On 2002-10-23 09:29:00, nick wrote:
"i,look at this forum and it makes me sick.every one talking shit about elan because you were punks and they tried to change you.i wish i could get some of you in the ring and knock the bitch out of you with those big 16 ounce gloves.when iwas there all kinds of shit happened including riots,but iwasn't crying to mommy to bring me home i was in the middle of it breaking it up.i got an awesome japenese dinner out of it too.everybody at elan had issues including the staff,we are all human and most of us have something in common we were all fucked up when we got to elan.if it didn't help you being there then forget about the place.if any of this shit is true about the staff don't you think they would be shut down. marc, jeffrey, marty,linda i love you all and i know you are all still trying to help some more fucked uo kids like iwas. thanks. cruz read my responce on you posting."
See? This is why I have to wonder if our favorite trolls are intentionally acting as provocateurs. Of course most of the crap these guys post about these people is made up out of whole cloth. That should be pretty obvious to anyone interested enough to look up the author's other posts and get a feel for their credibility.
But a lot of the outrageous, hard to believe stories that other people tell here are 100% factual, or at least honest and as accurate as the author's memory.
Those stories about Marty getting off on wrapping a girl up like a mummy then tossing her in the lake and letting her bob around for awhile, those are corroborated. There's a lot more like that, too. To assume that anyone who speaks critically of Elan was a punk to begin with and failed to graduate is just sloppy thinking.
Look, if some joker comes out and says all kinds of outrageously bad and untrue things about Hitler, does that automatically mean that everyone else who says outrageously bad but
true things about Hitler is somehow flawed or crazy?
Just don't fall for the scam, OK? ::troll::
There isn't any central authority here to tell you what to believe or who is reliable. You have to figure that out for yourself. It's a little more work than the other way, I'll admit. And a lot of people are really very averse to doing it. But it really does pay off in the end.
Here's freedom to him who would read;
Here's freedom to him who would write;
None ever feared that the truth should be heard,
But them that the truth would indict.
--author unknown (circa 1914)