This Date

[Woof-a-Doof]

January 21st 1978

I was taken to Straight Inc.

The date just dawned on me. Explains a lethargic day....ok, slothful.

31 years of this shit. Un-fucking believable! It's old...way fucking old.

I am so glad I believe in...

Much Healng
Om Shanti
woof

[starry-eyed pirate]

Yeah ? How 'd that go down ??  In my case my folks told me we were goin to talk to a family counselor, which I didn't mind. Sometimes I liked bein able to talk to those guys, only I got a weird feelin when my dad pulled into Ravensworth shopping center, maybe a mile from the building and there were 2 of his buddies standing by their disabled car, which had it's hood up, lookin like they could use some help.  My dad offered them a ride and one got in on either side of me in the back seat.  They were big men.  I didn't realize at the time that I was walkin into a trap that would leave me so bitter and crippled and radicalized and enlightened.

...and even empowered by the knowledge I gained.  You know what I mean ?  Not the program crap they so desperately espoused but the real lessons of $tr8, that in the end, people in America are commodities.  $tr8 was just the stripped down version of our society.  The Beast in it's real form.  Authority maintained power and control the same way in $tr8 as it does anywhere.  By dividing the people from each other and separating individuals from themselves.

Fuck Authority.  God is in you.

[Anonymous]

It will be 30 years ago for me this summer.
Hard to believe that so much time has passed.

The one thing that I have taken with me ever since then though is that I was stronger then they were.
They didn't break me. They tried, but I survived and have gone on to have a good life.
Living well is the best revenge and maybe in some way, it's survival of the fittest.

St8 was not my life, just a very bad part of it.
Had many other bad parts along the way that were more painful and difficult to deal with, but I'm still here which I think says it all.

I live every day as if it's my last. Loss will teach you that lesson but it's a hell of a hard one to learn.

Peace  :peace:

[Anonymous]

I didn't realize at the time that I was walkin into a trap that would leave me so bitter and crippled and radicalized and enlightened.

Real therapy or counseling can't be achieved if it's founded in an aura of deception. It would be impossible to trust these people after this. Especially your own family who is supposed to protect you.

hope you made it through this anniversary ok

[Anonymous]

It will be 30 years ago for me this summer.
Hard to believe that so much time has passed.

The one thing that I have taken with me ever since then though is that I was stronger then they were.
They didn't break me. They tried, but I survived and have gone on to have a good life.
Living well is the best revenge and maybe in some way, it's survival of the fittest.

St8 was not my life, just a very bad part of it.
Had many other bad parts along the way that were more painful and difficult to deal with, but I'm still here which I think says it all.

I live every day as if it's my last. Loss will teach you that lesson but it's a hell of a hard one to learn.

Peace  :peace:

Forgot to say hello to my starry-eyed pirate!!

[FemanonFatal2.0]

the 6 year anniversary of my escape from the clutches of Casa By The Sea was eariler this month... I try to view it as a celebratory time, reflect on everything I guess and give myself come credit for coming out alright despite the hell I went through.

I usually make it a point to write a journal entry on this date, a tradition I guess and read the previous entries just to see how far I have come. Its important to separate yourself from the incident most of the time but sometimes you just have to remind yourself where you came from and what made you as strong as you are.

and then I have a beer. :cheers:

[Froderik]

and even empowered by the knowledge I gained.  You know what I mean ?  Not the program crap they so desperately espoused but the real lessons of $tr8, that in the end, people in America are commodities.  $tr8 was just the stripped down version of our society.  The Beast in it's real form.  Authority maintained power and control the same way in $tr8 as it does anywhere.  By dividing the people from each other and separating individuals from themselves.

Yes, being caught up in an...absurdity like "Straight Inc." did hammer this point home! It also demonstrated to us that freedom in America really is an illusion -- more like greed and fascism waving a fake flag of freedom, trying to divide us from ourselves.