Escape to Certanty
Richard Ford
This is the idea that our behaviours evolved in exactly the same way
that our bodies did.
Our brains grew because large brains are 'pro survival'. In other
words our stupider ancestors died out without reproducing.
The same applies to our behaviors- especially those behaviors that
make least sense. This is even true of cult behaviours.
There is a particular type of person who is likely to undergo a
religious conversion experience. The most noticeable characteristic of
such a person is that they cannot deal with uncertainty.
Let us look at this type a little closer.
1) This person seeks consistency above all else. They worry that the
media say that Tony Blair is bad when they previously said he was
good. This undermines their sense of reality and makes them seem
unsafe. This leads to a sense of helplessness and then depression.
Such a person will often say 'what is the point to it all?'
2) This person will often look back at an imaginary age of certainty.
They will talk fondly of their great grandmother who worked sixty
hours a week all their lives and never traveled further than twenty
miles from their birthplace. It is difficult to understand this but
they actually envy such people and their limited options. Freedom is a
curse to them because it brings choice.
3) Such people also usually believe society is on a downward spiral
and look forward to the future with dread. Paradoxically they seem
cheered by the prospect of global disaster in 2012 because it ends the
uncertainty and freedom they most dread.
4) They are prone to superstition and magical thinking- which is also
a way of dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty.
5) Such people also believe in conspiracies. They prefer the world to
be governed by Illuminati than to be governed by no one.
6) They demand certainty and a fixed conclusion whatever is being
discussed. If you are discussing a scientific advance they will demand
some sort of final resolution to a question. When you explain that an
area is in a state of flux they are unhappy and slightly depressed by
the whole thing.
7) They are prey to a nameless dread that arises from the uncertainty
and freedom of life. There are many things that can never be truly
known. Did they take the right job? Make the right investment? Live in
the right town? This results in a sense of futility, emptiness and
hopelessness.
8) They cling to sex roles and are frequently tyrants in their own
homes. They also tend to worship political tyrants who offer the
certainty they lack.
9) They are frightened by their own death and anything else they
cannot control.
This person is constantly prey to feelings of futility, dread, terror,
depression and emptiness. Very often they will undergo a 'conversion
process' where this falls from them and is replaced with a simple set
of certainties. It is not possible to remove these certainties without
returning them to their state of terror.
This mental state is quite rational when we consider society 20,000
years ago.
A person would know no more than 500 people in his life and his
biggest fear would be uncertainty. He prefers strong leaders for the
tribe. When the tribal leader dies there will be a great deal of
violence and so he will always support the existing leader- no matter
how tyrannical.
Unfortunately the 20,000 year old brain cannot deal with modern life
and is terrified of it. This terror ends only when someone offers a
simple truth that resolves all questions at once. This results in the
sensation of being 'saved', and a great release of energy and love for
the new leader. They are ready to do anything to show this love and
submission.
This is the 'true believer'. They are resistant to logic but may
change their belief to something equally non logic based.
Not all Scientologist are of this kind- but they do exist. DM may be
one of them.
ho...@lightlink.com
> Unfortunately the 20,000 year old brain cannot deal with modern life
> and is terrified of it. This terror ends only when someone offers a
> simple truth that resolves all questions at once. This results in the
> sensation of being 'saved', and a great release of energy and love for
> the new leader. They are ready to do anything to show this love and
> submission.
If the simple truth results in an excuse to not look at things,
and thus resolves them by denying them then it is called a service
fac computation and should be run out on Grade IV or earlier.
If the simple truth is that looking itself in fact resolves
everything then we have a different matter.
The simple truth offered by Scn is that we are responsible for our
own condition, suffering is havingness, and we are responsible for not
knowing that we chose our present state.
The ability to create the worst of all possible worlds would
be part of the best of all possible worlds.
Recovering that moment of choice then becomes all important, and
since the indication is right, people will hold to it at almost all
costs even when it is betrayed down the tubes.
Inside the Church, which teaches that looking resolves all things,
people are not allowed to look at anything.
> This is the 'true believer'. They are resistant to logic but may
> change their belief to something equally non logic based.
There is also the true disbeliever, who is just as nuts if not more
so.
> Not all Scientologist are of this kind- but they do exist. DM may be
> one of them.
Maybe.
The issue of control and world domination at the OT level goes
wider than most are able to expand.
Just as there are the true believers, there are the true believers
in true believers, who try to explain away all true believing with their
own true believing, spelled small mindedness.
Homer
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Richard Ford
Homer. You forget where the burden of proof lies. LRH invented his own
little world complete with miracles. It is up to him and his followers
to prove that one word of it is true. They have not done so yet. Until
that day I am entitled to disbelieve in a story without evidence.