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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Anonymous on March 05, 2004, 10:04:00 AM

Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on March 05, 2004, 10:04:00 AM

Does anyone remember how we announced to our parents that we had a phase change? I seem to recall having to yell it out in open meeting. Someone help me out.

Title: phase changes
Post by: Cayo Hueso on March 05, 2004, 10:07:00 AM

COMING HOME!!!!!!!

Yeah, making second phase was running across open meeting to your parents. After that it was just yelling out whatever phase you made when the mic was passed to you. Then your parents say something really sappy, love ya, have a seat.

The law in its majestic equality, forbids all men to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread - the rich as well as the poor

--Anatole France

Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on March 05, 2004, 10:10:00 AM

I remember the coming home part I just couldn't remember the running and hugging part. I wonder if anyone ever slugged their parent instead of hugging them? I know I felt like it.

Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on March 05, 2004, 10:20:00 AM

we used to just stand up as a group when Ms. Peterinhyermouthmann would say "who got 3rd phase", "who got 4th phawe"n and so on. same w talk and t&r.

Title: phase changes
Post by: Cayo Hueso on March 05, 2004, 10:26:00 AM

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On 2004-03-05 07:10:00, Anonymous wrote:

"I remember the coming home part I just couldn't remember the running and hugging part. I wonder if anyone ever slugged their parent instead of hugging them? I know I felt like it."

I remember hearing something about a kid that ran out the door instead of to his parents. :rofl:

You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot
easier.
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Title: phase changes
Post by: Froderik on March 05, 2004, 10:33:00 AM

Here's a bit of a spin..I ran for my parents, as soon as I stood up to make what was supposed to be my 1st introduction! I got grabbed by a bunch of phasers and carried off.. :grin:

Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on March 05, 2004, 12:20:00 PM

I was on first phase for 8 months. The FIRST time. Eight months consecutively...it SUCKED!!!!!

Title: phase changes
Post by: Cayo Hueso on March 05, 2004, 12:20:00 PM

oops, that was me. :wstupid:

Don't sweat the
Petty Things

Don't pet the
Sweaty Things

Water what you want to grow.
--Curiosity

Title: phase changes
Post by: Mamma Bird on March 06, 2004, 06:21:00 PM

My first first phase was also 8 months. I spent more time on first phase than any other. :sad:

Title: phase changes
Post by: GregFL on March 06, 2004, 07:04:00 PM

I have posted this before but it applies in this thread.

This whole thing, open meeting and coming home drama all came directly from the seed. When I was first there in the seed in 1973, open meeting was twice a week, monday and friday.

Anyway, every week at open meeting, they would pass the mike to this one guy and he would very enthusiastically yell, "MOM, DAD....Iiimmmm Coming HOME!

The whole place would erupt in applause and people would get all emotional. Only, it never was true and the staff would desperately try to calm the place down.

Hysterical.

Title: phase changes
Post by: GregFL on March 06, 2004, 07:05:00 PM

Title: phase changes
Post by: The Motivator on March 17, 2004, 11:11:00 PM

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Title: phase changes
Post by: Therion on March 18, 2004, 01:51:00 AM

Druggie friends..

Anyone that wasnt in the program was a druggie friend..
You know I really hurt this girls feelings because I came hom from straight and wouldnt talk to her (I was pulled by parents but always thought Id be going back if I wasnt careful)
Of course she didnt understand (who would?)
But I later made up with her...
Druggie friends...pfffft

By the way it was 3rd phase = TV and radio/phone/back to school

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Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on March 18, 2004, 09:23:00 AM

thanks for helping me jog my tortured memory Therion!

Peace and Good Health.

john

Title: phase changes
Post by: Therion on March 18, 2004, 09:30:00 AM

There was no 6th and 7th phase..

You "commensed" off of 5th......

but if there had been it woulfd have been

6 = Oh no I dont fit in to society now...Im a brainwashed fuck!
7= Sticks needle full of smack in arm and feels better for 8 to 10 hours

at least thats how it went for me...

Title: phase changes
Post by: not so anonymous on March 18, 2004, 10:46:00 AM

After 5th phase (for us anyway) came the dreaded 3 month aftercare. After Straight it seemed easy...but there were still meetings and confrontations...no smoking no girlfriends/boyfriends. So many AA meetings a month were required. The most pathetic part was I was an "out-of-towner" and I still followed most of the rules. Believe me even at 16 I knew what a load of brain washed bull it all was but I figured with 2 years left until the magical 18th b-day I had better comply. Actually I was able to get away with alot b'c I lived so far. The local graduates I still felt sorry for. You would figure after a place like that we would have all tried to help keep people from going back, but it wasn't like that at all. Graduates were always trying to "bust" other graduates. Those were sick times.

Title: phase changes
Post by: The Motivator on March 20, 2004, 04:33:00 PM

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Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on March 20, 2004, 04:51:00 PM

My first phaseS were 9 months-60 days and then start over you're on DAY ONE. 80 days later "I'M COMING HOME" home- for 10 days.I ran away, got caught start over. Split with my oldcomer 10 days later, call HRS who told me I had to go back or be court ordered. Start over. I went in on 10/20/ 80 (my 15th birthday) and finally went home in July of 81. Seven stepped in spring of 82 but was in PT, aftercare. Lead the sibling rap groups for a while...Finally four days before my 18th birthday they told my parents to put me back in or I would be terminated. Terminate away. I have the number to the ACLU & HRS. I will be there for no more than 4 days. I was terminated.

St Pete Straight 10/80-10/83

Title: phase changes
Post by: Antigen on March 20, 2004, 07:15:00 PM

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On 2004-03-17 20:11:00, The Motivator wrote:

That fucked me up to realize the people who were the worst to me were the ones that were the most "screwed up"

Yeah, I get that. Just a couple of years ago, I'm sitting in my livingroom having a nice conversation w/ my brother. He mentions in passing that he was having big problems w/ coke at a particular time. I realized we were talking about just around the same time that sob showed up to play body guard so I couldn't split real quick before my parents could get me into the car to Sarasota.

That just spelled it! I could accept that he was a bainwashed drone and that's why he helped put me in the Program. But that he was just faking? Didn't buy into it at all? Threw me to the wolves just to cast attention away from himself? I don't know if I've ever been closer to killing that little weasle in my life.

BTW, how's the flower business coming? Better than I predicted, I hope.

Don't laugh when you leave this courtroom, thinking you have beat the system because you have looked these things up yourself. We are going to get you down the road.
Anonymity Anonymous (http://fornits.com/anonanon)

Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on March 20, 2004, 07:42:00 PM

what flower business?

is that code for something?

Title: phase changes
Post by: The Motivator on March 20, 2004, 07:43:00 PM

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Title: phase changes
Post by: Antigen on March 20, 2004, 07:47:00 PM

Are you a different John Hughes than the one I had lunch w/ at Skyline a couple of years ago? I have a memory like swiss cheese. Lots of holes, but some things stick.

Being sleepy can impair someone's ability to do thier job. People
can sleep at home and come to the job with sleepiness still in their system. The sleepiness can still be there long after the employee has slept. When someone is found to be sleepy on the job, they can claim that they went to sleep the night before. The only solution to this problem is to ban employees from sleeping.

--Arthur Slabosky

Title: phase changes
Post by: The Motivator on March 20, 2004, 08:02:00 PM

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Title: phase changes
Post by: Antigen on March 20, 2004, 08:29:00 PM

Ok, wrong John Huges.

Pleasure

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
--William Safire

Title: phase changes
Post by: Botched Programming on October 12, 2005, 04:37:00 PM

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On 2004-03-20 13:51:00, Anonymous wrote:

"My first phaseS were 9 months-60 days and then start over you're on DAY ONE. 80 days later "I'M COMING HOME" home- for 10 days.I ran away, got caught start over. Split with my oldcomer 10 days later, call HRS who told me I had to go back or be court ordered. Start over. I went in on 10/20/ 80 (my 15th birthday) and finally went home in July of 81. Seven stepped in spring of 82 but was in PT, aftercare. Lead the sibling rap groups for a while...Finally four days before my 18th birthday they told my parents to put me back in or I would be terminated. Terminate away. I have the number to the ACLU & HRS. I will be there for no more than 4 days. I was terminated.

St Pete Straight 10/80-10/83"

I don't remember the names of the "Raps" where we put in for the different things like Talk and T&R. And then we would have the dreaded Open Meeting Reviews where it was a shit blasting contest.

Also how did we move on to the other phases? I honestly don't remember. All I do remember is standing up when my family were there ( which was rarely ) and covering all the phases I had gone through. The last one I can recall I called out 3rd, 4th, and 5th phases and I was standing on the side of group so it was quite apparent what phase I was on.

What are your memories of phase changes ???

Title: phase changes
Post by: Anonymous on October 12, 2005, 04:40:00 PM

They were called "Homes Raps", I believe. Once I asked for "Termination" and got confronted by a bunch of zombie Straightlings who seemed quite upset that I didn't wish to participate in the program.