i think our stance on "the Tech" might earn us a snub from FZ people
guys - the ashtray, it's never ever in billion sqintillion years gonna move
Maybe not, but it's not meant to move. That's not the point of the drill (TR-8). From the Tech Dictionary:
TR-8, a drill to make students clearly achieve tone 40 commands.
To clarify intentions as different from words. To start students
on the road to handling objects and people with postulates and
to obtain obedience not wholly based on spoken commands.
(HCOB 7 May 68)
Intention is useful in controlling people. Whether one *should* control people or not is another matter. I don't think there would be a whole lot of argument against the idea that in life one can sometimes pick up a person's unspoken intention, whether by body language or other means.
It is also useful in handling objects: at least to the extent of one's intention affecting oneself in relation to that object (maybe lifting a heavy weight, for example). The idea that the object itself is affected in some way by one's intention, maybe to the extent of making itself more amenable to be picked up, is definitely controversial, and I don't know how many scios even think along those lines.
Visualization of future goals is a common activity of athletes and competitors, mocking up the desired result in present time as if it were occurring in reality right now. Intention is much more useful here than simply saying the appropriate words.
Sorry for digressing. Back to child abuse in the CofS.
Paul
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thank you Tiger Lily
