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Hyde "Philosophy"?

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seamus:
Yeah Str8 also had an odd sort of "gestalt from hell" Philosophy, all the time talking that "well you did the nessicary things to ---------get there" shit. Kind of like Catholic guilt taken to the nth degree,it seemed to pre-empt any real issues that could have been dealt with,like say an  abusive parent,or depression,kind of a blanket statement( or a whitewashing)
  It was like the good ol "no talking behind backs "rule what that really did was keep people from comparing notes,in other words a super subtle, back door version of "divide and conquer".

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "seamus" ---It was like the good ol "no talking behind backs "rule what that really did was keep people from comparing notes,in other words a super subtle, back door version of "divide and conquer".
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So true. "No talking behind backs," that is, you are supposed to voice your concerns for the welfare of someone's "character" to their face, or in Seminar/Discovery Group. Judging by the amount of blind-siding going on in the latter, the former doesn't happen nearly as much as it is "supposed to." Concerns about how things are run are supposed to be voiced to the staff privately...right. In other words, there is no such thing as a legitimate concern about that.

Kids aren't supposed to compare notes. But it is the business of faculty and staff to compare notes, pass judgment, and make decisions affecting kids' lives, including what is to be told the parents and the Hyde community regarding how to interpret events, let alone which events are allowed to become public. The degree and depth of dishonesty that pervades the place is above and beyond anything that could ever by cultivated by any institution save one whose primary modus operandi is based on coercion.

The above statements are my opinions regarding a matter I perceive as being of public interest.

Oz girl:
I think what all of these places have in common with existentislism is the diea that nothing is innate so we "create" a social paradigm. The one that is created by these places just so happens to be bizarre.

Ursus:
"The real point to the est Training was to go down through layer after layer after layer after layer, until you got to the last layer and peeled it off, where the recognition was that it's really all meaningless and empty. That's Existentialism's endpoint.

Est went a step further in that people began to recognize that it was not only meaningless and empty, but it was empty and meaningless that it was empty and meaningless. And in that there's an enormous freedom. All the constrictions, all of the rules you've placed on yourself are gone, and what you're left with is nothing. And nothing is an extraordinarily powerful place to stand, because it is only from nothing that you can create. And from this nothing people were able to invent a life allowing them to create themselves."

-Werner Erhard[/list]

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(HOW much did people pay to hear this stuff?)

Anonymous:
:rofl:  With the "new" Hyde-Hoffman process infecting the school, shouldn't be long before people recognize that the whole Hyde game is "meaningless and empty" too.

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