From: Michelle Anderson (michelle@barrymenasherealtors.com)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 11:11:17 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.)
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