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« Reply #30 on: April 08, 2007, 05:06:06 PM »
I know...maybe I should write an MI about this..  :rofl:
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« Reply #31 on: April 08, 2007, 05:27:56 PM »
Maybe you should get spanked.
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« Reply #32 on: April 08, 2007, 06:41:33 PM »
Maybe you should blow me.  :P
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« Reply #33 on: April 08, 2007, 06:53:06 PM »
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Maybe you should blow me.  :P

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« Reply #34 on: April 08, 2007, 07:04:29 PM »
This is a great discussion, thanks for the input, everyone.
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« Reply #35 on: April 09, 2007, 05:33:36 AM »
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please excuse the off topicness, but, does anyone reading this consider the MI's as abusive? The remark about Ross rang a bell, sorry... In the trenches of front-line activism activities, I have maintained that MI's are a form of psychological abuse that may not get the attention it deserves. It was and still is one of those pain in the ass kind of chores that is required even today by clients of spinoff programs. I've heard some folks say that they don't consider it abuse, it's just a PIA chore based on AA philosophies, and others who agree with me about it being a brainwashing tool. Thank you for an opinion.
Rusty

OTHER PEOPLE READING YOUR MI is abuse.
Writing MI Moral Inventory is probably one of the good habits taught in the programs.
Writing MI is good.
Being REQUIRED to write MI is wrong.
Other people reading your MI before your death is not only wrong,its also unAmerican.

I disagree because I never could have even written an M.I. if the oldcomers didn't "teach" me how to do it "right". It was a practice scripted by the cult. It changed my thought processes from what I used to write and think about before, and it certainly didn't make me a better person.

That inventory of moral failings stuff is really popular in 12-step groups, maybe that is what you are thinking about when you say they are good? To go over your shortcomings at the end of every day seems self-obsessive, plus it's a prescripted formula. I had to shake off that kind of thing getting out of 12-step cults after Straight. People in 12-step groups were awfully concerned about all their actions shortcomings and emotional states, which I don't think is really helpful at all, I think it made people miserable and they didn't even realize. Sponsors and people in the cult took that "working your steps" stuff really seriously. I once wrote pages and pages to "do my fourth step," and it didn't make me happier or anything, it was a continuation of the neurotic self-obsession thing. It gives me the shivers to think about those 12-step meetings with people talking about how they worked their steps. I don't think half those people really wanted to ever use and the 12 steps and the slogans really kept them from doing drugs or drinking. I think really they wanted a good story to tell in a meeting about how they almost used and then the 12 steps saved them, when really they just decided not to use.

If you have some kind of personal practice, that's your thing. But I'm a little weirded out. Do some survivors still do M.I.s every night, or even ever? That would be weird, if people still did M.I.s and called other survivors for dime therapy. Really weird. Now I'm kind of curious.


At the time I was in the program,writing my MI was kind of the only time I had for myself.I guess an asshole oldcommer could make it not so fun,but no tv,no weed,no talking to friends or reading everything,having a pen and paper for writing MI was sort of an entertainment time.
I stopped writing MI the day I walked out of the door of the program.
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« Reply #36 on: April 09, 2007, 12:14:40 PM »
To b made to read your M.i to any
is agaist the law.It has private info. n it.



OTHER PEOPLE READING YOUR MI is abuse.
Writing MI Moral Inventory is probably one of the good habits taught iscripted by the cult. It changed my thought processes from what I used to write and think about before, and it certainly didn't make me athey are good?
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« Reply #37 on: April 09, 2007, 04:16:05 PM »
You could also turn an MI into a tool for helping you resist, or at least scare oldcomers and parents.  I would write a blessing to Satan, make my challenge on how to leave as quickly as possible, and set goals to "report my oldcomer for rule violations".  This woulod make them paranoid all day long.
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Re: STR8 DEPUTIES
« Reply #38 on: April 09, 2007, 04:18:49 PM »
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To b made to read your M.i to any
is agaist the law.It has private info. n it.



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That was just a drop in the bucket, they routinely committed felonies as a matter of day to day operation.  MIs were tools to help them in the brainwashing of the phasers.


Yeah, call your lawyer, I'm sure you'll go far with that one.
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« Reply #39 on: April 10, 2007, 06:29:18 AM »
MY LAWYER WAZ JUST TRYING 2 HELP N THE ISSUE WAZ HUGE WITH OUT HIM.

That was just a drop in the bucket, they routinely committed felonies as a matter of day to day operation.  MIs were tools to help them in the brainwashing of the phasers.


Yeah, call your lawyer, I'm sure you'll go far with that one.[/quote]
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« Reply #40 on: April 10, 2007, 11:28:36 AM »
Remember that one exec at Springfield; he rode a motorcycle and had a tat, like a bracelet around his wrist ??  He came on staff around the end of 86/early 87.  I was already on 4th or 5th phase when he showed up. I only remember him ever leading like 2 raps, while I was there, but I remember the tat on the wrist.  Was his name Williams ??

Remember Mr. Pellitier ??

Curious.
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« Reply #41 on: April 10, 2007, 11:56:34 AM »
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Remember that one exec at Springfield; he rode a motorcycle and had a tat, like a bracel


I THOGHT U WERE THER B 4 ME. LOL
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« Reply #42 on: April 10, 2007, 12:35:31 PM »
85-87.
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If you would have justice in this world, then begin to see that a human being is not a means to some end.  People are not commodities.  When human beings are just to one another government becomes obsolete and real freedom is born; SPIRITUAL ANARCHY.
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