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Alternate Reality Gaming, with Jeff Hull

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Scientology and God-Like Powers

LZ Granderson: Scientology is so clearly a thing from the mind of a creative writer. He says L. Ron Hubbard didn't necessarily think Scientology was going to go as far as it went. But when he started seeing it going in that direction, instead of pumping the brakes like you did, "he just kind of rolled with it"Granderson: There was a fiction. There was a recognition that there was a need there for people. They have a power that is beyond any individual in that organization.

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