DEFINITION OF A CLEAR: A THETAN WHO CAN BE AT CAUSE KNOWINGLY AND
AT WILL OVER MENTAL MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE AND TIME.
In clearing you move the Being up to where he is cause over mental MEST. A Clear has erased
the matter, energy, space and time connected to the thing called MIND. He has been cleared of the
MASS, PICTURES etc. It is a negative gain.
Clear occurs when he stops mocking up bank, or realizes he is doing it.
A Clear has perhaps not entirely lost the automaticity of mocking up mass. But at least he
knows he is putting it there and practice increases his general reality.
A Clear may, at first, have a little trouble with thought. His “think” is quite powerful, and is
not influenced by a bank, but may be influenced by his own past postulates. Thus he may run into
difficulty with his own postulates in present time, his own past postulates and others present time
postulates, especially when he has two or more postulates or similar magnitude opposing each other.
At first his postulates will contain force, probably, and he may experience pain from these as a thetan.
A Clear will have considerable influence upon others around him. People whose ability to
confront is not very high will begin to fall to pieces in the presence of a Clear. One mechanism of
this is that the Clear tends to raise the people around him to a slightly higher level of confront, and
they begin to confront their own mind, and this really shakes them up. This is particularly so of an
S.P. who dares not look at his mind, because he knows that if he does he will go insane.
The E-Meter will read on a Clear on THOUGHT. It will read on postulate and assert. The
Clear’s “think” influences the body, thus causing the meter to read.
DEFINITION OF AN OPERATING THETAN: A THETAN WHO CAN BE AT CAUSE
KNOWINGLY AND AT WILL OVER THOUGHT, LIFE, MATTER, ENERGY, SPACE
AND TIME, SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE.
After Clear, we are starting to move into “ Cause over thought and life”.
In PART ONE of the O.T. Course the Clear uses the same materials as are used on the Clearing
Course, and runs any banks he did not complete before he went Clear. This activity is in the realm
of thought. But it is these banks which brought the being down the “dwindling spiral” and we must
be sure that they are never again going to have any effect on the Being. There are also positive gains
to be had from this activity. The being is becoming more at cause over thought. He is on his way
to Operating Thetan.
When a Clear moves up to cause over his own and other thought, life, Matter, Energy, Space
and Time, he is an Operating Thetan.
The width between wog and Clear is very great. The width between Clear and OT is a bit wider.
You are Clear. Well done and congratulations.
This state has not previously been attained in this universe and we must all work towards getting
more people - many more people - up to this level. Essentially, you are clear on the 1st dynamic and still
have a lot of work in front of you to attain OT, which is to say the remaining dynamics, but nevertheless
you will find you have many abilities hitherto undreamed of. An ethical code already exists for OT’s so
at the state of Clear one should not assume one has a license to do just whatever one will. You still have
the remaining dynamics to go so don’t use the abilities you have attained already to enslave others, or,
indeed yourself.
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UncleOxidant 2 pts 6 min. ago2008-04-18 14:57
He did all of that in less than a year. And if you look at the rest of his website he travels and reviews Dostoevsky novels as well... and he has a day job. Does this guy ever sleep?
>>1
Exceptional accomplishment! Even as a former TA of 6.001 at MIT, I have never seen anyone go so far in-depth with the SICP material as you have. It really is one of the greatest programming texts ever written, and a damn shame that they have ceased to teach it any more at MIT. Hopefully, they will recognize the error sooner rather than later, although I fear that those who prefer to emphasize “practical” enterprise coding over actually learning how to program may have won out.
Serious question: would it be acceptable to put "Read SICP" on one's resume?
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Anonymous2008-04-18 17:40
>>15
You know, I wanted to duly notice that I used the phrase ''fucking moron`` unbeknownst of the fact that >>12 has used it too, but I came to a conclusion that it would look too much like an excuse.
Damn.
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Anonymous2008-04-18 17:57
Just ordered SICP 2nd Edition from Barnes & Noble. £40 book+post, should arrive here by Tuesday. Yes, I'm aware it's available online, but I hate screenreading, and the diagrams in it are barely readable. Plus there is the sentimental value. Hurrah!
>>19
Yeah, but I ordered Express class and Amazon doesn't support Paypal, which is the only way I can pay right now.
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Anonymous2008-04-18 18:03
>>18
Sometimes at night, when I am reading my SICP before bed, I get a little piece of pubic hair stuck in my SICP, and I leave it there in the hope that one day maybe the Sussman will touch my pubic hair.
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Anonymous2008-04-18 18:19
Okay, who posted the /prog/ snake?
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Anonymous2008-04-18 18:24
>>16
I did, and was hired on the spot. The job was repo man.
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Anonymous2008-04-18 18:30
>>16
I like the duality paradox of the statement. Are you meerly informing the reader that you have indeed ``Read SICP'', or is it a much more aggressive marketing message demanding that the recipient should in fact, go and ``Read SICP''.
if you already know these urls then your question should not be "how do
i read SICP", but "how do i do anything".
i won't claim to know how to do it, but what could help is building
attachment to your cause: buy the book, tell your mother you're going
to read it and how it will change your life, or commit yourself to some
project.
or if SICP is just too boring, you could start by browsing through some
scheme code, reading some tutorials, installing drscheme (language:
pretty big), and starting a hobby project (eg, make us a chan written
in scheme); you'll come back to SICP once you realize you truly want
to know what goes on under the hood.
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Anonymous2008-04-18 19:53
>>27
my problem is that my brain wonders too much, sicp is truly a good book, but it's just boring.
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Anonymous2008-04-18 20:00
Ahaha. My greasemonkey script that makes reddit posts larger the better the point rating has made the /prog/sake gloriously large:
>>29
lol'd >>28
I think the Internet gave me ADD :(
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Anonymous2008-04-18 20:11
FYI, various educators have found SICP to be too damn long for teaching.
Some books were written to solve that problem, but I don't
remember the titles right now. Was www.htdp.org one of them? Wikipedia will yield the alternative books if you start on its SICP entry and follow links.
Practical Common Lisp is preferred by many who like examples. It's also free online.
Aside: I made a lot of typos in the first draft of this post. Does anyone here have a convenient spell checker that will check this text box in one or two clicks (which is about my ah-fuck-it threshold)?