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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones => Topic started by: stina on December 14, 2007, 07:26:47 PM
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I've managed to forget this pretty much every birthday that I've had, but not this year. My birthday was yesterday (happy bday to me) but my truth propheet fell on my birthday when I turned 16, a month after arriving at RMA. At this point in time, I think we'd have come out or would be getting ready to come out, but every half hour or so for the last 24 hours I've been thinking to myself, holy shit, at this exact moment 17 years ago I was getting my ass handed to me in a Caroline/Bruce truth propheet. Everyone else gets cars and whatnot for their sweet 16th, I get indicted. Trippy shit.
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Truth propheet for your 16th -- that would indeed really suck! I am so sorry. My birthday is in February. You know how cold it is in N. Idaho in February. My sweet 16th -- I was on an expedition freezing my ass off. It was so cold that the wood was frozen and we could not light a fire! I hate being cold. Not an ideal birthday, but I can hardly think of a shittier Bday than a propheet.
I wonder how many other CEDU folks are non holiday celebrators. I basically ignore my birthday. I am happy skipping Xmas and Thanksgiving. Its been well over a decade since I celebrated either with my family. But I do see most of my family at least once a year.
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Full fledged non-holiday celebrator here. US holidays are about 1 thing...shopping like a crack fiend. Thanks but I'll pass. I can't imagine how annoying XMas will be in 20 years. At that point the official xmas shopping season will start on the 4th of July
Remember the stupid birthday 'tables' where you invited your clique? That was the only time you were allowed an official clique.
Who wants to sit at my birthday table on xmas (my bday is 12/25) and eat carrot cake with no sugar?
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Can you please describe these birthday tables?
Perhaps you need to celebrate festivus Sienfeld style
http://www.festivusbook.com/ (http://www.festivusbook.com/)
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Can you please describe these birthday tables?
Perhaps you need to celebrate festivus Sienfeld style
http://www.festivusbook.com/ (http://www.festivusbook.com/)
Festivus would have been preferable, George's dad and all. Wrestling to the death and all. They were just stupid. In the beginning, everyone was fake and pretending to like eachother but there was no point. And like dish duty said, later on it was an excuse to have your "clique" together without being indicted about it in monday's rap.
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Throw another shrimp on the barbie....
A few days before your bday you did the following:
1. write a list of guests (1-20) students/staff.
2. submit it to staff.
3. Your 'best friend' made a 3x6 'happy bday' banner that was hung at your booth in the dinning room
Day of
4. At dinner time when they did evening announcements they announced which students were 'having a birthyday that day'. They then proceeded to announce the guest lists for each students birthday 'table'. Then they did the standard 'meal stampede control'. Essentially they were trying to facilitate a controlled 30 student 'buffet charge' every 3 minutes. They did this by randomly generating qualications.
As in, 'everyone from florida can go to the dining room and eat'. Of course people with a man sized hunger would claim a 3rd cousin from Miami and bum rush the buffet even though they were from Alaska.
5. the birthday table gets to go up first. They get their food and sit down and eat. They all look happy and have their 30 minute break from CEDU misery. The rest of the dining room passively stares at them and resents them for having 'real' fun and not being invited.
6. A sugar free carrot cake is dished out in wooden bowls.
7. Presents? I think students got their care package earlier in the day. Of course the students made eachother the standard homemade crayon lovefest hallmark cultcards. Students would try to 'outlove' eachother with retarded waterpainting birthday cards that contained culty jibberish....As in "Sarah, you are a deep and special person. I see the inner child within you. I feel your power. You make a difference and when you got me out of my truth propheet I - I've never felt so loved. My little kid wants to play with your little kid. You're really a dreamer with a big heart. " Your honesty empowers my dreams to become a real giver" ....
Holy fuck, I just blew a fuse................
8. Dinner ended and deep & dark depression ensued. That 30 minutes was 'GONE FOREVER'.
Thank god it's over.
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I think people are silly and scared sometimes. And as far as birthdays go, as far as propheets go, at that school, if you'd asked me to schedule it to my liking it never would have happened. It is what it is. What's amazing is finding friends after the fact that accept you for who you are and what you need and react and correspond accordingly.
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Truth propheet for your 16th -- that would indeed really suck! I am so sorry. My birthday is in February. You know how cold it is in N. Idaho in February. My sweet 16th -- I was on an expedition freezing my ass off. It was so cold that the wood was frozen and we could not light a fire! I hate being cold. Not an ideal birthday, but I can hardly think of a shittier Bday than a propheet.
I got there in November in the coldest winter they'd had in 19 years. I remember that because they kept talking about it like it was this amazing thing. So there I am, a girl from California, never really having spent time in the snow because we went to the beach, not the mountains. And the wood corral. Ah, the wood corral. One of the most vivid things I remember is my nose hairs freezing and how I passionately hated wheelbarrows and every time anyone lit a fire I got super bitter.
My wilderness challenge was in January so I know where you're coming from. It was soooo fucking cold. The only other time I've been that cold was in Amsterdam in March. But that was way more fun. Did you have to build yourself a little snowcave for your solo? That was so out of control.
Having my birthday fall on a later propheet, like the i want to live (not the dreams, that would have been worse than the truth) would have been better. But one month in, you're still like WTF is happening? You're still pinching yourself and clicking your heels together and hoping that you're having some weird ass nightmare.
I wonder how many other CEDU folks are non holiday celebrators. I basically ignore my birthday. I am happy skipping Xmas and Thanksgiving. Its been well over a decade since I celebrated either with my family. But I do see most of my family at least once a year.
I still celebrate with family, both my dad's side and my mom and her husband. But I am the grinch. Usually when the holidays start I just get cranky. And then my birthday falls right in between. I think part of that comes from all the ridiculous shit that happened with immediate and extended family before getting sent away. But yeah, super grinch.
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I think students got their care package earlier in the day. Of course the students made eachother the standard homemade crayon lovefest hallmark cultcards. Students would try to 'outlove' eachother with retarded waterpainting birthday cards that contained culty jibberish....As in "Sarah, you are a deep and special person. I see the inner child within you. I feel your power. You make a difference and when you got me out of my truth propheet I - I've never felt so loved. My little kid wants to play with your little kid. You're really a dreamer with a big heart. " Your honesty empowers my dreams to become a real giver" ....
Holy fuck, I just blew a fuse................
I still have those cards in my scrapbook. And I think I've probably written every single thing you just said in one card or another. It's really really weird. What's really strange is that it seemed normal at the time. And yeah, everyone did try to outlove eachother. "Your honesty empowers my dreams to become a real giver", "My little kid wants to play with your little kid"
:rofl:
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Throw another shrimp on the barbie....
A few days before your bday you did the following:
1. write a list of guests (1-20) students/staff.
2. submit it to staff.
3. Your 'best friend' made a 3x6 'happy bday' banner that was hung at your booth in the dinning room
Day of
4. At dinner time when they did evening announcements they announced which students were 'having a birthyday that day'. They then proceeded to announce the guest lists for each students birthday 'table'. Then they did the standard 'meal stampede control'. Essentially they were trying to facilitate a controlled 30 student 'buffet charge' every 3 minutes. They did this by randomly generating qualications.
As in, 'everyone from florida can go to the dining room and eat'. Of course people with a man sized hunger would claim a 3rd cousin from Miami and bum rush the buffet even though they were from Alaska.
5. the birthday table gets to go up first. They get their food and sit down and eat. They all look happy and have their 30 minute break from CEDU misery. The rest of the dining room passively stares at them and resents them for having 'real' fun and not being invited.
6. A sugar free carrot cake is dished out in wooden bowls.
7. Presents? I think students got their care package earlier in the day. Of course the students made eachother the standard homemade crayon lovefest hallmark cultcards. Students would try to 'outlove' eachother with retarded waterpainting birthday cards that contained culty jibberish....As in "Sarah, you are a deep and special person. I see the inner child within you. I feel your power. You make a difference and when you got me out of my truth propheet I - I've never felt so loved. My little kid wants to play with your little kid. You're really a dreamer with a big heart. " Your honesty empowers my dreams to become a real giver" ....
Holy fuck, I just blew a fuse................
8. Dinner ended and deep & dark depression ensued. That 30 minutes was 'GONE FOREVER'.
Thank god it's over.
TOO Funny! That is about how I remember it Dish.
At Cedu RS - we had actual sugar icing fr our cakes. However, on my birthday they had run out. So I had kool whip on my dry overcooked bland cake.
Also - we only got to have 10-12 guests. At house around the pit - they had you and all of your friends arm in arm up in front and the whole house would sing happy birthday to you.
There was always some brown nosing goody good that got invited to EVERYONE's birthday. I hated those people...
I remember on my 16th birthday, I got a stuft animal and a pair of running shoes. I was INCREDIBLY depressed. My whole life, I had dreamed of the car in the driveway. Instead, I got ripped in a rap and was on bans from half the people I would have liked to sit at my tabe. Not too mention that shitty cake and water colored cards talking about my inner child.
Coincidently, I was on work details a few months later and had to clean the walk in. I swiped a bunch of icing out of it and the kids that night had to have a "Kool whip Cake" too. It was sweet revenge...
Consequently, I had to do more work details later on when I copped out to it.
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Black market icing? I did that once in summit never coped out.
You truly are a giant, I see you shine. I know we haven't spent quality time this week and they way you ran your anger in our rap today it really touched my little kid. Your work is a vision of love letting go of fear and the tender heart of a rose .
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/)
there are some pretty classic cedy cards on here if you have not seen these yet.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/)
there are some pretty classic cedu cards on here if you have not seen these yet.
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You truly are a giant, I see you shine. I know we haven't spent quality time this week and they way you ran your anger in our rap today it really touched my little kid. Your work is a vision of love letting go of fear and the tender heart of a rose .
I... will... never... stop... slapping... you. ::bangin::
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Castle
please do the artwork for the first edition of my new line of lovefestcultcards.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/
there are some pretty classic cedu cards on here if you have not seen these yet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/446758528/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/446758528/)
that's ridiculously unfair. We didn't have a swimming pool, we had a leech-filled lake. Who do I write about this injustice?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/
there are some pretty classic cedu cards on here if you have not seen these yet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/446758528/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/446758528/)
that's ridiculously unfair. We didn't have a swimming pool, we had a leech-filled lake. Who do I write about this injustice?
What, you didn't like the giant biting water beetles and the pond snot?
Actually, I had no idea that the pond harbored leeches. None of them ever attached themselves to me or anyone else I knew there.
As for the greeting card idea. I think it needs more hashing out, especially in terms of audience and possible income. As it stands now, your audience is too limited (although in about one generation, when most people have either spent some time in behavior mod, LGAT, or sleeping under Oprah's bed, I think there will definitely be a market.)
In addition, an animation for this would best be done in flash, not 3D, and as much as I am a die-hard 2D guy, I absolutely suck donkey balls at flash.
This is also my graduating quarter in school, so I will pretty much have time for absolutely nothing. Hit me up in march or april after the dust clears.
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No. Just a old school 2D hand drawn 4 frame cartoon for the prototype.
Entitled "Graduate card shopping at Rite-Aid". I'll PM you the details as I don't want to spoil it for the rest.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/
there are some pretty classic cedu cards on here if you have not seen these yet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/446758528/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cedu/446758528/)
that's ridiculously unfair. We didn't have a swimming pool, we had a leech-filled lake. Who do I write about this injustice?
What, you didn't like the giant biting water beetles and the pond snot?
Actually, I had no idea that the pond harbored leeches. None of them ever attached themselves to me or anyone else I knew there.
We were warned not to put our feet down in the pond as there were small leeches that would attach themselves to us. Fuck, that just made me itchy.
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I remember it differently. my truth was a week before my golden BDay (16 on the 16th of december), but as i remember your big brother, or a good friend would get the list of people you wanted there, would write a representation to use emerson to watch a movie, and would either do a town trip and get some goodies, or have the staff get a pizza for everyone down there.
I just remember having to write representation fuckin waste of times for every little fucking thing we did.
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I remember it differently. my truth was a week before my golden BDay (16 on the 16th of december), but as i remember your big brother, or a good friend would get the list of people you wanted there, would write a representation to use emerson to watch a movie, and would either do a town trip and get some goodies, or have the staff get a pizza for everyone down there.
I just remember having to write representation fuckin waste of times for every little fucking thing we did.
Maybe it was because I was so super bitter about the whole damn thing but I know that I sure as hell didn't get to go into town. My first two big brothers had just graduated, and I pretty much hated everyone else at that school. My "assigned" big sister put something together for me but it was lame. Movie in Emerson? Nope. Smooshing for truth propheet? Yep.
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smooshing.... ha ha ha ha ha ha.... now that was a joke... lets see how many feel-ups the staff could get on the kids while telling them, we are doing it because we care about you... you just aren't use to your parents loving you... its ok... now let me lay my head on your breast... ha ha ha
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nashari...I'm loving your little avatar. Don't hit kids! (no seriously, they have guns now)
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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:D danke
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welcome aboard.
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My birthday was yesterday
Happy birthday, Stina!
I remember it differently. my truth was a week before my golden BDay (16 on the 16th of december),
And to Nashari, too.
Auntie Em