Doing something about it
Now, each one of us has a certain amount of responsibility in this sphere, this universe, whatever size it is. And the number of times we didn't go into communication are the number of times we're out of communication. So we can always say, "The wrong thing to do is nothing."
"There's a big atomic bomb. What can I do about the atomic bomb! I'm just me, I'm not anything."
Why are you just you? How'd you get to be just you?
"Well, everybody is broke and there's five states blowing away out there, and there's drought sweeping through the Middle West, and we have an oversupply of food." I don't know how we mesh these things together. "And there isn't enough money to buy products, and the distribution is that, and so forth." And you say, "Well, I'm just me. I can't do anything."
How'd you get to be just you that can't do anything about it? By not doing anything about it. Don't you see?
Someday, sooner or later, anybody has to turn on the devils that pursue him. Someday. You can turn with processing but you can also turn with living. By what? By doing something about it.
Now, there are not wrong things to do and right things to do to the degree of error that there is "nothing to do about it." Can you see that?

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Individual importance and the dynamics
An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from the Washington Congress on Anti-Radiation & Confront lectures
Scientology could be characterized as just a good game; it might not even be important. It might not even be important at all. But if it isn't important, then we had better get our heads together, and we better send an expedition out to some nearby planet to find out if they're ready to start a genetic line. I'm serious!
I would just as soon work it on that basis of look around and find some nearby planet that could be patched up. You know, factually.
But it's a matter of either-or, I'm afraid. Either put this one in a condition where it can survive or find one that can be put in a condition in which one would like to live! And if there's any other choice, I don't know about them. If there are any other choices at all, I haven't heard of them.
Now, there isn't a choice, unfortunately, for thee or me of, "Well, let's just sit back and wait to see how it all goes." We've known for years the wrong thing to do about anything. We may not know the right things to do, but by golly, we know the wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation, and that's to do nothing.
You sit down in any given situation, and you think, "Now, what shall I do?" There's always one thing that you usually can be sure of. There's one positive certainty that you can have: that it's wrong to do nothing.
Now, to people that get tired easily this is a strenuous viewpoint. It's pretty wild though; you come to inspect these situations that we say, "Well, I can't do anything about it. That's no business of mine. Only a busybody would rush in there." And we say, "Well, all right. I'll do nothing about it. It's come into my awareness now. What shall I do about it? Nothing!"
Yeah? That's the right answer is it? Mark it up on the time track, week by week. Somewhere up the line, because you did nothing, that same situation is going to go Whap! You're going to say, "What happened?"
Now, this is a horrible view, because it presupposes a tremendous amount of busybodiness and activity on the part of an individual. But if you want to know why things are off the wheels so far, look how many times nothing was done! And add up in the last seventy-six trillion years all the times nothing was done, and you've got the exact problem you have at this minute! You abandoned control and responsibility and communication with! You got problems, lots of them.
It didn't matter whether it was bad or good. Bad or good are just pries people use to make other people act. You see that? They don't exist as such. But something existed and we said, "I'm unwilling to communicate with it. I'm unwilling to do something about it." What is the difference between those two statements? Observably no difference. "I'm unwilling to do something about it. I'm unwilling to communicate with it."
What happens to your reality? What happens to your affinity? What happens to the reality and affinity of the other dynamics?
You get extreme individuation as a result. It's all right to be an individual, but it's all right to be something else too. There's nothing wrong with the first dynamic, if you've got seven others in good action. There's nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun, if everybody else is just as important as you are. You got that real good?
The only thing that you ever object to in important people is because they act so thoroughly, too many times, on the supposition that everybody else is a crumb.
You are important. But you're as important as seven dynamics are important to you.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture "Project Third Dynamic"
This lecture is available in the Washington Congress on Anti-Radiation & Confront lectures.
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