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       #Post#: 522--------------------------------------------------
       Can or should TROM be made widespread?
   DIR By: TromFan
       Date: July 9, 2019, 9:21 pm
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       What would happen if TROM were mass-marketed and everyone knew
       about it?  Would it be understood?  Can it be understood?
       Leave a comment if your answer doesn't fit the cookie-cutter
       responses.
       #Post#: 523--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Can or should TROM be made widespread?
   DIR By: DavidCooke
       Date: July 10, 2019, 9:13 am
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       Thanks for offering this little game!  :)
       I hesitated between the second and third alternatives.  Dennis’
       materials are the real thing: ‘source’ if you will, and he
       doesn’t use a lot of scientology terms. I wouldn’t want to write
       anything that leads anyone away from the original materials.
       But the more individuals write and discuss TROM in their own
       words the better. We all have different cultural viewpoints, and
       can see different applications of the fundamental ideas.
       The real difficulty is that TROM points the way out of game
       conditions. And not many people want that. LRH said that you can
       only get a person to give up a game if you offer them another
       game.
       It’s easier to get people to accept stories of eight-armed
       deities, galactic dictators or guardians of the 12 gates of the
       underworld, than to give them the few simple facts that underlie
       any world they create.  It’s easy to sell a complex system that
       promises more games sensation, helps athletes win medals, helps
       businessmen make money.  Games are sexy; TROM isn’t.  So it may
       always be valued only by people who have tried other systems and
       found these only provide partial answers.
       #Post#: 524--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Can or should TROM be made widespread?
   DIR By: TromFan
       Date: July 10, 2019, 12:06 pm
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       I think it's only in the currently published TROM a Games Manual
       (not the original 1979) that over-burdens the reader with Scn
       terminology in the first part, where, inserted before the main
       text is Dennis talking about the GPMs, Analytical Mind and
       Reactive Mind that the newbie becomes overwhelmed.  And with a
       glossary only ten terms long, one which doesn't even appear in
       the text, its going to drive just about anyone away who doesn't
       understand Scn.  The glossary I made has dozens of terms that I
       spotted in the text that the laymen needs defined.
       Ron was right about most things.  His attitude was different
       than Dennis' but his data was mostly correct.  Misunderstood
       word phenomenon (losing comprehension from undefined words) is
       indisputably correct.
       (For anyone else reading this besides David, if you need those
       terms defined, there is a glossary in "Read TROM here" in this
       forum)
       Scientologists go free in many ways, or better put, they get new
       abilities and get rid of some of their case, but I don't think
       Scientology resolves the compulsion to play games.  I think Ron
       died still a compulsive games player, as able as he was.
       #Post#: 668--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Can or should TROM be made widespread?
   DIR By: Colleen
       Date: June 19, 2021, 1:40 pm
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       I love if there is a Trom Manual audiobook on Amazon.
       The ruling calculating psychotics with their fantastical array
       of technology would make sure that world-wide dissemination did
       not happen - been there, done that.  ::)
       A being with a mind can be messed with many different ways -
       been there, done that, and still alive to tell about it :-)  But
       I had a boss who did not live to tell about it.
       The last thing you want is for Trommers or Trom to be on the
       Oprah Winfrey show. Trust me, we are out-gunned and out-manned,
       and Oprah is not on your side. However once our postulate powers
       are greater than their technology .... let's see.
       I would however love to see the CCH's become an established
       mental health practice along with an early diagnosis of
       psychotic tendencies. That might be allowed. Childhood group
       processing in schools might also be allowed - just take it slow
       and easy.
       Remember, Dennis said the "gods" wish to destroy us - and have
       fun while doing so.
       And "truthers" like to talk about the reptilians - they've been
       implanted from the egg to fear and hate humans - whatcha gonna
       do? Then there are the non-corporeal gamers with this planet as
       their playing field.
       Have I said enough? Trom quietly for now.
       #Post#: 669--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Can or should TROM be made widespread?
   DIR By: Colleen
       Date: June 19, 2021, 1:46 pm
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       --- Quote from: TromFan link ---
       >
       > I think it's only in the currently published TROM a Games
       Manual (not the original 1979) that over-burdens the reader with
       Scn terminology in the first part, where, inserted before the
       main text is Dennis talking about the GPMs, Analytical Mind and
       Reactive Mind that the newbie becomes overwhelmed.  And with a
       glossary only ten terms long, one which doesn't even appear in
       the text, its going to drive just about anyone away who doesn't
       understand Scn.  The glossary I made has dozens of terms that I
       spotted in the text that the laymen needs defined.
       >
       > Ron was right about most things.  His attitude was different
       than Dennis' but his data was mostly correct.  Misunderstood
       word phenomenon (losing comprehension from undefined words) is
       indisputably correct.
       >
       > (For anyone else reading this besides David, if you need those
       terms defined, there is a glossary in "Read TROM here" in this
       forum)
       >
       > Scientologists go free in many ways, or better put, they get
       new abilities and get rid of some of their case, but I don't
       think Scientology resolves the compulsion to play games.  I
       think Ron died still a compulsive games player, as able as he
       was.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I wouldn't be here if not for Ron.
       Ron started as a must-be-known - as I knew him - and went down a
       notch before he died into a must-not-be-known.
       #Post#: 704--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Can or should TROM be made widespread?
   DIR By: Colleen
       Date: July 11, 2021, 4:28 pm
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       Well put, David. I quote you here: "But the more individuals
       write and discuss TROM in their own words the better." That
       happens for me the more I actually do the practices.
       Take RI, for example.
       For example, in my Facebook group I call RI, "Creative
       Visualization", and it is the same practice Dennis gives, just a
       term they have heard of before. It helps them remove mental
       drama re pain.
       For example, with certain groups I use the term "re-framing"
       (360 of course) instead of "Repair of Importances". Re-framing
       of a timebroken scene was mainly Lester Levenson's repair
       practice. Lester had prior to his release many sessions with a
       psychiatrist - who finally gave up on him, lol.
       Buddhist groups have a near-equivalent repair practice called
       "lovingkindness". I would just add that they do a 360 on that.
       Ramana Maharshi meditated and did a lot of perceptual RI walking
       around and around his beloved mountain. Others may follow his
       example without really knowing the true "why" - just that they
       feel better. I don't know if that is something Ramana
       intuitively did or if it was a standard exercise in his
       religion.
       Christians were instructed to take an attitude of thankfulness,
       and I can personally attest that this also pushes the non-life
       mental dramatizations away, satiates the mind - at least
       temporarily. Would that be a repair or a process? Other than
       that I don't plainly see what the Christian equivalent of RI
       would be ???
       In "Problems of Work", Hubbard gave us the walking practice,
       which sounds like a watered-down version of perceptual RI. I
       read in a book that Australian aboriginals made their mentally
       ill do what they called a "walk-about". My Freezone auditor also
       gave me a rudimentary RI, called "Six Directions", and we used
       it to keep the session moving along. it was a revelation for me
       to see that I could actually move a scene around - be more
       causative  :D
       I think "Time Breaking" would be an okay term to bandy about and
       even turn into a [hashtag] meme  :)  It would be good for people
       to know that scenes are locational - near or far - until they
       are vanished.
       --- Quote from: DavidCooke link ---
       >
       > Thanks for offering this little game!  :)
       >
       > I hesitated between the second and third alternatives.
       Dennis’ materials are the real thing: ‘source’ if you will, and
       he doesn’t use a lot of scientology terms. I wouldn’t want to
       write anything that leads anyone away from the original
       materials.  But the more individuals write and discuss TROM in
       their own words the better. We all have different cultural
       viewpoints, and can see different applications of the
       fundamental ideas.
       >
       > The real difficulty is that TROM points the way out of game
       conditions. And not many people want that. LRH said that you can
       only get a person to give up a game if you offer them another
       game.
       >
       > It’s easier to get people to accept stories of eight-armed
       deities, galactic dictators or guardians of the 12 gates of the
       underworld, than to give them the few simple facts that underlie
       any world they create.  It’s easy to sell a complex system that
       promises more games sensation, helps athletes win medals, helps
       businessmen make money.  Games are sexy; TROM isn’t.  So it may
       always be valued only by people who have tried other systems and
       found these only provide partial answers.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 711--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Can or should TROM be made widespread?
   DIR By: Jur93n
       Date: July 11, 2021, 9:14 pm
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       Keeping the source data as is, remember Dennis already warns us
       in Level 2:
       "Use RI liberally. Don’t be a martyr - run RI when the going
       gets rough; you’ve nothing to gain by suffering any more than
       you have to. This Level is designed to crack the compulsive
       games condition you are currently in with your own mind. It does
       it with ruthless efficiency - to the full extent you are
       currently capable of achieving. But I’ll tell you this: once you
       come out the other end you’ll have lost all fear of your own
       mind. You’ll know with absolute certainty that there’s nothing
       it can do to you that you can’t handle. You’re over the biggest
       hump. The being who has successfully completed Level Two has
       said good-bye to separate therapists: he now knows he can do
       what has to be done alone. If this technology ever becomes lost
       to mankind it will only be because some faint hearts could not
       confront the horrors of Level Two, and so will change it all
       into something pleasant - and useless. Never miss it: Level Two
       is the only barrier that sits between mankind and the attaining
       of Nirvana. He cannot face Level Two, and so he goes to a
       separate therapist to help him through it - never realizing that
       by so doing he has negated his own responsibility in the matter,
       and so doomed himself to failure. He must do this step alone, or
       he’ll never be able to cock a snook at his own mind; there is no
       other choice."
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