On 2005-01-15 17:33:00, jehudrive wrote:
And the last thing is...you guys are invasive, disregard other people's privacy and property, you are self-pitying, and you need to refrain from coming into our quiet beach town and causing a tiff over an interpersonal matter that should have been dealt with a long time ago. Find a good psychiatrist, please!
There's obviously a lot you don't know, kid. A lot about life that you just don't understand yet and a lot of factual information that you simply have wrong.
Most of the kids in these programs were not addicts. Virgil didn't recently find religion, he started out as a Metodist minister (LOL!) Hard to imagine, I know. I landed up in Straight because Virgil misrepresented himself as some sort of medical professional when his 'doctorate' was in social anthropology out of a diploma mill in Ohio. Playing the part of the "doctor", Virgil
lied to my father, telling him that he (Virgil) could tell by "telltale physiological signs" in my eyes that I had done coke and LOTS of it! Of course, this sealed it for my dad. He'd never seen coke any more than I had. But he knew it was bad business, for sure! So, for the next two years, Virgil and his merry band of sadistic lunatic followers tried everything imaginable to convince me that I was a coke head.
Those are just some of the facts that I can personally attest to. But it doesn't matter what has gone in the past, you're right about that. What matters is that you've got a neighbor who has so thoroughly pissed off so damned many people that, evidently, he can't hold prayer meetings in his house w/o causing one hell of a scene. I can't change this. You can't change this. Believe me, Virgil would change it if he could (he really doesn't like to think about the past) but he can't.
So what you're left with is that if this sadistic son of a bitch is going to try and establish a following yet again, you're likely to be annoyed pretty frequently by some of his former followers who will likely come around pretty frequently to remind everyone about that trouble past of Virgils. Oh, and did I mention that there are tens of thousands of them? This was no Mickey Mouse operation, kid. Straight had nearly 30 locations around the country over the course of almost 20 years. That's a whole bitch of a lot of bad karma!
All religions have been made by men.
--Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor