Write off O/W

[Dulloldfart]

Focusing a person on their misdeeds, sins or overts,
has zero therapeutic value whatsoever.
Unless you believe it has.

It is a mind control technique to introvert you
and convince you that you are a worthless piece
of shit.

In Scientology`s case it is also used to gain leverage
on a person to get compliance from them.

Para 1 is false. Para 2 is false. Para 3 is sometimes true.

It can be valuable to write them up. As one writes down the details, more and more comes into view. At some point one is "done" and generally feels good about what one has now brought into the light, even if no-one else reads the write-up. However, from this point it can go disastrously wrong.

An ethics program based on what was disclosed can be beneficial, but very often isn't. "Putting things right" can make one feel good, as in doing the right thing at last. But it can also lead to degradation if it is not self-determined.

If one is forced to write up more, for whatever reason, one will then likely feel degraded. If the write-up is used as leverage or blackmail then one will not benefit from that.

It's not a black and white subject at all.

Paul

[degraded being]

Drag Queens are people too

That's why "Drag Queen" has capitals.
Are trolls people though?
And can trolls be Drag Queens?

Downright check, coming on here with no Hi, Hello, Kiss My Arse or nothing. Just demands for information and appropriating names from the Drag Queen community.
Does kind of rolll off the tongue tho, doesn't it LaVANda.

[moarxenu]

And can trolls be Drag Queens?

Three words:

Angry. Gay. Pope.

[Panda Termint]

^^^ ^^^

[degraded being]

Three words:

Angry. Gay. Pope.

[Fairplay]

You have to sit down with a pen and paper in a quiet spot. Write down all the things that you have wanted to do in your life. Cross off the ones you have already done. If you think of new things you would like to do in the future pop them on your list. Then number the items in order of importance to you. The ones you consider most important should then be started at your leisure. Review the list sometime in the not too distant future. If you have made no progress at all on the list ... well you might call that lack of progress...unless you changed your mind about what you wanted to do of course! You are the Captain of your own life.

[Enthetan]

If one is forced to write up more, for whatever reason, one will then likely feel degraded. If the write-up is used as leverage or blackmail then one will not benefit from that.

Let's not forget the blackmail potential of a written confession of ones various misdeed, written in ONES OWN HANDWRITING. As others have noted, auditor sec check notes are of limited blackmail potential as they are all hearsay (particularly if the auditor has since blown). Handwritten OW writeup and videoed sessions are much better for blackmail.

[Dulloldfart]

Let's not forget the blackmail potential of a written confession of ones various misdeed, written in ONES OWN HANDWRITING. As others have noted, auditor sec check notes are of limited blackmail potential as they are all hearsay (particularly if the auditor has since blown). Handwritten OW writeup and videoed sessions are much better for blackmail.

Even so, they are not sworn to. One can always say they were pressured out of one and false. In some cases they *are* false, along the lines of invented crimes because of insistence that the (real) ones already divulged are not bad enough.

Paul

[Carmel]

I don't recall writing up O/Ws until the "O/W Write-Ups" PL came out in 1984.

Paul

Thanks Paul, I didn't realise that was the case.

In Sydney, o/w write ups were a regular thing, and were already being done often when I joined in '80. We staff did our fair share, but still not as many write ups as the SO guys did though......Maybe it was another thing that Phyll Stevens implemented, like the "no kids" thing, before it became *official*.

[Challenge]

Here's an answer to your question:
Write down the overt. "What Have You Done?" ( what was it). When was it? Where were you at the time? Is that all of it?
WHO MISSED IT? What did he/she do or say that made you think that he/she might know about it?
I put the "who missed it" in caps because that is the more important thing (casewise) on an overt. The "miss" is what causes the overt to hang up as a 'withold'.
Or so 'he' says.
You can go earlier similar if you are confident that you can get out of it on your own.
In the 33 years that I was "in", I never wrote up overts. The above instruction is what is done in a 'ruds' session with an overt.

hope this helps.

challenge