Game (Scientology)


In the Church of Scientology, the Official Scientology and Dianetics glossary defines L. Ron Hubbard's concept of "game" as:

game: a contest of person against person or team against team. A game consists of freedoms, barriers and purposes, and there is a necessity in a game to have an opponent or an enemy. Also there is a necessity to have problems, and enough individuality to cope with a situation. To live life fully, then, one must have in addition to "something to do," a higher purpose, and this purpose, to be a purpose at all, must have counter-purposes or purposes which prevent it from occurring.

From the chapter "Life as a Game" in Problems of Work,

A game consists of freedom, barriers and purposes. It also consists of control and uncontrol. An opponent in a game must be an uncontrolled factor. Otherwise one would know exactly where the game was going and how it would end and it would not be a game at all.

The Aberree noted in its Volume 3, issue 1 : "Scientology is Hubbard's game......It is also anyone's game who really wants to own and play it."
Scientologist and jazz musician Chick Corea refers to Hubbard's "game" concept in his song "What Games Shall We Play Today?"
Compare the Scientological view of life as "a game. A game in which everyone can win and no one need lose."

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