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Reader's comments on this article Add a new comment on this article |  from Phoenixkidd
Friday, May 27, 2005 - 17:53
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I remember they weren't big on photos. Also sometime around 91` they told every family to go through all their pics and cut out everyone that wasn't in their family. I remember, in Tateyama at the Dorm they took one pic of each child and sent it to their parents. Kind of like a show off that they were treating their kid right, and look how great he or she looks now! Then they took another one of us doing some type of gardening or something, all staged to show that our "School" teaches vocational arts. What a load!
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| | | | | | |  From Big Sister
Saturday, May 28, 2005, 09:54
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AND an insurance measure against memory itself. Perserving memory is one of the main purposes of photographs in fact! Photos help us bring back "what happened back then". Surely you've experienced looking at a photo and all the feelings of the time come flooding back. Without the photos you lose touch with the memories, little by little. It's a lot harder to make sense of your personal past if your parents (and their cult masters) are trying to obfuscate it.
I think of Moving On as a place where your words and collective memories can serve as the role of the missing photographs.(reply to this comment) |
| | From xolox
Saturday, May 28, 2005, 21:58
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I don't have a lot of early memories left in the "beck and call department" of my mind. Most come to me like a fragmentary mist, for lack of a better term, and are conjured more by smells than anything else. Even when I look at photographs, it's very hard to place myself in their context or see the place in my mind.
Yes you smart asses, it's called repression, I know;). In my particular case I believe it's a good thing. I believe there's a lot I don't want to ever remember again. Recovering memories, in my experience, is not all it's cracked up to be.(reply to this comment) |
| | From Joey
Monday, May 30, 2005, 05:20
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You know smells are big with me too as are colours! I'll not remember details of any description but will know where I was ie a house we stayed in for a couple of weeks and that that particular period of time felt like a colour like deep deep blue or a haze of greens mixed with a nasty swirl of red, etc etc!(reply to this comment) |
| | | | | | | | from EyesWideShut
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 14:12
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Strange that. I was in Victors and other programs at the HCS for years, but don't have any pix. I don't remember them taking many during the VP.
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| from memories
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 12:44
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The way I remember it, they told us to burn all pictures containing anyone not in our immediate family. Since my family was separated by this time it included all my brothers and sisters who were no longer living with us & all our photos down to the baby pictures were either trashed or cut out to these disfigured shapes. The fucked up thing is that a little while later they all came out saying...it was just a test of loyalty & it needn't be done in the future. Around the same time they made all member turn in all their jewlery & valubles..for my dad it was his coin collection & for my mom all of her jewlery from, "Fish" -ugh!What disgusting memories!
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| | | | | | | from Jerseygirl
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 03:31
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Yeah I've got tons!--The family was always big on taking pictures of everything negative that happened as well as all the PR photos. We all had personal cameras and funds to get the pictures developed. We all took pictures of each others bruises and neck signs --so anyways email me-----NOT!
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