I went to this retreat... maybe i should use quotes. Ahem, I try again.
I went to this "retreat" when I was in high school - it was called Happening. perhaps you've heard of it. They locked us in small un-airconditioned rooms in the dead summer heat of Tennessee for hours at a time all day for multiple days, because this is how we "grow closer to our brothers and sisters in Christ." By the end of the "retreat" I had literally charted a course of escape that involved jumping in a nearby creek and swimming to a bridge, hitchhiking to a bus station, and getting the hell home at all costs (luggage? who cares about luggage!)
Anyhoodles. I'm a Christian, I have my belief system, I respect others', but good gawd damn, locking people in rooms and not telling them wtf is going on, and then expecting them to be THANKFUL and EMOTIONAL at the end of the weekend is a bleeping joke.
One of the guys with us offered me $5 if I could start crying when I gave my "testimony" at the end of the "retreat"... I couldn't do it. I laughed instead :(
This may or may not be related, you're welcome to ignore everything I just wrote, but my experience did make for a hilarious English paper the next semester.
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I went to this "retreat" when I was in high school - it was called Happening. perhaps you've heard of it. They locked us in small un-airconditioned rooms in the dead summer heat of Tennessee for hours at a time all day for multiple days, because this is how we "grow closer to our brothers and sisters in Christ." By the end of the "retreat" I had literally charted a course of escape that involved jumping in a nearby creek and swimming to a bridge, hitchhiking to a bus station, and getting the hell home at all costs (luggage? who cares about luggage!)
Anyhoodles. I'm a Christian, I have my belief system, I respect others', but good gawd damn, locking people in rooms and not telling them wtf is going on, and then expecting them to be THANKFUL and EMOTIONAL at the end of the weekend is a bleeping joke.
One of the guys with us offered me $5 if I could start crying when I gave my "testimony" at the end of the "retreat"... I couldn't do it. I laughed instead :(
This may or may not be related, you're welcome to ignore everything I just wrote, but my experience did make for a hilarious English paper the next semester.