It seems that more and more Hollywood celebrities are embracing the teachings of Scientology. Created by the writer L. Ron Hubbard, the legion of Scientology's followers continues to grow, drawing into the fold many celebrities such as, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley and many others. Because we at Fade to Black realize that these celebrities cannot possibly be wrong, for after all they are on television, we decided to take a closer look at Scientology and its teachings. Our first step was to order Dianetics. We discovered that a lot of Dianetics' principles revolve around the various associations we make in our daily lives and how those associations later come back to keep us from becoming all we can be. Although the concept has been borrowed by other self improvement 'gurus', Anthony Robbins for one, the ideas are nevertheless interesting and makes the book worth checking out. However, one soon realizes that Dianetics is a highly strategic ad campaign luring its prey into one Scientology course after the next, after the next, which costs money and more money, and even more money. And its not only the financial issues which seem a bit wacky, but its some of Scientology's basic ideas that seem to get wackier and wackier. For example, who knew that 75 million years ago a wicked extraterrestrial tyrant named "Xenu" solved the galaxy's overpopulation problem by placing the "undesirables" in a volcano and blowing it up with several hydrogen bombs? We had no idea…. It seems that in order to fully appreciate the teaching of L. Ron Hubbard, in addition to a considerable amount of cash, you'll have to also hand over the part of your brain which is responsible for logical and rational thought. Although an intriguing prospect, and one we deliberated intensely for many days, we came to the conclusion that if you are gullible enough to derive the meaning of life based upon the writings of a fiction writer, why not pick someone who is at least fun to read? With that in mind we decided to compare the writing of L. Ron Hubbard to that of Dr. Seuss. The number of similarities we found are downright eerie:         Dr. Seuss   L. Ron Hubbard     Dr. Seuss was born on March 2nd   L. Ron Hubbard was born on March 13th     During World War II Theodore Seuss Geisel,  was commissioned as a captain.   At the outbreak of World War II, L. Ron Hubbard was commissioned in U.S. Navy.     After World War II Theodore Seuss Geisel's writing career took off.   After World War II L. Ron Hubbard's writing career also took off.     In his book entitled "You are Only Old Once!" written in 1985, Dr. Seuss introduced the character called Dr. McPherson   In 1995 Scientology is alleged of killing a Lisa McPherson.     To get all of Dr. Seuss' teachings, it would cost you around $300   To get all of Scientology teachings, it would cost you around $300,000.     Dr. Seuss made lots of money and made millions of people happy.   L. Rob Hubbard made lots of money.             To better see the simularities we comprised a fun game. Below is a list of charecters see if you can tell which ones came from a Dr. Seuss book and which ones were created by L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. LET'S PLAY!   Mt. Strookoo Cuckoo was created by: Bloogs was created by: Captain of the Guards was created by: Chippendale Mupp was created by: Marcabs was created by: Entheta was created by: Teegeeack was created by: Thetans was created by: OSA was created by: Horton was created by: Heber Jentzsch was created by: "NOTS" was created by: Jake The Pillow Snake was created by: Collapsible Frink was created by: Xenu was created by: Sneetch was created by: Nazzim of Bazzim was created by: Happy Hunch was created by: ||