Udarnik
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I don't think Hub's genetics had anything to do with it. Remember, he was related to Elbert Hubbard, who seems to have been a reasonably stable guy, though also a philosopher.
I think Hubbard was selfish with a marked propensity for lying and narcissism. I think those characteristics were the main reasons for his decisions and actions.
Now, me being me, I also believe in past lives. I recognize that not everyone does. But I do. And I think this lifetime's path wasn't Hub's first rodeo with starting groups and exploring his spirituality. That's just my personal opinion.
I have read literature (not about Scn or Dianetics or anything like that) that discussed the mixing of power and personal ambition with spirituality. It just does not work. Ego and money can get involved and it gets really ugly. That's what happened with Hubbard. You just can't go treating this stuff like a business. As I've mentioned before, I don't fault a practitioner of any new age methodology for offering services for a fee, but I think that attempting to pioneer a brand new methodology that is supposed to save everyone and reform the whole world while keeping close to the profit motive, then that's a disaster.
Just to set the record straight on this thread, the rumor that Tubs was related to Elbert Hubbard is false. It probably comes from the Co$, and may have been started by Tubs himself.
Several points.
First, Tubs's father was born a Wilson and was adopted as a Hubbard. No blood or genetic relation, there.
Second, Tubs's adoptive grandparents were named James W. Hubbard and Philena Jane Potter, who were farmers in Iowa, while Elbert was born in Bloomington, IL, and his parents were named Silas Hubbard and Juliana Frances Read.
I've seen the rumor that Elron was related to Elbert multiple places on the net, including on the webpage of the artist's community Elbert founded.
It's just not true.
Elron only wished he could write half as well as Elbert.