Alright, to address your post "Buck" bit by bit:
I remember when you were in AARC those few days before you ran away.
You may be saying one of two things here. (1) You were only in contact with AARC in the last few days that I was there. Or (2), you think I was in AARC for only a few days before I managed to escape. If (1), that's fine and I wonder who you are. If (2), your cognitive abilities may be lacking a little as I was in AARC on Step 1c for six full months before I ran.
How does a new post regarding light bulbs and centering around your perceptions of AARC's sharing of the outside world strike you?
This sentence doesn't seem to make much sense to me.... perhaps the subject matter of the post is not the most stimulating and intellectual, but that was not the point. I just remembered from far out of the distant past a very weird moment brought to me by AARC, and I commented on it.
That "strikes me" as being perfectly in context.
I suspect that you may have been trying to get at something else here, but I really can't figure it out. Feel free to elaborate.
A little odd as an off the cuff vent perhaps.....maybe they had a point....to see if you could reason on your own and stay focused on building a more centered psyche.
I agree with you! This was a very odd event. However, I don't believe as you seem to assert that the motivations for it were so innocuous. AARC's entire structure is based upon destroying a person's natural ability to reason and function normally and replace such abilities with a complete reliance upon AARC and later AA and Alumni groups to perform all reasoning for them. AARC intentionally removes all contact with society at large in order to be most able to influence the mind of the "client" undisturbed. They do this by restricting access to anyone not in the program (including family members) in person, by phone or any other means of communication; preventing access to all news media; disallowing going out in public in any way; restricting communication between "clients" such that conversation about outside events is strongly discouraged or completely forbidden; etc, etc, etc.
And one other means of cutting the ties between the individual and society is by promoting strange little lies like this one; thereby making the world as given to them by AARC different from that which actually exists outside those walls.
At least, that's my theory anyway.
[...]building a more centered psyche
And "building a more centered psyche" is certainly not either the stated purpose of AARC nor anything close to what I recall happening there.
Finally,
Pray you are well and hope to hear from you soon.....
I've heard this line so many times from disapproving AARCites. Right now, it particularly irks me, so I've created a post dedicated to it:
http://www.fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?t=20672