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Day 12 - Moral Inventory - 8/09/75

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Somejoker:
bump..modification of prior post.

Filobeddoe:

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Oh filobee how you miss some points here.  
The functions of open meeting.



1) Public confessional and humiliation.  
2) fundraising.  
3) Reward of affection of family for compliance and punishment of public humiliation by family for non compliance.  
4) recruiting.
5) Public opinion.

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=== All your points are valid & I agree with them (as to the purposes of Open Meetings). My reply wasn't so much to gives reasons why Open Meetings were held but to answer Anon's question: "It sounds like the parents went to the Open Meetings. How could they support the program after seeing it for what it was?"

Antigen called it a "Dog & Pony show", you called it a "lovey dovey feel good..." and I described it as " The atmosphere was to be very joyous with alot of singing (songs like "Jippety Do Dah, Mr Bluebird on my shoulder", "Raindrops Keep fallin' on my head", "America", "Seed song", etc). All the kids were very happy & cheerful..."

No doubt it had a profound impact on me & all the other newer newcomers, as well as others in the group.[ This Message was edited by: Filobeddoe on 2004-08-29 19:04 ][ This Message was edited by: Filobeddoe on 2004-08-29 19:06 ]

Anonymous:
Where I disagreed with you was the following statements

1) All the kids were very happy & cheerful..."


I would submit to you that it should read...

All the kids were forced to display happiness and cheerfullness while underneath they were terrified and traumatized by the public humiliations.

2)"It was for the parents."

I have demonstrated why it was not.

Have a good one Filobee!  Hey, what high school did you go to in St Pete.  I went to Lakewood.

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