Or you might just as well ask why I host here. And I'll be happy to tell you. It's because, for all the differences, there are some basic and important similarities between Elan and the Seed variant programs. And they run through the CEDU variant programs as well.
IMO, one of the biggest and most harmful myths that runs through all of these programs is that no one can understand what we went through. Bullshit. Just take a look at some of the other program vet forums and you'll see the same bullshit. In fact, if you take a look at the past month or two of postings on Teen Help, you'll find active program ppl making the same damned arguments and pulling the same bullshit over there as the Elanians do on various forums.
All you have to do is bite the bullet and take a look. Will that shatter your illusions? Do you need those illusions? What have they done for you lately?
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
-- Quentin Crisp
