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FredricRice asked this question on 5/15/2000:

Greetings!

I have a question about L. Ron Hubbard's book "A History of Man." I suspect that only current Scientologists would be able to help me with this question but I'll toss it out for all the other experts, too, to see if they might know.

The book starts out with Hubbard writing, "This is a cold-blooded and factual account of your last sixty trillion years."

Since the age of the universe is something around 15 billion years, is it possible that this is a type-o and that the editor of "A History of Man" needs to fix it to read "million years" instead of "trillian years?"

I can't imagine that L. Ron Hubbard made such an obvious mistake in his cosmology but one never knows.

Thanks!

honorarykid gave this response on 5/16/2000:

No, it was no typographical mistake. Hubbard was always just making up stuff like this. I suspect in his early days, he just made these outrageous statements to test the loyalty of his followers, test how much goofiness they would take without questioning.

Later in his life, when his faculties were going, and he was coming to believe the lies he had told throughout his entire life, I suspect that he did start to believe some of his own BS.

Further facts about this criminal empire may be found at Operation Clambake and FACTNet.

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