Meaning+Of+Life

//**Dianetics**// tackles the meaning of life, it says that the reason for man to continue living is soley to survive. "To Survive!" is a fundemental axiom of //**Dianetics**// and Scientology. This axiom defines the reason why, according to Scientology, humanity is in pursuit of becoming "clear". Hubbard argues that humanity has a chance to becoming immortal by continuing to pursue becoming "clear" and becoming happier in its pursuit of pleasure. He says that humanity is "programmed" from the begining to pursue pleasure and avoid pain, this is what Hubbard says survival is pursuing pleasure to avoid pain. Hubbard illustrates a "survival curve" that shows how over time humanity lives longer and becomes happier with advances in technology and society. This is the survival curve. The survival depressor is everything in our enviroment that works against us survivng (animals, nature, disease, other people, etc...). The survival dynamic is all 3 of the dynamics that Hubbard outlines. He says that humanity survives through the use of 3 dynamics. The first is that humanity is motivated to survive based on the group. Basically that humanity is motivated to survive based on the continuing well being of the people he surrounds himself with. The second is that humanity is motivated to survive based on sex. This is that humanity survives based on pursuit of sex and the continuation of the species. The third is that humanity survives for the sake of humanity of a whole. If these dynamics can overcome the suppressor then humanity can live forever. But when the suppressor overwhelms the the dynamics the person dies. Our ever increasing life expectancies are illustrated by the lines for our children and their children. The zones represent levels of happiness, zone 1 is Fear, zone 2 is antagonism, and zone 3 is conservatism, and zone 4 is complete enthusiasm. As we approach zone 4 as shown by the graph our chance of survival and ultimate pleasure increase dramatically.

Scientology is one of the few religions that truely tackle the meaning of life. It attempts to understand it through its axiom of "Survive!" its survival dynamics and its happiness zone scale.