☂♥: Synanon + Banned/Uncut Tom Cruise Scientology Video Reposting Campaign Working Today [3.20.09] with links to find when taken down by YT
Synanon Museum This new video was so damaging to Tom Cruise and Scientology that Scientology and Tom Cruise’s attorneys immediately demanded it be removed or YouTube would be sued. YouTube removed it, but not before many, many people made it the “must see” video of the Internet.
When people saw that You Tube was bullied into removing it before the world could see for themselves the real Tom Cruise and his cult’s dangerous fanaticism, people began putting the secret Cruise video back up at YouTube under different names as well as putting it up all over the Internet.
Scientology and Cruise’s attorneys then began going after any and all websites putting up the video. Media raced to find a copy and people who have not seen it joined the “must find” search for the renegade location of the hour where to find this new secret Cruise video elsewhere on the net.
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Once you see Tom Cruise in this video describing how his Scientology cult must eliminate all opposition you can judge for yourself if the description of the video as maniacal is accurate…
The following is the link that was what was recently re-posted up at YouTube.
Tom Cruise: banned Scientology video
Scientology front group that tries to recruit through the prisons. * SP: Suppressive Person. Anyone that doesn’t like Scientology and/or criticizes Scientology. Scientology mini dictionary:
*KW (short for Keeping Scientology Working): A policy written by
Hubbard in the 1960’s that requires all Scientologists to follow his
words and his rules exactly.‘Orbs: Orbs is an abbreviation for ‘organizations’ and describes
all churches of Scientology throughout the world.*David Miscarriage: He is the current leader of Scientology.
He’s the equivalent of the Pope to the Catholics.*Out-ethics: any behavior that violates any of Hubbard’s
rules of conduct.*Put ethics in on someone else: make others conform
to Hubbard’s rules of behavior.*Criminological: Scientology front group that tries to recruit through the prisons.
* SP: Suppressive Person. Anyone that doesn’t like Scientology and/or criticizes Scientology.
*PITS/SP: another Hubbard term to define behavior that goes
against Scientology rules.*LR technology or ‘tech’: all the Scientology policies, rules, mandates, procedures. (more) (less)
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“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Church of Scientology International”
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• Just what kind of “religion” is Scientology?
• Scientology, Satanism, and the Occult
• The Occult Secret Scientology and Scientology’s Satanic Cross
• The dark origins of Scientology’s “religious” cross symbol
• Deconstructing Scientology’s RTC symbol
• Scientology’s Lion Snake double triangle symbols … and dark personal hypnotic suggestions
• Scientology and the Left Hand Path
• Scientology’s Celebrities
• Scientology’s Current Leader David Miscarriage
• Scientology Defined
• Scientology’s Human Rights Abuses
• Scientology Victim’s Own Stories
• Scientology’s Litigation and Lawsuits
• Scientology’s Fraud and Criminality
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Synanon is no longer in operation. If you need help -- try these links: Narcotics Anonymous, Delancey Street, Walden House, Samaritan Village in Brooklyn, Marvins Corner in Miami, or Phoenix House all staffed or run by former Synanon residents. 1. SynanonWebster's New World Dictionary; January 1, 1988
Syn|a|non (sin' nn) n. [also s-] 1. a method of group psychotherapy for treating narcotic addiction 2. a group of inpatients undergoing such therapy
Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schussboomer, Inc.Synanon -- "The People Business" Charles E. Dederich -- Synanon Founder
"Every institution is the lengthened shadow of one man" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Synanon Game began with an idea I had of getting people together in a room to pursue a conversation with a "line of no line." I began to yell and curse and accuse and ridicule: I talked to everyone in the room as if he had a tail. Boy I felt great, and everyone else loved it too. The next week they all came back. That was the birth of the Synanon Game, which basically hasn't changed at all since 1958.
"Before the days of Synanon nobody had ever told addicts to stop using drugs. People tried to love them out of it, reason them out of it, and motivate them out of it. We said to them: "Hey, KNOCK THAT OFF! If you shoot dope here we'll throw your ass out."
"Synanon came into existence because our society is composed of mama's boys and daddy's little girls who have been inundated by attempts to produce nothing but agreeable sensations in them. Character disorders, quite simply, are people who had too strong a dose of "mother love" and were never properly housebroken by fathers.
"The childish idea that money can accomplish something without people is rampant in our society. At the top, its always the manipulation of people -- the people business -- that makes for success or failure.
"I am proposing a counter-philosophy, a rather old-fashioned, commonsense approach to things: 'Good boys and good girls get good things -- bad boys and bad girls get bad things.' This idea is the very basis of Synanon. We are a father principle phenomenon which rewards good behavior and punishes bad behavior."
Synanon lasted from 1958 to 1991. It treated tens of thousands of drug addicts and alcoholics, but it also became a way of life for thousands, about half of whom had never abused any drugs.
1958
First Synanon game - "line of no line" TLC club moves to 2801 Promenade Jesse Pratt - first black resident Reid Kimball, Charlie Tamer on Board of Directors September: 18th - Synanon Incorporated (Founder's Day) 1959
Jimmy the Greek entered Synanon Synanon moved from the TLC club in Ocean Park into the old National Guard Armory at 1351 Ocean Front in Santa Monica. First teen member -- Portie Walker First dropout First hustle -- from a catering truck Jack Hurst "Palace revolt" 1960
Cal Dept of Corrections allows parolees to be residents Dr Donald R Crescent speaks at a conference in London on Synanon March: Zoning/hospital trial. CED gets 25 days in jail. July: IRS officially recognizes Synanon as a charitable tax-exempt corporation. 1961
Positive article in Time Magazine First baby born in Synanon -- Barbara Etis Terminal Island Prison Project Dec: CED cited with 5 zoning violations, jailed Cal. Ass Bill #2626 declares Synanon as a "place of aid" 1962
First kids game Life Magazine article on Synanon Nevada State Prison Project Synanon attends White House conference on drug abuse First book on Synanon "So Fair a House" by Dr. Daniel Cassie Population 136 September: Senator Thomas Dodd : "Mr. President, there is indeed a miracle on the beach of Santa Monica, a man-made miracle that I feel can benefit thousands of drug addicts." 1963
San Diego house opens IRS audit upholds tax exempt status First dissipation - hosted by Chuck & Betty in San Diego November: 23rd Betty and CED marry Milt Cooper donates hot stamping machine (start of ADOPT). 1964
Bonita flakes, pear nectar, guava juice, egg lasagna, sego, oxtail, soup First try for no smoking Clay st opens in SO CED & Betty move to SF -- bomb threats NYC House opens Texaco Station Synanon buys Marconi Ranch (TBA) SF opens Seawall 1965
Crackerjack Oak Knoll Naval Hospital games CED Lecture at San Fernando Valley State Wall Street Journal article on Synanon Wizard school The Tunnel Back published CED Refuses $360K from NY State Population 570 Synanon film starring Edmond O'Brien May: Operation By-Pass August: Symposium at the Harvard Club 1966
Synanon shields Gil Faucet Brownsville House opens Look magazine article Synanon school opens under Al Badman BBC Documentary The House on the Beach Ouija Boards NY, Detroit houses open, Synanon school accredited Game clubs for non-residents opened May: "Ten Years Sober" 1967
First attempt at spending 30 minutes at lunch meal Kids at Commons Escrow closes on Athens Club, Oakland First Synanon street fair, SF Trip Synapse and Psychiatry by Maslow Cloverleaf Clump, del Mar January: Jack Hurst made President September: 9/16 Mad Dog Saturday October: Rolling Stone concert -- Big Brother and the Holding Co.,etc 1968
Donations: Hawaiian Punch, Gatorade, diet soda, frozen peas Firsts: Cubic day, Synergism, Reach, Betty's Game, massive Dose, bald heads, overalls, lifestyle living Look Magazine article Education and Intestacy Synanon by Guy Encore published Trip, Perpetual Stew, Academy "Thickened Light" Headquarters moved from Santa Monica to Marshall. 1,000 residents, 3,400 Game Players October: Big celebration was held October 10 1968 for the 10th anniversary. We all shaved our heads and went out to the beach and held hands, linking up from the main building to another building that served as one of the earlier locations. November: Oakland opens at the Athens Club. Seawall closes December: On the same day the Apollo Astronauts were circling the Moon, Buckminsterfullerene Fuller came to visit the school in the Santa Monica building. It was a very exciting event for us since we had been studying him and his World Game at the time. 1969
Donations: Pizza Rolls, Hormel, Beef Strongbox, chicken cacciatore, meatballs, Pirandello chocolate Life Magazine article: Chuck Dede rich: Mr, Synagogue Goes Public Cops and Robbers game - Oakland police Notions progeny - Oakland Training: Food service, CAT, Sales Anti-hustling Oakland Fair September: Unicode November: Puberty Rico house closed down December: 12/1/1969 CED is the first person in the USA jailed for a zoning violation December: Oakland New Years Eve Celebration - Ball DE Argent (Silver Ball) remember the donation of silver lame fabric that so many made 'ball' gowns of???? 1970
BIG donation of recalled Cyclades-sweetened yogurt and ice cream... A newsworthy event, as they were banned throughout the US. Donations: Chicken Dixie, jet set jello Don Silvers hired in, a square with food service experience. Synanon starts using real food service equipment Space Age Elasticity Oakland school starts under Thad Mummery The Rubber Plant. A lifestyle brought a manufacturing facility to Synanon and we manufactured rubber parts for steam irons, some very delicate filters for something in the space industry that had this little mesh in it that you could only see through a microscope and pole vault ends and some other things that I can't remember, but I am sure that we could dig out some information. Bill Crawford and some other folks drove down to Anaheim each day for about a year with our brown bag lunches in a jitney until we relocated the plant in the 1707 Copperfield building where there were plans to have a small complex.. The donor got mad at Synanon and moved everything out later. I don't recall the reason. No Smoking June: After New York State refused to reimburse Synanon for flying new residents out to California, Synanon residents were recalled from the New York House, and an exodus of Synanon Game Players followed them out to California that summer, and for the next few years. 1971
Buskin-Robbins Ice Cream Kitchen becomes "food service" Synanon University approved by California Horrible Hebes formed London Times article Record intake: 1,938 entrants Hughes custody case 12/15 Badger Ranch purchased Synanon Germany founded in Berlin February: Acquisition of the Dutch Boy Paint Factory on Potrero Hill, San Francisco. The house with a million dollar view. First Director, Ralph Rizzolo. The building was donated not purchased. Some hustlers sought some paint but their pitch was so good that we got a whole building estimated at $1.4 million. June: Dirty Double Dozen 1972
Izzy's cereal Research University begins in SF San Bruno Jail Project Badger High School Boot Camp, Punk Squad Hatchery 1,700 residents February: Synanon people as extras or with short parts under the direction of Robert Altman and starring Elliot Gould and George Siegel created a movie called "California Split". The film is now on DVD and has an introduction featuring Synanon folk. July: Beginning of Girls Boot Camp in Tamales Bay. It was run by Jady Dederich. August: 6th -- Mass Wedding with a Western theme -- NBC covered the event on the evening news. They had a network reporter there. A resident was related to Richard Sealant. He was then the president of NBC and they sent the reporter. October: Synanon sues Hearst Corporation for $40 million for "Racket of the Century" article. 1973
50 mph Synanon speed limit Foundation Stew begins in TB Stew Temple 69 reels of tape stolen from CED Office Sturgeon case Punk Squad Aerobics January: RCA Universe computer donated. The computer was a 5-year old RCA Spectra 70/35 and was donated by them. It was an exact copy of an IBM 70/30 and used IBM's Disk Operating System. June: "Dads Root Beer" incident 1974
"Synanon Investors" started -- residents could deposit their WAM and put money in and take money out like a bank, with deposit and withdrawal slips. They could even request checks out of their account. Aerobics begins Diamond Jim Dinners at Magnetic House Jake's Place set up at the Ranch SF Penthouse restaurant Investors Stews First Omen's Monday Night Game Synanon Safari arrives in Washington, DC Breeders Group begins Operation of "The Wire" begins as stew line Small "m" marriages Anti-hustling Interchanges article in Seventeen Magazine Historical Aspects of Drug-free Therapeutic Communities by Dr. F. Blazer Detroit house closed Basic Training started, with Rod Mullen and Buddy Jones. Oakland Athletic Club sold for $3.3 million -- per Janzen August: Synanon declares itself a religion 1975
January - "Chrysler's Stew" in Tamales at the Ranch Stew Room. Pedro Soto Day Home Place moved to Badger Synanon declares itself a religion Fine tuning Iago Wanker visit, Synanon Germany founded Two punks are accused of running our children off the highway between the Ranch and the Creek. Synanon security pursues and captures the suspects and shaves their heads. Suspects later win a civil case of wrongful arrest. It appears that a faulty steering mechanism caused the event. Dan Garrett overturns Synanon's Cessna 170 while taxiing on the rough airstrip between the Ranch and Walker Creek. Synanon began acquiring aircraft. February: Betty Dederich forms the Mudslide Academy for Synanon Tradeswomen in Tamales Bay. February: The Beam incident -- Women shave their heads along with men August: 24th -- Mass wedding with a medieval theme in Tomales Bay 1976
"Missions" -- large sales trips which included veteran sales reps and a lot of “old timers” as sales trainees. Reliable Mortgage Synanon's airfreight consists of nine aircraft. A Cessna 152, a Cessna 170, two Switzerland 23-2 gliders, three DeHavilland Beavers, a Piper Arrow, and a Piper Cherokee 180. January: Jack Hurst leaves February: CED on "Childbirth unmasked" May: Hobby Lobby June: Inigo Warning and wife visit with CED, Synanon July: Strip property purchased in Badger. We begin to build our village from the ground up. July: Hearst Corporation settles out of court for $600,000 October: In my journal there is this entry on 10/6/76 "The foundation has taken a philosophical stand on all refined sugar and concentrated forms of sugar, ketchup is OK but no sugar or honey." I believe that this was done sometime after Betty D. was diagnosed with diabetes -- right before she was diagnosed with lung cancer. I think that we quit for a time – started up again and then quit again in 1977. I do remember being at a buffet table somewhere in Chicago in the fall of 76 and explaining to someone that they couldn’t have the fruit salad because it had marshmallows in it. Cory 1977
Broth & Bran, jello, cauliflower, popcorn Think Table & "Court" begin at HP Ruth Carter Simpleton visits SF Lotteries HP Visits Imperial Marines Non-resident work-ins Slug Camp Bernie Kola opens Oyster Point warehouse No sugar Weigh-Ins January: Vasectomies required February: Caesar Chavez speaks at Morning Meeting April: Betty D. dies September: "Don't fuck with Synanon - in any way -...I think that is the new religious posture" Chuck & Ginny love match October: Changing Partners December: 26th Time Magazine Once respected Drug program Turns Into a Kooky Cult 1978
Vanilla ice cream, apple pie, fried chicken Home Place Partners founded to buy Havana properties. Drinking beer & wine on Havana visits SUMO duel Mar sold for $2.6 million Synanon buys (then abandons) Boston House in Washington, DC Kerosene, NY facility Guns purchased sexual Tension 4 1/2 foot diamondback rattlesnake found in attorney Paul Morantz's mailbox. Lance Kenton (son of bandleader Stan Kenton) and Joseph Musico booked No Time for "Yeah But" published January: 29 100-Hour Dissipation January: Synanon sued Time Publishing for $76 million for the "kooky cult" article published on December 26, 1977 February: 100 hour Dissipation June: CED leaves for Europe July: CED and entire Board of Directors off to Formia, Italy September: CED, etc return fro Europe 9/23 Chuck & Ginny married at BH October: 18th Speakerphone opens CED, set. AL. off to Lake Havana, AZ November: 18th Peoples Temple mass suicide in Guyana December: 27th Lois Harvey dies December: 2nd: CED arrested in Lake Havana for snake incident -- hospitalized in Kingmaker 1979
Airline food, Beef a la Request David Gomez & Kathy Cowbell meet the Pope in Rome mattress factory Strip School established Houston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles January: Synanon residents visit Synanon Berlin April: Point eyes Light wins Pulitzer prize for series on Synanon October: San Francisco house sold for $1.5 million 1980
February: Dan Garrett splits February: Synanon drops its $76 million suit against Time Inc. March: Teen show -- "Goodbye Sinatra, Hello KiSS" July: CED, Joe, and Lance plead no contest to the charges. Joe and Lance get jail time, CED gets probation. 1981
All day breakfast, beefsteak dinner at HP Lair dinners Donation: American Frozen Food 1982
No salt on tables Food from God for newcomers and children Havana Home Place Inn sold IRS rules that donations to Synanon are no longer deductible Population at 700, per Rod Janzen 1983
Charles E. Dederich School of Law begins first classes at the Strip, in the midst of many ongoing lawsuits. 1984
Population at 550, per Franzen February: IRS freezes Synagogue's bank accounts, as part of the federal government's (under Reagan) legal effort to shut the place down. Many lawsuits. July: Pool and tennis courts at Strip open. 1985
November: Population at 401, per Popsicle 1988
Population at 370, per Janzen 1989
High School Reunion at Badger. 1991
Synanon disbands 1997
March: CED Dies Synanon is nothing without the words of Chuck, Betty, and many others. These quotations were the common currency of Synanon. We must not forget them.All CED quotations are copyright © by the Synanon Archives Trust.
42 Quotes
(In order by approximate date)
Date
(approximate)Subject 1800s Success
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children. to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends. to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others. to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child; a garden patch...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to have succeeded! -- R W Emerson1800s? Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember a plaque on the wall of the"Punk Squad" and it's stuck with me ever since. "No man can make me sink so low as to make me hate him". -- R.W.E.1800s? Communities
"Every institution is the lengthened shadow of one man" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson1904 Thickened Light
Just in case anyone has been plagued, as I have, about where the thickened light quote came from, here it is..."This reverence [for nature, in which thought holds the highest position] is the reestablishment of natural order; for as the solidest rocks are made up of invisible gases, the world is made of thickened light and arrested electricity, so men know that ideas are the parents of men and things; there was never anything that did not proceed from a thought." From the essay entitled "The Scholar," in the book entitled Lectures and Biographical Sketches, vol. 10 of the Centennial Edition, 1904. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson1904 Thickened Light
From Emerson's lecture "The Scholar," which is contained in Volume 10, Lectures and Biographical Sketches, of the Centennial Edition, 1904. "This reverence is the reestablishment of natural order; for as the solidest rocks are made up of invisible gases, the world is made of thickened light and arrested electricity, so men know that ideas are the parents of men and things; there was never anything that did not proceed from a thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson1958 The Game
The Game began with an idea I had of getting people together in a room to pursue a conversation with a "line of no line." I began to yell and curse and accuse and ridicule: I talked to everyone in the room as if he had a tail. Boy I felt great, and everyone else loved it too. The next week they all came back. That was the birth of the Synanon Game, which basically hasn't changed at all since 1958. -- CED1958 Knock it Off
Before the days of Synanon nobody had ever told addicts to stop using drugs. People tried to love them out of it, reason them out of it, and motivate them out of it. We said to them: "Hey, KNOCK THAT OFF! If you shoot dope here we'll throw your ass out." -- CED1961 Mother Love
Synanon came into existence because our society is composed of mama's boys and daddy's little girls who have been inundated by attempts to produce nothing but agreeable sensations in them. Character disorders, quite simply, are people who had too strong a dose of "mother love" and were never properly housebroken by fathers. -- CED1962 Get the people, the money will follow.
The childish idea that money can accomplish something without people is rampant in our society. At the top, its always the manipulation of people -- the people business -- that makes for success or failure. -- CED1964 Father Principle
I am proposing a counter-philosophy, a rather old-fashioned, commonsense approach to things: "Good boys and good girls get good things -- bad boys and bad girls get bad things." This idea is the very basis of Synanon. We are a father principle phenomenon which rewards good behavior and punishes bad behavior. -- CED1964 Wisdom
You've got to give it away if you want to keep it. -- CED most likely1965 Act As If
The only way to become powerful in your own universe is to say to yourself, "I'm going to open my mind, adopt a position, and then ACT AS IF that position is valid." -- CED1965 Childproofing
My theory of childproofing is that the more quickly you can get a child out from under the shadow of its mother and into a situation in which demands are made of it by its peers and by adults who are not connected to it by bloodlines, the better it is for the child. -- CED1968 Thickened Light
I never have to work very hard to use the information that I live in a motion-normal universe, that what is here today will inevitably change tomorrow. The only thing in this universe which resists movement is the human ego, which is probably the reason we are always so uncomfortable. Synanon is simply my attempt to get a few other heads in tune with the very simple scientific truth that things don't stand still. -- CED1969 Unicycle
The only thing that we human beings have over giraffes is that it is possible for us to consciously participate in the evolution of our own species. I think that humanity is wasted on anybody who doesn't do that. Why not be a mule, or a squirrel, or a stalk of celery? -- CED1970 Synanon government
"what we have here is a benevolent dictatorship"...CED addressing a group in a directors game in Oakland. -- CED1970 Jack Hurst returns to power
Chuck tells everyone in Synanon using the game that he and Jack are only ones that have the ability to run Synanon. -- CED1971 The first day of the rest of your life
Today is the first day of the rest of your life -- CED1972 Synanon School
Synanon is a new kind of school which contains an old-fashioned educational posture: we knock a kid on its ass if it doesn't behave properly. I was educated that way in a Jesuit high school. It think it did me a lot of good to have some great big son-of-a-bitch in a black nightgown occasionally put his nose right up to mine and growl "Dederich, do you want to have your teeth rattled?" -- CED1972 Research University
We became a research university, doing research into the business of living. Everybody researches everything else. You know, we spend billions of dollars every year figuring out new ways to make cheese spread. So why not spend a little money finding out why everybody in the world is so miserable that people can't think of anything better to do than walk around with sour looks on their faces buying things? -- CED1973 Dying
"Dying" is a word which should be eliminated from the English language, because there is no such thing. Death is not a process, death is an event. You die at a single point in time, but up to that point, you're not "dying" you're living. The trick then, is to think this way. The trick is to live until you die. -- CED1973 Banking Character
You can lay money up for a rainy day by putting it in a bank, but how do you bank character? In the memories of executives, that’s where. One of the biggest problems in any organization is selecting executives who will not forget demonstrations of honesty, loyalty, and guts. -- CED1974 Synanon is a Religion
What we're doing in Synanon is providing ways for religious experience to coexist with a twentieth century mind. Synanon is a religion of irreverence. All other religions, with the possible exception of Zen, are religions of reverence, which don't provide too much room for laughter. I think that if you are going to cope with the increasing amount of frustration in modern life, you've got to learn to laugh at yourself. -- CED1974 Women and Bald Heads
If you put long hair on a dog, you get a long-haired dog. (Said by CED to the women of Synanon after Betty's plea for women to grow their hair back.) -- CED1974 Women & Power
Women have all the power in the world, just being women! Women who don't know how to be women want to be something else -- CED1974 Love
THERE IS NO LOVE! YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- CED1975 Goodbye
I'm off in a cloud of hens! (short for "Henrietta") -- DLG1976 Acting in Unison
There is something thrilling and a little frightening about a bunch of people acting in unison. Whenever we in Synanon act in unison, like clip our heads or stop smoking cigarettes, we scare the hell out of the natives. Which is great, because if you scare them badly enough, they'll do what you tell them. Somebody has to tell them what to do, for God's sake. It might as well be us. -- CED1977 Sexual Tension
The notion that embarking on a love affair should consist of a holding back rather than a mad dash for physical realization is a lost art in this country. For most Americans, the object of courting is to mount as quickly as possible, slam the member into the yawning aperture and fall back on the bed, exhausted, with a look of temporary triumph on one's face. -- CED1977 Changing Partners
Love is the result of cherishing. You can't just decide to love someone -- the love muscle is involuntary. But if you go through certain cherishing motions of conversation, physical affection, and consideration, with another human being, love will come as the inevitable result. In fact there's nothing you can do to stop it. -- CED1978 I want to be paid for what I do.
It is a traditional article of faith in the United States that if you get up early and work hard making mayonnaise, you should make lots of money, but if you get up in the morning and work hard to teach some dunderhead how to stay out of jail, you're supposed to get your rewards in rich warm feelings. I don't get MY reward from rich warm feelings. I'm an American. I want to be paid for what I do. -- CED1978 Betty D
A great life is possible in Synanon. She reached a peak. She became as good as you can get. We are not gods; we are human beings. She did leave us better than she found us, and she'll make us better than she left us. It seems to me that summarizes a great life. -- CEDDate? Tomorrow
"There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today" -- CEDDate? A sneeze is a cranial orgasm Chuck read it in an article and passed it on to us in Tomales Bay. It just cleared it up for me. I knew I hated to have a sneeze interrupted, never really questioned it, also that there is something bordering on desperation to complete it once it starts. Believe me, I have thoroughly enjoyed every sneeze since. You see, these are the simple pleasures in life that are extremely under -rated in my humble opinion. Namasté, Marji -- CEDDate? Sleep til noon
Sleep til noon and FUCK 'EM ALL! -- CEDn/a It Takes Two
"It takes two to touch ten thousand" -referring to the influence Chuck and Betty had. -- CEDNONE The Game
"Words can't hurt people. They hurt egos" -- CEDNONE The Game
"If you sit in a Game in full possession of all of your faculties of understanding, you may as well not be in the Game" -- CEDNONE The Game
"The Game toughens a person. It gives them a very flexible ego that can dodge, duck, bounce around, and recover" -- CEDNONE The Game
"The Game is a lesson in humanness. It is to communicate feelings, to enable one to learn about himself, and to learn about the other person" -- CEDNONE Favorite Techniques in the Game
1) Defend vigorously; 2) Indict everybody; 3) Employ theatrics; 4) Tap into your own prejudices; 5) Use metaphor; 6) Exaggerate; 7) Lie; 8) Bring up old indictments; 9) Ridicule; 10) Allude to authority; 11) Allege subversion; 12) Involve several people in indictment; 13) Carrom shot -- CEDUnknown Consciousness
When you walk, think of your feet. -- CED