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The Basics Hot
David Miscavige Programs
November 04, 2012    
Very ambivalent about the Basics. On the one hand, having the full sequential set of books and lectures is really great for a purely theoretical study of the subject. This does not make auditors, however, but it is interesting. On the other hand, finding out that there were several alterations and key omissions, is very disappointing. (A good example of this is in the Phildelphia Doctorate Course lectures, where Hubbard spoke of a world without a remedy for Scientology being worse than Orwell's "1984" - which has been omitted from the 2007 Basics version, and thus the point Hubbard was making is lost, if you do not know what he originally said). Speaking to old timers who still possess the original L. Ron Hubbard books and lectures, one has a sense of loss of authenticity, and thus not a true study of the subject.
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Reviewed by eagle November 11, 2012
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Alterations

Very ambivalent about the Basics. On the one hand, having the full sequential set of books and lectures is really great for a purely theoretical study of the subject. This does not make auditors, however, but it is interesting. On the other hand, finding out that there were several alterations and key omissions, is very disappointing. (A good example of this is in the Phildelphia Doctorate Course lectures, where Hubbard spoke of a world without a remedy for Scientology being worse than Orwell's "1984" - which has been omitted from the 2007 Basics version, and thus the point Hubbard was making is lost, if you do not know what he originally said). Speaking to old timers who still possess the original L. Ron Hubbard books and lectures, one has a sense of loss of authenticity, and thus not a true study of the subject.

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It is nice to have it all in sequence, and it is nice to be able to study the subject in a sequential manner to get a theoretical overview.
Cons
Alterations, dammit! Very disappointed that there were alterations and omissions, so one does not have the somplete original work by L. Ron Hubbard, but a synthesized version of it.
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