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Affinity, Reality and Communication
04.28.07 (7:27 pm)   [edit]

There are three factors in Scientology which are of the utmost importance in handling life. These three factors answer the questions: How should I talk to people? How can I give new ideas to people? How can I find what people are thinking about? How can I handle my work better?

These three factors in Scientology are called the ARC triangle. The abbreviation ARC (pronounced A-R-C rather than arc) is one of the most useful terms yet devised.

The ARC triangle is called a triangle because it has three related points. The first of these points is affinity. The second of these points is reality. The third of these points and the most important is communication.

These three factors are related. By affinity we mean emotional response. We mean the feeling of affection or lack of it, of emotion or mis-emotion (irrational or inappropriate emotion) connected with life. By reality we mean the solid objects, the real things of life. By communication we mean an interchange of ideas between two terminals (persons who can receive, relay or send a communication). Without affinity there is no reality or communication. Without reality there is no affinity or communication. Without communication there is neither affinity nor reality.

Application of the ARC triangle in the day-to-day circumstances one encounters in life requires an understanding of each of the triangle’s components and their interrelationship.

Degree of liking for someone
Affinity is any emotional attitude which indicates the degree of liking for someone or something.

Reality is the degree of agreement reached by people
Reality is the degree of agreement reached by people. It also includes the solid objects, the real things of life.

Communication is the interchange of ideas
Communication is the interchange of ideas across space.


Affinity
Reality
Communication
The ARC Triangle

 


posted by: International Post OTIII Day (reply)
post date: 12.05.08 (4:09 pm)

The following is the sacred document in Scientology known as OTIII. Scientologists deny it exists as part of their Operating Thetan literature. It was written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1967. Hubbard wrote that if you read this document before you have achieved a level of scholarship, you will get pneumonia and die. The cost to get to that level: $360,000.

“The head of the Galactic Confederation (76 planets around larger stars visible from here) (founded 95,000,000 yrs ago, very space opera) solved overpopulation (250 billion or so per planet -- 178 billion on average) by mass implanting. He caused people to be brought to Teegeeack (Earth) and put an H Bomb on the principal volcanoes (Incident 2) and then the Pacific area ones were taken in boxes to Hawaii and the Atlantic Area ones to Las Palmas and there "packaged." His name was Xenu. He used renegades. Various misleading data by means of circuits etc. was placed in the implants. When through with his crime (R/)Loyal Officers (to the people) captured him after 6 years of battle and put him in an electronic mountain trap where he still is. "They" are gone. The place (Confed.)has since been a desert.” - Hubbard

See it in his original handwriting at xenu dot net. Learn more about the fight against the criminal cult of Scientology on whyweprotest dot net. Make a difference by copy-pasting this and posting it somewhere else as part of International Post OTIII Day and in honor of Lisa McPherson, who died on Dec 5 1995 after being starved to death by Scientologists.



posted by: kindasceptical (reply)
post date: 04.21.09 (11:08 pm)

This ARC triangle theory doesn't seem to totally apply. A person can be alone, yet their emotions, or 'affinity', for the objects around them is still present, even though there is no communication between 'terminals'. The same applies for the 'reality' aspect of the triangle. There may not be communication between 'terminals', but everything is still 'real'. Yes, all three aspects of the triangle are important, and all are related. But not to the point where if one 'corner' is missing then the other two cannot exist. It seems that this theory is a lump of several basic human behavioural theories that has simply been modified slightly to overstate the importance of the three as a whole. For instance, are you implying that those who have suffered damage to certain parts of their brain which causes a lack of emotion, such as Phineas Gage, are unable to communicate, and that their lives are not, in fact, a reality? While they may have difficulty in social situations, and may make mistakes in judgement as they are unable to use their emotions -and- their reason to guide them, it cannot be said that they cannot effectively communicate ideas, or that the way they perceive things isnt real. Reality is relative to those who are experiencing it. His reality may have been different to yours, but that doesnt make it any less of a reality, even though he had no emotion. Looking forwards to a reply. p.s. that OTIII thing doesnt make any sense...



posted by: Louis (reply)
post date: 06.22.09 (7:05 am)

I think what's being said is that reality, communication and affinity rises and falls correspondingly. If you have no communication with something then it does become less real over time (or the reality is changed depending on your memory's accuracy). Likewise an affinity will not vanish if you're out of comm with someone or some thing, but it will become less and less until a good comm line is cultivated.
Reality may be relative, but a shared reality depends on one's ability to communicate it to another person. In other words I think one's memory will keep reality and affinity alive, but it will be attenuated, usually proportional to time.

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