Gib
Crusader
you are doing the same thing Hubbard did, LOL.Well P&B, I could surely write a book in response and perhaps I shall...
But for the moment...
The year before DMSMH was published The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the Portuguese "Doctor" who rammed a surgical instrument very similar to a dime store icepick through the occipital bone behind the eye and wiggled it to mutilate the frontal lobes of the brain.
Prefrontal lobotomy thank God is no longer practiced and dianetics is
Would you prefer it to be the other way around?
And invalidate me to your hearts content...
I love free speech and am grateful to have it here
The guy you are talking about who got the Noble Peace award was Moniz, and yes in 1949 and lobotomy. But the guy used that technique to help the truly mentally ill, and not normal people.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4291941/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/facts/
"To feel good mentally, nerve impulses in the brain have to function properly. In the mid-1930s Egas Moniz introduced lobotomy, a surgical operation involving an incision into the prefrontal lobe to mitigate severe symptoms of serious mental illnesses. The operation was widespread during the 1940s and 1950s, but it became apparent that it could lead to serious personality changes. The use of lobotomies declined drastically when medications for mental illness were developed during the 1950s."
So there you go.
What Hubbard did thru his rhetoric was to convince people thru his Dianetics , The Modern Science of Mental Health, a rhetoric writing to persuade, was to convince us that we had mental health problems by using an analogy of the mentally ill to so called achieved state of clear as written in Dianetics.
Aren't you clear yet, clay? You ought to be.
But here's the thing, Hubbard comparing mentally ill to a modern man with some problems is not the same thing as being mentally ill.
We was duped as well as you.
you said "Prefrontal lobotomy thank God is no longer practiced and dianetics is"
well, dianetics is not being practiced widespread. The book would still be on the best sellers list of all time read books, and we would have dianetics groups all over the world.
You are so full of shit it's unbelievable.
But nice try, I can do this all day.
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