Vandeman a junkie, a cultist, or both?

[The Gist]

Came across this old thread form a different cycling group via google
groups.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.soc/browse_frm/thread/4fef57abf015fda/d3041be0f24f6ac2?q=synanon&rnum=12&hl=en#d3041be0f24f6ac2
http://tinyurl.com/chgqy (same link but no possible linewrap)
Apparently, this guy Vandeman has been involved with a violent cult
group!! Said cult, synanon, started out as a communal living/rehab
facility for junkies.

[Mike Romain]

A geese, that explains it, he is like a friend my wife and I have, he
took a trip and forgot to come down.....

It is really sad too because our friend actually is aware of it. Mikey
must still be in dreamland....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

[Jason]

* The Gist <GiveMe...@gist.net>:

It's all starting to make sense now. Although I have to say it's bad
enough seeing his dribble on a regular basis, now we have folks posting
specifically about him? Must be a great ego boost for the little guy.

Jason

[S Curtiss]

"The Gist" <GiveMe...@gist.net> wrote in message
news:3aqke.946$Z%5....@fe13.highwinds-media.lga...

Apparently, he did not learn anything from "synanon". Below was found on
Yahoo search:
synanon prayer:

Please let me first and always examine myself.
Let me be honest and truthful.
Let me seek and assume responsibility.
Let me have trust and faith in myself and my fellow man.
Let me love rather than be loved.
Let me give rather than receive.
Let me understand rather than be understood

MV hasn't ever, in the realm of usenet anyway, applied any of the above. If
he was a member, (and he has mentioned he was) he wasn't very good at it.