Group O/W write-ups

[grundy]

I've had a fair amount of sec-checking, probably about 125 hours or so. Most of it was OK.

Okay. Stop there. You were in the SO? Only 125 hours of sec checking? Wow.

I was never on the RPF mind you so my numbers aren't what they could be, but I joined the SO with 3 folders, left with 38. Except 25 hours or so of repairs and such and maybe 1 folders worth of admin (FESes, etc.) the rest was all sec checking. Well another folder's worth might be O/W writeups too.

So maybe 6 folders not sec checking - 32 folders were.

125 hours? You GOT OFF LIGHT! (Shades of Sam Kinison there.)

 

[Little Bear Victor]

Well, now we're going to enter the happy realm of verbal tech (as if we weren't there already), but the one thing that made the most sense to me was reading a transcript where LRH talked about Life Orientation Course, in which he said that he didn't even himself develop O/W write-up technology -- it was someone else's idea -- and LRH didn't think it was very workable as it was an unsupervised action, would restimulate and leave incomplete and unflat all kinds of things. He was considering canceling the whole thing and said O/Ws should probably be only done audited.

(Sorry it's gonna be really difficult for anyone to verify such a statement until all LRH materials become public domain, but for me that was just another great example as to how "on-source" and "final" the current courses and rundowns are. KTL, LOC, not to mention the rest of the Bridge have some rather fundamental issues with them. Such as that LRH didn't compile them or say exactly what is supposed to be in them. Or that he kept changing his mind. Not that I expect it to be better after DM is done "fixing" them.)

But: what does the current LOC course say about O/W writeups? "Do them until you feel you have written them up completely." What's that supposed to mean? All overts on the whole track?

Okay, now for some "standard tech:"

On the current LOC course you are writing O/Ws on every one of the 21 departments of your personal Org Board.

Well, guess what: The new pilot LOC has people writing O/Ws on the 8 dynamics!

You tell me whether this is "based 100% on LRH" or free-for-all. [Ed note: All = DM]

Well, let me vent some more, now that I'm on the roll: From other LRH tech you might surmise you'd be OT XVI after getting rid of ALL your overts on the whole track. And what the heck are you supposed to do on Grade 1? Or the Ls?

"A limited process?" Since when? You run them at the beginning of each session as "ruds" and in the middle of the session as "midruds" and the end of a session as "end ruds." And you run them in every sec check. Limited process? I'd like to know where that limit might lie.

(As if I really gave a sh*t.)

 

[Corsa]

Hubbard wrote about the importance of not focussing on the wrongnesses of the PC and validating rightnesses. It's suspicious that this principle was not transferred to ethics.[/QUOTE]

Esp. it was not transferred to staff members. I remember we were giving each other secretly suggestions on what overts to write up or even let each other look into the worksheets during those endless hours, when we were supposed to write and write, maybe 50 or 60 staffs, crammed together in one room, with or without chair or table. Just write, somehow. Unbelievable! We turned in each others overts, slightly modified. But anything was better than being called up for not writing. That was big trouble. PRC we called it.
P-eeled, R-oasted and C-ut into pieces.

 

[nw2394]

"A limited process?" Since when? You run them at the beginning of each session as "ruds" and in the middle of the session as "midruds" and the end of a session as "end ruds." And you run them in every sec check. Limited process? I'd like to know where that limit might lie.

(As if I really gave a sh*t.)

Well, obviously you do give a sh*t

O/W is limited in the sense that it will run you into the tail end of GPMs - where you will cognite on how bad you were and probably stop being bad. Nothing wrong with that in itself. Except that it is a negative gain. Do it for too long and you'll probably figure that all games are bad, life is bad and, at best, end up as a hermit. In other words you'll get rid of a shed load of charge on your case to end up as inactive non OT who never does nuthin.

Needs to be balanced with the positive. At least some of one's training, processing or, heck, just lets call it progress needs to come from the angle of: What do I like doing? What gives me a buzz? What makes life feel worthwhile? How can I do more of that? How can I get other/more people doing that? And so on....

Nick