Just saw the Scientology Event for L. Ron Hubbard’s Birthday

I just saw the International Scientology event for L. Ron Hubbard’s birthday. That was pretty cool. They had interviewed some 10 or so people that had worked with L. Ron Hubbard back in the 1950s when he was lecturing across the US and in UK. The official biographer (Mr. Dan Sherman) spoke and briefed about that.

A funny anecdote there was when Hubbard had just released Dianetics the Modern Science of Mental Health he suddenly was getting lots of random visits and it was disturbing the parking attendants as these visitors were parking all over the place. The reply was something like “happily for me, if unhappily for you - I’ve got a book on the bestseller list…” and it continued on about the people on the lawn that kept arriving.

Then the Chairman of the Board RTC (Mr. David Miscavige) covered the new Ideal Scientology Churches - some 10 of them across the world (new ones), about 6 in the US, 2 in UK, 1 in South Africa, 1 in New Zealand. Wow that was pretty cool. Amazing 3D renderings of how the Churches will be after restoration (yes, not renovations but restorations).

And there was a and great footage on the opening of the church in Berlin this January. The speeches of the guests are shown and they are really good, actually the police office (Bernhard Stitz) was the funniest - he started his speech with something like “only honest people invite the police into their house” and then goes on to explain that actually in his 30 year career as a police officer that has always turned out to be a fact, quite a witty speech.

Overall it was about 3 hours intense information and overview of the Scientology world - with a little hint at the end that this is only the tip of the iceberg.

(and the above is only what I remember there was a lot more and plenty of visuals). The DVD is available in any Scientology church, click on this link to see the closest one.