Sex and Pain

Question answered by honorarykid in Scientology

Anonymous asked this question on 10/8/2000:

Did Hubbard really say that sex and pain were created by psychiatrists? Really?

If so, just who populated the universe before sex? Where did the psychiatrists come from?

honorarykid gave this response on 10/10/2000:

Hubbard spewed out tons of lies and crap during his career as a demi-God, and much of that while high on drugs. As his lies became pervasive, they trapped him, in a sense. He had believers, and he was reluctant to admit to them that he had made huge major mistakes. I believe that's how his upper level space opera stuff became the material of Scientology cosmology.

One area in which his bizarre dogma was fairly constant was in his hated of psychiatrists. Maybe deep down, he feared that he needed the help of one.

But if you read all of his writings, you'll find thousands of bizarre, made-up claims. You'll find tons of self-contradictory things, attempts by him to pound his square peg view of the cosmos into the round hole created by the state of scientific literature.

What Hubbard really wanted was power over people. He wanted to be adored, perhaps even to be worshipped, even to be God. He essentially wanted to supplant people's devotion and loyalty they have for their families, with total devotion to himself. That's why, within Scientology, family bonds are quite secondary to the bond with the "higher" third dynamic (one's group). And that's why the most zealous Scientologists tend to have very poor familial relationships.

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