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Whitmore Academy in Utah?

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Antigen:

--- Quote ---On 2004-07-22 16:02:00, sk8kid511 wrote:

Kids love it at that place. Parents love their kids being there.

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Then why aren't any real people posting truthfully to that effect? Why does someone have to pretend to be cheerful, grateful students and parents?


--- Quote ---In a world of programs full of hate, misery, and abuse, can't there be a light in the darkness? Just accept goodness for what it is.
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Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.

[Note my signature]

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another; shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement
Thomas Jefferson
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Anonymous:
You don't know that for certain. They could be letters from parents posted to prove their point and uphold the program's positive reputation. I have read your signature before, and that must've been awful. No one in the world deserves to go through that.
I do believe in your quote about the train, but I also believe that the light can also be a flicker of candlelight in a dark room. The candlelight is there for those to read their own manual to life, finding out who they really are, what kind of things they need to work on, and where their issues came from. It is near impossible to read the print in the darkness surrounding, so they must go to the light to see.
I'm not saying you have to believe me. I'm not going to even attempt to make anyone believe. I'm only speaking the truth and hoping for people to listen.
Antigen, I do wish you could look at the positive side of things and move on with your life. Not everything is bad. Some people get hit harder than others, but everyone can learn unconditional love and happiness. I've had my share of crap in my life, just like everyone else. Nobody has a perfect life, and I'm sure you know that just as well as we all do.
What I am trying to say is that life is how you look at it, not how it comes at you. There are always positive things no matter what situation you're in. If you choose to look at those positive things instead of focusing on the negative, you will live a much, much happier life. I used to focus on the negative. I used to hate so, so strongly and hold such a grudge against so many people. Now, I just look at the positive and I've learned unconditional love. Unconditional love means that no matter what happens, you will always love that person. It is seriously the strongest thing out there. Please, try to look at the positive. Hypothetical situation: There may be a tropical storm outside, the AC broken, no food in the fridge, no money, and no job, but you got your family beside you, a roof over your head, a cute little dog, and we need that rain.
No, I can't change the world by saying things like that. I'd like to think I'd at least change a few people, though, and maybe get a few more to just see it from that point of view. Please try it. Love is so much better than fear.

Antigen:
Well, it looks like a synanon, sounds like one, is reputed to be one. Can you show me some evidence to the contrary?

Even if these posts were made by seperate people (which is doubtful) why do they feel they have to be deceptive in pretending to talk to eachother in this forum? If there are so damned many happy campers, where the hell are they? And why can't you take at face value the viewpoints offered by some other posters (whom, btw, are not posting from the same computer [only takes me one click to find out]) and who tell a very different story?


For something that has spread with all the forethought of kudzu, the Internet isn't half bad."
-- Newsweek, 2/27/95

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Anonymous:
Well, the program itself has changed since I have left there, but from what I hear it is still very unorganized. In fact I found out from my father this afternoon when we were discussing the buisness about the owners of the Whitmore Acedemy, he mentioned to me they had read what I wrote on this page earlier and sent my family an E-mail about it. My father had also read what i had written and agrees with everything I had said. My father is a very respectable man and also a very respectable doctor, and it also came out in the dicussion we had that they also owe my parents some money, a rather large sum, that has not been repayed in the last two years,I guess my family had payed them for a few months of me being there and then I had left the program and they had not been reimbursed. now like I mentioned earlier, I, and my family do not believe these people to be trustworthy.

Anonymous:
i got out of a program and it was hell and it was one of the better programs! so people who have your kid or kids in one take em out before it is to late.your kids may sound,look or act better but have you ever thought that mabey they have just learned to hide it better? you learn so much from others in a program u usually come out knowing more than you wish to.some programs if your kids know about drugs and the program travels get your kids to help em' smuggle drugs in and out of countries and state lines. ive seen this before.Some programs like the one i was in put you in a circle and if try to run they kick you,and beat you till u bleed.the staff allowed this and said it was fine as long as you dont kick em in the face! and some programs use some kind of "mind game" itll make your kid think different for a while till he snaps out.Some girls in things are raped. programs will even set u up with drugs and bribe the parents to give the Academy somthing in exchange for yo kid not to do some time!MY sugestion,witch no one has to listen to,is dont give up on anything cause if you do and somthing happens how are you going to live with it?to know your son/daughter was raped,beat,or  corrupted by a place YOU sent them!just plez be carefull!  :exclaim:

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