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What are WWASPS "Discovery" and "Focus" seminars like?
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Great article...
--- Quote ---Role-playing games were called magical mystery tours in honor of Manson?s favorite singing group, the Beatles. He urged denunciation of parents, surrender of egos and past identity and the taking of new names. They were to be free and learn that there is no right or wrong, only love and to follow love.
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sound familiar wwaspies?
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--- Quote ---On 2005-04-22 11:44:00, Exit Plan wrote:
"The song they choose isn't just some random choice.
Understand what I am about to explain is after 3 full days of different process' and all the other weird things that go along with wwasp seminars. At the end of the seminar, once the group is done humiliating and verbally attacking each another, there is another strange 'process'. This process involves everyone breaking up into groups of 6 people or so, the lights are dimmed to almost darkness and the atmosphere becomes very surreal, it was very quiet. They play all sorts of cheesy music, for example mariah carey's butterfly, songs like that. One at a time, a person in your group of six was singled out, and brought to the center of your group circle.
They would lie down in the center of everyone on the floor, the lights were dimmed and they would close their eyes. This is where the specific song on your poster comes from, at least in our seminar. There are six different songs played for each person in the group. When the music plays, each person in the group whispers compliments and praise into the ear of the person lying on the ground. Since most of the seminar is spent degrading you with no mercy, this is a definite change of pace. People who were screaming terrible things in your face only one day ago, were now telling you how beautiful a person you are quietly in your ear, while you listen to 'your song' play in the background. Even our family rep came over and whispered compliments into our ear, and how much she loved us. The small people, namely some of the girls, would literally be lifted off the ground and walked around, as if they were floating on air, being told of love in their ear all the while. It was common for the group to pet the individual laying down, in a sense, comfort them as much as they possibly can. It was very child-like, something a parent would do.
To anyone who has read in more detail about the WWASP seminars, or has attended themselves, it will make perfect sense why some people treasure their signs forever. They associate the signs with love, in very real contrast to the hate and pain they also experienced during the seminar. "
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I recall a similar scenario played out in Straight.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys
--P.J. O'Rourke
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Nihilanthic:
In one testimony I've read about seminars the err... facilitator claimed to have bragged that he was 'harder on the kids'...
...and plenty of parents come out and want their kids to get that!
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy (1917-63), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, 13 March 1962, the White House.
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-04-26 18:18:00, Nihilanthic wrote:
"In one testimony I've read about seminars the err... facilitator claimed to have bragged that he was 'harder on the kids'..."
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Why do I get the feeling it was this guy?
Antigen:
Isn't that part of the standard rap? That's what they always told the parents in Straight parent weekends and open meeting review raps back in the early `80's. And it was true, too.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Gandhi
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