{"id":2106,"date":"2012-09-24T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2017-10-24T05:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:13:48","slug":"l-ron-hubbards-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2012\/09\/l-ron-hubbards-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"L. Ron Hubbard&#8217;s Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In an essay entitled \u201cMy Philosophy,\u201d L. Ron Hubbard details his own fundamental beliefs. \u00a0In many respects, these are the guiding principles of the Scientology religion, for example, this section of the essay:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they\u00a0are\u00a0shadows and\u00a0that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full essay is available \u00a0on the <a title=\"L. Ron Hubbard: My Philosophy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lronhubbard.org\/articles-and-essays\/my-philosophy.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">L. 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