The biggest mindfuck,outside of the lie that we were all drug addicts,were the labels we placed on people(and ourselves subconsciously).If we can discipline ourselves to catch the times that we put those dumbass labels on people,a big step will be taken.People aren't druggies,screwups,whores,cons and what-nots.No matter how badly someone pisses you off,remember the fact that nobody thinks that he himself is a scumbag and nobody has the market cornered on being an asshole.Everybody is an asshole from time to time.Every time I catch myself judging somebody that way,I remind myself that there are times that I can be just as offensive.Learning another language and immersing myself in another culture definitely helped.The attraction shown by Latinas to Blue-eyed men didn't hurt.You have to make life interesting and put all of that hostility aside.Watch "The Devil's Advocate" with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves.Watch Pacino's brilliant monologue as Satan for his love of mankind and denouncing God as a twisted sadist.The whole message here is that if Satan himself thinks that he is kind and charitable,there's a good chance so does everybody else.Most crooks feel as if circumstances created their being and possibly,there may be some truth to that.That's why they look at the righteous and feel as if they're being put down,thinking that SOB is no better than me,he just thinks he is.You don't have to like nor love everybody,nor anybody for that matter,but forgiving the shortcomings,real or imaginary,in others will help you forgive the shortcomings and rectifying for real,the shortcomings in yourself.Now maybe my friend Woof understands why I don't hate anybody from Straight,just the malignance the organization like that manifested.Very rarely are things created by panic positive.I forgive my mother in spite of today still thinking that shithole saved my life.In reality,it came dangerously close to making me another statistic,an abyss I'm still navigating myself through.Trying to explain the incredible mortality rate of Straight graduates vs the rest of the world to her is like trying to read Mao's Little Red Book to her in Mandarin.She admits that Petermann was a horse's ass(apologies to equine backsides worldwide as this term probably flatters Helen's true character)and the staff was unqualified to make the decisions they were making regarding clients' lives,to her,she thinks these shortcomings were minor flaws in what she perceives to be greater good.By her saying that Petermann was an ass and staff was unqualified,for those who were there would know,HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY BE GOOD?Unfortunately,disagreements between Mother and Son are rarely resolved with logic.So in what is becoming more and more tradition in my world(My wife is an evangelical Christian and I am a Jewish kabbalah reader),I sign off many discussions with we're going to have to agree to disagree.Not the worst resolution.Woof maybe can resolve his differences with what seems to be a Mule of a father with the same attitude.Agreeing to disagree.He,too,is a victim.He is being played by the great lie,con,hustle that is being perpetrated even today on parents today.Sign your kids into these shitholes or buy your baby a tombstone.Any parent can understand the moral dilemma.This is not about logic,this is about maternal and paternal emotions.Any parent can feel the same pain.The bloodsuckers who have made this an industry are the thugs.Jean Cassidy told me(while her husband was an exec staff),the group has very few true addicts.Her and Scotty are now running a rehab brainwashing kids,not addicted to drugs,that they really are hooked and either the graveyard,jail,or the looney bin is waiting for them.Somebody please tell me what good could possibly come from that?
