Crowley

[the Robot Vegetable]

The apocrophal story is that Hubbard, Campbell, and one other
giant of the 40s (Heinlein? Asimov? probably Heinlein) were
drinking one night, shooting the bull, and Hubbard said that
if you really wanted to get rich, you should start a religion.
Campbell bet him he couldn't.   


On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Chris Broderick wrote:

> If anybody other than L. Ron Hubbard is to blame for
> Scientology, it'd have to be John Campbell, the
> publisher of Amazing Stories, who provided space in
> his magazines for excerpts from Dianetics back in the
> day.
> 
> Anyone seen the new Scientology Center in San
> Francisco?  It's in a beautiful building, right across
> the street from what used to be Melvin Belli's old
> office, near the Transamerica Pyramid.  There's always
> a table out front where you can get one of those
> questionnaires Scientologists are always passing out,
> or if you're really ambitious, you can get strapped to
> an E-Meter.  I've noticed that there are always a lot
> of people smoking in front of the building.  I guess
> they're not clear yet.
> 
> As "Bob" Dobbs says, they may be pink, but their
> money's sure green...
> 
> -Chris
> 
> And -- as much as I am amused by Scientology, I really
> don't think you 
> can
> blame Crowley for it! 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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