Re: Idea Burning Day: Time Mag

RonArtistR (ronartistr@aol.com) wrote: [snip] : Imagine being able to fool the ENTIRE publishing world the way that Time : in it's childish article tried to describe. : Let's all print up our own books, then go and buy them up at 1000s of : bookstores worldwide, then try to resell them back, only to do it all over : again. : First, anyone trying that would run out of money buying books at retain : and selling them back at wholesale. : And if it were that easy, thousands of want-to-be authors would try just : that every month.

Dear Forrest "RonArtistR" Gump, Either you are naive (sp?), stupid, or lying...well being in the cult probably all three, I have witnessed some of this first hand. Also, back when the 'Mission Earth' music album was released I had idiots from Int Management trying to call me to 'handle' my dissagreement with calling into local radio stations in Hawaii to request the 'Cry Out'. I thought overall that song sucked (not the message but the music and the way the message was arranged) and did not feel I should call into radio stations just because the church asked me too. I did enjoy a couple of other songs on the album (to be fair). But it was Int Managements intention to have this stupid song reach the top 10 or some shit like that. Another cult idea. I even heard one time on the radio the DJ ask 'are you from the Dianetics center?' and refused to play it. I laughed my ass off! Another Big Win[tm] for $cientology[tm]!

: The only explanation as to why L. Ron Hubbard has sold over 100 MILLION : books is because millions of people have bought them. : Sorry to the LOUD few here. And isn't that great?--to the other rational : people here.

Yeah right. See the above. I own at least 4 Dianetics book and a couple of duplicates of other titles. Just because there was 100 Million books sold (I doubt that is even close to accurate because of the above 'stat pushing' by Int Management) does not mean that 'Millions' have bought the Phatards book and kept them and use them daily...well okay some might need them for that missing leg under their couch.

-Troy S. Miranda Ex-Scientologist, 1995

: Ron