On 2006-02-20 20:32:00, Anonymous wrote:
" I probably wouldn't say I'm grateful for my time spent there at all - but I don't regret it. If I hadn't been there I woulda gotten worse and worse - I even relapsed after the program but not on any of my problem drugs - I still say away from them. It helped me realize that I am not invinceable and bad things can happen to me. I had no concept of that as a teen. Also - the ability to be blatantly honest with my mom and work out our problems is something I am definitely grateful for. Before getting arrested and being sent to SCL I hadn't spoken to my mom in almost a year. We had a really bad falling out. I was in a bad situation in general and I never would've gotten out without something to help me realize that. I don't agree with everything they do at all, and I often worry that I am permenantly messed up by those seminars, but I had no sense of self worth or dignity before going there and I attribute that positive change to the program."
Oh, dear God, PLEASE bust yourself. I won't explicitly state where this is coming from, but I certainly will never read anything you ever say from here on out w/ even a modicum of credulity. That certainly will show in my responses.
In Straight, we had a hard rule. It was the first and most impotent rule, Honesty. We all knew that that term in that Twilight Zone environment had a preverse definition. What's yours? Whatever it is, use it now! But use it according to the more commonly accepted definition.
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.
-- Gary Lloyd