4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

all these famous qoutes , not one person has the power' we all need to wake up this stuff still happens , abuse , not nenough funds its all a shame they , goverment thinks we know what we want to here , if you or anyone cant see past these glib salespeople ,just wait until 2020

And you can lead a horticulture, but you can't make him/her think. :-)

You can lead the horse to water,but you cant make him/her drink.

I am thinking you are being overly optimistic, my dear friend and fellow sadist. To quote Ashleigh Brilliant, "I did not see it until I believed it." ;-)

P.S. What do you give a person for Christmas who wants to make every place into hell? Do you tell them they are right just to make them happy, or do you try to enlighten them? What an unusual dilemma! :-)

I do so love a woman who seems to love beating her head 'gainst the walls of futility and ignorance erected by the ignorant and contrary. Sometime those walls will ere be breached your ladyship. Your bearing of the cudgels of truth will not have been in vain.

What I find disturbing is that there is a sheep with my name on it that has fallen into the pit! xD

Poor Lynn, you must have a terrible headache from banging your head over this one.

And I am beginning to feel sorry for myself having to sift through such one-sided silliness from someone who never went there or any other residential facility and only has seen/heard a biased view and appears to be unwilling or incapable of processing additional information that doesn't support what this person wants so desperately to believe - that everything can be labeled "right" or "wrong," that everything is/was "black" or "white." Some people may be colorblind, but the rest of us know that the world has more than 2 hues, and even if a person IS totally colorblind, most people have the ability to at least see different shades of gray. What a small angry world to live in, having to see "yes" or "no", not multiple pieces of life as it really plays out. All heroes or villains - no room for the villain to do a good deed or a heroine to stumble a time or two. However, it is certainly a more comfortable way to live, isn't it? No worries, no guesses, just always being right.

Thank God I am a simple fool and can admit that I don't know what the heck I am talking about much of the time. At the same time, I can honestly say I have walked the walk in many, many different places and have a bit of experience about which I can speak, as wrong-headed as that makes me to some people. If all that ever happened in this place was torture and abuse you can bet I'd be the first person to speak out about it. But that would be a lie and I admit that I am a fool but I am NOT much of a liar. :-)

I feel sory for people that try to defend such a terrible place. I feel even worse for the children that were forced to live in the pit of oblivion.

I work with some individuals who have come from Willowbrook. I just thought you might like to know that some of them now have jobs. They are happy and feel like they have a purpose. Which they do and that is to make "normal" people realize that they too are people. And they are some of the most amazing people I have ever known.

:-)

This picture is amazing. It reminds me of the movie "Inquery" featuring Chuck Davis from "dark tranquility". Nice work!

Summerrains and spidergirl, must be related to one another.

Each and every one of us lives in a glass house at some time or another. And if someone is so pure and decent as to be above the common level of the rest of us, thus avoiding a glass house, that person is very likely going to be too decent to throw stones at other people anyway. That sort of a person would be more likely to extend a hand, to build rather than to tear down.

In my humble opinion. :-)

I look at the " people" every day and I do not live in a glass house.