.

Boyd says he couldn't help feeling that it had parallels with a Nuremberg rally.

Another time, he encountered the word "enturbulation" in a Hubbard book. "I tried to look it up and realized it was something Hubbard invented," he says. (Hubbard used it to mean agitation or disruption.) Boyd asked a supervisor about it and says he was told, "Hubbard was highly educated, and used words that weren't on this planet."

[Lurker5]

:bump2: Thank you, Type4_PTS :wave:



:scnsucks: BIG TIME. :puke2:

[Rene Descartes]

$300 to get the folder transferred? In the same building even?

Man oh man, looks like Folder Pages got a hefty raise.

Rd00

[Captain Koolaid]

Smart guy. He looks a little bit like Tom Cruise... before the man went nuts.

[Purple Rain]

That was a great story! This guy had so much more common sense than I did, but even I found my way out eventually. You have to trust that sense of 'hey, this thing is just wrong, and, it's not fair for that policy to be like that ....' It's a shame that Scientologists don't get to read this stuff and think for themselves about what they might agree and disagree with in that point of view. Yay the rebels that do!! Go you good things!

[Free to shine]

Excellent article and the comments are interesting too.

[freethinker]

Wow! They are so much worse than they were before. They don't even try to follow policy of anything that Ron wrote. Not eeven mix and match and stretch to fit and truncated HCOPL's.

I was threatened with declare once when I tried to send a students folders to the org he transfered to. "We don't send student folders to other orgs, that's squirrel,\. Are you a squirrel?"

And reges telling you to give them your bank account info? How brainwashed or evil do you have to be to sit there and tell people they have to give you your bank info?

What religion debits your bank account when they think you should pay?:wtf:

[FoTi]

This blew my mind.....


"Boyd talks to the Voice
​After each course that he completed, Boyd says he was ordered to turn over the names and e-mail addresses of friends who Scientology could go after. He refused, even after they made it plain to him that it was a required step to finish the course."

It's a required step to turn over the names and email addresses of your friends to finish a course? I never heard that one before. They are getting crazier and crazier and more desparate as time goes on. Geez.....

[ClamSource]

"Boyd asked a supervisor about it and says he was told, "Hubbard was highly educated, and used words that weren't on this planet."

I suppose on this other planet that Hubbard got his words from they spoke English.

[Jachs]

Glad he told his story, good call, not easy as a celeb to do that. :)

Its excellent. A LOT of courage.

Maybe itll prompt some more movie scripts, of a hyper-notized guy high fiving air on a couch.

[Infinite]

Twenty grand in eighteen months . . . a religion?

Thank you very much for speaking up Philip Boyd.

[Freeminds]

"Hubbard was highly educated, and used words that weren't on this planet."

No. Hubbard was under-educated. He flunked courses and dropped out of college early, which is why he had to make up so many words. Scientology only 'works' in the make-believe universe, so it's logical enough to use made up words to describe its 'principles'. It's also one reason why Scientology has historically attracted actors, and not scientists.

[Dukat]

Philip Boyd ... my newest favorite celebrity! :yes:

[Mark A. Baker]

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Another time, he encountered the word "enturbulation" in a Hubbard book. "I tried to look it up and realized it was something Hubbard invented," he says. (Hubbard used it to mean agitation or disruption.) Boyd asked a supervisor about it and says he was told, "Hubbard was highly educated, and used words that weren't on this planet."


Properly it is a standard form English word coinage deriving from the latin roots verb 'turbo, turbare' (meaning to make an uproar, move confusedly, be in disorder) and the Latin prefix 'in' (into, to). The '-ation' ending is a standard English ending denoting the formation of a noun from a root verb. The 'en' form is a common prefix form in English deriving from the french form of the original Latin root 'in'.

Such word coinages, especially from Latin & Greek roots, are a very common feature of the English language and have frequently been created 'on the fly' by authors with knowledge of classical language root words and the established principles for the creation of words in English.

Many of the words commonly found in English language dictionaries owe their origins to exactly such a process of formation.

These principles of formation are commonly taught in schools' basic English coursework.

In short, unlike many other hubbard-isms (e.g. 'basic-basic', 'arc', 'krc', 'pts', etc.) there is nothing particularly unusual about either the meaning or formation of 'enturbulation' or the related verb 'enturbulate'. Anyone possessed of a basic literacy in English as well as a knowledge of classical root words, both of which were common characteristics among readers of English during Hubbard's lifetime, would be likely to understand the sense of such words upon encountering them.


Mark A. Baker

[Mark A. Baker]

No. Hubbard was under-educated. He flunked courses and dropped out of college early, which is why he had to make up so many words. ...

He flunked science courses. He was more literate than was common for his time. He was by no means a 'great writer', but as a professional writer he wasn't all that bad either. I've certainly read considerably worse. :eyeroll:


Mark A. Baker

[Moosejewels]

Philip Boyd - Hip, Hip, Hooray ! :clap: