- January 22nd, 2011, 6:29 pm
#337339
Tell us a story of Liberty in the 70's and 80's. And not a typical one that we've heard 800 times.
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El Scorcho wrote:post at your own risk.
jcmanson wrote:Wow, oldflame. What a story.thats gotta be one of those recycled Liberty "urban legend" things. I was in #12 in the late 80's and we heard the same stories. Basically a bunch of Satanists who held seances in one of the circle dorms: complete with candles in a pentagram and Ouija boards.
Maybe this will provoke some stories from the 90's:
My freshman year (2002), during a prayer meeting, stories were told of a bunch of students in one of the circle dorms who got very involved in Ouija boards. Anyone heard anything about this?
JLFJR wrote:Thanks for your input, PA! Very helpful.
olldflame wrote:OK, I'll go first. I'm sure (at least I hope) we will get some really funny stories in this thread, but this will not be one of them. I think it's a cautionary tale reflective of the fact that christians are vulnerable to all of the same problems as anyone else.
Spring of 76 I shared a room at the old hotel with 6 other guys. 3 bunk beds, one of them 3 high. One of my roomates was a freshman. I'll call him George. George was a very intense kid who was planning to major in counseling. He was somewhat guarded about it, but he said one reason he wanted to be a counselor was because he had some problems himself. I didn't really get close with him (noone did that I know of). He said and did some unusual things occasionally, but nothing really outlandish or cause for concern.
One night, I came home from a play rehearsal. I can't remember why, but none of the other guys were in. This was a converted hotel room which had it's own bath with old-fashioned ceramic tile floors and walls. When I came into the room I turned left to go into the bathroom, turned on the light, and got the shock of my life. The entire bathroom; floor, sink, shower stall, and even the walls, was covered with blood. There was a pool of blood a quarter inch thick in the middle of the floor which had begun to congeal.
I immediatly sought out an RA, and when I found him I was informed that George had slashed both of his wrists in the bathroom. At some point, he had stopped bleeding, tried to get them to bleed more by running cold water over them in the shower, but it didn't work. Apparently he had second thoughts when he was getting ready to cut himself again and cleaned himself up and went to the RA for help. Of course they called an ambulance, and he went to the ER for treatment and a mental health evaluation. I spent the next couple of hours cleaning the bathroom. I remember scooping up most of the congealed blood off the floor with a dustpan.
George returned to school a few days later. I got a chance to talk with him and tried to encourage him that if he could get through this he would be in a unique position to help others as a counselor. He tried to finish out the semester, but couldn't make it. He went home a few days later. He did not return to school the next Fall. Sometime the next semester we got the word that George had decided to use a more reliable method for his second attempt. He shot himself in the head. Because of his religious beliefs and the counseling he received (both at Liberty and at home), he refused to take psychiatric medications. It very likely would have saved his life. I work in community mental health now, and it infuriates me when I hear people say that mental illness is just a spiritual problem or "irresponsibility". I see people every day who only maintain their sanity with the help of medication.
PAmedic wrote:you're absolutely right
JLFJR wrote:Thanks for your input, PA! Very helpful.
JLFJR wrote:Thanks for your input, PA! Very helpful.
Sly Fox wrote:Did you check with your wife to make sure it was OK to mention those "artists" on here?Yes we make fun of it, with her former coach all the time. Lord knows what they would have done with MY musical collection!!