See (google it) “A Talk on Solo NOTS by Commander David Mayo”. Contains most of the answers you are looking for about why NOTs is to be done before the other (actual) OT Levels (as I recall).

Thank you MaBu. Excellent feedback. Contextomy. I will have to tell Word to save it as a real word.

“to form a false impression of the source’s intentions”. This is EXACTLY what they do.

Exactly Hallie. Good example. I see they quoted Speed of Expansion, and building an on policy org……LRH was talking about service delivery…..bozos.

“The only people that DO think about feasibility are those that walk out the door.

“The ONLY “critical thinking” that occurs inside the bubble is on the order of “all psychs are whole track implanters” and “Joe Blow is an SP” — critical, but not thinking.”

I’ve given Scientology a massive benefit of the doubt, devil’s advocate, hindsight viewing.

I when I was helping train the administrative execs and staff, did think back then, that we would prevail and our subject and movement would last the rest of my life, I took the Sea Org hokey contract as similar to a nun or monk’s vows, etc.

I thought our execs would be just like other religious leaders that I’d seen on TV up to 1975, and that Scientology would go forward and act like a religion, even as kooky science fiction past lives therapy that Scientology was and is.

Instead, Scientology’s gone more into childish in house play acting fund raising and membership temporary adulation if those members donate and ‘reach the next level’ of status of donating members!

Scientology is too much show. It lacks substance, and as a result Scientology with its in house focus on donations for their own buildings, rather than spend their money outward on the communities, is truly out exchange as this thread points out.

But LRH is hugely lacking in even envisioning a proper religion for Scientology. LRH’s staff writings so easily blot out the time in the days of the lives of the “church” execs to really even grasp how irreligious they are being.

Time has to be taken to educate the Scientology leaders into religious behavior, so Scientology can be more than the show pretend religion that it is.

I’d be interested in this too, the grade chart has been changed so many times what even was the LRH intended version if there ever was one?

Its scientific term is Contextomy Syndrome. 🙂
https://www.google.com/#q=contextomy

Contextomy: selective excerpting of words from their original linguistic context in a way that distorts the source’s intended meaning. A contextomized quotation not only prompts audiences to form a false impression of the source’s intentions, but can contaminate subsequent interpretation of the quote when it is restored to its original context.
http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/27/4/511.abstract

“Bloggers are on the frontlines of catching contextomy and alerting possible audience members that they are being misled.”
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2007/nov/08/noisesoffbloggersfightagainstcontextomy

So true, Subreption. I was struck by them claiming “gross income”. It’s such a misuse of the concept, it’s more like “loot income”. They don’t pay anyone or have any product.

Lol! Hubbard is the “Source” of the pastiche Wissenchaft and lack of personal integrity (being whole and undivided). This is an example of another multinational corporate legal structure, that can get away with anything. I’m sure that Harvard Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness would really value would the latest philosophy by the Scion, on best business practices! If anything we have to stop as believing in the “Folktale of Reason that goes back to the Enlightenment period” (Lakoff) and assume that if we give people the facts they will see the “light”. NIET. I mean, just think of all the dopamine that must be coursing threw the donor neuropathways with the language used to frame the giving!! A fool and their money are soon parted.

I think they’re also to keep control over the OTs by coercion.