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josephrjusticeThis is my answer to the OKC question "Would you like to go on a five night spiritual retreat?" The possible answers are: (1) Yes; (2) No.
Ummm. I don't consider myself at this time to be a very spiritual person. I'm not sure I would get much value from, or enjoy, a five night spiritual retreat (or likely any sort of spiritual retreat, at least based on what springs immediately to mind when I think of the concept of "spiritual retreat").
I'll grant that my belief concerning this is quite possibly based on ignorance, and that it's certainly possible the details of some specific instance of a spiritual retreat would be such that I'd be more willing to consider going to it if I were to learn of and agree with them. And, of course, if a person who was important enough to me wanted to go to something like this badly enough, and wanted me to go with them, I could probably be eventually convinced to go if only for their sake, to show support for them, etc, even if I didn't expect to get much value from it myself. (That's not to say that, if I went to such a thing, I would unquestioningly accept and agree with everything that was presented at such an event. I think it would be boorish to aggressively pooh-pooh what went on at such an event, because doing something like that would be worse for the relationship than simply refusing to go in the first place. But on the other hand, if they said or did something at the event that I disagreed with, while I might not speak up and say "I think that's wrong", neither would I lie and say I agreed with it if asked if I in fact did not agree with it.)\
Anyway. Even with those caveats having been made, I think the more honest answer for me to this question is that No, I would not like to go on a five night spiritual retreat. And, I'm going to say that only No is an acceptable answer to me by others to this question, but that it is only a little important to me (given the caveats I have raised above -- I'm not sure I feel that this is even somewhat important to me).
Ummm. I don't consider myself at this time to be a very spiritual person. I'm not sure I would get much value from, or enjoy, a five night spiritual retreat (or likely any sort of spiritual retreat, at least based on what springs immediately to mind when I think of the concept of "spiritual retreat").
I'll grant that my belief concerning this is quite possibly based on ignorance, and that it's certainly possible the details of some specific instance of a spiritual retreat would be such that I'd be more willing to consider going to it if I were to learn of and agree with them. And, of course, if a person who was important enough to me wanted to go to something like this badly enough, and wanted me to go with them, I could probably be eventually convinced to go if only for their sake, to show support for them, etc, even if I didn't expect to get much value from it myself. (That's not to say that, if I went to such a thing, I would unquestioningly accept and agree with everything that was presented at such an event. I think it would be boorish to aggressively pooh-pooh what went on at such an event, because doing something like that would be worse for the relationship than simply refusing to go in the first place. But on the other hand, if they said or did something at the event that I disagreed with, while I might not speak up and say "I think that's wrong", neither would I lie and say I agreed with it if asked if I in fact did not agree with it.)\
Anyway. Even with those caveats having been made, I think the more honest answer for me to this question is that No, I would not like to go on a five night spiritual retreat. And, I'm going to say that only No is an acceptable answer to me by others to this question, but that it is only a little important to me (given the caveats I have raised above -- I'm not sure I feel that this is even somewhat important to me).
