Ron’s Research Line

Ron’s Research Line
Author	The Pilot, Internet
Type of Article	Category:History of Scientology - Technical
Website	http://scientolipedia.org/info/Ken_Ogger

Ron’s Research Line

By The Pilot, Internet

[This article is taken from International Viewpoints (IVy) nr. 36 April 1998]

Ron’s research lineThe military type of organization form whereby there is a definite ascending and descending chain of command. Orders pass from top management down the line of command and compliances and data pass on up without by-passing the chain of command. (Modern Management Defined (c) L. Ron Hubbard, 1976) went as follows:

1. Early mucking around

He sees a fakir lying on a bed of nails while visiting the orient, it makes a deep and lasting impression (mentioned on a tape). Then he is playing with affirmations, hypnotism, magic, psychoanalysis, etc. Perhaps he is seeking power, perhaps seeking truth, or perhaps a little bit of both. He finds odd and interesting tricks and unusual phenomena but can’t sort it out (per Evolution of a Science).

2. Dianetics1. DIA (Greek) through, NOUS (Greek) mind, deals with a system of mental image pictures in relation to psychic (spiritual) trauma. The mental image pictures are believed on the basis of personal revelation to be comprising mental activity created and formed by the spirit, and not by the body or brain. (BPL 24 Sept 73 V) 2. Dn addresses the body. Thus Dn is used to knock out and erase illnesses, unwanted sensations, misemotion, somatics, pain, etc. Dn came before Scn. It disposed of body illness and the difficulties a thetan was having with his body. (HCOB 22 Apr 69)...more

He hits on an improved way to runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75) incidents, documents some wild phenomena, assembles some halfway incorrect theories and launches the Dianetic boom which collapses because prenatals are not basic and will not make a clear.

But some PCs were finding past lives.

3. The basic OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More research

Suddenly it all starts falling together. With a whole trackThe whole track is the moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe in picture and impression form. (HCOB 9 Feb 66) incident running technique and all of metaphysics and science fiction to draw on and a crowd of willing followers, he gets on a roll and the stuff just starts pouring out.

It begins with the HCLHubbard College Lecture(?) if followed by a string of numbers it denotes a lecture. lectures of March 52 and then Tech 80 and Tech 88 and then the SOPStandard Operating Procedure and LPC and PDC courses and each one is cumulative and moving forward.

And it carries further, continuing to build through 1953, with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd American ACCsAdvanced Clinical Courses - ACCs - one of a number of theory and research courses usually delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. They were the highest training level, senior to professional auditor (HPA/HCA) and Bachelor of Scientology (B.Scn.), and were experimental. Jack Horner was the only other person who was in charge of an ACC. (Advanced Clinical CourseACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.), each as long as the PDC.

And it’s all moving forward. He doesn’t cover the old ground again. It’s cognition3. something a pc suddenly understands or feels. “Well, what do you know about that?” (HCOB 25 Feb 60) Abbr. Cog...More after cognition3. something a pc suddenly understands or feels. “Well, what do you know about that?” (HCOB 25 Feb 60) Abbr. Cog...More and what’s the next barrier in sight. Maybe his, maybe his students’, maybe the latest metaphysical book from the library, it doesn’t matter, it’s all just going forward in a broader and broader outline and gain of ability. And the processing is totally unconstrained. Make up the commands as you go along. No rules but a loose version of the auditor1. one who listens and computes; a Scn practitioner. 2. one who has been trained in the technology of Scn. An auditor applies standard technology to preclears. 3. a person who through church training becomes skilled in the successful application of Dn and Scn to his family, friends and the public to achieve the ability gained as stated on the Gradation Chart for his class of training...more’s code (check the PC1. a person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20) 2. a spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69) 3. one who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 63)’s pupils to see if he is too drunk to auditThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) right now). Run the wildest stuff even in group processingTechniques, usually already codified, administered to groups of children or adults. (Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975). Run the processes on yourself solo if you are a trained auditor1. one who listens and computes; a Scn practitioner. 2. one who has been trained in the technology of Scn. An auditor applies standard technology to preclears. 3. a person who through church training becomes skilled in the successful application of Dn and Scn to his family, friends and the public to achieve the ability gained as stated on the Gradation Chart for his class of training...more. Try everything. Play with everything. He even talks about having done group processingTechniques, usually already codified, administered to groups of children or adults. (Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) on a Boy Scout troop, giving them mock-ups and OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More drills to do.

But something goes bad at the end of the 3rd ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.. Just the tiniest slip-up. It’s a successful ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.. The highest point ever reached in the subject. The top of the bridge, about twice as high as the PDC, although it was probably only about halfway to real OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More.

The bug was “courage processing”. It restimulates and causes you to mock up your own opposition (more on this later). And he misses it.

4. The lower gradient OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More research (1954)

So now he feels that something is wrong. He never quite gets his hands on it because things would have been different if he had, but something is not quite right. And of course he never admits to mistakes, so we don’t really hear about this.

And that first pass through OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More was sloppy as all hell and he knows the stuff was only half right (clams [derogatory Internet term for church scientologists. Ed.] and so forth) although it was good enough to keep letting them all jump up to each next step anyway.

So he backs up and slows down. He is going to go over it again and try to straighten it out and find what was missed.

And the processing is a bit more cautious and everything is more restrained, but it is still on the OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More lineThe military type of organization form whereby there is a definite ascending and descending chain of command. Orders pass from top management down the line of command and compliances and data pass on up without by-passing the chain of command. (Modern Management Defined (c) L. Ron Hubbard, 1976) and it is pretty wild and unrestrained by our standards although not in comparison to the earlier stuff.

The difference here is between Creation of Human Ability (1954) and 8-8008 (1952), and the really advanced stuff of 1953 never got into book form.

This is the time of the 4th to 10th ACCsAdvanced Clinical Courses - ACCs - one of a number of theory and research courses usually delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. They were the highest training level, senior to professional auditor (HPA/HCA) and Bachelor of Scientology (B.Scn.), and were experimental. Jack Horner was the only other person who was in charge of an ACC. and a lot of new things are discovered, but they are refinements and filling in the gaps of the earlier work rather than going any further.

And Ron does seem to pull in a bit of opposition and keys in on this mocking up of opposition. And the real OTOperating Thetan - 7. this state of being is attained by drills and familiarity after the state of Clear has been obtained. A real OT has no reactive bank, is cause over matter, energy, space, time and thought and is completely free. (HCOB 12 Jul 65)...More research comes to a grinding halt.

5. The late fifties

So it is time to back up again, and get more cautious, and worry about handling casethe whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) charge1. harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person has had. Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there to affect the individual. (Scn AD)..more.

The auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) gets a lot more formal (although still sloppy by later standards).

It’s lots of objectives (16th to 18th ACCsAdvanced Clinical Courses - ACCs - one of a number of theory and research courses usually delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. They were the highest training level, senior to professional auditor (HPA/HCA) and Bachelor of Scientology (B.Scn.), and were experimental. Jack Horner was the only other person who was in charge of an ACC.) and then lets get back to engram1. a mental image picture which is a recording of a time of physical pain and unconsciousness. It must by definition have impact or injury as part of its content. (HCOB 23 Apr 69) 2. a specialized kind of facsimile. This differs from other mental pictures because it contains, as part of its content, unconsciousness and physical pain. (Dn 55!, p. 12) 3. a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of partial or full unconsciousness. (Scn 0-8, p. 11)...more running and see if we were deluded about the whole trackThe whole track is the moment to moment record of a person's existence in this universe in picture and impression form. (HCOB 9 Feb 66) (1958). And it’s clear procedure (19th ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.) and Rock hunting (20th ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.) and eventually back to some mock-up processing (1st Melbourne ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.).

But the Rock research goes solid. It seems to be connected to compulsive mock-ups and opposition and the students come out of the ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. “looking like rocks” (according to one old timer).

And the mock-up processing gets into trouble on the button of Create/Destroy.

6. The GPMGoals-Problem-Mass. 4. the problem created by two or more opposing ideas which being opposed, balanced, and unresolved, make a mass. It’s a mental energy mass. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06...More era

So now it’s sitting on his plate. One is creating one’s own opposition, and it’s coming from GPMs.

And they have one hell of a time with this because it’s late track.

And the grades are developed as a spin off of the difficulty of keeping the rudimentsA rudiment is that which is used to get the pc in shape to be audited that session. (SH Spec 147. 6205C17) in while doing this research.

And the auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) gets very very formal and cautious because the PCs are over-restimulated and ARC1. a word from the initial letters of Affinity, Reality, Communication which together equate to Understanding. It is pronounced by stating its letters, A-R- C. To Scientologists it has come to mean good feeling, love or friendliness, such as “He was in ARC with his friend.” One does not, however, fall out of ARC, he has an ARC break. (LRH Def. Notes)...more break at the drop of a pin.

And finally the problema problem is postulate-counter-postulate, terminal-counter-terminal, force-counter-force. It’s one thing versus another thing. You’ve got two forces or two ideas which are interlocked of comparable magnitude and the thing stops right there. All right, now with these two things one stuck against the other you get a sort of a timelessness, it floats in time. (SH Spec 82, 6111C21) 2 . a problem is a postulate-counter-postulate resulting in indecision. That is the first manifestation of problems, and the first consequence of a problem is indecision. (SH Spec 27, 6107C11) 3 . a multiple confusion. (SH Spec 26X, 6107C03) 4 . an intention counter-intention that worries the preclear. (HCOB 23 Feb 61) 5 . a problem is the conflict arising from two opposing intentions. A present time problem is one that exists in present time, in a real universe. (HCOB 3 Jul 59) 6 . something which is persisting, the as-is-ness of which cannot be attained easily. (PRO 16, 5408CM20) is solved with the clearing course. The create/destroy button is erased. And the person supposedly stops creating his own opposition, at least for a few days.

But all the GPMs, not just the implants but even the actual ones are only dramatizations of a more basic postulate to create one’s own opposition. They are not the source but just the manifestation, as I will discuss later.

But Ron misses this and thinks that he has erased the reason that the PC1. a person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20) 2. a spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69) 3. one who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 63) mocks up his own opposition.

And then he looks around and there is opposition on every side.

7. The insane period

If the opposition is being mocked up but it isn’t the PC1. a person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20) 2. a spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69) 3. one who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 63) doing it, then it must be those entities. They were handled casually in 1952 and did not seem to be a major casethe whole sum of past by-passed charge. (HCOB 19 Aug 63) factor, but they must be to blame so let’s go after this with a vengeance.

But even with the entities out of the way, there is still endless opposition, so it must be the evil SPs who are all around us. Therefore let us declare everybody.

Oh no, it is getting worse. There must be a true world conspiracy after our ass. Let us take to the sea in ships and runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75) and hide from them before they get us.

Except that it is still the PC1. a person who, through Scientology processing, is finding out more about himself and life. (The Phoenix Lectures, p. 20) 2. a spiritual being who is now on the road to becoming Clear, hence preclear. (HCOB 5 Apr 69) 3. one who is discovering things about himself and who is becoming clearer. (HCO PL 21 Aug 63) who creates his own opposition. Ron just never got the basic on it.

And of course the auditingThe application of Scientology processes and procedures to someone by a trained auditor. (Dianetics & Scientology Technical Dictionary (C) 1975) gets even more constrained. Here is the introduction of Standard Tech.

And everyone is afraid of their own shadow and how dangerous all this data is. And so we have confidentiality.

8. The aftermath

But the imagined dangers never quite materialised. And the real ones are side-stepped, at least partially.

And the expanded grades are introduced.

And some of the worst of the insanity cools down.

But now it’s all gone solid and the subject limps along thereafter.

Reasoning

So how did I come to this wild view of the research lineThe military type of organization form whereby there is a definite ascending and descending chain of command. Orders pass from top management down the line of command and compliances and data pass on up without by-passing the chain of command. (Modern Management Defined (c) L. Ron Hubbard, 1976)?

I didn’t even think of this in these terms until a few weeks ago.

It was while writing chapter 43 “Advanced Concepts” of the Self Clearing Book[[1]].

I felt that this was the right place to put courage processing. I knew about it from the 3rd ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.. Ron considered it very important. There is more than one tape on it.

Ron said that when you mocked up courage, everything you had backed down from which had accumulated in the bank2. a colloquial name for the reactive mind. This is what the procedures of Scn are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. (Scn AD)...more would start showing up. So it would be a tough runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75), but you would get through all this remaining forcel. random effort. (Scn 0-8, p. 75) 2. energy with some direction. (PDC 56) 3. force of course is made up of time, matter, energy, flows, particles, masses, solids, liquids, gasses, space and locations. (HCOB 16 Jun 70).

And because it was so tough, his gradient on it was to mock-up clouds of courage over distant cities before trying to do it closer to the body.

I had done a bit of it to a win (it is mentioned in Super Scio chapter 7), but not a lot and it didn’t quite feel right.

So I put together a brief little rundown on courage processing (it is now section 43.2) and gave it a try.

But I don’t have any flinch anymore at the forcel. random effort. (Scn 0-8, p. 75) 2. energy with some direction. (PDC 56) 3. force of course is made up of time, matter, energy, flows, particles, masses, solids, liquids, gasses, space and locations. (HCOB 16 Jun 70) or pain in pictures and yet I was getting this feeling of opposition whenever I mocked up courage. And it certainly wasn’t entities. And it couldn’t even be GPMs either because I’ve handled enough of that to recognize how it would feel. I think that I’ve even touched enough of the game sphere stuff to catch on if that is where it was coming from.

So I thought of very early and basic things, and there was all that reality wars stuff that I’ve only managed to scrape a bit of charge1. harmful energy or force accumulated and stored within the reactive mind, resulting from the conflicts and unpleasant experiences that a person has had. Auditing discharges this charge so that it is no longer there to affect the individual. (Scn AD)..more off of because the incidents involve large numbers of dimensions and super selves that have many simultaneous viewpoints. And the keynote there was entrapment by aesthetics and courage was the kind of thing that would be used.

So I thought of combining courage and opposition with aesthetics.

I’ll reprint the process here that I finally came up with and put in the book.

43.1 Courage and beauty

Courage was messed up very early in our history by convincing people how beautiful and glorious it was to be courageous and fight against overwhelming odds and lose.

So one tends to postulate one’s opponents as stronger when one is being courageous.

The following process should clean this up.
a) Get the beauty of being courageous and losing
b) Get the beauty of another being courageous and losing
c) Get the beauty of being courageous and winning
d) Get the beauty of another being courageous and winning

Run this at least to the point where you have no need to make an opponent stronger to show off how courageous you are.

At basic, this underlies the tendency to mock-up one’s own opposition.

Experience with process

I was trying the above out as I put it together. First it seemed like losing was much more aesthetic than winning and the greater the opponent, the better.

I had added the flow1. an impulse or direction of energy particles or thought or masses between terminals. (HCOB 3 Feb 69)...more 2 commands (“another”) on the basis of theory rather than because I had really looked at what they would do.

And then I was spotting the beauty of another being courageous and losing and how hard they must have worked to do that and it seemed like an impossibly insane idea and I started laughing and exteriorized from the whole mess.

I tried the courage process again and there was no tendency to mock-up any opposition. I thought of GPMs and I could see them as locks on this early aesthetic desire to have stronger enemies because it made the courage more glorious. For me it was a major undercut.

I tried it on a friend. It might have been a little bit out gradient (he hasn’t done the book yet), but it flattened in about 45 minutes and went to the same major EPend phenomena: 1. "those indicators in the pc and meter which show that a chain or process is ended." It shows in Dianetics that basic on that chain and flow has been erased, and in Scientology that the pc has been released on that process being run. with big cogs and getting over this tendency to mock-up one’s own opposition.

The ordinary courage process went into the next section of the book (43.2) with warnings to go back and do more of 43.1 if there was any tendency to mock-up opposition while mocking up courage.

Then I thought back on the 3rd ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation.. The basic error was thinking that the opposition that showed up when you mocked up courage was the old forcel. random effort. (Scn 0-8, p. 75) 2. energy with some direction. (PDC 56) 3. force of course is made up of time, matter, energy, flows, particles, masses, solids, liquids, gasses, space and locations. (HCOB 16 Jun 70) coming off of the bank2. a colloquial name for the reactive mind. This is what the procedures of Scn are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. (Scn AD)...more. And so one should do lots of it to drain the forcel. random effort. (Scn 0-8, p. 75) 2. energy with some direction. (PDC 56) 3. force of course is made up of time, matter, energy, flows, particles, masses, solids, liquids, gasses, space and locations. (HCOB 16 Jun 70) out of the bank2. a colloquial name for the reactive mind. This is what the procedures of Scn are devoted to disposing of, for it is only a burden to an individual and he is much better off without it. (Scn AD)...more. And it was a mistake. The opposition that shows up is new, because this is whyThat basic outness found which will lead to a recovery of stats. (HCO PL 13 Oct 70 II) one mocks up opposition.

And I thought of those old ACCAdvanced Clinical Course - ACC - one of a number of theory and research courses delivered by L. Ron Hubbard during the years 1953 to 1961, which gave a deep insight into the phenomena of the mind and the rationale of research and investigation. students grinding away at that courage process. And I thought of Ron grinding away at it, and mocking up more and more stimulus response opposition. And then all the later stuff I described above just seemed obvious.

He was barrelling ahead and there really were no reasons for having a lot of stops and restrictions. And then the train jumped the rails due to an error in theory.

It was not that the processing was too loose and unrestrained. It didn’t solve it to get more and more pedantic and careful. That is like telling the guy to keep taking it easy until he ends up in a rest home.

It was not a mistake in application. It was a mistake in basic understanding. He simply missed the boat on a critical process.

If he’d trained up other researchers and listened more to other people’s ideas, somebody else might have caught it and saved the bacon. Maybe he even tried briefly and there were just too few people with him then. And when nobody else could pin down what was wrong, he gave up on everybody and shut the door on getting any help.

This is hubris in action. The malady of the gods where their arrogance brings about their own downfall. Isn’t it funny how that old Greek word seems to derive from the name Hubbard.

Similar buttons

I have been trying to spot similar buttons which might runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75) like this.

The ones I’ve found so far are:

a) Spot the glory of self sacrifice
b) Spot the glory of not sacrificing yourself
c) Spot another’s feeling of glory at sacrificing themselves
d) Spot another’s feeling of glory at not sacrificing themselves

And

a) Spot the wonderful fascination of waiting for something to happen
b) Spot the wonderful fascination of having something happen immediately
c) Spot another’s wonderful fascination at waiting for something to happen
d) Spot another’s wonderful fascination at having something happen immediately

These should probably be added to chapter 43.

Note that the wording on these is a bit better than the one on courage, so maybe courage should be revised as follows:

a) Spot the beauty of being courageous and losing
b) Spot the beauty of being courageous and winning
c) Spot another’s feeling of beauty at being courageous and losing
d) Spot another’s feeling of beauty at being courageous and winning

But note that the version given in 43.1 did runUndergo processing. (Science of Survival, p.75) properly. This is just so advanced and new to me that I keep seeing a bit more in the general area and thinking of improvements.

Conclusion

For me this seemed like a correct indication of what really went wrong with the research lineThe military type of organization form whereby there is a definite ascending and descending chain of command. Orders pass from top management down the line of command and compliances and data pass on up without by-passing the chain of command. (Modern Management Defined (c) L. Ron Hubbard, 1976). There were endless advances in the later days but it seemed like they were always on things that were in other people’s way (like the grades being in the way of people running GPMGoals-Problem-Mass. 4. the problem created by two or more opposing ideas which being opposed, balanced, and unresolved, make a mass. It’s a mental energy mass. (SH Spec 83, 6612C06...More listing) rather than what Ron’s attention was really fixed on.

Even now the orgs are frozen in this pattern of bringing more and more opponents into existence. The military bearing and the uniforms and the toughness just demands that there be a strong opponent. And notice how aesthetic all those things are.

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