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Offline Anonymous

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« on: March 05, 2006, 05:46:00 PM »
Was there sort of a separate 'rap' right before Open Meeting where the children learned of their new privileges right before Open Meeting? Was it called "Privileges Rap"? I know it wasn't called that. All the staff would come single file into group and say who earned what phase or other privilege for their week of work. Did that particular time of Friday have a rap name in itself?

Also, a typical Friday night consisted of the regular grilling so the parents could hear you being yelled or beaten in the next room don'tcha know. I was hoping you might share some war stories about your Friday nights, or perhaps if I am getting the times mixed up you will correct me where I am mistaken or my memory is hazed.

I was in the headquarters straight during the 80s. in 85 and 86 I don't know what the fuck I was doing but I just don't recall Bush ever being there, I know I was there though. Some of these memories are really fucked up in my head.
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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2006, 06:39:00 PM »
No I dont think it had a name..but the rap in the morning where you asked for phases and t and r and shit was called "homes"
 Then of course after open meeting was the dreaded OMR~ open meeting "review"
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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2006, 07:10:00 PM »
can't remember that being the right name but i remember calling it that...it happened right before dinner or after dinner.....open meeting reviews sucked....probably the worst and most feared rap in straight....i think most of us can remember a bad time in open meeting review in there...i know i can! i'll let everyone else tell thier stories.....i've told enough of mine...caught shit for it and just figure that i'm better off not saying anything...hip
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« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2006, 09:30:00 PM »
I remember open meeting night. The 1st phaser would stand up and each parent would stand up facing the child, with everyone in the room, the parents would tell them how awful they are or talk about stuff they had done in the past. You knew that night that you would get confronted about what your parents said. I think it was so stupid that the people that had just came into Straight had to stand up and and talk on the mic. I dont remember what they had to say but some kids would just cry. First time seeing your parents since they left you there and all you can do is stand up in front of tons of people with a microphone and cry. Later you get confronted for trying to minipulate your parents cause you cried.

When I was a misbehavor, right before open meeting, I got restrained. I guess they didnt have time to deal with me, I heard a voice say, take her to time out quickly. Each person grabbed a limb, picked me up, I was thrashing around, bending in the middle and straighting out my body. I finally twisted myself around wich cause some of them to let go and I landed on my face. They picked me back up and they finally got me to time out. They closed the door. I could hear open meeting start and I listened. I new someone had opened the door when a cool chill came into the room. Someone said "get her ready!" A staff member came in with a bowl of water and a towel and cleaned off my bloody face and left. Soon they opened the door again and I stand up and see my parents standing with the mic. My mother could not speak she was so upset I was in the that room. She handed the mic to my dad without saying a word. My father told me how disappointed he was with me and blah, blah, blah.
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2006, 12:20:00 PM »
i don't remember the name, but it was during our awful microwaved dinner hour

then the big meeting

i had t&r?? for many weeks and i too would get confronted afterwards for clicking w/ my family and crying

made no sense to me

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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2006, 01:15:00 PM »
Open meetings are for sissy fags.
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« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2006, 06:45:00 PM »
For us it was "Homes".  Which I never understood.  

Anyone ever see anyone make second phase, only to get set back in OMR?
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« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2006, 07:52:00 PM »
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I think most memorable Open Meeting night involved a mother, a single mother (who had an annoying habit of singing to her son and daughter). After the open meeting, or maybe the next day, he was stood up. Apparently he was masturbating during the open meeting and this mother was the object of his affection. I remember the guy being called the ?Open Meeting Whacker? looking back?sorry?just think that?s funny?Pretty sure 85DJ will remember (he wasn?t the guy) he was there at or about the same time.

Back in the day, before the marathon OMR, the actual ?after the open meeting time? was relatively short?not much longer than any other night. Rap would end at 9pm and it would take 20-60 min for staff to figure who was going home with who, and of course drop-off?s.

As more and more people became involved with Straight, the necessity of cash collections and sales pitches had to be given to those desperate parents.

So, we began to endure sometimes-endless hours of abuse (all in the name of therapy). The practice of this stuck, even after cash collections were streamlined and the parent interview/intake, I don?t know that ever really changed.

I thank God, Buddha, Mohammed, Jah, Lao Tsu and all the deities I graduated or 7th Stepped (what a hokey thing?to 7 Step) when I did. That was at a time when you were done, you were done. A 7 Step society was formed, but I don?t recalling it to be mandatory at that time?85DJ may also be able to clarify that.

Saturday mornings slowly began to pick up momentum. Staff running out, interrupting group and hollering??Who Knows So-n-So? and half a dozen ppl would raise their hands. It was so freaky seeing people that I had known prior to Straight, walking in and being sat down on first row. I had three cousins go thru Straight and I was out of Straight, but still at home when first one went in. I spent almost 25 years doing everything in my power to avoid them. I felt ashamed and that they might have some major resentments towards me?first one in the program and all.

Probably what I hate or despise about open meetings (Straight in general) is that they destroy, forever, a kind response when I hear the words ?Love Ya??that?s really fucked up!
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« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2006, 01:43:00 PM »
Straight ruined "Love Ya" for me, too.
Out of the 21 months my brother was in Straight, the only moment of levity I ever experienced in an Open Meeting actually happened when a kid refused to say Love Ya to his dad.  
The director prompted him, asking, "Don't you have something to say to your father?"
The kid saluted and in a Bugs Bunnyish said, "Oh yeah - So long, squirrelly!"
He was dragged from the room and on his way out the director told him he was frozen.  He stopped moving and started screaming in agony, "I'm frozen! I'm frozen! Help me, I'm frozen!"
It was hilarious (I was 11 at the time) and I had to bite my lip furiously to keep from bursting out laughing.
Does anyone from the Dallas 89-90 group remember that?
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« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2006, 02:11:00 PM »
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On 2006-03-06 16:52:00, Woof-a-Doof wrote:





Probably what I hate or despise about open meetings (Straight in general) is that they destroy, forever, a kind response when I hear the words ?Love Ya??that?s really fucked up!







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Gotta agree with you on that one.  I don't like hearing or saying "love ya" or anything close to it.  Obviously, this has caused problems in my relationships w/ significant others.  The way that Straight warped the language ("honesty", "empathy", "love", etc.) is something I have had to deal with since then. It isfucked up, really fucked up.
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« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2006, 11:51:00 PM »
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On 2006-03-06 15:45:00, Carmel wrote:

"For us it was "Homes".  Which I never understood.  



Anyone ever see anyone make second phase, only to get set back in OMR?



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i finall.y got 2nd and got put back a week later,,,,,then walked like 3 days later
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« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2006, 11:54:00 PM »
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On 2006-03-14 10:43:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Straight ruined "Love Ya" for me, too.

Out of the 21 months my brother was in Straight, the only moment of levity I ever experienced in an Open Meeting actually happened when a kid refused to say Love Ya to his dad.  

The director prompted him, asking, "Don't you have something to say to your father?"

The kid saluted and in a Bugs Bunnyish said, "Oh yeah - So long, squirrelly!"

He was dragged from the room and on his way out the director told him he was frozen.  He stopped moving and started screaming in agony, "I'm frozen! I'm frozen! Help me, I'm frozen!"

It was hilarious (I was 11 at the time) and I had to bite my lip furiously to keep from bursting out laughing.

Does anyone from the Dallas 89-90 group remember that?"


i wasn't there yet, but always wondered what woulsd happen if someone said something smart assed to their parents on open meeting night




btw, "love ya" became a huge sarcastic joke for my mother and i

for years, it was funny

i hate that saying now
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