457 Comments for Roseville State School

G.D. ! Mott, your stuff is like walking through a "Tool" music video. Horrifying.

Hydrotherapy tubs used for that purpose look quite different than these tubs. The tub on the left is your basic "slab tub" used for people have physical disabilities or who are older/more frail. Their use decreases client and staff injuries because it lessens lifting injuries. Also, hydrotherapy tubs used as treatment in the above manner were used in mental health facilities and this is/was a developmental center.

In the 50's and 60's Hydrotherapy was also used as a form of punishment or control, along with 'wet sheet wraps' . It wouldn't be surprising that there would be tubs like this on each floor - they'd be an ever present reminder of what would happen if one couldn't control themselves.

Don't have to worry about osteoporosis after this, though . . .

Yep. I think I shall buy bottled water from now on. Pics like this make me wonder what unknown deposits WE are ingesting from waterfaucets on a daily basis.

Hey, my grandmother put those flower stickers in her bathtub to keep me from sliding back and forth.
(about 27 years ago :)

Man I'm glad I found your site but it's really giving me the creeps...when I was in the California Conservation Corps I was stationed in San Bernadino and we were based in an abandoned state asylum, lock rooms, bard on windows, and the place was haunted big time! if ya wanna hear more about it email me at dig_a_pony101@yahoo.com

Can't you just hear the approaching thunder storm?

The number '5' has always been regarded as mystical and magical, yet essentially 'human'. We have five fingers/toes on each limb extremity. We commonly note five senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. We perceive five stages or initiations in our lives - eg. birth, adolescence, coitus, parenthood and death. (There are other numbers/ initiations/ stages/ attributions).

Expressing the saying "Every man and every woman is a star", we can juxtapose Man on a pentagram with head and four limbs at the points and the genitalia exactly central. This is Man in microcosm, symbolising our place in the Macrocosm or universe and the Hermetic/Tantric philosophy of associativity - "As above, so below".

There are five elements, four of matter (earth, air, fire and water) and THE quintessential - spirit. These may be arrayed around the pentagrams points. The word 'quintessential' derives from this fifth element - the spirit.

Not to mention the upper half stood for the sky and thus the male energy of the cosmos and the lower half the earth and the feminine aspect.Saddly kids do things to be cool or get a reaction without much thought to the meaning of it.

I was raides in the old druidic/Pagan ways and the paranormal stuff.. well lets just say I have good inner insight and can feel what old buildings that are long gone like..

When some people see thePentagream/Penticle the associate it with Satanism... that is inorrect .. The pentagram has also been used and related to Christianity. Up to the medieval times, the five points of the pentagram represented the five wounds of the man they call Jesus Christ and the Holy Cross. The symbol was always mend to be a symbol of goodness, and later used to represent the four elements and the Spirit of mankind. Interesting huh

And as far as real worshipers of evil go they mainly use much more complex hexagrams that are laden with symbols rather than actual pentagrams.

I see skye may be as interested in the occult and paranormal as I am.As far as that particular pentagram goes it was probably made by some teenagers that have no clue what it means but just think it represents evil from what they have seen in films and such.

The pentagram is the traditional pentagram with five points of the star - one point up and two down, enclosed in a circle. This style of the pentagram, has existed and been used for thousands of years. The first records of it's use is dating back 5500 years, and was used in the ancient Mesopotamia, where it was used by the rulers, as a symbol of power and energy in the stasis of the four corners of the world known by then.
The early Greeks imported the pentagram for several uses. First of all the Mesopotamian community was well organized, strong and an envy to the Greeks. So to gather some of the powers within the Mesopotamian society, the Greeks used the pentagram.