Are there any anons here who have ever considered joining a monostary and becoming a monk? Does anyone here know if there exists such a thing as a multiconfessional monostary?
I redpilled myself when i was about 12 years old and basically lived a hermits life for over 16 years since then...just being alone, reading books, listening to obscure radio shows, etc.
I forced myself to get "a life" about 3 years ago. But having a decent income and my own appartment only made matters worse; i've grown completely misanthropic having to deal with meaningless shit and utter stupidity every single day. Having a "life" is nothing but self inflicted torture.
I'm honestly interested in your opinion anons... do you guys think a monastic life could be the answer?
(And yes, i started to have faith in the heavenly father about 10 years ago. But lets make this topic not about that... lets discuss monastic life)
i like women too much to be a monk but ive always thought it would be cool too
Samuel Flores
you would lose everything and gain everything in some dual life shock orgasm
Adrian Gray
>>>Does anyone here know if there exists such a thing as a multiconfessional monostary?
Taize in france
Nolan Cooper
I've been thinking about this sort of issue for a while now.
The stupid "liberal" leftie hippies call it a "intentional community" basically a commune. I think for conservatives and more "right-wing" sorts of people we need to strongly consider a similar situation. Developing small self contained communities with a overall goal or life style. I believe strongly in the "Farmer Philosopher" ideal of Thomas Jefferson it's just figuring out a way to make it work is difficult in these days. It's like a Neo-Amish movement... is what I'm thinking of. But how to do it without disgusting socialism?!
John Young
Its on the rise actually, has been for a while. Though 'normal religious' people have been on the decline, actual ascetics/theologians/clergy has been increasing I cant personally because i dont think monks have health insurance to cover the meds i need. Its the way to go if you can though.
Robert Martinez
commies call it a commune. rw call it a compound.
Luis Hall
i've actually thought about doing this.
i won't do it, but i've thought about it.......
Grayson Williams
I wanted to be a BMX riding, vampire slaying priest once.
Nicholas Torres
What are your top three books?
Are you writing?
How do you make your money? Can you separate your money-earning occupation from your actual life?
Robert Gray
How do you personally legislate time-wasting activities?
Do you have an unsustainable vices you know you have to quit, but can't?
Gavin Foster
It's a very interesting subject indeed that doesn't get the attention it deserves within conservative cirles. It's definately doable, but it requires a strong cadre of similar minded men with both the skills and determination to get such a thing started - wich is very hard to come by. Especially with conservatives, things tend to get a militant character fast, wich is to be avoided imho.
Zachary Wright
We'll buy a plot of rural land in some place like wyoming or the ozarks, build a great camp called "frogfield" and build a great tower. The tower will have fine, high quality transmission equipment at the top, and we'll buy the Sup Forums servers to keep thwm here. it'll also be a militia paramilitary training and indoctrination ground.
Dominic Gray
this is starting to sound good
Thomas Hughes
>multiconfessional monastery
Just as soon as there's an ecumenical inquisition or a multi-faith crusade
Isaac Gonzalez
I've read many books mate. I find it hard to pick a few and place them above all others as being the most authoritative. I guess they all contribute a bit to the sum total of all information.
I'm not writing anything, but i have considered it. Maybe some translation work.
I work irregular hours, so seperating it from my actual life simply isnt possible.
Yep, i'm addicted to smoking. Something i'm not about to give up.
Adam Gonzalez
>do you guys think a monastic life could be the answer?
Yes but only a Roman Catholic one like Franciscan
Charles Perez
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James Wood
>redpilled myself when I was about 12 years old hoooooo boy, another genius who had everything figured out before his pubes finished coming in Please just ignore me, I'm sure my adulthood is just more ignorance to distract you from pubescent enlightenment
Thomas Powell
mix some neotriablism into that and we Marcomani now
Kevin Gomez
I think the Amis take converts if they are sincere. Doesn't happen often because most people outside don't want to join them.
Nolan Robinson
*Amish
Jayden Bennett
does that include foreigners?
Christian Davis
interesting. I'd like to know more
Joseph Ward
Buddhist and Hindus, you don't need to convert or anything you can live in peace
Evan Watson
Oh, didn't see that you were Russian. Probably, though it would be quite an endeavor to travel and then make contact with them. They aren't a monastic sect either, but they live without most modern tech. Main principle is doing what they decide is healthy for the community.
Jordan Young
Fuck me, nederland.
Cooper Wilson
Yes I've often thought about the life of a hermit and the monks of the world.
I've had the fortune of actually conversing with real monks in Kiev and New York. The lifestyle has always fascinated me, and there are many things that pulled me towards it.
But alas, it is not for me simply because I carry the desires of having a family, plus I have many passions in my life that simply has no admissibility in a monastery of God.
God bless the monks and God bless the monastics of this earth, for if it weren't for them and their relentless praying for the world, surely we would all perish.
Orthodoxy or death
Ian Rodriguez
Guess that would make it easier to learn their quasi-germanic dialect.
Oh yes, i remember watching a documentary about them a few years ago. I heard them say a few things in Pennsylvania German that i was actually able to understand.
The Amish would be nice, yes... but i can imagine it being difficult for an outsider to join their ranks, let alone a foreigner. And then we havent even talked about getting a visa and citizenship... heard that can take up to 12 years for the average european. Ugh.
Dylan Gonzalez
fucking this
go to /soc/ or /adv/ you frog faggit OP
Camden Adams
wow, thats beautiful. Will watch. Thanks!
Liam Kelly
You only say these things because you're speaking to your former self. I too have this notion and I'm only 24.
I've wanted to live the life of a hermit ever encased in a tube of study for years. The more I live in the world, the more I despise it. And even more so do I get this sensation whenever I'm in public on a cityscaped terrace.
I't quite evident the world is going to shit, and all the more while we've turned cynical over the years of observing. I rather hate it.
Joshua Anderson
once autist, always autist
Caleb Foster
Never forget the fact that every single day there are hundreds if not thousands of Christian monks praying to God for the salvation of the earth. These are holy men who have the radiance of God attached to their aura.
If you've ever heard of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev_Pechersk_Lavra you will know the central part of what the monastic class is all about. For if they stopped praying to God for the salvation of the earth, we would all perish. And when all the fervent monks go, the end times will surely be upon us.
Lucas Baker
I often see monks like that walking around my town near the cathedral
my local
Kayden Perry
Join a Catholic monastery. There's a movie called "Into Great Silence" that's pretty good.
Robert Parker
In a world that fell from grace, inhabited by people who are the descendants of the first ones who let themselves be lured into eating from the (metaphorical) apple... thus biologically infecting themselves with a virus that disconnected them and their offspring from their Host - the heavenly father.
Jason Gutierrez
I would 100% if the christian god was real I wish so much that all that god bs was real, but it's not, our only moment in the universe is this short ant-like life and it's so short, so painful and so unsatisfying and undefined..
Gabriel Murphy
Thanks brother. Studying and observing, instead of participating. Who knows... maybe someday it will have a purpose.
Austin Rivera
I was thinking about joining that Traditional Castle building over at France or just becoming a blacksmith apprentice over at Japan
but there is (still) a load of things you can (I can) learn before committing to some sort of end pursuit that relinquishes parts of the outside world
Thomas Parker
Your post gave me more insight on a realization that came to me earlier today. These men, who live purely in the most natural sense of obedience to God, with it be through asceticism monasticism, are in fact keeping the power of God over Earth through themselves through God.
My realization today, was; as the number of true followers of Christ continue to dwindle and as the masses give way to the darkness, the closer time draws to the end of time itself, or at least for those on Earth. The main theory I pulled away, being that as the last true believer dies, it is only then, that God will make his return to Earth through Jesus, because there is no more true light in any human body on the Earth.
Hudson Taylor
Interesting idea. It ties right in with what i said in post They very well might be the only thing that keeps the world connected to its Host - God.
Ethan Allen
>mfw imagining an australian monk >strewth my lord
Austin Gutierrez
Not a problem mein freund. We've all got our paths before us. I hope you find your way along
If it interests you, I strongly encourage you to read about the early church fathers and the early monastics such as St. Anthony the Great (along with all of his temptations) or St. Epharem. Or even about the early Christian church in general. It's always fascinating
William Diaz
It gives you a fairly unique perspective.
You will come to terms with suffering much better, or you will break.
But seeing as you've already lived that life, it'll help you continue to grow, assuming you don't mind the schedule.
Josiah Taylor
I would love to be a monk. Unfortunately I'm a Calvinist so there's probably nothing out there for me. I want to work hard, study the scriptures, eat, and only verbally engage another human being when it's necessary. I don't spill spaghetti all over the place but I am terribly uncomfortable making small talk with people who I don't care about and who don't care about me. I've simplified my life as best as I can do but it's still insufficient. Hermitage would be too far though. I think the best blend would be living like the man from "Old Man of the Mountain" by Robbie O'Connell. I won't link it. It's good. You should seek it out.
Kayden Mitchell
For now I just solo camp, read, meditate, sit next to streams and listen etc. Nature does enough good for me right now but I basically need to get out every week or two or else I start getting restless. I have thought multiple times about starting emergency shelter stuff in the mountains with little areas for crops though.
Dylan Mitchell
I looked into it once, during a period when I didn't give a fuck and just wanted a simple life of peace and quiet. Basically it's like being in prison. it's very social and there is a surprising amount of rape and gay sex. You will be stuck doing a bunch of community bullshit or soliciting donations. Also it will take years to actually be accepted, because they need to weed out the misanthropes and make sure you have creepy levels of devotion.
Basically, you have to be somewhat insane to be a monk.
Luke Diaz
Just read this, very similar. Also not only did man fall from the deception of the serpent, also importantly fell to the murder of one another with Cain killing Abel. The Cain bloodline runs thicker (obviously) than that of Abel.
I go throughout day to day seeing most all people living deeply in sin and darkness, very so myself, but not to the extent of the majority. However it seems as though it is very sparingly that I ever cross paths with anyone possessing true relation to Christ. (Meaning this in a way without the intent of judgement on others.
Juan Nguyen
I delved a bit into patristics in the past, but not nearly as much as i should have. I will heed your advice, thanks!
Matthew Jenkins
It is truly amazing the stories you hear. We should all be so thankful to even witness the bearing of ascetics such as St. Seraphim of Sarov or St Anthony the Great.
I will confess that I've been met with several evils in my life, but for the lot of them I have fallen to. True saints of the Lord have it in them to give up earthly comforts and reassuring structures for God and for the salvation of others. Just think for a second about the prospect of not having a bed or not having a restful sleep for weeks or not eating anything for months! Yet these people do it. They prey to God and they live through his grace and through his everlasting life.
On a side note I've heard of tales where the monks that are accepted into some monasteries are given a multiple choice hard science test where they must know the correct answers to the most intricate of physics equations. And yet, they all pass because they pray to God for the right answers when taking the test in order to ascend through the monastic tribulations.
Camden Hall
I lived for 14 months in a Greek Orthodox Monastery. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have.
Aiden Hughes
See to it that it's not the lifestyle itself that you're after, but rather God and the knowledge of the meaning of life!
Julian Allen
What was an average non-fasting day like for you during your last year there?
Parker Martin
i live an eremitic life without having taken orders
Daniel Murphy
No but something similar, I'm going for a PhD in mathematics.
Tyler Flores
I've thought about it. I've had a good life full of indulgence and partying but now that I'm 26 I just can't find any meaning in life. I like my job but it gives me no fulfillment, women are cool but they don't add much to life, most my closest friends are dead from overdoses or suicide and I pretty much can't find anything that I can put myself into that isn't Sup Forums. I'm thinking about becoming a priest. Just live life helping people and chasing God.
Benjamin Fisher
I wish I was smart enough to go into mathematics. I enjoy math but I'm just shit at it, it's like I have dyslexia with numbers.
Cameron Morgan
lol this All the cult militias hidden away in the Ozarks call their habits compound.
Ayden Butler
Welllll if it's not too bold of me to ask: Why were you kicked out OR why did you leave?
Or (big or), why did you go and not stay?
Jacob Evans
I agree, very much so! I coincidently enough have a mail order expected for delivery tomorrow of The Life of St Anthony, and On Acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
Although I am young, I too have fallen to darkness and battle with evil everyday. I feel I am at a point where I must follow God in a very specific manner, requiring me to make a lot of radical changes to my lifestyle. It truly is challenging.
My current struggle is trusting in any churches, from what I've been reading, I can see the majority of institutionalized churches lead many to falsehoods and away from true Christianity. I have not been to church since I was a child. Maybe I'll be guided to the right one in the future.
Kayden Ramirez
Could you describe how an average day would look like? genuinely interested.
You said you left the monastery, why did you leave?
Gavin Phillips
You should watch Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu's older videos. He is the greatest monk teacher in the English world.
Joseph Phillips
I implore you, where ever you might be, to seek out and orthodox christian church, and seek a meeting with the priest. Don't let it all out in the email, just let him know that you are a wanderer who has wronged, seeking a different perspective. I guarantee you that he will listen, organise a time and place to meet, and take a bite out of life for you! All it takes sometimes is just to speak to someone who understands the fragile condition of man and for someone who can truly connect with you on a deeper level through Christ.
Whatever hardships you may or may not lay onto him, make sure that you understand his perspective on what you bring forth. I mainly say this through the lens of being a song of a priest. But seriously, if your heart is true and if you're sincere & open, you will gradually find the answers you were looking for.
Dylan Bennett
an e-mail or a phone call, it doesn't matter. They will take your call and they will help out (if you're ready)
Adrian Jenkins
This is something I will do when I am instructed too, I thank you. First I must finish reading the New Testament and then read the complete Bible to gain more insight and teaching on a individual level.
Jason Moore
As you wilt. Like I said, As I've said before (although not to you directly): we've all got our paths before us.And how we choose to approach it is what makes it our our own journey. Just don't forget that you need not go through it completely alone!
I remember reading that it is a mistake to become a monk just to "escape modernity"
Also, even though people tend to have some profound imagery of the monasteries, there has been multiple cases in Buddhist monasteries where the older monks have been sodomizing the younger monks, sexual repression not channelled right. Perversion, homosexuality etc.
The best thing you should do: is to take Retreats first. Spend some time, like 6 months in some monastery first. Gradually take bigger retreats (if possible)
You don´t want to join a monastery for life and 8 months later break your monastic vow and leave.
Brandon Adams
check out the book "Thousands Of Visits To Heaven And The Heart Of God The Most Profound Vividly Detailed Out Of Body Discoveries Yet" it gives insight on how to build a direct path to god. heavy stuff
