“Now, the trouble with him is, is he gets excited and lays in postulates which are good for the moment but that he makes continue forever. For instance, the fellow who has just been left by a woman is apt to sit down and say, ‘Never under any circumstances, at any time, will I let myself be persuaded to be polite to, nice to or look at another woman!’ And he lays this down with malice aforethought and he booby‑traps it for himself and so forth. ‘Well, if I find myself looking at one, I’ll make myself so sick that…’ and so on. (Now, maybe somebody here has made such a postulate about life or something of the sort.)
“Now, he seals that all in, he determines it like mad and then he goes down the street and he meets this beautiful girl. And he says, ‘Gee, that’s all right.’ And a few days later he feels sick. And he says, ‘Look what the gods are doing to me.’ The gods are always there, defenseless and ready to blame.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Time: Sense, Particles, Survival Pace delivered on 18 January 1954. This can be found in the 3rd American ACC lectures. Track 10.
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