tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559910.post817163482527647684..comments2024-02-17T19:58:47.311-05:00Comments on Textuality: Alpha Course Overnight Getaway: Parting Is SorrowLarry Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642725101009530480noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559910.post-47854240132417077592012-02-11T07:33:49.371-05:002012-02-11T07:33:49.371-05:00My husband once sent me on this weekend Leadership...My husband once sent me on this weekend Leadership course in Vegas that everyone at his work was just floored by. It was a completely secular course, but they used many of the same techniques/environmental set-up, to try squeeze the emotion out of people. Others seemed to be eating it up, but I couldn't get into it either. I think there's something about groupthink and semi-ritualistic behavior that I just find creepy, whether its attached to religion or not!<br /><br />I'm curious whether your wife is as supportive of your atheism as you are about her Christianity. e.g. does she read your blog?C. Laundryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458967193329329707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559910.post-33318155099062097962012-02-11T05:39:56.771-05:002012-02-11T05:39:56.771-05:00Great stuff. It's interesting to see how diffe...Great stuff. It's interesting to see how different your "getaway" experience was to mine. We didn't have the orgiastic atmosphere as such, but there was a definite deliberate attempt to induce a certain atmosphere in the group - which was 300 strong - so that the holy spirit would manifest itself, which it duly did. <br />I made my atheism explicit from the start but I managed to keep it all quite friendly and by the end the group thanked me for my input. I was lucky I think - in other groups, I'd have probably been unbearable.Simon Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01326883617951992573noreply@blogger.com