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¤ Ant has a Bee in his Bonnet ¤ ACE has been going for nearly a year!
Books Weekly has been going on MailChimp since 2016, but it was running on a more primitive basis earlier. The last issue was sent out to 76 recipients. Just under a year ago Cara helped me start ACE. The starting ACE had a double purpose:
I. Relieve me of the work of resending your comments and questions out on Books Weekly via MailChimp.
II. Give you a chance of sending a message to all ACE readers without having to wait for me to wake up and relay it.
Officially/statistically ACE has 31 "Members", however a few people are on it twice with different email addresses (mostly to test different ways of receiving†).
So that leaves roughly about 40 Books Weekly members who are not on ACE.
Fairly early on Cara sent out an invitation to everybody who hadn't yet managed to get on the list. But that leaves us with 30 or so people who I'm worried about. Thus this message.
If you really don't want to be on ACE you could stop me worrying by writing and telling me and the reason. It's not really difficult to write to me, send an email to: ant.phillips@post8.tele.dk .
If you really do want to be on and have not managed it there are two methods (you could try both):
I. Email to the following address: Ants-Communication-Exchange+subscribe@groups.io . Don't worry about it being peculiar with that +subscribe bit. Just send it. Don't bother about being polite as it's a robot that receives it and it doesn't understand politeness. Additives may gum it up.
II. Write to me (you can be polite and chatty as I haven't been converted to robotism yet) and ask me to invite you and I will do so. It almost certain that Cara did invite you some time ago but that invitation only lasted 14 days or so. So I'll send you an invitation. Be warned that it may land in your spam or trash so look there if you don't find in your ordinary inbox. It expires after a little while so the ones that Cara sent out are no use any more.
Remember when you get it it's a robot thing that your handling. You press reply and then you press send. That's all. Have a go!
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† If you go down to the bottom of any message you receive with ACE the first item on the bottom line says "Your Subscription". Initially you were sent individual messages, but there are 5 other methods of receiving ACE's messages (or not). The alternative I would recommend if you find individual messages a bit irksome would be the one that is called Daily Summary. On this every morning you receive a list of threads/messages sent out in the previous 24 hours. Click on the ones you're interested in and they'll show up. You might reserve it for keeping you happy at lunchtime if your wife is still out shopping.
P.S.To those not on ACE here is an example of a thread. Thread means emails with the same subject (if you change the subject when answering/commenting it starts a new thread). It happens that this one starts with a short sentence on my part. But we encourage others to originate threads.
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Something can be done about it.
Antony Phillips Dec 19 #862
Something can be done about it.
I remember this coming up fairly early in my Scientology experience. It is something that has become a stable datum to me. You can always do something about it (whatever "it" is).
All best wishes, Ant.
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Scott Gordon - Watchful Navigator - Auditor Class 0+Dec 20 #864
"Something Can Be Done About It"
is indeed an awesome stable datum.
So simple. So true.
It is the antidote to Apathy (look up also, "learned helplessness").
LRH brought about a whole new way of thinking with the Logics, then, later, the Data Series.
These are built upon the belief that Existence is for each, individual one of us to manage.
Life units are ultimately self-determined, while also relating to and exchanging with, their Dynamics.
It was a brilliant application of philosophy to living.
The follow-up (next step) datum would be: "Make It Go Right."
Then find out Why it went wrong or is going wrong, and fix it (Data Series).
It's a wonderful formula for living.
The only way this goes wrong is when the group or others disrespect self-determinism. Trying to make (force) others make things go right, rather than helping them and consulting their willingness to do so, just creates complaints about cults. The ARC breaks and failed purposes need to be looked at and acknowledged. Then willingness returns, then self-determinism comes alive. Then the above cycle can work for another.
Barry StephensonDec 20 #865
That is a good expansion on Ant's datum Scott. I enjoyed reading it.
Barry
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Barbara SevenoaksDec 21 #866
I read something similar in the SP/PTS pack. Slightly different wording about how even doing the smallest thing can help a PTS situation, putting someone at a bit more cause.
There's a video/lecture also with the same title.
It's worth keeping in mind. It is easy to feel things are hopeless, when in truth they seldom are.
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Antony Phillips Dec 21 #868
I have wondered why I didn't mention this subject to you earlier. I'm keen to pass on useful things to you all. I have a list hanging on the wall of things I regard as important from Scientology, and I even put such a list on Antology.info (see: http://www.antology.info/articledetails.php?id_art=7 -- it's pretty rudimentary).
I think "Something can be done about it" is very important. I ran across it early and I've finally come to the conclusion that it became natural/instinctive to me, as natural as breathing, and nobody that I know of goes about recommending people to remember to breathe. Apart from accidents of nature, and the fact that a friend told me to go to the doctors when I had an extremely minor stroke I think my longevity has a lot to do with instinctively using that stable datum.
All best wishes, Ant
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Here is another thread I have found. This PS will not be proofread, but in making it I have cut out a number of irrelivancies. Ant (official and authorised P.S. provider/edior)
I am the old grey bearded FriScientologist — been in and out of Scientology since 1954. So there's a lot of experience and likewise a lot I have forgotten.
Do you remember a time when Fabian was the flavour of the day?
If you do can you explain it?
Fashions change so quickly in Scientology that old tortoises like me get dizzy
Interesting in a way, I didn't know there was a pop singer called Fabian. But adding the dots to the subject makes it a new thread, filed separately in ACE files.
There was a period when Ron recommended being Fabian. My memory on it needs brushing up which is why I was asking.
Here is the definition from the World Book Dictionary (the one which Ron recommended and I dutifully ordered a copy which took about 3 months to come from the USA to Denmark!).
Fabian, noun and adjective, one using stratagem and delay to wear out an opponent; cautious; slow: by recognising Fabian tactics, then, socialism has recaptured Labour (Canadian Saturday Night).
It was named after a Roman general and statesman who was surnamed Cunctator (which means delayer)
I was hoping somebody could remember that short period in Scientology and help me brush up my memory, but perhaps it was a futile hope, as it occurred before I got thrown out of the church in 1983, which is becoming a long time ago, and there are only about 25 people on this list.
I didn't intend a new thread, I thought I was replying to the previous Fabian subject.
I didn't insert any dots, just did a "reply to group".
I've got the basics of ACE but obviously not all the finer points!
I didn't know of any Scn project called Fabian.
Antony Phillips
Dec 12 #843
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 08:43 PM, Antony Phillips wrote:
Fabian, noun and adjective, one using stratagem and delay to wear out an opponent; cautious; slow: by recognising Fabian tactics, then, socialism has recaptured Labour (Canadian Saturday Night).
It was named after a Roman general and statesman who was surnamed Cunctator (which means delayer) . I was hoping somebody could remember......
(I do think celestial forces or beings influence me, possibly towards helping me achieve my 3rd dynamic goals)
I've just realised something about Fabian. My recent attention (complaint!) has been on the fact (idea) that while Ron talked about gradient scales he "never"/seldom used them. When a new thing came out it came out with a BANG! Big events, lots of mailings to Scientologists et cetera.
But the idea of Fabian actually was approaching the idea of a gradient. Of course the talk of opponent in the definition there is a little bit un-Scientology — or at least it's not compatible with my idea of FriScientology which I mean is not looking for opponents and a fight.
My tentative plan/intention is for self and others to use simple Scientology things (assists, Happiness Rundown etc.) and using them under the title that include a word similar to Scientology (my choice is the Danish construction FriScientology but I think there is also a Facebook site called Free Scientology)
Well that's the thought for today. It interrupted me while I was engaged in another cycle of action so here I go back to the other cycle of action.
Greetings and ARC to you. Ant
Poppy Popar
Dec 12 #844
This is just a practical joke. Testing out my reserve email address. Yes you've guessed correctly. I'm actually Antony in her practical joke disguise.
There wasn't one. I don't know where you got that idea from. I'm looking for more data. Something has just come in, so wait a minute and I'll post it to ACE.
All best wishes, Ant
Antony Phillips
Dec 13 #847
Dear ACE member, as they used to say in old times "Eureka". I've got the information I was looking for. I got the following message from Ken Urquhart:
Hello, Ant.
LRH described the Sea Org activity of disappearing out to sea, slipping into port,
doing international scn business, slipping out of port, disappearing out to sea
again -- having told the port just left that we'd be going to port B while we actually
sailed to port C, as "Fabian". He did not otherwise use the term in Scientology
(that I know of or remember).
He used the term in the sense of 'avoiding decisive contests' -- or so I believe. I
don't recall his explanation of the term, but I do remember that his definition
involved becoming invisible to or unlocatable by, enemies (real or supposed)
so said enemies could not strike a blow. We were to be a constantly moving
and frequently invisible target for the 'enemies.' I can't tell you if this is what
Quintus Fabius Maximus did or not.
ref: 1
a
: of, relating to, or in the manner of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus known for his defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War by the avoidance of decisive contests
b
: CAUTIOUS, DILATORY
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 5:52 PM Antony Phillips <ant.phillips@...> wrote:
Dear Ken,
I see that you're not on the groups.IO mailing list ACE.
Therefore I'm sending you this one which m ........ [rest of private email deleted]
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P:S: I see a private email has got onto this ACE thread. Groups.IO which is the program we are running this email ACE chat list on is quite good but is a bit complicated. Gets me puzzled sometimes and I make mistakes.
Ant.
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______________________ That's the end of these excerpts. If you're not on ACE and want more of these chatty sort of things go backup bit and you'll find out how to get on I think. Ant
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