Random Congress Quotes
they have a scarcity of anything to communicate with in the present."
The author of "Silence is golden" was indicted as "the guy causing so much trouble in society". Also, he advised against teaching children that it's better to be seen and not heard.
"Answer", Hubbard said, means both the reply and the solution. When people don't get answers, they begin to ascribe strange motives and secrets to that which doesn't reply. As an example, he said that the failure of the Communist Party to tell McCarthy what they're doing gives the Senator the idea they have secrets, but if you know any Communists, you know they are incapable of holding anything. If they'd communicate, no matter what they communicated, that alone would convince McCarthy that the party was open and above-board.
A person having difficulty with any part of his body is having no communication with that part of the body, and one who wants to exteriorize from "that nasty old body" would first have to get into communication with it.
Hubbard spoke briefly of organizational problems, and said that if it were possible to get people confused by a large number of Dianetics and Scientology organizations, maybe he could get them to quit worrying about and fighting the organization and get out and start processing pre-clears. Now that processing is no longer a goal, with results certain, the immediate goal is an organizational one, he said, and that goal might be control of the A-bomb, if anyone was interested in this as a goal.
Most of the lecture material centered on Ron's new book, DIANETICS 1955, the manuscript edition of which became available during the conference.
Random Congress Quotes
"Group Processing is just as workable as it ever was, but it wasn't workable in Operation Phoenix, because people got well and never came back. It gave the auditors no practice. But group processing is the answer to the A.M.A., the Army, veterans' hospitals, etc."
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"Passing of child labor laws created juvenile delinquency. Restrain a man from working or earning for 12 years, and what would happen to him? He'd wind up a bum. And the ages from 21 to 33 aren't as impressionable as are the ages of 10 to 21."
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"Even entheta is better than no communication at all."
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"If you come along as an auditor, and take away too many of a pre-clear's games, or pain, he'll pick up a new, and stronger, game, or pain. You never saw anyone in high emergency engaged in recognizing his pains."
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"To play a game, you first need an opponent. As you bring a pre-clear up tone scale, he looks for an opponent, and often centers on his auditor.
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"Getting out of communication is a liability of the game called Life. He can get lost. What do you think a tree is doing? It was a life form once."
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A one-shot "clear" can be obtained only by applying the business end of a .45 to the forehead and pulling the trigger, Ron demonstrated -- firing a blank cartridge into the floor behind him. This, he called "a workable process reserved for psychiatrists."
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"People who are old are not even vaguely harder to process, even if psychology says they are. Kids can be hard to process, but there is a tendency for older people to get fixed in their roles."
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"Don't confuse goals and dreams; don't try to process anyone in the direction of ideas alone."
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"A thetan can't do anything except survive. He can lie to himself, and say he doesn't remember, or deny it happened--but if he can do nothing about survival, how can there be a bottom to the game?"
The Devil's Almanac
All arguments to the contrary, anything wi11 kill you if you live long enough.
Acorn pie is not rated above all other desserts at many state asylums.
The Los Angeles River is mostly unnavigable.
Some people buy books to read, others to show they could if they wanted to.
Just 100 years ago, in 1855, Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was banned in Boston as indecent.
Many papers fill a short column with "Subscribe for this paper", but if you're not a subscriber to The ABERREE you shouldn't care whether the column is full or not.
