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Who wins the prize as the most Cult like program?
iamartsy:
Che,
sorry to come down on you so hard. Yes, I wanted to "donkey punch" someone with my fist, but I did not. I have chronic bronchitis and take codeine cough syrup when it is bad. Because I measured it out at night before I went to bed (there were not 12 hour doses back then), they considered that a slip. I had to give up my fist and start over. It really sucked and confused me for many years. I now know I have to take the stuff or I won't breathe at night. So screw them, my sobriety date is May 18th, 1982 not July 4th. Okay, I drink a little (sip here and there), I am still sober compared to what i did in my youth.
Thanks, and had I gotten my one year it might have been a weapon of sorts. I would not have worn it. It looked goofy.
Anonymous Artist:
CEDU stands for Charles E. Dedrich University (not See-Do, which is what we had been told as inmates). Dedrich was the founder of the Church of Synanon: a very famous cult in California. You can read all about it by doing a Wikipedia search for Synanon. One of his key hunchbacks, Mel Wasserman, founded CEDU. I think that's about as close to a cult as an "emotional growth" school can get. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire CEDU staff had been comprised of Synanon members.
With that being said, I don't feel there's any contest to see who endured the most cult-like abuse. We were all brutalized, so it doesn't matter whether your school was a 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation CEDU clone. They're all evil.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---My guess is because most discussion about that particular program is probably confined to that site (as discussion about KIDS is mostly confined to their own discussion board). There is a link to that site from here, though, so Ginger (who assembled that page) might know more about Meehan.
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Ginger designed the page on Meehan that is on http://http://ontheemmis.com/pathway_s_problematic_preachings? I am confused. on this point. Please expound. The points made are correct in what I know about Meehan. Many of us were gay, but had to hide it and ended up dating each other. You can imagine where that went.
But yes, we were all in Cult like programs. They all use the same principles, "break you down, and then theoretically build you back up. None of the programs I was in built me back up, and I fight with that to this day.
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