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Description:On August 4, 1965, thirteen persons were killed while in custody on Grindstone Island in Canada. They died in the course of an experiment in civilian national defense. The experiment was an exercise, carried out under Quaker auspices. Those "killed" are alive today, but they live as chastened men and women. For few of them died heroically. Most of them died blindly. All of them died needlessly, brought face to face in the hour of their death with the failure of their own deeply-held attitudes and actions.Yet all agree that the Grindstone experiment was a great moment. For some it achieved the level of religious conversion.How did it happen?What lessons for civilian defense and for human community can be learned from those 31 hours?"The ... inevitable crumbling of the assumptions. predications and attitudes of the participants in each group, the purging of dogma and ... painful groping.""The beginning of a massive reconstruction""Destruction of the defenders' community""Simulated openness and need to communicate when one is actually after another goal, be it freedom or the defeat of another or certain rights, is a fouler exploitation of human beings than the use of force."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thirty-One Hours: The Grindstone Experiment. To get started finding Thirty-One Hours: The Grindstone Experiment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2008

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Description: On August 4, 1965, thirteen persons were killed while in custody on Grindstone Island in Canada. They died in the course of an experiment in civilian national defense. The experiment was an exercise, carried out under Quaker auspices. Those "killed" are alive today, but they live as chastened men and women. For few of them died heroically. Most of them died blindly. All of them died needlessly, brought face to face in the hour of their death with the failure of their own deeply-held attitudes and actions.Yet all agree that the Grindstone experiment was a great moment. For some it achieved the level of religious conversion.How did it happen?What lessons for civilian defense and for human community can be learned from those 31 hours?"The ... inevitable crumbling of the assumptions. predications and attitudes of the participants in each group, the purging of dogma and ... painful groping.""The beginning of a massive reconstruction""Destruction of the defenders' community""Simulated openness and need to communicate when one is actually after another goal, be it freedom or the defeat of another or certain rights, is a fouler exploitation of human beings than the use of force."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thirty-One Hours: The Grindstone Experiment. To get started finding Thirty-One Hours: The Grindstone Experiment, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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