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MeMe
You should seriously just talk to you girlfriend about this. If you are that concerned about it then bring it up. It doesn't help to keep silent about it if it bothers you so much. She thinks it's the greatest thing in the world, and you think it may be something totally different.
Love the breezy, "helpful," (covert "greatest-thing-in-the-world" ad insertion), innocuous-sounding ~suggestion.~
That might work in your own house or neighborhood, but it doesn't cut much ice hereabouts.
No one "seriously just talks" to someone who has been sucked into an involvement with one of these groups (joined a cult).
There is no "just seriously talking" with someone who has been brainwashed, indoctrinated, mentally "conditioned," "programmed," ~trained,~ and any of the other mind-altering or ~transformational~ practicises that go on in these "groups."
And you sig is as telling as anything else you've written here. It really is all about ME, ME, ME when you embark on the ~transformation~ - one of the reasons Tom Wolfe characterised the time they were "invented" as the "ME Generation." They foster and promote the more narcisisstic (immature, selfish, aggressive, and obnoxious) traits of human nature in their followers, and those friends, neighbors, and family get to witness a SERIOUS deterioration in the character and personality of someone they know and/or love.
You sound like a new (very new) "grad." This isn't the place to practice your ~enrolling conversations~ or whatever name they go by in the group you like.
Ellen