Terry Jones examines the truth behind the medieval monastery. The ideal of giving up everything for a life of prayer and solitude was often undermined by monks’ ability to make money out of almost anything; from sheep, iron-smelting, and even prayer itself.
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@Xiaolian7 Mate, you bring it on yourselves. It is a dictatorship, it can’t be beaten by passive resistance UNLESS it cares about what people think of it.
You can’t fight city hall.
I’d have liked to hear more about the relationship between the monks and the existing church. I’d have thought that the monks’ capitalizing on religion would have put them at odds with the church. I’d also like to hear more about the relationsihp between the original generation of monks that became corrupt, and the cistercian monks that became corrupt later.
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Monasteries were the cornerstone of western civilization during the dark ages, they were the only hospitals and centers of higher learning in Europe, and provided an early form of social security for people when they provided alms to the poor.
An interesting episode. Learned a lot about the monasteries during the Middle Ages. Not something they teach Catholics today.
the only sort of history worth knowing. rather than what king killed however many people for whatever political stupid reason.
The term monk is generic and in some religious or philosophical traditions it therefore may be considered interchangeable with other terms such as ascetic. However, being generic, it is not interchangeable with terms that denote particular kinds of monks, such as cenobite, hermit, anchorite, hesychast, or solitary.
Although the term monachos (“monk”) is of Christian origin, in the English language it tends to be used analogously or loosely also for both male and female ascetics from other religious or philosophical backgrounds.
In the Greek language the term can apply to women; but in modern English it is in use only for men, while nun is used for female monastics.
A monk (from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, “single, solitary”) is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose. The concept is ancient and can be seen in many religions and in philosophy.
Its funny how people can actually believe in the christian plague. buy your way into an after life? Is there seriously any better way to scam people. The abraham religions bring disgrace to spirituality.
These ads are fucking bullshit. I can’t even watch these. It just stops the vid and it won’t load after that.
The Bible says thou shalt not murder. Murder and killing are different. In fact killing was and still is sometimes a necessary evil. I am not justifying what people did in the past and are still doing now, but killing in war is not murder. However there are different reasons one would start a war and many times from sin. PS God doesn’t enjoy punishing the wicked, but wants them to turn from wickedness. Anyone can be forgiven, for any sin. You just have to ask. God bless.
Initially Christian Monastism was not corrupt. In fact, most early communities were not even as isolated as we like to think. These, At most, were retreat centers to escape ecclesiatical corruption. In Ireland & Scotland they were more like community centers; Many monastics were married & had children. Celibacy in those early days was a matter of personal choice not a requirement.
Monks almost invented FLYING, except some dumbass cardinal told the monk to stop it or he’d get killed. But we now know had he been allowed to add a tail to his flying machine, he’d have succeeded.
Imagine – we could have been flying in 1100 AD.
Oh, and King Henry VIII delayed the Industrial Revolution by tossing out the Cistercian monks. It could have started 250 years before it did.
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First, progressive evolution is bunk: evolution is random, not always moving towards some “higher state.” Second, a monk is at least supposed to be celibate, which is to say, not having children. They have removed themselves from the gene pool, and thus from the evolutionary process. Evolution does not occur within an individual but within a population, and monks are a population that, in theory, does not breed.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
Monks just live and skip all the bull crap that we get caught in. They are way ahead of us, and meditate to achieve higher states of awareness. they are essentially evolving faster than us. Notice, that humans did not evolve ‘from’ monkeys, but at one point in time, we were one, and split up into man and ape. They are our closest relative, as dog is man’s best friend.
I think I can understand things from Benedict’s point of view. There have been times that I have desired to get away from society. It often seems that society gets so focused on consumerism that the urge to step away from it. I am disappointed though that they did not mention the Franciscans or Dominicans who took genuine vows of poverty.
I think I can understand things from Benedict’s point of view. There have been times that I have desired to get away from society. It often seems that society gets so focused on consumerism that the urge to step away from it.
LOL regarding the conqueror putting up monasteries to cleanse his wrongdoings. Modern day version is like BIll Gates creating his foundation after years of brutal business tactics and monopolies. The origins of philanthropy by the cutthroat rich – very interesting!
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Rule 1 – you do not talk about Monk Club
Rule 2 – you DO NOT TALK about monk club
Rule 3 – no shoes
But seriously, it’s sick! All this over this preconception that hiring people to pray for you would save your soul when you die.
Sponsored by … corporate co-opted ecological bullcrap.
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yes actually, herring and fish is still the same. Myarter simply means, “killed” and woman mean “black” now.
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Phuck ewe John Tesh!