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Part One: How L. Ron Hubbard Lied His Way to Godhood

Behind the Bastards

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Hubbard's Book, the Survival Instinct

We don't really know if he ever wrote a book and showed it to some people and then shelved it or if it was all a lie to begin with. People who claim that they read drafts of it said that its whole focus was about like the need to survive. This is part of why it's hard to hate him. He set a goal to smash his name into history and did it in a really shitty, scary way, but not a failure. So this is honestly kind of accomplished. No, no. He sure did.

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