Glad to hear that, but I've not heard you say it on here before, and I still haven't heard you credit yourself for anything yet. How 'bout it?
CB, I got it.
I've never said you shouldn't. Please don't read into my words. Defensiveness can be quite a barrier to communication and duplication.
Me, I've never had much success with those tools that do everything, they always break on me. Seems to me, some brands are better than others but that brand doesn't make every tool better than everyone else.
Still, people have preferences and they become accustomed to doing things a certain way. I knew an accountant who never used a computer but could hand-write a spreadsheet breakdown with a pencil as fast as ANYone could do the same thing with a computer. And he'd be perfectly accurate, too.
The tools and their success depends on the belief as well as the experience and skill of the person using them. But that wasn't my point, either.
My point was taking credit for your own accomplishments. Being cause over your own life and knowing that you are the one running things and doing things for yourself, whether you are choosing and holding a tool or writing poetry. It means trusting yourself, giving yourself a second chance if that's what it takes, but liking yourself enough to trust your own judgement.
That is my ONLY point. It IS what L Ron first said, first promoted. It IS what got us excited about Scn. And then the cause point drifted and the brainwashing began.
I KNOW the point where nearly all of us let Hubbard do our thinking for us and gave credit to Ron for every good thing that happened, then blamed ourselves for "not following Ron" when something bad happened.
That's not cause. That's not free thinking.
Commander, let me reassure you that I have very close Indy friends as well as close FZ friends, fully out and never-been-ins and heaps that don't fit in any of those categories.
They don't talk about Scn all day long, but we have our occasional discussions. Some believe in past lives, some don't, some are Christians, some have even written those novelette doubt formulas and posted them on Marty's blog.
They are my friends because THEY are the centers of their lives. Not Ron, not Jesus. THEY run their lives. THEY are cause, THEY are source for all their actions and inactions, decisions or indecisions and for their thoughts.
Maybe you are, too. But I'd like to hear it. I'd like to see you take credit for yourself and be your own center of your life, your own center of your own thoughts. I'd like to see that light in you grow brighter and bigger.
Get it?
Sheila
