From: Rafael Anschau (anschau.ez@terra.com.br)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 16:17:39 MDT
Isn't accountability just another term for honoring your comitments, contracts
and debts ? If yes, then I think it's implicit in the virtue of empathy.
If people have enough empathy for one another then trust will eventually
emerge without the need for conscious accountability.
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Rafael
> [Kalkor] "any ideas on some of the more successful submemes in
> Scientology that we could use to our advantage, without being 'evil'?"
>
> [Michelle]
> I've got one - one of the most rewarding sub-memes in Scientology is the
> concept of accountability. It really seems to make the -ists feel
> superior, and I can see why. They have a concept called "hatting",
> where you take on a position or a role in a group or at work, and it
> means that you have signed off on every aspect of that, and take
> personal responsibility for its fulfillment. If you slack, the other
> -ists give you no room for wiggling, you "hatted", you knew what you
> were supposed to do. That concept pretty much applies across the board,
> to the regular -ist (I don't know about the shady higher-ups).
>
> So, personal accountability being sadly lacking in most of society, it
> would be nice for Virion Virtues to include, perhaps, some variant of
> the old "ownership" concept (from therapy?), where you admit that you
> are well intelligent enough to note your own inconsistencies and
> failures and address them with integrity. No excuses. How to compress
> that into a catchy blurb?
>
> (I have a large scientology-based business operating out of my building.
> They don't work for the CoS but they use their principals and are all
> -ists. Also my receptionist at one time was an -ist.)
>
> [Kalkor2]
> So taking advantage of the AAR mechanism, achievable public goals with
> responsibility, the completion of which "status" is bestowed upon the
> tasked? I like it. I used something similar on myself due to the urgings of
> several CoV members, and along the lines of something from the DJB about
> modifying your own self-image through the achievement of goals related to a
> desired "future self". It broke down to identifying self-percieved
> "deficiencies" in personality, and setting small goals to repair or replace
> those deficiencies with beneficial or "consistent with desired future self"
> personality traits.
>
> This seems to fit in with a stated goal of CoV: from
> http://virus.lucifer.com/about.html :
> The main advantage conferred upon adherents is Virus provides a conceptual
> framework for leading a truly meaningful life and attaining immortality
> without resorting to mystical delusions.
>
> What does an individual consider a "truly meaningful life"? For me, I'd say
> it was "living each day with self-confidence -- master of my own fate" or
> something along those lines. So how do we set up a process, wherein new
> members of the church must go through a series of tasks or goals, with the
> result of:
> 1) Achieving higher attention and status in the Church
> 2) Learning to think rationally
> 3) Gaining self-confidence
> 4) Benefiting the CoV
>
> Is this a desireable goal for us? Any comments, suggestions, discussion from
> the rest of the congregation?
> Good to see you again, Michelle ;-}
>
> Kalkor
>
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