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Remembering:
Hi All,

I'm one of the Seedlings who never touched, even saw a drug, before I was put in the Seed ( St Pete 1974). Of course, I eventually confessed to doing drugs, but can't quite remember how long it took until I confessed... was it the third day, fourth day.. did I last a week?

I confessed soon after Parent's night, as that experience ripped away any hope I had for getting out of there by being honest.

Do any of you remember when you confessed? Any one remember this that did not do drugs--at least--before The Seed?

How did it feel when you did confess? I can't remember the day, but I remember much of the feelings before, during and after my 'confession'.

GregFL:
I think for me it was the third open meeting, maybe 7 days.  back then in St  Pete, open meetings were monday and friday.

They had something called the "3 day miracle" which was about the time you realized you weren't getting out and could perhaps fake your way home.  Then the faking started bluring with reality...and we all know the rest.

Remembering:
Open Meetings? Is this what remember as  "Parent's night?" If so, I remember it being just once a week... But then, without the moral inventories, I would have had any concept of how long I was there, or what day it was.

GregFL:

--- Quote from: ""Remembering"" ---Open Meetings? Is this what remember as  "Parent's night?" If so, I remember it being just once a week... But then, without the moral inventories, I would have had any concept of how long I was there, or what day it was.
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What you remember as 'parents night' was actually called 'open meetings'.  It was also, somewhat, open to the public (screened at the door).

Here, we put on a show for everyone.  Song, confessionals, teary "im coming home" "I can talk to you after the meeting" and other privelidges we earned we had to announce, and then everyone would applaud and smile.  Art would do 'surveys' where he would ask us "who has done this or that" and we would by show of hands confess to our sins while our neighbors and parents stood by witnessing.  After everyone cleared out, we had a small 'rap' and then left, usually somewhere around 12:00.



It was an emotional circus.  Initially in St Pete, it was monday and Friday. Before long it was Fridays only.

Anonymous:
At CEDU, we had "raps" three days a week, MWF.  They lasted four hours a pop.  An emotional circus if ever there was one. So, are Open Meetings basically the Seed version of a rap, and if you had them 1-2 a week, how was the rest of the time structured?

We had:

MWF: Intense outdoor labor followed by lunch, then a rap, then dinner, lights out

T/Th: All day school (total sham) dinner, clean up, lights out

Saturday: Cleaning crew day and I forgot what else

Sunday: Chill day.

Periodically, we had overnight raps lasting from 24 hours to 5 days, and wilderness experentials lasting from 3 days to 2 weeks.  Part of these wilderness trips included raps (UGH!) and solitary.

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