About those help processes…
This subject came up some years back on alt.clearing. technology. At the time I felt that help was a fine process but support would run deeper. This is how I see it. Let me explain:
Help is a social activity. Help is the classical boy scout walking an old lady across the street. Help is the grocer's bag-boy carrying your purchase out to the car. Help is having a friendly ear to share in your troubles. Help is an hour at the massage therapist. ...
Help is of limited duration, limited effort, limited commitment. Support is also a social activity. Support is more involved than mere help. My own mother supported me. She gave me birth. She fed me when I could not feed myself. She kept me in line when I was too young to be aware of social skills. She clothed me. She with my father kept a roof over my head.
My father supported me. He dragged butt home around five in the afternoon after a long day working construction. No matter how tired he was, he took time to play catch with me and give me coaching and encouragement on my pitching. If I wasn't pitching he would throw me baseballs while I hit and little brother chased the ball down, across the street, in the neighbors' yards.
Support requires a commitment of time, energy, money, love, understanding, and so much more. Help is an in-and-out kind of thing. Support is there for a duration. Sometimes support goes on for a lifetime.
Hubbard spoke of "tight conspiracies" in the Bolivar PL. Pretty much one-sided though it was, he was referencing support. In order to continue to receive support it is necessary to support the supporter, sooner or later, in a way that strengthens the relationship.
Some people complain about "the good old boys" network. The primary complaint is they ~can't get in~. Others complain about Washington elitists. The primary complaint is they ~can't get in~. A lot of business is conducted on the golf course. So how do you build your business if you ~can't get in~ the country club? Like it or not, these and similar groups are support groups. They are not necessarily high-toned, but support as an activity is.
If what I wrote above is true, then what about the bag-boy who drops the groceries; or the boy scout who lets the old lady trip and fall; or the friend who layers their upset onto your own when all you wanted was a chance to get your thoughts straight? These are examples of failed help.
So if help is good, social, and pro-survival, and if support is mo' betta, can there be a level or two above Support?
I would use Hubbard's tone scale for a reference. 2.0 is the demarcation point of survive/succumb. Above 2.0 is greater and greater survival potential. Below 2.0 more and more succumb until death is reached.
..........Support
..........Help
2.0
..........Failed Help
0.0
What might lie below failed help is not important. What might be above Support is important.
Here I would reference Roger's FZ Conference talk where he explains Hubbard's primary error in running GPM's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6WIIdg8uE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6WIIdg8uE&feature=related
Co-operate lies above Support. What might lie above that I do not know.
..........Co-operate
..........Support
..........Help
2.0
..........Failed Help
0.0
Both Support and Co-operate can be substituted for Help in the process commands. Basic auditing skills and rules would apply. Pc/clients need to run their own items and interests, not some else's. I suspect the highest levels would automatically run out the lower levels, but I would not count on it.
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...and my sincere thanks to those special ones who read and acknowledge my offerings. 
maybe I'll go as Oliver Wendell Holmes described the "Deacon's Masterpiece" 
