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General Interest => Tacitus' Realm => Topic started by: Stonewall on November 03, 2010, 07:13:53 PM
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For Eternity we have taught our children to believe this or that, to follow a certain religion, or Nationalism, or Racism... or we condemn them to hell. For Eternity. Perhaps instead we should do the opposite. Tell them to get together for all of our differences, and then face hell later on.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xB4dbdN ... re=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xB4dbdNSXY&feature=related)
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In fact, if everyone just went along with the Beatles... we'd get along just fine.
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In fact, if everyone just went along with the Beatles... we'd get along just fine.
:tup: The song that I'm assuming this thread was titled for is so true.
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I always thought that Don Henly's LITTLE TIN GOD musta been written with ross/peterman/newton/or at least art barker in mind. But then again .......I cant take anybody as preachy as john lennon seriously. Thats just me though.
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John's earlier solo stuff is a bit better musically than his later stuff; worth checking out, if you haven't..
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I always thought that Don Henly's LITTLE TIN GOD musta been written with ross/peterman/newton/or at least art barker in mind. But then again .......I cant take anybody as preachy as john lennon seriously. Thats just me though.
I was inspired by your post here that I pasted his song on another political thread, hope you did not mind. John Lennon was a unique personality, very deep.
I liked his audaciousness with the US Govt during the latter campaign of the Vietnam War (carpet bombing), Nixon hated him and anybody Nixon hated was good with me.
Don Henley, can be snobbish but he kicks ass with what he supports.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTt7eCq02hM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTt7eCq02hM)
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In fact, if everyone just went along with the Beatles... we'd get along just fine.
:tup: The song that I'm assuming this thread was titled for is so true.
CEDU had an entire workshop based on that song. And our three day workshop involved most of the music from the Plastic Ono Band. In fact, Lennon himself was into primal scream for a while.
I personally think that he was an arrogant prick, and a huge snob, and that opinion is completely independent of CEDU's general hippietard asshattery. Most of his political stunts and protests were more about him than whatever cause he was pretending to give a shit about. Ego-motherfucking-maniac.There's a great audio compilation of Lennon soundbites, remixed to music. He is being himself: talking like a complete asshole. I cant recall the name of it. (Its possible one of those youtube links in this thread is it, but Im too lazy to check.)
His music and his personal philosophy involved naive, simplistic, misguided, and totally toxic thinking. It's no accident the program had such a hard-on for him.
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CEDU had an entire workshop based on that song. And our three day workshop involved most of the music from the Plastic Ono Band. In fact, Lennon himself was into primal scream for a while.
I personally think that he was an arrogant prick, and a huge snob, and that opinion is completely independent of CEDU's general hippietard asshattery. Most of his political stunts and protests were more about him than whatever cause he was pretending to give a shit about. Ego-motherfucking-maniac.There's a great audio compilation of Lennon soundbites, remixed to music. He is being himself: talking like a complete asshole. I cant recall the name of it. (Its possible one of those youtube links in this thread is it, but Im too lazy to check.)
His music and his personal philosophy involved naive, simplistic, misguided, and totally toxic thinking. It's no accident the program had such a hard-on for him.
Dont take any offense by this but I have been reading enough here to say that it is entirely possible that you dislike John Lennon because of the association with the CEDU workshop. I believe you would be equally pissed off at Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson or Keith Richards if they developed a workshop around them. My daughter cannot stand some of the music she heard while in the program because it reminds her of the tough time she had there and even disagrees with the musicians views. Similar to the way you feel about John Lennon.
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My daughter cannot stand some of the music she heard while in the program because it reminds her of the tough time she had there and even disagrees with the musicians views.
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A "tough time" is what your daughter was having BEFORE you forced her into a mind rape mill ( assuming for the sake of argument that she really exists ), probably as a result of having at least one completely incompetent and selfish parent. And I'm with Heretic on John Lennon, anyone Nixon hated that much must have been doing something right.
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My daughter cannot stand some of the music she heard while in the program because it reminds her of the tough time she had there and even disagrees with the musicians views.
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A "tough time" is what your daughter was having BEFORE you forced her into a mind rape mill ( assuming for the sake of argument that she really exists ), probably as a result of having at least one completely incompetent and selfish parent. And I'm with Heretic on John Lennon, anyone Nixon hated that much must have been doing something right.
My daughter didnt go to CEDU or a mind rape mill as you call it. She was having a tough time before she entered a program also, but it is clear that you blindly buy into the hype here on fornits and have never been to a program yourself or you would know that it is hard work and not necessarily the best memory of your life but it wasnt horrible either. Many of the kids look back on the program they were in and it reminds them of a tough patch in their life.
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whooter wrote;
"Many of the kids look back on the program they were in and it reminds them of a tough patch in their life.
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Gee wonder why? The art of overstating the obvious? For most of us it reminds us of the absolute worst patch of life. GEEZE!
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My daughter didnt go to CEDU or a mind rape mill as you call it. She was having a tough time before she entered a program also, but it is clear that you blindly buy into the hype here on fornits and have never been to a program yourself or you would know that it is hard work and not necessarily the best memory of your life but it wasnt horrible either. Many of the kids look back on the program they were in and it reminds them of a tough patch in their life.
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Imagine;
150 kids sitting in church pews, about 90 boys on one side of the room and about 60 girls on the other side. They sit there for 12 to 16 hours a day, not allowed to move or talk or look in any direction but straight ahead. If they start to doze off, someone digs knuckles into their back or licks their finger and sticks it in the kids ear (eeww!)
Imagine being hungry all day every day. Imagine being terrified, all day every day. Imagine spending all day praying that one or the other of your parents will come to their senses and come rescue you, only to have those prayers go unanswered every day. Imagine being “restrained” by a half dozen over excited, untrained teenagers on the hard concrete floor.
Yes Whooter, I have been in a program. And yes Whooter, it was horrible. Horrible might not even be a strong enough word. Twenty five years have gone by and I still have nightmares about that place.
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My daughter didnt go to CEDU or a mind rape mill as you call it. She was having a tough time before she entered a program also, but it is clear that you blindly buy into the hype here on fornits and have never been to a program yourself or you would know that it is hard work and not necessarily the best memory of your life but it wasnt horrible either. Many of the kids look back on the program they were in and it reminds them of a tough patch in their life.
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Imagine;
150 kids sitting in church pews, about 90 boys on one side of the room and about 60 girls on the other side. They sit there for 12 to 16 hours a day, not allowed to move or talk or look in any direction but straight ahead. If they start to doze off, someone digs knuckles into their back or licks their finger and sticks it in the kids ear (eeww!)
Imagine being hungry all day every day. Imagine being terrified, all day every day. Imagine spending all day praying that one or the other of your parents will come to their senses and come rescue you, only to have those prayers go unanswered every day. Imagine being “restrained” by a half dozen over excited, untrained teenagers on the hard concrete floor.
Yes Whooter, I have been in a program. And yes Whooter, it was horrible. Horrible might not even be a strong enough word. Twenty five years have gone by and I still have nightmares about that place.
Assuming (just for a moment) that you really did attend a program, your account is vastly different than my daughters. They had great food, she gained weight in spite of being 10 times as active. Not one restraint was needed ever that she or I could recall or other graduates before and after her on any student. The only time the kids had to sit for long periods of time was when they were in the class room. The kids called the place a bubble because they felt safe there, they were never scared or had a reason to be.
How can a person grow and build self esteem, work on family issues, study for PSAT's etc. in an environment that you describe? Either these programs are vastly different and vary from one to another or you are not being truthful to the readers here about being in a program or the details you described.
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My daughter didnt go to CEDU or a mind rape mill as you call it. She was having a tough time before she entered a program also, but it is clear that you blindly buy into the hype here on fornits and have never been to a program yourself or you would know that it is hard work and not necessarily the best memory of your life but it wasnt horrible either. Many of the kids look back on the program they were in and it reminds them of a tough patch in their life.
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Imagine;
150 kids sitting in church pews, about 90 boys on one side of the room and about 60 girls on the other side. They sit there for 12 to 16 hours a day, not allowed to move or talk or look in any direction but straight ahead. If they start to doze off, someone digs knuckles into their back or licks their finger and sticks it in the kids ear (eeww!)
Imagine being hungry all day every day. Imagine being terrified, all day every day. Imagine spending all day praying that one or the other of your parents will come to their senses and come rescue you, only to have those prayers go unanswered every day. Imagine being “restrained” by a half dozen over excited, untrained teenagers on the hard concrete floor.
Yes Whooter, I have been in a program. And yes Whooter, it was horrible. Horrible might not even be a strong enough word. Twenty five years have gone by and I still have nightmares about that place.
Assuming (just for a moment) that you really did attend a program, your account is vastly different than my daughters. They had great food, she gained weight in spite of being 10 times as active. Not one restraint was needed ever that she or I could recall or other graduates before and after her on any student. The only time the kids had to sit for long periods of time was when they were in the class room. The kids called the place a bubble because they felt safe there, they were never scared or had a reason to be.
How can a person grow and build self esteem, work on family issues, study for PSAT's etc. in an environment that you describe? Either these programs are vastly different and vary from one to another or you are not being truthful to the readers here about being in a program or the details you described.
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BUILD self esteem? No, they were attempting, with a large degree of success, to DESTROY our self esteem so that we would be obedient little stepford kids. Vastly different? Prove it. And as for me being in a program, you probably have George Ross on speed dial, see if he remembers an angry red haired boy who would be called out for "intellectualizing" nearly every day. A kid who spent over five months on phase 1. Since I know you have no experience with these programs, intellectualizing is what they accused you of when you attempted to point out how abusive their "help" was. Or if the counselors just thought you were smarter than they were, and therefore had no clue if you were being "honest" or not. Oh, and "abscess" is a better descriptor than "bubble" for these places. A bubble, sure, but one filled with infection and toxins.
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How do you build self esteem, when you are told that you are a worthless piece of shit for 12 (or more)hours a day, starved, dehydrated, and sleep deprived. It's like the military. Break you down, just so they can rebuild and reboot you,their way.Self esteem does not alow for that. It get's in their way.
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BUILD self esteem? No, they were attempting, with a large degree of success, to DESTROY our self esteem so that we would be obedient little stepford kids. Vastly different? Prove it. And as for me being in a program, you probably have George Ross on speed dial, see if he remembers an angry red haired boy who would be called out for "intellectualizing" nearly every day. A kid who spent over five months on phase 1. Since I know you have no experience with these programs, intellectualizing is what they accused you of when you attempted to point out how abusive their "help" was. Or if the counselors just thought you were smarter than they were, and therefore had no clue if you were being "honest" or not. Oh, and "abscess" is a better descriptor than "bubble" for these places. A bubble, sure, but one filled with infection and toxins.
I think this shows a very large difference between the program you have witnessed to the ones I have. The program that my daughter went to worked towards restoring the family unit, building self esteem and getting the child back on an academic path. They also offered individual therapy for those who opted for it. The kids themselves named it the bubble not the school.
I dont even know who George Ross is, Shaddy, lol. Founder of CEDU?
Hopefully these programs that are closely modeled after CEDU will slowly fade into the horizon and be replaced by programs which restore family values and build self esteem and prepare the kids for the outside world when it comes time to transition back to the real world.
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Hopefully these programs that are closely modeled after CEDU will slowly fade into the horizon and be replaced by programs which restore family values and build self esteem and prepare the kids for the outside world when it comes time to transition back to the real world.
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Whooter, I was hoping the same for you, but you are not willing to work on yourself. I really wish you would work on your self esteem. Feel better about yourself! Right?
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30684&start=30 (http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30684&start=30)
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BUILD self esteem? No, they were attempting, with a large degree of success, to DESTROY our self esteem so that we would be obedient little stepford kids. Vastly different? Prove it. And as for me being in a program, you probably have George Ross on speed dial, see if he remembers an angry red haired boy who would be called out for "intellectualizing" nearly every day. A kid who spent over five months on phase 1. Since I know you have no experience with these programs, intellectualizing is what they accused you of when you attempted to point out how abusive their "help" was. Or if the counselors just thought you were smarter than they were, and therefore had no clue if you were being "honest" or not. Oh, and "abscess" is a better descriptor than "bubble" for these places. A bubble, sure, but one filled with infection and toxins.
I think this shows a very large difference between the program you have witnessed to the ones I have. The program that my daughter went to worked towards restoring the family unit, building self esteem and getting the child back on an academic path. They also offered individual therapy for those who opted for it. The kids themselves named it the bubble not the school.
I dont even know who George Ross is, Shaddy, lol. Founder of CEDU?
Hopefully these programs that are closely modeled after CEDU will slowly fade into the horizon and be replaced by programs which restore family values and build self esteem and prepare the kids for the outside world when it comes time to transition back to the real world.
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George Ross was another Johnny Appleseed of institutionalized child abuse. He started working at Straight, St. Pete, then cofounded LIFE with Helen Peterman, then went to Kentucky to found Kids of Hebron, KY. He helped design the ridiculously abusive program I was in and is still practicing today; http://www.georgerross.com/ (http://www.georgerross.com/)
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That website is just plain disturbing, and downright diabolical.The pied piper led the rats away first, then came back for the children creepy.....
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George Ross was another Johnny Appleseed of institutionalized child abuse. He started working at Straight, St. Pete, then cofounded LIFE with Helen Peterman, then went to Kentucky to found Kids of Hebron, KY. He helped design the ridiculously abusive program I was in and is still practicing today; http://www.georgerross.com/ (http://www.georgerross.com/)
No matter how much the industry improves there are always going to be people and programs like these. There is no getting around it. Every industry has their downside. But the industry doesn't have to be defined by them
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"It was a rich man who said 'Imagine no possessions'"---J. Biafra
Fuck the Beatles anyway. Candy assed little wankers can't come close to the Stones.
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AMEN......All you need is love(and john lennons bank account) :nods: