if anyone wants to anticircle sometime id be willing to occupy the same space as you for half an hour and studiously ignore you in polite silence with a relaxed and neutral expression on my face
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diogenes club ive inv
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there are good reasons intimacy is generally an organic and earned social state
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similar critique: "Circling will allow you to connect with people in a very brief period of time, you don't have to really know them or care them or help them and they won't care about you or help you either. Good news! It's totally safe! It doesn't change your life, at all."
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That is from Soryu Forall. And: "Circling ought to change our lives so that we can develop true friendships. If it doesn't do that, then it's bad."
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(for background, I'm most of the way through the circling training course in Austin, although about to drop out)
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huuuuuuuh would it be too intrusive to ask what changed your mind? (I guess the above probably, so maybe what drew you to it initially is more important?)
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What drew me to it: people are allowed to say and do just about anything. Makes for a very confusing large group experience at first. Delving into someone's actual experience is consistently surprising. And really accepting every emotion accelerated my meditation.
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People develop very strong boundaries, in my observation (unlike the creepy video selentelechia found) Also, I wouldn't have done the program anywhere but Austin. I think the group here is better.
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Last, the training program is with the same group of people over 6 months, and that sounded like fun. I valued the relationships over the practice, but covid threw a wrench in the works, which is a large part of why I'm dropping out.
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