From: Kalkor (kalkor@kalkor.com)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 11:40:27 MDT
[Kalkor] "any ideas on some of the more successful submemes in
Scientology that we could use to our advantage, without being 'evil'?"
[Michelle]
I've got one - one of the most rewarding sub-memes in Scientology is the
concept of accountability. It really seems to make the -ists feel
superior, and I can see why. They have a concept called "hatting",
where you take on a position or a role in a group or at work, and it
means that you have signed off on every aspect of that, and take
personal responsibility for its fulfillment. If you slack, the other
-ists give you no room for wiggling, you "hatted", you knew what you
were supposed to do. That concept pretty much applies across the board,
to the regular -ist (I don't know about the shady higher-ups).
So, personal accountability being sadly lacking in most of society, it
would be nice for Virion Virtues to include, perhaps, some variant of
the old "ownership" concept (from therapy?), where you admit that you
are well intelligent enough to note your own inconsistencies and
failures and address them with integrity. No excuses. How to compress
that into a catchy blurb?
(I have a large scientology-based business operating out of my building.
They don't work for the CoS but they use their principals and are all
-ists. Also my receptionist at one time was an -ist.)
[Kalkor2]
So taking advantage of the AAR mechanism, achievable public goals with
responsibility, the completion of which "status" is bestowed upon the
tasked? I like it. I used something similar on myself due to the urgings of
several CoV members, and along the lines of something from the DJB about
modifying your own self-image through the achievement of goals related to a
desired "future self". It broke down to identifying self-percieved
"deficiencies" in personality, and setting small goals to repair or replace
those deficiencies with beneficial or "consistent with desired future self"
personality traits.
This seems to fit in with a stated goal of CoV: from
http://virus.lucifer.com/about.html :
The main advantage conferred upon adherents is Virus provides a conceptual
framework for leading a truly meaningful life and attaining immortality
without resorting to mystical delusions.
What does an individual consider a "truly meaningful life"? For me, I'd say
it was "living each day with self-confidence -- master of my own fate" or
something along those lines. So how do we set up a process, wherein new
members of the church must go through a series of tasks or goals, with the
result of:
1) Achieving higher attention and status in the Church
2) Learning to think rationally
3) Gaining self-confidence
4) Benefiting the CoV
Is this a desireable goal for us? Any comments, suggestions, discussion from
the rest of the congregation?
Good to see you again, Michelle ;-}
Kalkor
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