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CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones / Poor Old "Summit Gives" *long but a must read*
« on: September 12, 2005, 03:48:00 AM »
You know what's worst than being bitter about not graduating and pissing and moaning about whatever?...and what I'm about to say is so true...It's leaving the school and having the misconception that the world that Cedu and the time spent "in the system" is what can truly guide you through life as is.
I, like many of the folks that I know graduated, left the school with a sense of completion and a cloud of euphoria. We went home and tried to be friends with everybody and tried to coach "friends" through hard times and expect to use the tools to make a difference.(Well some folks fell off the wagon and got back in their old routine) But shit...that only works until the real world comes crashing down on you! I was 15 when I graduated and I was so damn lost and the last thing that people look for in "the outside world" from then until at least the late teens is someone trying to preach to them the way we were preached to and even preached to each other.
"Summit Gives" i don't know when you graduated because it sounds like you just did...if not than you must live a quiet or strict religous life because alot of the day to day fundamentals are null and void once you drive away and mesh back into real life.
The biggest gift of CEDU is the gift of PSYCHOLOGY! If used right, the art of manipulation, candy coating: saying the right thing at the right time to soothe unfortunate possibilities, and expressing yourself through writing can take you a long way (hell I'm a marketing management major and I use those ploys in my research).
You can't run your anger with a group of friends, if you're a guy you can't "smoosh" with them, and finally I dare you to throw on some good ol' Cedu jams like - Tell It all or I am a rock or He Ain't heavy - with some friends around and there will not be a single tear shed or a friendly hug (unless you guys are hippies)
Yeah you may have made some good friends...how many do you talk to? Yeah you probably have less baggage now or maybe more BUT YOU CAN'T PREACH TO PEOPLE ABOUT KEEPING SOMETHING SACRED THAT MOST OF THE STAFF AND MAYBE EVEN MEL HIMSELF DID NOT!
Have your memories, and your scrapbook, and whatever other momento you may have in your shrine but you need to wake up and realize the reality of CEDU was not loving and caring for all of us...for many, it was a bastian of abuse, confusion, and pain; even for some of us that went through everything from Truth to Summit. So please...quite being blind!
I, like many of the folks that I know graduated, left the school with a sense of completion and a cloud of euphoria. We went home and tried to be friends with everybody and tried to coach "friends" through hard times and expect to use the tools to make a difference.(Well some folks fell off the wagon and got back in their old routine) But shit...that only works until the real world comes crashing down on you! I was 15 when I graduated and I was so damn lost and the last thing that people look for in "the outside world" from then until at least the late teens is someone trying to preach to them the way we were preached to and even preached to each other.
"Summit Gives" i don't know when you graduated because it sounds like you just did...if not than you must live a quiet or strict religous life because alot of the day to day fundamentals are null and void once you drive away and mesh back into real life.
The biggest gift of CEDU is the gift of PSYCHOLOGY! If used right, the art of manipulation, candy coating: saying the right thing at the right time to soothe unfortunate possibilities, and expressing yourself through writing can take you a long way (hell I'm a marketing management major and I use those ploys in my research).
You can't run your anger with a group of friends, if you're a guy you can't "smoosh" with them, and finally I dare you to throw on some good ol' Cedu jams like - Tell It all or I am a rock or He Ain't heavy - with some friends around and there will not be a single tear shed or a friendly hug (unless you guys are hippies)
Yeah you may have made some good friends...how many do you talk to? Yeah you probably have less baggage now or maybe more BUT YOU CAN'T PREACH TO PEOPLE ABOUT KEEPING SOMETHING SACRED THAT MOST OF THE STAFF AND MAYBE EVEN MEL HIMSELF DID NOT!
Have your memories, and your scrapbook, and whatever other momento you may have in your shrine but you need to wake up and realize the reality of CEDU was not loving and caring for all of us...for many, it was a bastian of abuse, confusion, and pain; even for some of us that went through everything from Truth to Summit. So please...quite being blind!