QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

      Hubbard said that incidents form chains based upon content,
specifically earlier similar AESP's, attitudes, emotions, sensations,
and pains.

      After a while Hubbard said that the important thing to find in the
incident is the postulate.

      Postulates also form chains.

       But he never pointed out that after the postulate comes the
question.  He never asked us to find the QUESTIONS in the incident, yet
it is the questions in the incident that pre postulate the postulates,
and thus cause the postulates to remain in force.

     Engram: beaten up by bully
     Postulate: I will never be able to survive alone
     Question:  How then do I find allies?

      That get's him into 'looking for', you see?

      Postulates only remain in force if they are committed to by effort,
either efforts of the question asking, or by the efforts in the service
of the answer he finds to the question.

      Postulate:    I am poor
      Question:     How do I get money?   (effort, effort, effort...)
      Committed to: Let's rob a bank.     (EFFORT! EFFORT! EFFORT!

      Until he robs the bank, he hasn't committed any significant space
or time or mass to the postulate, so the postulate can as-is easily.
Once he robs the bank, he has dumped space and time and mass and energy
on the postulate, and it becomes encrusted in timestone (charge).

      In this case robbing a bank a withholdy kind of solution to needing
money, so that makes the solidity a lot worse as he can't talk about it
to anyone he respects.

      He will find reasons to not respect his old friends who would not
approve of him robbing a bank, and pretty soon the only friends he
"respects" are other bank robbers.

      HOWEVER ASKING A QUESTION ALONE, BORN OF A POSTULATE OF LIMITATION,
COMMITS ENOUGH MEST TO THE POSTULATE TO MAKE IT STICK.

      Postulate: I am not sufficient to my own survival.
      Question: How then am I to survive?

      You see, wonder, wonder, wonder...

      It is the *EFFORT* TO ASK THE QUESTION THAT KEEPS THE INCIDENT IN
RESTIMULATION AND THE POSTULATE IN FORCE AND BURIED IN MASS.

      Without the question asking, nothing would stir it up enough to
affect anyone.

      A lock is something which gets the person to ask the question
again, whether he knows it or not.

      ALL persisting restimulation is question asking of the questions in
the incident, whether the guy knows he is doing it or not.  It is the
EFFORTS that count.

      The effort is taken FROM the past engram, he grabs the facimile by
the throat and pulls it into present time on himself, and USES the
valences and what THEY did to solve his problem or ask his question
about it.

       He may be eating a cookie, but if the efforts he is using
to eat that cookie are really efforts to ask a question in a long
gone incident, well then the long gone incident is now.

       Lord save the poor soul who has someone in his past that was
ALWAYS question asking 24 by 7.

      So running QUESTIONS and the import on them, and the efforts to
answer them and the failures to answer them, runs the entire postulate
chain that are prepostulated by the questions, and the entire bank where
in the postulates were formed in the first place.

      Without question asking, there can be no chronic restimulation.

      Chronic restimulation of AESP's and postulates, is caused directly
and only by chronic question asking.

      Postulates will not blow until the questions and answers that were
then used to commit to them are run out, including all effort, emotion,
and MEST that was used to solve or answer them.

      Don't get this wrong, the existence or non existence of an answer
is not necessary to this, the efforts to formulate and ask the question,
even if it is never answered, is enough to keep the postulate in
restimulation as long as the question asking continues.

      Robbing the bank is the MEST solution at the end of the chain that
begins with the effort to answer "How then am I to survive?"

      But it is question asking that keeps the pre postulates going,
compounded by the efforts committed to various answers to that question,
particularly unethical answers.

      Find and run them, and everything else falls apart.

      Becoming is a question in time seeking, looking for, trying to
find, or chasing an answer.

      Run out the question and the chasing ceases.

      Becoming is then replaced by being on that subject.

      *THIS IS A NEW THOUGHT*.

      Once all BECOMING on a case is run out, all that is left is BEING.

      And that is OT.

      Homer
Sat Mar 12 16:20:32 EST 2016