In article <39024307.3F70@ao.net>, Beverly Rice <dbj1120@ao.net> wrote:

> Yes, terms like wog, degraded beings, supressive persons, potential
> trouble sources, Fair Game, theetie weetie kinds of ~thingies~.
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It's said the Eskimos have over 100 words for snow. Whether that's true or not, it is true that the Church of Scientology has a large number of terms for "unsatisfactory persons"

Aberrated personality (AP) - see abberated, *abberation Antisocial personality Ask off - want to be taken off mailing lists Authoritarian - Hubbard's definition of the word "authoritarian" is noteworthy: it's "a person who gives orders without reasons. A person who arbitrarily tries to think for others instead of letting them think for themselves". Hubbard was certainly not an authoritarian according to himself.

Bad executive Bad worker Better dead club - persons who demand free service [ed - from a church!] Bird dog Black field case Blow-off - see *blow Bogged-down case Bogged student Camouflaged hole - A post held by a person who doesn't fulfill his duties Cicuit case - "the small handful who wouldn't let anything happen if the auditor used a shotgun on them". Se *circuit Cold prospect - aren't very interested Continuing overt case Continuous overts case Dangerous auditor - If the tech doesn't work it MUST be something awfully wrong with the preclear or, occasionally, the auditor Dead-in-'is-'ead case Dead thetan Deadwood - Chronic low-stats staff members Death talker Developed traffic (Dev-T) merchant Dog case Downstat Ethics bait Ethics case - see Ethics, *ethics Evil purpose boy - Evil purpose boy is of course synonymous with (a male) SP, antisocial personality and merchant of fear. See Evil Purpose Failed case False clear False pianola case - A hypothetical ideal preclear who responds exactly the way Hubbard has predicted is called a "pianola case". A person who appears as such a case but is not a real one is accordingly a "false pianolacase"

Figure-figure case Flat ball bearing Freeloader Glib student Insane PC Invisible case Merchant of fear - see Merchant of Chaos Motivatorish case - see Motivator, *motivator Nickel and dimer - make one small prepayment and after that don't communicate to the org No-gain-case - persons with heavy overts on Scn make no case progress.

(HCOB 23 Nov 62) Opposite vector case Potential trouble source (PTS) type A-J and type I-III, see *potential trouble source Pretended death case Rabbit Resistive case Responsible for condition case - see *responsibility Roller-coaster Rollycoaster case Rough case Rough PC Slow gain case Spectator Squirrel Theetie-weetie - "sweetness and light". Someone whose problem is that he seems to have no problems.

Third party - see *third party Threatening source Tiger Tough case Unproductive personnel Zombie Thanks to:

Markus Grahn, post on ars - "It's notable that most of the terms above are signifying types of persons on which Dianetics and Scientology don't work.

... I think the frequent use of the word "case" in itself is very de-personalizing."

Martin Hunt, "Essays on Words", "ARS Acronym/Terminology FAQ"

Starred(*) links go to the Official Scientology Glossary --
When a Scientology staffer used a syringe to force a mixture of aspirin, Benadryl and orange juice into McPherson's throat while others held her down, it was "spiritual sustenance," the church argues.

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