{"id":370,"date":"2011-08-29T01:08:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/scientologybeliefs\/?p=370"},"modified":"2017-10-24T05:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:17:42","slug":"are-you-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/scientologybeliefs\/2011\/08\/are-you-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you confused?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/lron.hubbard.org\/pg006.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">L. Ron Hubbard<\/a> defined confusion as \u201cany set of factors or circumstances which do not seem to have any immediate solution,\u201d and in the book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientology.org\/books\/catalog\/the-problems-of-work-film-dvd.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Problems of Work<\/a> <\/em>he devotes an entire chapter to how to resolve confusions.<\/p>\n<p>And it is one of the easiest tools in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientologyhandbook.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Scientology<\/a> to apply.<\/p>\n<p>How many factors or circumstances are there in <em>your<\/em> life that don\u2019t seem to have any immediate solution, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is he cheating on me?<\/li>\n<li>How to I make enough money to make ends meet without killing myself off?<\/li>\n<li>How do I make it in this profession without compromising my integrity?<\/li>\n<li>How do I deal with my mother-in-law\/mother\/father\/boss never being satisfied with me\/always wanting to interfere with the way I\u2026.<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s <em>really<\/em> going on with my son\/daughter\u2026 how come he seems so withdrawn?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m sure I don\u2019t have to go on.\u00a0 You probably have your own confusion staring you down every day of your life.<\/p>\n<p>But one last one, just to put it in perspective:<\/p>\n<p>How will you ever increase in spiritual awareness or freedom with all your energy tied up in trying to cope with or resolve irresolvable confusions?<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt of the book on film of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientologynews.org\/press-releases\/scientology-problems-of-work-film.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Problems of Work<\/a><\/em> is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientology.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.Scientology.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L. Ron Hubbard defined confusion as \u201cany set of factors or circumstances which do not seem to have any immediate solution,\u201d and in the book The Problems of Work he devotes an entire chapter to how to resolve confusions. And it is one of the easiest tools in Scientology to apply. How many factors or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,76,77,111,7,287,3,382],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-on-film","tag-confusion","tag-control","tag-dvd","tag-l-ron-hubbard","tag-problems-of-work","tag-scientology","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are you confused?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"L. 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