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Dear Art,
jgar:
Could not agree with you more Ft. Lauderdale Things were not perfect but I thought they were dam good.
Antigen:
Lauderdale, maybe our buddies here are right about us. I sort of played it the same way on my program to the extent that I thought prudent. I never overtly broke a rule or dissented or disrupted things in any way. My mission and strategy was to prove that I was quite straight enough, thank you, and could take anything they had to dish out w/o flinching. But when it came down to things like food restrictions and other nasty deeds in the host home to enforce compliance in group, I'd take my chances and throw down the gauntlet w/ old staffisms like "leave group in the building". I don't remember ever having been called down on things like that, either.
Here's freedom to him who would read;
Here's freedom to him who would write;
None ever feared that the truth should be heard,
But them that the truth would indict.
--author unknown (circa 1914)
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Ft. Lauderdale:
Antigen,
Life in the apt's was a blast. There was no shortage of food fun or laughter. This is where there was no comparison to straight. There was alot of love and camaraderie. Alot of Tennis golf vollyball and ping pong. They never made much of a golfer out of me but the rest I lived for. We all got to be quite good cooks also. When I was married I really missed all of it.( If you knew my X you would understand(just kidding).
I really never bought into the save the world thing(believe it or not)but I loved the camaraderie and the friendships that developed.
Antigen:
Oh, no doubt. I remember some good times in our house and other settings in the early daze too. But it was a tense, fragile sort of good humor; contingent on one's total devotion to the whole game. And it really and truely was disturbing seeing the changes in my family members. Brainwashed is right on the mark; it's no surprise to me that so many independent observers struck on the same descriptive term.
It may be hard for you to grasp this coming from your point of view. You loved it and were willing to support all aspects of the culture for what you got out of it. For me it was deeply disturbing to see my brothers and their friends just acting... not themselves. I didn't buy that they actually, suddenly, no longer liked Black Sabath and rock concerts.
And I didn't understand. But the tension over it was palpable. Our whole lifestyle changed; people dissapeared from the scene, showed up on front row at open meeting then reemerged w/ a blithe, vacant smile and it was absolutely verboten to express anything but sheer joy over these spooky changes.
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.
-- William Oldys (1696-1761): On a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale.
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Thom:
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