Slightly similar, I bonded musically with people coming from totally different genre. But we shared an approach and a feeling toward music that made us share a lot.
It's not uncommon after a number of phases, you start to relate on other planes of abstractions and not on first level constructs.
If I may, I've also felt this religiousness coming up pretty much everywhere. Even if it doesn't impact us as much, architectures, languages (pure vs impure;), project practices, all of them are subject to cause emotional splits between people. We have to accept and live in peace with how people feel about anything as long as they do the same. Although balance is fragile.
I wish more people reached that conclusion about thinking across groups and see what's beneath the surface of each person and community.
It's not uncommon after a number of phases, you start to relate on other planes of abstractions and not on first level constructs.
If I may, I've also felt this religiousness coming up pretty much everywhere. Even if it doesn't impact us as much, architectures, languages (pure vs impure;), project practices, all of them are subject to cause emotional splits between people. We have to accept and live in peace with how people feel about anything as long as they do the same. Although balance is fragile.
I wish more people reached that conclusion about thinking across groups and see what's beneath the surface of each person and community.