The Commodore

Ron L Hubbard was the founder of the Church of Scientology. His name is almost an anagram of Buddha Reborn. Was he and the following story real?

During the WWII he was in command of a submarine chaser. Shortly after he took command of the ship that came out of the shipyards of Portland, they were sailing towards California when they picked up a sonar ping, that was recognized by the guy in charge as a submarine near Cape Lookout, an iconic landmark of Oregon coast.

They immediately started to release depth charges, using all of their ammo but apparently the sub evaded them. According to this largely undocumented article in the Oregonian, the story continues.

They called help and 4 other ships and 2 blimps came. One of the men on the blimps reported the position of a sub that was then hit by one of the ships and then they men on the blimp said they saw oil and other debris consistent with the sinking of a sub.

Later, the "admiral Fletcher dismissed the whole story" and some speculated it was motivated politically, by not willing to "upset Oregon and Washington residents".

There are accounts of divers saying they found the ship. Some others, though underfunded, have tried.

Should Hubbard have been built upon this story and added some space lore to it, who knows.

We all know though he assumed the title of Commodore and organized the Church by navy rules, with degrees and hard working schedule, the Church having at core the so called SeaOrg, based on a small fleet of 4 vessels that in the end became a larger one, the Freewinds of the presents which according to location sites is spending a lot of times in the... Caribbean.

I would conclude that the Church of Scientology has by now enough material means (and had even when Hubbard was alive) to find the wreck if they wanted to, however have not heard of any trial.

Thing is Portland and Oregon coast is somehow tied to the story of the Church, because it is the place Hubbard became the Commodore (in his own navy).

I said repeatedly that i came to Oregon because here was living the friend of my ex class mate in HS, the guy who looked like Travolta who gave me his address (That guy, by the looks, could have been Miscavige himself which i also saw last time last night at Chinook Winds, dressed as a janitor).

There was another guy i worked with at IMU who was also living in Oregon and in the end i lived with him until i got my first job. At Sheridan Fruit Co, accros the street from the Portland branch of the Satanic Church of Anton LaVey.

So i might have figured why i had to leave everything in Romania (an apartment, small business and Angela's good job) and come here and become their slaves and mascot, not being able to get a real job etc., ending both mutilated and me in psychiatric hospitals etc..

But have you all my friends have figured what is happening in this country? How some "private" people can take charge of whole states, cities, hospitals, stores, casinos, etc..?

I drive around and all i see is meaningful license plate numbers, brands and slogans on different vehicles. I go outside and people start coming "over me" from all direction, executing scenes and framings. All seeming coordinated by AI.

Have people of the US lost control of their country in favor of this entity that may be also controlled from outside, that seem much, much bigger than declared. 50k members could not possibly raise that amount of money (on top of everything they already have).

But on the other hand. Look at what Trump is doing at the White House.

Did not know that Clear in Scientology is the same as Enlightenment (Nirvana) in Buddhism.

Lots of lights at the Scientology Headquarters in Clearwater, Florida.

There is a light pattern on the middle of the building on the right similar to the patterns seen at Chinook Winds (they were preserved after remodeling, figuring stacked little boats. with different colors though).

On a google search it came back the names of the initial tree ships forming the fleet of the Commodore. There is also one of the symbols of the Church, called Dianetics triangle that may remind of those stacked symbols on the Chinook Winds Casino wall.

Have to clear something. Besides living with Travolta in HS for 3 months in an empty apartment in Iași in the fall of 77 when he was doing karate, from where he took the moves for the movie, etc.. in the winter of 83-84 (i guess) i lived for about one year or less with four other of guys in a room in T17 dorm in Iași.

Two of them, Charlie and Neculai, where some of the worst behaving students that campus have ever seen. Repeating years many times, being drunk most of the time. Charlie indeed looked like Charles Bronson, including age. There was a guy whom i later identified as the singer of Goombay Dance Band. And then there was Mișu Găină (pronounced Michou, like French Michelle), whose last name Găină meaning chicken in Romanian.

Găină could indeed stand for Vajk.

He was a very shy, always wearing an embarrassed, nervous smile with crooked or missing teeth.

The living conditions in dorms during those years were terrible. It was so cold we were sleeping fully clothed, including winter coats and caps. We were all smoking in the room, there was so much smoke at times one could not clearly see from door to window. They were always guys day and night playing poker at the table in the middle.

At times we were improvising a heater using a resistor that was red hot under the window. We even tried with two electrodes in a big water barrel (the kind  used in Romania for transporting milk). We were drinking and/or gambling all little money we had and then were stealing or begging for food at the huge "cantina" ("biggest student cantina in all Eastern Europe") were all students were eating based on tiny tabs of paper tore from a printed pass (cartela).

But most of the time we did not have one. I remember one night we went there and stole a big flat pot with beans and ate until we could not etc..

I think he resented that and the fact i was not paying any attention to him while he was already a celebrity (almost) and at least an opera singer in Hungary for a number of years.

For that reason when we met here again @year 2000 (and of course did not recognize him in any way) when he again was acting as a poor guy, David Diggins, my mechanic, he then treated me terribly like offending me all the time and all he was allowed by his role, but i think he was improvising a lot, going off script a lot though in time his attitude changed, but he went mad after i put his match and met with me at the Blue Lake Casino where he threatened me and i think was ready to do something.

And i think it was because of these posts. McVeigh, Vajk.

I think the fame got to him and he became very impulsive and uncontrolled, disobeying most basic requirements of his religion.

But the Commodore. After my first boss at IMU, Mr.Cărămidaru fled to Canada, my new boss looked exactly like Hubbard himself. Yes the year of 1986. He was in charge with an obscure office, "Fabrication preparing" and i was his subordinate while trying to implement a CAD system (Computer Aided Design) under the guidance of a guy from the Corporate (Centrala) in Bucharest.

He generally was nice to me, never insulting, like our common boss, who i am not sure who he was (could have been Don Henley) who was cursing all the time. He basically let me do whatever i wanted, being in an office next to his (where he was together with Ann Wilson from Heart, the Party (yes communist) secretary for the whole Design Department) until we got our own space and saw less and less of  him.

He was constantly giving me bonuses, but i had to go and spend the money with him, others, at beer gardens across the city of Bacău. I think we together drank barrels of beers during all those years.

And  yes, one of my collages and collaborators (we wrote a Fortran app together and from what i remember she understood what we were doing) who later was ditched by Ghivnici (pronounced give nitch or not in Romanian, aka Hubbard, would have meant the end of overpaying mafia at IMU) was Olivia Newton John aka Liliana, and though she kept telling me while smiling that her middle name was Xena (Zâna in Romanian and i had no clue what she meant) she was very concerned about respecting Angela bla bla etc..

Yes i once went with both to a party hosted by Mitică from next office, but he (Ron) took me out of there cause "he was afraid to go home alone at night in that neighborhood" and after, i could not find that address (an apartment in a condo among other 100 condos looking identical) by myself. But i had the chance to dance with her once while we were all getting drunk and she was wearing a tight little red velvet dress (and to my surprise, she new how to dance, was light to handle, like flying).

And the picture she took of me while we were on a boat on a lake in Bucharest, with her hand's shadow was covering my heart (a divorce picture, she joked). However, she was flirting with another guy she found in the hotel in Northern Bucharest during that Fortran course we went together at. Together they created a scene to match the song at an outdoor table though they had their hands on the table all the time.

And i think the third person next to her in the boat (i was paddling) was another of our colleagues, Julia Roberts (with long curly black hair and a tan).