Thanks! It's been a while, I know.
Well, this was before the internet explosion, so these pieces of information were hard to come by. To tell you the truth, I didn't know much about Scientology, just that they were after people's money, but who isn't? I had this friend who had been in the cult, but she wouldn't tell me anything, and besides, for obvious reasons I wouldn't have taken her word for anything. So, the very young man that I was, I was just very curious, not just about Scientology, but about everything. But the stuff that I came across on that day was really far beyond what I had expected, I mean it was just baroque!
Maybe it was my youth, but I really didn't think people would try to pass off this kind of stuff, let alone buy it. Honestly, if it hadn't been for those hooligans trying to stop me, I would have taken it for a slanderous forgery, Elders of Zion type of stuff. But it seems their beliefs are really things along the line of fable's paraphrase above, at least they don't deny it. Later I saw an interview with L.Ron (king of Elves
) and it made sense. He seemed a mythomaniac, for example he claimed to have held prominent positions in academia, to have led wondrous expeditions, to have visited all the peoples of the earth, and so forth. And this was his conclusion, the fruit of his labours: "Everywhere man struggles for survival." This discovery is actually his, in case you have ever wondered where it came from.
Why were you asking?