“A wicked thing to do would be to grant beingness only to the past. We don’t do that anymore. Devil with the past. The past is the past is the past—so what? Well, you say, it has more validity because it’s been lived. It has more validity because it has been able to exert an aberrating influence upon the present. …
“Do you know that that’s not true? Do you know the past does not exert an influence upon the present? You know, it’s far more likely that the future exerts an influence on the present than the past does, because the only reason you’ll find the fellow down at the service station down here working—the only reason you’ll find him working is so he will eat tomorrow.
“So, look, that’s the future monitoring the present, isn’t it? That has nothing to do with the past monitoring the present. He isn’t working at that service station because he ate yesterday.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture SOP 8-D with a Wheel delivered on 28 May 1954. This can be found in the 6th American ACC lectures. Track 8.
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