AXIOM 31. GOODNESS AND BADNESS, BEAUTIFULNESS AND UGLINESS, ARE ALIKE CONSIDERATIONS AND HAVE NO OTHER BASIS THAN OPINION.

Corollary: ‘MAN IS BASICALLY GOOD’ is merely an opinion and has no other basis.

Understanding is composed of identification, differentiation, integration and association, which are mathematical functions.

Corollary: From mathematics ARC can be derived.

“One could say, then, that life is a game and that the ability to play a game consists of tolerance for freedom and barriers and an insight into purposes, with the power of choice over participation.”  LRH, PAB 84, 15 May 1956, THE REASON WHY

Hubbard states that one of the conditions of games is power of choice over participation. This may very well be true of a lot of games, but not the game of life – you cannot step out of life. There will always be a next life.

Who is right? Hubbard or Nietzsche? In Scientology the dynamic principle of existence is ‘survive’. In Nietzschean philosophy the dynamic principle of existence is the ‘will to power’.

There is a definite ambiguity in Scientology on this subject. The ethics conditions describe survival as ‘normal operation’ whereas the actual aim is the condition of power, which is the equivalent of Nietzsche’s position. Who is right?