The group confession part is very weird. Lucky I developed the habit of making shit up as a youngster when my parents asked me what was wrong so I was great at making stuff up and pretending it bothered me. Strange is that this type of situation becomes how other people decide whether you are trustworthy or not. Some kids embrace the attention they receive by putting all their shit out their for the group. We all heard about rapes and molestation and all of it. Who knows how much was real. It got to the point it seemed like kids were trying to one-up each other with outrageous stories of how bad they were to their parents, or horrible things that happened to them. They believed in the more they gave up the more the group would like them, and that was true temporarily. They were bound to the group then, because that information could now be twisted and thrown back at the kid and emotionally destroy them. And that's what happened. They tear down kids until they are an emotionally uncontrollable sobbing pathetic child like creature on the floor ready to molded into a magical child. The responsibility for this strange and terrible action rests solely on the shoulders of the adults at the event. Adults of students who attend know exactly what is going on. If any parent attended a Gilcrease seminar especially and didn't go home and pray to god for forgiveness is under the spell of WWASPS' cult. Parents you are old enough to know what's bullshit, your kid is not. When your kid grows up and realizes what a mistake WWASPS was they will remember the adults who were there, because now they are an adult and realize they have that same respsonsibility any parent has, to protect children. Something WWASPS parents know absolutely nothing about.
I am much more closed off now, and any type of emotional growth bullshit can relaly get me going. Tapes, seminars, the whole self help industry is all crap. Crap I tell you! 
It amazes me everytime I read stuff like this. I could have written that about my experience over 20 years ago in Straight. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The
only[/b] good thing that came out of my time in there (2 years) was that I knew exactly what I was
not going to do when I became a parent.
Really nice to see you posting here again EP!
