Marty's HUB BIO - Titles? Covers?

[Veda]

The man who was demonized

by the establishment

more than any other civilian figure

He did his part

Will you do yours?



He gave Mankind the Bridge to Freedom

and sacrificed himself doing so

[PirateAndBum]

He needs a snappier cover



oh shit, I spelled his name wrong!

[PirateAndBum]

He needs a snappier cover



oh shit, I spelled his name wrong!

New to attachment tech

[JustMe]

The man who was demonized

by the establishment

more than any other civilian figure

He did his part

Will you do yours?

He gave Mankind the Bridge to Freedom

and sacrificed himself doing so

Good lord but this thread has me laughing so much. Maybe I am overtired but I love both the subtle and the over the top humor.

An Indee I do not know named Wayne Frowmke and I have been having a chat, mostly about LRH I guess, in the comments after my review of Marty's book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/review/RE7FXDDJ7EW2N/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RE7FXDDJ7EW2N

Of the 11 comments on my review, six are of him and I chatting back and fourth with each other.

I have been going out of my way to be nice and I suspect he has as well.

But after trying to be so nice on the topic, I then look at this thread and just can't stop laughing at the irreverent humor

[Veda]

Proposals for titles and cover illustrations for Marty Rathbun's second book, a biography of L. Ron Hubbard, are now being accepted for consideration on this thread.

L. Ron Hubbard, Misunderstood Genius

Well, you get the idea. We want people to at least stop besmirching L. Ron Hubbard's and L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology's good name, and, ideally, to make them r_e_a_c_h for L. Ron Hubbard and L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology.

He was demonized

by the establishment

more than any other civilian figure

L. Ron Hubbard


He did his part

Will you do yours?

He gave Mankind the Bridge to Freedom

and sacrificed himself doing so

Good lord but this thread has me laughing so much. Maybe I am overtired but I love both the subtle and the over the top humor.

An Indee I do not know named Wayne Frowmke and I have been having a chat, mostly about LRH I guess, in the comments after my review of Marty's book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/review/RE7FXDDJ7EW2N/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RE7FXDDJ7EW2N

Of the 11 comments on my review, six are of him and I chatting back and fourth with each other.

I have been going out of my way to be nice and I suspect he has as well.

But after trying to be so nice on the topic, I then look at this thread and just can't stop laughing at the irreverent humor

I haven't looked at those reviews in a while, but will. Your review was excellent. I did read your exchange (earlier) with Wayne, and, perhaps, he's closer to also laughing about L. Ron Hubbard than he realizes. When they start laughing, it's a sign that they're about to "graduate" from Scientology, and become Ex-Scientologists.

It's a Bridge, dammit,
it IS a Bridge!

by Mark "Marty" Rathbun

There are lots of images, and Marty's blog and inspired pieces, such as Marty's 'Ode to L. Ron Hubbard', offer more ideas for titles, but this thread doesn't seem to be catching on.

Anyway! Happy 4th of July in the USA!

[Freeminds]

He has a duty to do it. The future of Scientology depends on it. Otherwise how will the Scientologists convince the "wogs" to become "raw meat" and eventually go "up" the LRH "Bridge"?
. . .

It's strange that poor old L Ron Hubbard had such a hard-on for "word clearing" and yet he didn't seem to know that you don't go up a bridge. You go across a bridge, and then you leave it behind you and continue on to your own destination.

Hubbard's unfinished bridge offers nothing useful. They even show it as being useless in their promotional literature. Unless you're a bungie jumper, a bridge no nowhere provides nothing except a quick means of suicide.

Personally, I think LRH called it a bridge as a private joke, and was probably secretly appalled that so few of the saps saw the scam for what it was. Hubbard would have heard about George Parker (died 1936) who "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge dozens of times... and to add some spice to the Scientology 'game' he played with his victims, he proceeded to "sell them a bridge". (Parker's story was the origin of the phrase "...and if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.")

Hard to believe that Hubbard got away with it, but there we are. So perhaps that's the best title for a biography detailing Hubbard's most lucrative con.

[Mark A. Baker]

It's strange that poor old L Ron Hubbard had such a hard-on for "word clearing" and yet he didn't seem to know that you don't go up a bridge. You go across a bridge, and then you leave it behind you and continue on to your own destination. ...

I suspect it's a reference to mythology where a bridge is often seen as separating mortals from the divine realms. In Norse legend Valhalla is entered by ascending a bridge from the mortal realms. Similarly the rainbow often figures as just such a bridge which divinities may descend to enter into the mortal realms. For this reason to the greeks, Iris, goddess of the rainbow, served as a messenger from the gods.




Mark A. Baker