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The official solo day episode thread.

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Nihilanthic:
Ok... so yeah, they lie and mislead the children, nothing new. But what really got me today is, well, the whole fucking episode.

I'll reduce it to bullet points for the sake of my own sanity and anger management... dont wanna brood and blow up and rant on the first post of this thread. Anywho, back to the point:

1. They made it acceptable to isolate a troubled child for the sole purpose of making them freak out overnight, AND ABC went and tried to capitalize on that girl freaking out by using it on the splash screens!

2. They tried to discredit any sort of criticism of any program in this episode, calling the parents weak and gullable and the girl manipulative. WHERE HAVE I HEARD THIS BEFORE?  :roll:

3. They kickstarted the camp to "boarding school" pipeline, by saying that the girl who wants to do better but wants to go home, not off to some damn school away from everyone she knows is justification to send her away!

(Yeah, the industry is using this program and then some to try to inject their bullshit in here. Let her struggle? Come on, they go out of their way to follow the industry dogma here... RTC AFTER THE CAMP! ANY CRITICISM IS FALSE! THEY ALL MANIPULATE! REGRESSION IS "GROWING"! ABUSED CHILDREN NEED TO BE SENT TO HAVE REGRESSIONAL TRAINING!)

4. Here is the real doozie to me... the 'mysterious ceremony' with all that bullshit to just cement the programming with indoctrination. How delightful? Lets make it MORE culty and require them to legally change their names to this american-indian-ripoff nomenclature as terms of graduation while we're at it... why not?
Lighthouses are more helpful then churches.
--Benjamin Franklin, American Founding Father, author, and inventor
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[ This Message was edited by: Nihilanthic on 2005-08-03 18:55 ]

Anonymous:
it was an awesome episode and shows how effective wilderness therapy is.  the changes in the kids were monumental.

Nihilanthic:
Who said it wasnt effective or that there were big changes?

The point that is being made isnt that its ineffective, its that its wrong to brainwash and manipulate and regress human beings.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

--Thomas Carlyle
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Anonymous:
they werent brainwashed- some manipulation is part of therapy and so is regression.  look how powerful they all were (except Jada) on the other side of the solos.  it helped them turn the corner.  the therapists did a great job

Anonymous:
The ONLY people being brain washed are the gullable viewing audience.

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