************* The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] ************ Thanks Leo for the information in your message it makes things a lot clearer for me. Best Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leo Swart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 2:47 AM Subject: Re: [TROM1] Trom Digest, Vol 66, Issue 5
> ************* > The following message is relayed to you by [email protected] > ************ > > The subjects of Ethics and Morals were greatly confused in Scientology > because after making a clear distinction between the two in is early > writings on them, LRH then proceeded to use the word "ethics" all over the > place when, by his own earlier definitions, he meant morals. The subject > remained confusing and a quagmire for all until Mary Freeman sorted it out > and developed her First Dynamic Ethics program. > > > ETHICS: 1. Ethics is the application of reason in the attainment of > optimum > survival. At its most basic it means to bring into alignment a person's > Beingness, Doingness and Havingness. > 2. Ethics actually consists, as we define it now in Scientology, of > rationality toward the highest level of survival for the individual, the > future race, the group, and mankind, and the other dynamics of life taken > collectively. Ethics are reason. The highest ethic level would be > long-term > survival concepts with minimal destruction, along any of the dynamics of > life. > 3. Ethics is a personal thing. When one is ethical or "has his ethics > in" > it is by his own determination and is done entirely by himself out of his > belief in his own honour, and good reason, as optimum solution across his > eight dynamics. > > MORALS: A code of conduct which serves as a standard of acceptable > behaviour for the members of a group. It is usually derived from the past > experience of that group or from revelations and commandments from the > deity. They are the agreed upon codes of conduct of a society which are > sometimes given the force of law. > > What is moral in one group could be considered to be totally immoral by > another. Rules which were once pro-survival could become contra-survival > as > time and circumstances change. A hundred years ago it was considered > immoral to divorce; today it is considered immoral to continue in an > unhappy > marriage. > > Morals are an entirely arbitrary code of conduct and are not necessarily > related to reason or good sense, but they are important in that they make > a > stable society possible. Morals relate to survival only insofar as > continued > membership of that group relates to survival. > > > As a rule of thumb one can safely say that if it can be written up as a > rule > to be followed (by self or others) then it is the field of Morals and not > Ethics. In the CofS they ardently applied "ethics" to a person's third > dynamic position in the Org while allowing his first dynamic condition to > remain in Treason or below. In fact it was often demanded that the first > dynamic should be in a very low condition in order for him to be > acceptable > to the Org on the third. The insanity of this should be obvious to all. > > One lives life on all dynamics simultaneously. To think one can sacrifice > one dynamic so as to benefit another is as nutty as chopping one's right > leg > off so as to walk better on the left. All eight dynamics must be brought > up > into high conditions in order to travel the road to OT. > > > _______________________________________________ > Trom mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.124/2597 - Release Date: 01/02/10 08:22:00 _______________________________________________ Trom mailing list [email protected] http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
