The Word Clearing series: Dev-T
“Merry Christmas, grandma.” I told her over the phone. I had been in Florida in training for over a year. I got to go back to LA for a couple of days over Christmas. I was making the obligatory annual call to my “raw meat” family members.
I’m chuckling at the photo. I’m wearing the SuperPower T-Shirt. I had just been at Flag and I was there for the groundbreaking ceremony. And we all got free T-Shirts.
Dev-T could be such a great word, if it didn’t have so many odd connections to it.
I thought we could have a series about the random Scientology words and how they are used.
Dev-T is shortened for Developed Unnecessary Traffic.
It has evolved to mean anything that gets in the way of what you are trying to do.
And so I was a Sea Org member, working hard to finish my training. Coming to LA could be “Dev-T”, so could calling my grandmother for Christmas. It’s obligatory to call non-Scientology family. It’s almost a chore. For me there was a bit of not knowing what to talk to them about. My life was just very, very different from what they had hoped or expected.
Needing to stop to eat is also Dev-T. Bodies are Dev-T because they keep needing food and sleep. The world would be cleared faster if we didn’t have our bodies getting in the way.
Bringing your body to talk to your senior is Dev-T.
Also, after getting out, I was shocked to discover that as the boss of people they constantly came to me to solve every little problem.
That is completely backwards to how it is in the Sea Org.
See, the junior person must solve it and report back to the senior that it is fixed. The senior in most cases doesn’t want to know how it was done. That is a waste of time and conversation.
It’s done? Get on with your next thing, don’t bother me with the details. Because the details are Dev-T.
I think, on average, a Sea Org member hears this word at least five times a day, some much more.
In a sense it could be such a great thing. There is all kinds of weird Dev-T all over the non-Scientology world. There are times its use could be so great.
Alas, Hubbard made up the term and for that we hope it never gets out and becomes the Oxford word of the year!
This will be great series to expose the myths and mythos of the weird and wacky Hubbardisms that ruled out cult lives. Words are powerful and mold an individual's and groups way of thinking and acting. Words are all too often a way of flippantly labeling and demeaning people and the world around one to maintain one's corrupt view of moral superiority when one is actually embarrassed and humiliated by what one is part of, an extremely biased, hateful view of anything different. That's Hubbard. That's cult think.