Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Who Am I Discovery/Whitmore
There's NO ONE around???
Antigen:
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I don't think you need to get "certified" in order to hand cassettes out to kids so they can play them in the morning.
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No, but I think you might be certifiable if you force kids to listen to them every morning in the wee hours for months and years at a stretch and never let them catch up on their sleep the whole time.
Seriously, though. Glad you're still around, glad you're still posting. Now that the hostility and bullshit has died down to a dull roar, please let me take this oportunity to say my peace.
I don't hate you just because you support the Whitmore. I'm interested in just what the Whitmore is and how it works because I'm interested in the troubled parent industry and Whitmore is a part of it. I apreciate your input here, even when we disagree. But please don't paint us all w/ a broad brush. Some ppl on the other side of the issue from you behave badly sometimes (some of them do most of the time) It's not your imagination. But it's also not all of us.
Thanks for coming back.
With soap, baptism is a good thing.
--Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and lecturer
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Ginger Warbis ~ Antigen
Seed sibling `71 - `80
Straight South (Sarasota, FL)
10/80 - 10/82
Anonymity Anonymous
Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Antigen:
Woops! I was responding to your previous post, howbizarre. Sorry for any confusion. I'll shut up and read now.
The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
--P.J. O'Rourke
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HOWBIZARRE:
I can respect that.
I'm trying not to generalize too much, but with the unbelievable amount of anonymous postings, it's a bit hard. Please don't take anything I say too serious or persoanlly.
Antigen:
Yeah, I don't think scripting is particularly dangerous. I'm creeping up on the conclusion that a lot of what Whitmore has to offer is just snake oil. It's only dangerous if you 1) actually need some kind of psyche help and take that instead or 2) if you put so much stock in it that you let it take over your life.
Most of you guys coming out seem a good deal less scrambled and traumatized that from some other places. That's a good thing. I'm relieved to hear it. There are some aspects of the whole story that are rather troubling, and I'm glad those are coming out too.
Here's a question. W/o going into detail, is it fair to say that you did come out early on really hostile toward some of the kids who were complainging about the Whitmore or about specific incidents that happen there? If not, my apologies. I really haven't checked and there's just SO much of that.
If so, why? Is it mainly fidelity to the Suds and the "family" or was it personal stuff to do w/ those individuals? (I don't want to know the details if it was personal)
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.
--Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
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HOWBIZARRE:
Nah, I didn't harbor any grudges against anyone when I left. If some of the other kids want to make statements against the Whitmore, that's fine with me. I didn't like some of the kids, but that was just personality conflicts.
Walking away from the program and getting on the plane I definately was a lot more motivated and optimistic about the future. I did, and to a certain degree still feel like I'm playing catch up with my peers. I basically bombed my first semester of college. It's been up and down since I got home but that's life. Being there, defiantely helped me see the brighter side of things in life.
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