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Finally talked to my other friend who was sent to wildnernes

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gr8ful2aarc:
@#%$ What that is it? Is that all you can say?I thought you had all the answers guess not.

ramprato:
Duh The word I used to describe your post speaks for itself, what syllable don't you understand??  

Antigen:
Hmmmm... If you're really tired of all this, then why are you still here? What, exactly, is the point?


I think it's funny as anything that ya'll got all worked up into a lather over that flyer. Reminds me of an old joke.


A farmer hangs and sticks a couple of pigs in preparation for a long winter. He goes back in the afternoon to take them down only to find them stolen. He says not a word to anyone, either about having killed the hogs or about their going missing.


Couple of weeks later, the farmer's talking over the fencepost with his good neighbor, who asks "Did you ever find out what happened to those stuck pigs?"


"Yeah", says the farmer, "just now."

May all your dreams be wonderful....

FaceKhan:
Finally talked to my other friend who was sent to wildnernes I finally spoke to another friend of mine who was sent to a wildnerness program this summer. According to what he was told it was run by Outward Bound in a program called Ascent or something like that. His description was of being placed with 6 kids who had some very serious problems, with 2 staff members that were very cult-like and strange for 28 days and being given very little food mostly nuts and sucking candies.


I was surprised to hear that Outward Bound would have such a program since their stated position on these kinds of ('punitive' for lack of a better word) programs is that they only do a very limited number of them and they are run by the same high standards as the rest of their programs. Apparently this is not the case. I have confirmed that Outward Bound does list a specialty program of theirs called Voyegeur Ascent, with canoeing being the primary activity which he described.



I don't know whether he is ok or not, he seemed very pissed off about the whole thing, like it was still very fresh in his mind. He described it as the most bullshit he ever had to deal with in his life.



There is one ray of sunshine in his story though, he narrowly escaped being sent to the Hyde School afterwards. His parents are definitely not well in the head.


Slavish discipline makes a slavish temper... If severity carry'd to the
highest pitch does prevail, and works a cure upon the present unruly
distemper, it often brings in the room of it a worse and more dangerous
disease, by breaking the mind; and then, in the place of a disorderly young
fellow, you have a low spirited moap'd creature, who, however with his
unnatural sobriety he may please silly people, who commend tame unactive
children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble; yet at
last, will probably prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he
will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others... Beating them,
and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the
discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise,
good, and ingenuous men...
John Locke, 1692

Anonymous:
FaceKhan: I am very curious about how healthy your own life is.  Do you understand what a healthy life is?

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