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Psych II Unregistered User (9/16/01 7:38 pm) Reply	Obsessive Compulsive – Trait 3 *Quote:* Obsessive item 3 Unreasonable insistence that others submit to exactly his or her way of doing things, OR unreasonable reluctance to allow others to do things because of the conviction that they will not do them correctly. I am referring to the excellent post by Psych Analyst on the Obsessive Compulsive disorder. The first two items listed are so obvious a match for Mother Center that I would not know where to start discussing it. Even many of those with casual contact with Mother Center might see those as a match. So I will start a thread on item 3 above. One of the ways Mother Center sets things up so others can’t do anything is to create layers of committees to do everything. They bury reviews of everything in layer after layer of committee, none of which have the approval to say yes, but can slow things and stop things. They will not even let the most simple of decisions be made easily. As a backup, should a decision snake its way through these defenses, they have their final defense: Public Affairs. (You people monitoring the board, go ahead and deny this one!) I have personally seen P.A. hold up some print orders for six months over some silly wording issues. They don’t trust monks, they think members are the enemy, and have to hide it, so the layered committees is their strategy. It also allows them to deny who has really stopped things. The ambiguous term “management” is tossed about as the decision maker, but no one knows really why or how things are stopped. The approval of the wording of free literature, the meals at youth program, the dress codes for volunteers, all manner of trivial things are pushed through powerless committees. It is much like laundering money, it hides the basic goal that very few people have any real authority or ability to make decisions. Goes directly back to the F word (Fear). And of course directly relates to trait 3 of an obsessive compulsive disorder, “unreasonable reluctance to allow others to do things because of the conviction that they will not do them correctly”.
Psych Analyst Unregistered User (9/17/01 1:54 am) Reply	Great Job Excellent infomation Psych II. Keep the analysis flowing. For all others out there....Use the DSM-III-R list. Explicate and get concrete. We need to flush out the pathology behind SRF mismanagement. It's our most indomitable hammer of influence. Once the organization is nailed to a psychological model, we will be able to identify the appropriate strategies for dealing with the mess. Mother Center seems to have an unlimited hatchery of red herrings, but they are about to meet the whale which will swallow all of that in a single gulp.
Crog Unregistered User (9/30/01 1:27 pm) Reply	Members the enemy I am reading through these things and find more of the "members as the enemy" messages. I have felt the same thing. How is it that they have allowed so many to be hired in the last 5 years?
PostMonk Unregistered User (9/30/01 4:21 pm) Reply	Why hire members SRF hires members because they accept SRF's low wages, pathetic benefits, high rents and unethical abuse with nary a wimper. They accept this because SRF is supposedly a non-profit that just can't afford to squander money on such things. By the way, Br. X, please bring Mataji's Cadillac around. She is anxious to motor off to her private retreat in Sierra Madre --- the peons are disturbing her peace.

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