The following enumerates 18 universalistic moral principles to not do, such that the outcome is better.
Famously, the Old Testament lists 10 principles, many of which say "Thou Shalt Not".
These 18 things are "Thou Shalt Not"s, which, if applied and upheld, would lead to a better society.
The quotes here are verbatim quotes I heave experienced.
"Yeah, they haven't received much good press." - Guy in Western Canada
1) Obsessive attention to misinformation, disinformation or malinformation (M.D.M.) without the exercise of cognitive faculties to Disambiguate, Clarify or meta-awareness of the potential of the information being partial or M.D.M.
2) An obsessive desire to maintain the influence of any narrative on their minds that confuses matters more, a PR or propaganda obsession (but only if it's negative), a strange context-specific obsession to care about what the media says (even if the individual might disregard the media in other cases).
3) An obsessive desire to maintain the status quo.
(The following circumstance is true if and only if one grants validity to partial narratives and M.D.M. that has been propagated, such as books against organizations etc.
"Are they not very protective of their doctrine?" - Guy in Western Canada
4) General toleration of uncertainty about other groups.
5) Bias towards a given narrative (that they would be protective of).
6) Assuming things are secret.
"It is possible, but We could never do it, because it's so secret." - Guy in Western Canada
"Dianetics and the annihilation of thetons has been exposed by a lot of people who have left the community as a way to extract money while drip feeding the program over time." - Guy in Western Canada
See 6 - Assuming things are secret.
"exposed" - Guy in Western Canada
Extremely open. 99% of the material is available, you can torrent it. Extremely open. (And I said this at a secular group and they got overwhelmed and ran away.)
"community" - Guy in Western Canada
7) Organization-obsession. Assuming that Scientology is an organization, as opposed to definitionally, it is an applied religious philosophy (It got forced into a religious context for various reasons.) It is also a body of knowledge and findings, desperately and in an open-source fashion, begging to be tested and talked about. It is an applied body of knowledge or science.
8) Obsessive disrespect of anything in the context of Scientology or ANY science categorically. This manifests itself in COVID denialism, anti-science, etc. I heard someone say about the COVID lockdowns, etc. "This is not science! It is Scientology. It's not science." Here "thetan", the individual themselves, the consciousness of the individual that is capable of operating and doing things and creating, is being disrespected by misspelling the name, obsessively. Thetans are a basic principle in Scientology that everyone would learn on day 1 in a Scientology context (church, reading a book, scholarly, etc. - any context.)
9) Denialism of suffering / denialism of individual identity - A thetan in Scientology is a Life Unit, the individual. In Scientology, thetans have experienced a lot. It comes from the word "theta", which in Scientology means "life". Interestingly, in Greek, it means "death", but it can mean "life" in a variety of ways, and, indeed, "death", pre-assumes "life" for there to be "death" at all. (See interesting Quora article on this, if you want.) In Scientology, thetans have gone through a long duration of time in decline, the idea is that now, we should be smart and do actions that improve the condition of Thetans, life units, us, our consciousness, the awareness of awareness units. And inasmuch as the entire body of material from 1948 and 1950 onwards was unequivocally and defiantly open, it was trying to get talked, the entire body of material, in mainstream BioTech, psychiatry, psychology, biology, physics, and any and all branch of science. It is defiantly OPEN.
"as a way to extract money" - Guy in Western Canada
"It's all about money!" - Guy in Ottawa
10) Money whine. Debasing any discussion of a given topic. Instead of transactions being money for value, the value is obsessively omitted from the conception, leading to only ideas of money.
"drip feeding the program" - Guy in Western Canada
This is so delusional about secrecy that I cannot comprehend it. It is tantamount to a severe form of autism. I have no issues with people with Asperger's, but this is worse than most people with Asperger's or high-spectrum people. See 7, "Organization obsession" and "Money whine"
"over time" - Guy in Western Canada
11) Slow down narrative. Scientologists are IMPATIENT. Scientologists want things done, NOW. There is no "over time" in Scientology.
"Is that inaccurate?" - Guy in Western Canada
12) Fake desire for accuracy.
13) Fake representation of desire to have an accurate narrative. See first points (1 - 3)
"THAT is bullshit" - A guy in Ottawa who was running a secular meetup group who got overwhelmed right in the middle of the group when one member was humbly corrected, then awkwardly and in violation of all social mores ran away from his own group he was hosting. Then he started yelling into the air like a 3 year old for no reason. This is NORMAL behavior, not just for "secularists".
14) A desire to separate. Segregationism. Separationism. A desire to say "THAT" (as opposed to "this", or saying nothing)
"I am curious, you claim it's a free speech constraint that is preventing people from adopting Scientology's values. Isn't the onus on the messenger to deliver a compelling enough case and sufficient evidence to earn the adoption? In what way is there an imposition on your free speech?" - A guy in Western Canada
15) Onus delusion. Acting as if communication has not been done for 75 years. Acting as if, speech always gets listened to and internalized.
Another instance of "Obsessive disrespect of anything in the context of Scientology or ANY science categorically.", because the individual was thinking I was talking about Scientology's VALUES, when I was talking about the "mainstream scientific establishment".
This kind of quote is why Trump won/Trump "needed" to win (depending on the individual's perspective). This is show-off, alpha male, tough guy mindset. It acts as if there is someone who seems "strong" and the other people "have to" listen. This is a hidden support of authoritarianism. In reality, oftentimes in real life, there is someone trying to speak a message, but other people do not listen. Historically and in the current world, this is very, very normal, in all contexts.
"I am looking at it here. It's not hidden, it just suffers from a bad reputation."
See previous points.
"According to some, RLH made extreme claims of the potential capacity of a Clear. The claims never came to fruition and the church loved the goal posts."
"Also, the measures are all subjective, discounting it from standard scientific practice. "
My response:
"The initial Dianetic definition of Clear is high, yes. A clear in modern terminology is someone who doesn't have a reactive mind, one part of the case. There is more case besides just the reactive mind.
Also, the measures are not subjective. As for clear, that can be defined accurately. The person would lack the case that forms the reactive mind.
In regards to exteriorization and mental mass and a variety of other phenomena, those are empirical and reproducible.
I would say the initial Dianetic goal of clear was somewhat of an exaggeration as regards certain circumstances, but such might have been par for the course at the time to get attention. However, that was Dianetics. Once the greater expanse of spiritual existence was found, it became a new subject, Scientology. Of course, just as with the development of any body of knowledge, some earlier claims could be proven not 100% accurate. There is more memory than just the present life. And chronic pains and ailments could be solved, even for those who only believe in just one life and have a materialistic mindset, by addressing the broader scope of a beings spiritual existence. And as such, a new subject was formed, Scientology.
In no way, whatsoever, can it or should it be discounted from standard scientific practice. And in no way are there subjective or non reproducible criteria."
Notes
Another instance of "Obsessive disrespect of anything in the context of Scientology or ANY science categorically." (RLH) (See also, Tmoahs Eoidsn, and Siacs Netown, for instances of this pathology.)
16) Obsession of relativism versus Universalism. Declaration of things being subjective arbitrarily, when no subjectivity is part of the subject. Moreover, initial processes are literally called Objective processes, to increase objectivity (in this case in this context, such would mean a focus on the environment. In the context of science, objectivity would mean that something can be peer-reviewed and tested and found independent of previous findings, and that certain axioms and postulates are clear and universal.)
Putting these in a list here, these 16 principles are
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We are finding rappers who aren't afraid to talk about things that most don't talk about, because they're too weak. Things like Scientology.
Huge topic, something to be down to the ground, down to earth about.
We want rappers who are unencumbered by peer pressure or groups telling them what to be, or what to think.
Now, a lot of the biggest rappers can talk about this stuff - what's the issue here?
The issue here is there's tons of based, true shit in this.
And there is so much sanctimony and idiocy on discussion of this. The solution is not to discuss, but be dominated by rappers who know they are the shit. Because when you hear them you'll know it.
People stronger than Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa, etc., who exude confidence as part of their being.
Rappers like Rick Ross somewhat get it, that's why there is already some music on this (see below) in the mainstream to some extent.
But a true boss would go into the depth of it, into feelings and get what there is. There would be no fake LA nonsense here.
Needless to say, those who are able to speak are more boss than those who can't, who are confused.
Is confusion a dominant state? No.
Is being controlled by a group a dominant state? No.
Is erratic lunacy a dominant state? No.
So anyone who is reserved on this is not boss.
You would need to be more lyrically adept and
meaningful than this.
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You would actually come up with meaningful music unlike Skrillex.
Drake has great introspective lyrics, but this could be better.
Certainly “cliques” or closed-off-ness has nothing to do with Boss Rap at all. This is not a part of this.
You would need to be cooler than this.
You need to be cooler than the biggest person on the newest
major social media platform.
One of the reasons why hip-hop has resonated with so many people and so broadly taken over popular music and discourse is because it is humble, not self-righteous and appeals to a very broad crowd. There is a low-key aspect that is easy to consume, it is not trying to tell you how to live or subject someone to a lower role.
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Charli D'Amelio did just fine, as did Drake, and Kanye (I'm thinking “Energy” and “Clique” respectively), and Rick Ross (who had a song called Scientology even though he's not a Scientologist) did well, and of course this has worked well for Skrillex.
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Meaningfulness, sells.
Substance and defiantness, sells.
Hip-hop and R&B, sells.
Down to earthness and humbleness, sells.
People need to become less sanctimonious/self-righteous, more intelligent, and more exploratory (culturally, lyrically, hell, even scientifically).
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\tAbuse of philosophical universalism (making broad claims while intentionally not trying to understand things or see any sides of anything whatsoever, childish behavior worse than a 3 year old, acting retarded)",
\tAssuming enemies",
\tBelieving religious books over observation",
\tEnvironment over mind",
\tForming groups or hanging out with others as a form of escapism instead of trying to solve actual problems or uphold actual, legitimate values",
\tHaving a limited range of discussion",
\tHigh regard for ANY group consensus, any lack of humility or modesty in group understanding (religion, science, etc.) ANY lack of modesty (e.g., THE faith, THE science, THE church, THE government )",
\tIgnoring discussion if anything has to do with things being \"wrong by default\" while simultaneously having such \"not be a problem\" (for example, vitamins, incidents of pain and unconsciousness, muscle, etc.)",
\tIgnoring founding principles of a constitution or belief system and whining about things",
\tIntentional negligence of field or domain (e.g., physical science, psychiatry, etc.)",
\tInterpretation of a situation as having ONE Interpretation",
\tIsolationism (I am separate from them or him)",
\tJudgment, evaluation, invalidation",
\tLack of respect of individuals who would state viewpoints not understood by someone else",
\tMaking enemies",
\tMaterialism",
\tNormalization of the arbitrary, lack of introspection and protest of the arbitrary, excessive normalization or generalization of behavior or action (sign of maldevelopment, \"autism\", or aggression, childish behavior)",
\tNot believing in futures",
\tNot believing in ideals",
\tNot believing in the individual",
\tNot resorting to communication or protest to resolve these.",
\tNot respecting Enlightenment Values",
\tNot wanting to have an atypical conversation and becoming erratic or overwhelmed",
\tReligious backoff (political correctness)",
\tRetardation about handling incidents of pain",
\tSeparatism (They are separate from me or us)",
\tSpinozism",
\tToleration of different viewpoints",
\tToleration of intellectual divergence",
\tValuing group action over general democracy",
\tWorship of a glowing light (psychotic)"