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Demanding that somebody confront something

"There's where we sometimes seem to feel that cross, mean or vicious methods have a workability, and we make a mistake. We believe that the viciousness, the meanness and the threat of punishment is what is getting a result. That isn't what's getting a result. Demanding that somebody confront something gets a result.

"Punishment to restrain somebody from doing something never did otherwise than worsen that person. To restrain a person by threat of punishment from action will inevitably worsen that person. Oddly enough, it's true. Slow him down. Because it takes his awareness away. It reduces his ability to confront life.

"How about the other way around? How about punishment, threats and duress to make him confront something? Unfortunately works! And those of us who have had a great deal to do with the world of men and the world of duress know that it works, and we very often fall into the fallacy of believing then that punishment works."

L. Ron Hubbard
This excerpt was taken from the Washington Congress on Anti-Radiation & Confront lectures.



Confrontingness

An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from the Washington Congress on Anti-Radiation & Confront lectures


The ability to confront is the ability to have space. You have to have space in order to have a universe. And space is freedom. And therefore, if one is to be free, one must be able to confront. The man who is running away from the enemy is never afterwards free. Whether we call it guilt, whether we call it cowardice—whatever we call it, he is never afterwards free. He would be freer if he were stone-dead as a body. ...

Now, look. If this means so much, if this very thing called freedom depends upon confrontingness, we'd certainly better know quite a bit about it. If the ability to handle, to control, to have, to use, to expend beingness, livingness, depends upon such things as I have read to you from this list—havingness, confrontingness, and so forth—then we'd better know a lot about it. And we do know a lot about it. I dare say we will know a lot more about it one of these days. But I can tell you right now, it isn't necessarily true that this must be followed to get a person into a frame of mind that he cannot confront. But how does a person ordinarily get into the frame of mind that he feels he can't confront things? Not, by the way, by making up his mind that he can't. He has assumed a pattern already on the earlier track, the motto of which is "enough to confront." He must have enough to confront. If he doesn't have enough to confront, he doesn't have.

And the whole thing comes down to what it says there in Scientology 8-8008 on the subject of abundance in all things. The easiest way to remedy confrontingness is to have the individual mock up things to confront. In other words, he gets less and less things to confront, and after a while he figures out that he can't confront them. Naturally, that's true. He can't confront a podium that isn't sitting there. But he says, after a while, "In order to confront a podium, it must be sitting there." And that is not correct. That is reaction. That is the motto of the reactive mind, and that's where reactiveness comes from. "It must be sitting there for me to confront it. If it isn't sitting there, I can't confront it. Therefore it must follow that I am afraid to confront it. Therefore I must forget all about it." And it is quantitative at that level of the scale. And all you have to do is remedy the number of things he could have or confront, and you've got it. Enough to confront, that's all.

—L. Ron Hubbard

Excerpted from the lecture "CONFRONTINGNESS"

This lecture is available in the Washington Congress on Anti-Radiation & Confront lectures.

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