An omitted anything is an outpoint.

This can be an omitted person, terminal, object, energy, space, time, form, sequence, or even an omitted scene. Anything that can be omitted that should be there is an outpoint.

Correction of things which are not wrong and neglecting things which are not right puts the tombstone on any org or civilization.

This is easily the most overlooked outpoint as it isn’t there to directly attract attention.

In auditing when one reviews or “corrects” a case that is running well, one has trouble. It is made trouble.

On several occasions I have found situation analyses done which arrived at no WHY that would have made handling possible but which gave a false Why that would have upset things if used. In each case the outpoint that held the real clue was this one of an omitted something. In a dozen cases it was omitted personnel each time. One area to which orders were being issued had no one in it at all. Others were undermanned, meaning people were missing. In yet another case there were no study materials at all. In two other cases the whole of a subject was missing in the area. Yet no one in any of these cases had spotted the fact that it was an omitted something that had caused a whole activity to decay. People were working frantically to remedy the general situation. None of them noticed the omissions that were the true cause of the decay.

Similarly on the third dynamic, correcting situations which do not exist and neglecting situations which do exist can destroy a group.

In crime it is as bad to omit as it is to commit. Yet no one seems to notice the omissions as actual crimes.

All this boils down to CORRECT INVESTIGATION. It is not a slight skill. It is THE basic skill behind any intelligent action.

Man, trained up in the last century to be a stimulus-response animal, responds to the therenesses and doesn’t respond as uniformly to not-therenesses.

This opens the door to a habit of deletion or shortening which can become quite compulsive.

When justice goes astray (as it usually does) the things that have occurred are

In any analysis which fails to discover a WHY one can safely conclude the Why is an omission and look for things that should be there and aren’t.

1. Use of justice for some other purpose than public safety (such as maintaining a privileged group or indulging a fixed idea) or

2. Investigatory procedure.

Any things, events, objects, sizes, in a wrong sequence is an outpoint.

All suppressive use of the forces of justice can be traced back to one or the other of these.

The number series 3, 7, 1, 2, 4, 6, 5 is an altered sequence, or an incorrect sequence.

Aberrations and hate very often find outlet by calling them “justice” or “law and order.” This is why it can be said that Man cannot be trusted with justice.

Doing step two of a sequence of actions before doing step one can be counted on to tangle any sequence of actions.

This or just plain stupidity brings about a neglect of intelligent investigatory procedures. Yet all third dynamic sanity depends upon correct and unaberrated investigatory procedures. Only in that way can one establish causes of things. And only by establishing causes can one cease to be the effect of unwanted situations.

The basic outness is no sequence at all. This leads into FIXED IDEAS. It also shows up in what is called disassociation, an insanity. Things connected to or similar to each other are not seen as consecutive. Such people also jump about subjectwise without relation to an obvious sequence. Disassociation is the extreme case where things that are related are not seen to be and things that have no relation are conceived to have.

It is one thing to be able to observe. It is quite another to utilize observations so that one can get to the basis of things.

Sequence means linear (in a line) travel either through space or time or both.

A sequence that should be one and isn’t is an outpoint.

Investigations become necessary in the face of outpoints or pluspoints.

A “sequence” that isn’t but is thought to be one is an outpoint.

Investigations can occur out of idle curiosity or particular interest. They can also occur to locate the cause of pluspoints.

A cart-before-the-horse out of sequence is an outpoint.

Whatever the motive for investigation the action itself is conducted by sequences.

One’s hardest task sometimes is indicating an inevitable sequence into the future that is invisible to another. This is a consequence. “If you saw off the limb you are sitting on you will of course fall.” Police try to bring this home often to people who have no concept of sequence; so the threat of punishment works well on well-behaved citizens and not at all on criminals since they often are criminals because they can’t think in sequence – they are simply fixated. “If you kill a man you will be hanged,” is an indicated sequence. A murderer fixated on revenge cannot think in sequence. One has to think in sequences to have correct sequences.

If one is incapable mentally of tracing a series of events or actions, one cannot investigate.

Therefore it is far more common than one would at first imagine to see altered sequences since persons who do not think in sequence do not see altered sequences in their own actions or areas.

Altered sequence is a primary block to investigation.

Visualizing sequences and drills in shifting attention can clean this up and restore it as a faculty.

At first glance, omitted data would seem to be the block. On the contrary, it is the end product of an investigation and is what pulls an investigation along — one is looking for omitted data.

Motion pictures and TV were spotted by a recent writer as fixating attention and not permitting it to travel. Where one had TV raised children, it would follow, one possibly would have people with a tendency to altered sequences or no sequences at all.

An altered sequence of actions defeats any investigation. Examples: We will hang him and then conduct a trial. We will assume who did it and then find evidence to prove it. A crime should be provoked to find who commits them.

Any time an investigation gets back to front, it will not succeed.

Time that should be noted and isn’t would be an outpoint of “dropped time.”

Thus if an investigator himself has any trouble with seeing or visualizing sequences of actions he will inevitably come up with the wrong answer.

It is a special case of an omitted datum.

Reversely, when one sees that someone has come up with a wrong or incomplete answer one can assume that the investigator has trouble with sequences of events or, of course, did not really investigate.

Dropped time has a peculiarly ferocious effect that adds up to utter lunacy.

One can’t really credit that Sherlock Holmes would say “I have here the fingerprint of Mr. Murgatroyd on the murder weapon. Have the police arrest him. Now, Watson, hand me a magnifying glass and ask Sgt. Doherty to let us look over his fingerprint files.”

A news bulletin from 1814 and one from 1922 read consecutively without time assigned produces otherwise undetectable madness.

If one cannot visualize a series of actions, like a ball bouncing down a flight of stairs or if one cannot relate in proper order several different actions with one object into a proper sequence, he will not be able to investigate.

A summary report of a situation containing events strung over half a year without saying so can provoke a reaction not in keeping with the current scene.

If one can, that’s fine.

In madmen the present is the dropped time, leaving them in the haunted past. Just telling a group of madmen to “come up to present time” will produce a few miraculous “cures.” And getting the date of an ache or pain will often cause it to vanish.

But any drilling with attention-shifting drills will improve one’s ability to visualize sequences. Why? Stuck attention or attention that cannot confront alike will have trouble in visualizing sequences.

Time aberrations are so strong that dropped time well qualifies as an outpoint.

In HCO Policy Letter 11 May 1965 Ethics Officer Hat, HCO Policy Letter 1 Sept 1965 Issue VII, HCO Policy Letter 1 Feb 1966 Issue II and pages 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the Manual of Justice, the subject of investigation as applied to justice is given.

When you hear two facts that are contrary, one is a falsehood or both are.

It will be noted that these are sequences of actions.

Propaganda and other activities specialize in falsehoods and provoke great disturbance.

Neglect of these items or a failure to know and follow them led here and there to suppressive uses of justice or to permitting orgs to be suppressed by special interest groups in the society.

Willful or unintentional a falsehood is an outpoint. It may be a mistake or a calculated or defensive falsehood and it is still an outpoint.

Indeed, had these been in and followed we would have had a great deal less trouble than we did.

A false anything qualifies for this outpoint. A false being, terminal, act, intention, anything that seeks to be what it isn’t is a falsehood and an outpoint.

But investigation is not monopolized by law and order.

Fiction that does not pretend to be anything else is of course not a falsehood.

All betterment of life depends on finding out pluspoints and why and reenforcing them, locating outpoints and why and eradicating them.

So the falsehood means “other than it appears” or “other than represented.”

This is the successful survival pattern of living. A primitive who is going to survive does just that and a scientist who is worth anything does just that.

One does not have to concern oneself to define philosophic truth or reality to see that something stated or modeled to be one thing is in actual fact something else and therefore an outpoint.

The fisherman sees seagulls clustering over a point on the sea. That’s the beginning of a short sequence, point No. 1. He predicts a school of fish, point No. 2. He sails over as sequence point No. 3. He looks down as sequence point No. 4. He sees fish as point No. 5. He gets out a net as point No. 6. He circles the school with the net, No. 7. He draws in the net, No. 8. He brings the fish on board, No. 9. He goes to port, No. 10.

He sells the fish, No. 11. That’s following a pluspoint — cluster of seagulls.

An importance shifted from its actual relative importance, up or down, is an outpoint.

A sequence from an outpoint might be: Housewife serves dinner. Nobody eats the cake, No. 1, she tastes it, No. 2, she recognizes soap in it, No. 3. She goes to kitchen, No. 4. She looks into cupboard, No. 5. She finds the soap box upset, No. 6. She sees the flour below it, No. 7. She sees cookie jar empty, No. 8. She grabs young son, No. 9. She shows him the set-up, No. 10. She gets a confession, No. 11. And No. 12 is too painful to describe.

Something can be assigned an importance greater than it has.

Unsuccessful investigators think good fish catches are sent by God and that when cake tastes like soap it is fate. They live in unsuccessful worlds of deep mystery.

Something can be assigned an importance less than it has.

They also hang the wrong people

A number of things of different importances can be assigned a monotone of importance.

These are all outpoints, three versions of the same thing.

All discoveries are the end product of a sequence of investigatory actions that begin with either a pluspoint or an outpoint.

All importances are relative to their actuality.

Thus all knowledge proceeds from pluspoints or outpoints observed.

And all knowledge depends on an ability to investigate.

Mistaken objective wherein one believes he is or should be reaching toward A and finds he is or should be reaching toward B is an outpoint.

And all investigation is done in correct sequence.

This is commonly mistaken identity. It is also mistaken purposes or goals.

And all successes depend upon the ability to do these things.

If we tear down X we will be okay often results in disclosure that it should have been Y.

“Removing the slums” to make way for modern shops kills the tourist industry. Killing the king to be free from taxation leaves the tax collector alive for the next regime.

Injustice is usually a wrong target outpoint.

Arrest the drug consumer, award the drug company would be an example.

Military tactics and strategy are almost always an effort to coax the selection of a wrong target by the enemy.

And most dislikes and spontaneous hates in human relations are based on mistaken associations of Bill for Pete.

A large sum of aberration is based on wrong targets, wrong sources, wrong causes.

Incorrectly tell a patient he has ulcers when he hasn’t and he’s hung with an outpoint which impedes recovery.

The industry spent on wrong objectives would light the world for a millennium.

These are the fundamental outpoints required in data analysis and situation analysis.

They have one infinity of variation. They should be very well known to anyone seeking third dynamic sanity.

They are the basic illogics.

And while there may be others, these will serve.