Mankind Project

[comrade]

Has anyone heard of the Mankind project? My girlfriends father is big into it and he's been subtly pushing me to attend the New Warrior Training Adventure. Has anyone gone to this or known anyone who has? After getting the waiver package and reading through it, along with google searching around I'm extremely leery of going to this.

http://mankindproject.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManKind_Project

[rayne008]

Your girlfriend want you to become a wrestler?

[comrade]

Originally Posted by rayne008

Your girlfriend want you to become a wrestler?

If only, at least I'd know what I was getting into.

[afc wimbledon]

complete sausage fest by the looks of things, I'm guessing this involves a fair amount of warrior hugs and touching or naked greko roman wrestling eventually

[albertGQ]

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

complete sausage fest by the looks of things, I'm guessing this involves a fair amount of warrior hugs and touching or naked greko roman wrestling eventually

[Narrator is engulfed by a weeping Bob in an intense embrace]
Narrator: [voice over] Bob. Bob had bitch tits. This was a support group for men with testicular cancer. The big moosie slobbering all over me... that was Bob.
Bob: We're still men.
Narrator: Yes, we're men. Men is what we are.
Narrator: [voice over] Eight months ago, Bob's testicles were removed. Then hormone therapy. He developed bitch tits because his testosterone was too high and his body upped the estrogen. And that was where I fit...
Bob: They're gonna have to open my pecs again to drain the fluid.
Narrator: [voice over] Between those huge sweating tits that hung enormous, the way you'd think of God's as big.

[after going to his first support group meeting for Testicular Cancer]
Narrator: [voice over] And this is how I met the big moosie, his eyes already shrink-wrapped in tears. Knees together, those awkward little steps.
[Bob walks towards Narrator and extends his hand]
Bob: My name is Bob.
Narrator: Bob!
[Bob takes Narrator into an embrace]
Narrator: [voice over] Bob had been a champion body-builder. You know that chest expansion program you see on late night TV? That was his idea.
Bob: I was a juicer. You know. Using steroids. Diabonol, Wisterol, they use that for racehorses for Christsakes. And now I'm bankrupt, I'm divorced, my two grown kids, they won't even return my calls...
Narrator: [voice over] Strangers with this kind of honesty make me go a big rubbery one.
[Bob breaks into sobbing and embraces Narrator tightly. After a long moment of crying, Bob raises up his head, looks at Narrator's nametag]
Bob: Go ahead, Cornelius. You can cry.
[Narrator begins to cry and tighten his arms around Bob]
Narrator:[voice over] And then something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion...dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

[Cheese]

I think I hear drums?

[CaptainCrunch]

Oh good god, not only are they probably going to make you buy a bunch of books and videos so that you know when its appropriate to freaking cry.

But their top secret initiation probably involves the removal of your penis and the granting of a vagina, followed by lessons on such things as

break up recovery using ice cream instead of liqiuor
Sports on T.V. its the new bad
Its ok to cry at everything
Your new Vagina and you.
Why antiquing is better then basketball.

Run run away.

[Five-hole]

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

[undercoverbrother]

I think you should do it.....don't be a pu$$y all you life....

[jammies]

Beware of salesmen hawking the truth.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Five-hole

Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

[Daradon]

It sounds like your girlfriends father just wants to know you'll treat his daughter with respect and equates this (course, philosophy, CULT) with with giving the right life lessons. I would stay away from the course and try to show in your own ways that you are an upstanding and responsible male. At best it seems like a support group that charges a bunch of money for stuff you could probably figure out on your own, at worst it seems like a bit of a scam or cult.

[Cheese]

Next time you go to your step dads dress up like this..



and have your g/f dress like this



smile a lot!

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Daradon

It sounds like your girlfriends father just wants to know you'll treat his daughter with respect and equates this (course, philosophy, CULT) with with giving the right life lessons. I would stay away from the course and try to show in your own ways that you are an upstanding and responsible male. At best it seems like a support group that charges a bunch of money for stuff you could probably figure out on your own, at worst it seems like a bit of a scam or cult.

Or the old man gets paid for putting on these events or hawking the books.

Don't ever ever change who you are to please someone else.

If the soon to be father in law wants you to change your personality, consider eloping and then moving to another city under a changed name.

People are the whole of their experiences and up bringing not a biproduct of a formulatic book or self help program.

the only people that these things help is the person that put them together.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Or the old man gets paid for putting on these events or hawking the books.

Don't ever ever change who you are to please someone else.

If the soon to be father in law wants you to change your personality, consider eloping and then moving to another city under a changed name.

People are the whole of their experiences and up bringing not a biproduct of a formulatic book or self help program.

the only people that these things help is the person that put them together.

First sentence is a good point.

As for the rest, that's basically what I was saying. Only that the father is probably just looking for a little reassurance (as fathers of daughters often do). And if it's possible, there may be other ways to give it to him. But wasn't suggesting the OP change himself in anyway.

[CaptainCrunch]

I just go back to the time that I almost got married and her family forced us to go to couples councilling at their church, and I sat through 5 one hour sessions listening to what I would have to change about myself and what she would have to change about herself. At the end of the 5th session I stood up and told the good father that I wasn't interesting to see her change because I fell in love with her, and I didn't want to change because I fell in love with me.

Groups like these are the biggest scam ever. You might as well throw on the white sweater stare into a mirror and state "I'm smart enough, and good enough and gosh darn it people like to me" then learn how to strategically cry.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I just go back to the time that I almost got married and her family forced us to go to couples councilling at their church, and I sat through 5 one hour sessions listening to what I would have to change about myself and what she would have to change about herself. At the end of the 5th session I stood up and told the good father that I wasn't interesting to see her change because I fell in love with her, and I didn't want to change because I fell in love with me.

Groups like these are the biggest scam ever. You might as well throw on the white sweater stare into a mirror and state "I'm smart enough, and good enough and gosh darn it people like to me" then learn how to strategically cry.

Which is why I was telling the OP to avoid the meeting/seminar/cult right from the first post.

[ricosuave]

I thought of this, sorry

[Itse]

Sounds like you'd be much better off reading The Good Men Project.

Takes less of your money, gives you real food for thoughts and doesn't try to indoctrinate you with psychobabble BS.

It's a really good site. Very varied also.