The main question we face at this time
"But which way man goes from this point is actually not the question. We do have the means by which man could improve himself and his societies. We have them in Scientology in its application to education, because we can educate people today, perhaps for the first time.
"And the main question which, of course, faces man at this time is: Is he going to live long enough to avail himself of this material? And of course that's all up to a throw of the die, a flip of the coin, and other such chances or perhaps to our own abilities and endeavors.
"Now, because we can take all those mechanisms away from them, wholesale lots, just remember that all those mechanisms make a game, and some people like that game. So it requires a certain amount of granting of beingness on your part to let the other fellow play a game.
"The only game which I don't think we dare let the other fellow play is blow up Earth. And if we can influence the stopping of that in any way, why, I think we're more or less honor bound to do so."

This
excerpt was taken from London Congress on Human Problems.
Life is a Game
An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the Games Congress.
A game has many factors and these factors are all very nicely answered so that we have four types of games that is four game conditions you might say. There is a game condition "knowing." A man knows he is playing a game and therefore he is living. A man thinks he is playing a game of living but is actually playing five or six other games he doesn't know he's playing. Well, that's an aberrated condition.
What is the aberration? The aberration is totally concerned with a unknowing game condition in which he is involved. If he doesn't know he's playing these games, why, then they are aberrative to him.
Well, how about no-game conditions? Well, actually no-game conditions are quite interesting since they are the stuff of which a thetan is made.
For many millennia man, able to write, has sought for truth.
Able to write, able to talk, able to think, observe
he's sought for truth. Scientology might have been called
at one time or another just another search for truth. It's
a hideous thing to realize that man's search for truth was
bound to failure. It could not have been possible for man
to have discovered truth since the totality of the barriers
which lie between him and truth consist of games, lies, difficulties,
and unless he goes in a game condition, unless he goes into
a condition of nonfactuality, he never arrives in a condition
of truth. ...
The road to truth, for a man who has been living, lies through
lies. By examining and processing the lies that are told,
he achieves truth. If he tries to achieve truth directly,
he perishes on the road. And thus we have had a narrow squeak.
We were seeking for truth and if these factors had not been discovered, it is very, very likely that our search would have dead-ended since a man cannot handle truth alone and come up with answers to anything.
This is the most hideous little booby trap that was ever rigged. Life is a game. You have to address the games the man is playing and has played in order to restore him to a condition where he is able to sit serenely or play a game at will. ...
In other words, the road to truth detoured through games, through aberrative conditions, through stress and strife; games is the common denominator of it. And those games contain freedom, barriers and purposes.
And the road back is the same road. And to sit with a nice turban on and contemplate your navel or whatever they do in the upper, snowy regions of India (pronounced Indjuh) might benefit other people whom you would not trouble but is not likely to do anything for you.
Life comes apart at the seams and is understood and restores itself to any condition you care to have, only so long as only so long as it follows through games.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Games Conditions Vs. No-Games Conditions
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