Justin of Flavia Neapolis
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[MENTION=19700]asynartetic[/MENTION] seems to have picked up on it. The majority of #wokeaf people are playing right into this manufactured dichotomy.
Makes me want to check out and go live in a cabin in northern Canada.
Are you asking because you don't know, or because you want to be contrarian?
Which new left are you talking about?
There was the one in the 1840s, the one in the 1940s, the one in the 1960s, the one in the 1970s/80s in the UK, the one in the 1990s in the US and UK with Clinton-Blair.
I may be being contrarian in that I was challenging the "new", the same as anyone could challenge the so called "alt" nature of the "alt right", I think there's a lot of continuity with mainstream right wing thinking to be honest.
I plan on joining a monestary after my daughter is married at a young age to a godly man.
Current year new left because it's the current year and not 1840.
I dont know, I thought about it but there's a lot of those sorts of religious communities which are populated exclusively by homosexuals and odd types of people. Otherwise sure, it'd be an awesome plan.
I dont know, I thought about it but there's a lot of those sorts of religious communities which are populated exclusively by homosexuals and odd types of people. Otherwise sure, it'd be an awesome plan.
In fairness, the narrator did more or less explain that the "new" and "alt" movements are just rebranding and repackaging of decades old ideologies.
I'm confused. At 1:13, what the hell is a "staged psychological operation"?
Sounds like the types who need to focus on prayer to overcome their lustful passions. A monastery is exactly where they should be if their aim is to grow spiritually and die to the world. The world instead welcomes sin as such as you describe, so why would they choose to die to it? Why go to a monastery unless to overcome sin and to climb the ladder to God sans worldly distractions?
Yeah, that.
No, I dont know what the hell sort of an idea that is.
What I wish that western monasteries and monastic life where like is something much, much more like those in Asia and the buddhist examples to the world. Its always struck me that the western obsessions with sinful behaviour or sex and death are absent from the buddhist examples to the world, I'm not saying that buddhist examples are superior but the reality is that there is no vow of celibacy, for the most part, for buddhist monks, they just choose the spiritual and discipline focused lives to family life.
The west is just messed up in contrast.
In the west you have celibate or homosexual religious recommending heterosexual family life to the population at large, something they have sworn off but in direct contradistinction to the profiling of homosexuality by the political classes of much of Europe and the english speaking world, one way or another (the opposition to these trends is carried out in ways which none the less profile it and popularise it, whatever conservatives think they are doing). Its enough to make some of the more odd conspiracy theories seem credible.
Anyway, Asia could be the hope for the world. Again.
I'd rather live in a Buddhist monastery but the Buddhists do have their own weird hangups about earthly pleasures. I remember an image of a poster in Thailand that showed a hugging couple, next to a skeleton, implying how that sort of love ultimately lead to death and suffering. That stuff is just as central to Buddhist dogma as it is to Judeo Christian religions. In some ways moreso, since the historical Buddha was said to have abandoned fatherhood and husbandhood for the pure, spiritual path to enlightenment, as if to imply one can only achieve salvation by avoiding all of the "earthly" fixations and pleasures.
k. You're still falling into the dichotomous trap this thread was supposed to be avoiding. I can't fathom what homosexuality has to do with the new left/alt-right paradigm except as an ideological subset of the prior.