COB vs. LRH

Click a topic from the list below to compare the words and actions of LRH against those of the COB.

Orgs
Managing by statistics
Which statistics?
Future statistics
Saint Hill size orgs
Ideal orgs
Hats

Buildings & Fundraising
Physical appearance of buildings
Fundraising
Donations
Super Power

Study
Dictionaries
Primary Rundown
Memorization
What to memorize
How to memorize
Paraphrasing
MU’s and confused ideas
Full conceptual understanding

Courses
Pro TRs course
Upper Indocs Course
Pro Metering Course
Class VIIIs

Training
Drills
How to train
Speed of training
Product of academy training
Courses vs. internships
Speed of internships
Retreads and retrains
Training/processing ratio

Processing
Floating needles
Rudiments
Overruns
HCO confessionals

The Public
Dissemination
Handling of new people
Handling of field auditors
Ethics
Mandatory auditing/training

KSW
KSW Points 1 to 10
Hidden data lines
LRH references
Unusual solutions

Summary

L. Ron Hubbard	David Miscavige (COB^*)
“IT IS ALWAYS TRUE THAT A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD EXISTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT CONFUSION.” HCOB 31 August 1971R Word Clearing Series 16R, Confused Ideas (Subject Vol. 2, p. 161) “There is a basic law in Word Clearing: AT THE BOTTOM OF ALL ALTERATION OF MEANING OR ACTION IS A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD. … Thus: Discover what a person alters. Find what came just before that. Find the misunderstood word. Get it looked up.” HCOB 4 September 1971, Issue II Word Clearing Series 19, Alterations (Subject Volume 2, p. 170) “CONFUSION OR ARGUMENTATION, UPSET OR STUPIDITY, COMES FROM A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD WHICH ISEARLIER THAN THE ONE THE PERSON IS NATTERING ABOUT. … If halfway through a course a student is very upset and he cannot understand his material, and he is being very, very stupid, then there is something in the very early part of the course that he is not discussing at all. This is always the case … Any confusion, stupidity or upset from a level of training always comes from a word misunderstood …” HCOB 8 March 1989 Word Clearing Series 45, Word Clearing — Key Datum (Subject Volume 2, p. 244) “The only times Word Clearing would seem to fail would be if there were errors such as: No reads or missed reads Ignored slips and flubs in nonmetered Word Clearing Getting off into considerations or confusions without getting to the MUs that always exist at the bottom and then getting the MUs fully defined. The remedy is simple. If one has been word cleared on an area without a resolution of the original difficulty, then MUs have been missed and one need only report right back to a Word Clearer and say, ‘I want my MUs found’!” HCOB 10 January 1977, Issue I Word Clearing Series 55, How to Win With Word Clearing (Subject Vol. 2, p. 280) “The important data the student is seeking at his course level is IN the materials. The only way he will fail is by not confronting, duplicating, absorbing and using the materials before him exactly like it says. … The materials are adequate. If confronted, duplicated and absorbed, they will be used.” HCOB 13 May 1971 Word Clearing Series 57, Student Grasp of Materials (Subject Vol. 2, p. 284)

L. Ron Hubbard

David Miscavige (COB^*)

Founder and Source of Scientology

Leader of Scientology since LRH’s death

MU’s and confused ideas

“IT IS ALWAYS TRUE THAT A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD EXISTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT CONFUSION.”

HCOB 31 August 1971R
Word Clearing Series 16R, Confused Ideas
(Subject Vol. 2, p. 161)

“There is a basic law in Word Clearing:

AT THE BOTTOM OF ALL ALTERATION OF MEANING OR ACTION IS A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD.

… Thus:

Discover what a person alters.
Find what came just before that.
Find the misunderstood word.
Get it looked up.”
HCOB 4 September 1971, Issue II
Word Clearing Series 19, Alterations
(Subject Volume 2, p. 170)

“CONFUSION OR ARGUMENTATION, UPSET OR STUPIDITY, COMES FROM A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD WHICH ISEARLIER THAN THE ONE THE PERSON IS NATTERING ABOUT.

… If halfway through a course a student is very upset and he cannot understand his material, and he is being very, very stupid, then there is something in the very early part of the course that he is not discussing at all. This is always the case … Any confusion, stupidity or upset from a level of training always comes from a word misunderstood …”

HCOB 8 March 1989
Word Clearing Series 45, Word Clearing — Key Datum
(Subject Volume 2, p. 244)

“The only times Word Clearing would seem to fail would be if there were errors such as:

No reads or missed reads
Ignored slips and flubs in nonmetered Word Clearing
Getting off into considerations or confusions without getting to the MUs that always exist at the bottom and then getting the MUs fully defined.
The remedy is simple. If one has been word cleared on an area without a resolution of the original difficulty, then MUs have been missed and one need only report right back to a Word Clearer and say, ‘I want my MUs found’!”

HCOB 10 January 1977, Issue I
Word Clearing Series 55, How to Win With Word Clearing
(Subject Vol. 2, p. 280)

“The important data the student is seeking at his course level is IN the materials.

The only way he will fail is by not confronting, duplicating, absorbing and using the materials before him exactly like it says.

… The materials are adequate. If confronted, duplicated and absorbed, they will be used.”

HCOB 13 May 1971
Word Clearing Series 57, Student Grasp of Materials
(Subject Vol. 2, p. 284)

* Chairman of the Board, Religious Technology Center (RTC)