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Something can be done about it

"Now, the hideous thing is that people at large are not aware of a very interesting thing—that anything at all can be done about anybody. They are not aware that anything can be done about anybody.

"The cop who gives you a ticket takes it in his normal stride that this is just the way it is. The hospital attendants who have picked the remains out of the drunken-driving wreck, the very best thought in various professions that should have to do with this, are all agreed that there's nothing you can do about it.

"And that is the principal agreement you are running into when you try to tell somebody about Scientology. Now, that's how far south you have to go: Something can be done about it. And if you were able to tell somebody, not about Scientology, past lives or Dianetic prenatals, but just this: 'Something can be done about maladjustment, poor behavior, poor control and human relations that leave something to be desired.' Now, if you could just drive that message home—'Something can be done about this'—you would have accomplished more in getting that person into two-way communication than almost anything else you could do."

L. Ron Hubbard
This excerpt was taken from Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress.



Willingness to play the game

An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.

Did it ever strike you that life at large could be as much fun, on its broadest scale, in the fullest definition of a nice football game? There could be as much enthusiasm to even the small, mundane, ordinary things as there might possibly be to playing a very exhilarating game? It's almost far-fetched, isn't it, to think that talking to one's fellow man and engaging in cashing a check and doing this and doing that could be a continuous, exhilarating experience, even though it wasn't big and huge and dramatic. ...

It isn't the amount of motion or action, it isn't the stake, it isn't the grandeur of the trappings that make a game. It's the willingness of those about us to play a game which makes a game. And when we lose sight of that, we lose the game and life becomes a serious, onerous, arduous, dog-eat-dog endeavor.

And the degree that people are unwilling to play the game in this society is measured by the number of handcuffs, the number of jails, the number of hospitals and institutions and the number of laws.

Now, it takes a few laws to make a game. You'll always have to have some barriers and restrictions to make a game. But when you get too many, you get no game, except this game: the game of making more laws that will make more laws necessary. And that’s a game for attorneys, but not for citizens.

Now, wherever we look, then, and find people miserable or unhappy or believing that they could not possibly survive or have a good time, all we’re looking at is a community which is composed, in the majority, of people who cannot play a game and will not let other people play one.

Now, that's—that's an interesting thing. If we want to classify and qualify the last stages of psychosis, it would be "no game anywhere with nobody and that's that—period." ...

Now, the last stages of exit is simply "no game." And when we get duress and punishment all out of proportion to the communication necessary to continue a game, we get no game.

Well now, some people may believe that there is a game in going around and shooting, arresting, fighting, drawing people up in battalions and firing by volley, or playing catch with atom bombs between one agency in Washington and another agency in Russia, but there aren’t very many participants to this game, are there? There's no slightest chance for the average citizen to participate in a game called atomic warfare—no slightest chance. They haven't even got a good civil defense outfit that you could join, you know? ...

But here we have the common denominator of what we could call civilization. Civilization would be, of course, a gradient term. But we could say a good civilization would be that civilization in which the individuals of which it was composed could play a game and knew they could play a game and were playing a game called culture. And if that attitude could exist, you would immediately, of course, have human rights, respect for one’s fellows—all these things would fall into line. These are symptoms of how well the game is going.

—L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture "THE GAME CALLED MAN"

This lecture is available in the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.


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"A Scientologist CAN make an individual well, happy, and grant him personal immortality, simply by addressing the human spirit.

"It could be said, with Scientology, that we have entered The Second Age of Miracles."

—L. Ron Hubbard

Culminating five years of steady advance, the Founding Church of Scientology had just been established in Washington, DC. Summoning Scientologists to the first International Congress in the nation's capital, Ron opened with the lecture, The Hope of Man. And the title was more than apt. For what he presented were the results of advancing technology—results that could only be accurately described with a single word: miracles. Physical in nature—deaf children suddenly hearing, crippled children shedding crutches, and sight restored with eyeglasses discarded—and yet all of it accomplished by exclusively addressing the thetan.

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"I had listened to a lot of lectures previously and of course, each of them had very valuable data but it was all out of sequence which resulted in me getting stuck. Now this has as-ised. The data is now fitting together."

—S.M.



 

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