Nuns And Monks !

MarinoMark

Where are they all gone ? Dont see them on the street anymore....Whooooosh all gone

Mossy Monk

see nuns on the bus every now and again

iFight

Havent seen any in ages either

Caco

While at Download this Summer (in Donnington!), a Hari Jrishna monk approached me and my mate and got us to by a Hari Krishna monk rock CD from him, twas hilarious! Sounds funny too!
Before he let us on our way, he got both of us to say GOURANGA (be happy!)

MarinoMark

Caco wrote:

While at Download this Summer (in Donnington!), a Hari Jrishna monk approached me and my mate and got us to by a Hari Krishna monk rock CD from him, twas hilarious! Sounds funny too!
Before he let us on our way, he got both of us to say GOURANGA (be happy!)

Good Karma !!

Caco

Yup... nice guy, Cd was crap but worth it for the laff!

the Shades

They're allowed wear plain clothes if they choose so they've just gone icognito. I teach a trainee brother lol

InFront

You know the nuns because they all have short great hair and wear a ring on one of their fingers, and always talk to you about your old school and your ancestors. Theyre pretty nice. I worked with a million of them a few summers ago in a summer camp, they can be pretty cool, very easygoing and open minded. I dont buy into the unfair portrayal a lot of them seem to get after having met them. I was a bit disappointed at the lack of Whoopi-Goldberg-eque nuns, but I got over it.

I dont think monks even exist anymore though. Ive never seen one or seen someone I supposed to be a monk. I think they have to live in isolation or away from the community tbh. Those dance/ processions that the Buddhists do is pretty impressive though.

Kernel

MarinoMark wrote:

Where are they all gone ? Dont see them on the street anymore....Whooooosh all gone

So anyway, what did you do with all that coke you found in your taxi in the end?

Black Swan

The monks in the States are experiencing hard times. Recruitment to their orders are down. Mostly a bunch of old, well intended guys remain. Stayed at a monestary for a few days, if you can believe it. Blue Cloud Benedictine Monestary in the north eastern part of the State of South Dakota. Was talked into a retreat of sorts, was stressed out, visiting the States at the time, and willing to do almost anything to sort things out in my head at the time.

When I asked one of monks about why they would let someone like me stay over (female too among males), he said that historically, monestaries have opened their doors to outsiders over the past hundreds of years, whenever they found themselves in a financial crunch.

It was a strange experience for me, to say the least. Very quiet, except when they sang their hymns at specified hours. Not knowing what to do with myself, I joined in with them. Whoa! The lyrics to some of those hymns are really violent! And they are so peaceful in their lives. I read a lot, and forgot to bring anything to read, and of course, each room had a Bible. I glanced at the Old Testament, and whoa, all of a sudden I noticed how violent it was, too! Never thought of it as such until then.

Was a youngish teen at the time, and they drank and served me wine. Wow! These guys were cool. And, no, they didn't try to take advantage of me or whatever. Got into some late hour discussions with them about their lives in the monestary, their form of the Catholic religion, and the fact that what little religion I had was on its way out. No pressure from these guys, but a pleasant sort of understanding. Except for the structure they live in (monestary), they live in a poverty state. Some were losing their teeth, but that did not seem to bother them. After getting over the surprise of such things, after awhile, I stopped seeing such things and only saw the person that emerged from inside them. Oddly, when I left, I felt better and less stressed.:cool:

weemcd

all the monks have been called to a higher calling - brewing buckfast.

pfft everyone knows that:rolleyes:

Kernel

The monks and nuns of today never went on to be spiritual intellectuals.

They got blinded by the light and decided to sell their daily existence for a plasma screen, leather suite, nice house, BMW and copious amounts of coke/drugs, booze, sex with prosititutes, and masturbation over deluded and exploited girls. A third world of starving children, wars for cheaper petrol/profit margins of western corporations merely ensures such a 'comfortable' lifestyle.

Sure there's no heaven or God, so why not? :rolleyes:

http://cnview.com/bible_study/god_and_mammon.htm

Black Swan

Kernel wrote:

The monks and nuns of today never went on to be spiritual intellectuals.

They got blinded by the light and decided to sell their daily existence for a plasma screen, leather suite, nice house, BMW and copious amounts of coke/drugs, booze, sex with prosititutes, and masturbation over deluded and exploited girls. A third world of starving children, wars for cheaper petrol/profit margins of western corporations merely ensures such a 'comfortable' lifestyle.

I have the opposite view from that of Kernel, based upon actually living in a Benedictine monestary with monks for a few days. And being an agnostic now, I have no reason to defend them. I find it unfortunate that such broad sweeping generalisations are made about monks and nuns.

Ruu_Old

Nnnnaan!

Black Swan

Ruu wrote:

Nnnnaan!

Ha ha ha! Thanks Ruu! I was starting to take myself too seriously. We can always count on you for a little humour to make us laugh!:D

Ruu_Old

Serious threads on AH? We can't be having that now.

Femelade

there's this nun that i always see around the street where i work...but i'm not sure what oder she is from or anything as she is dressed head to toe in some kinda long cream coloured thingy.

DublinWriter

Kernel wrote:

They got blinded by the light and decided to sell their daily existence for a plasma screen, leather suite, nice house, BMW and copious amounts of coke/drugs, booze, sex with prosititutes, and masturbation over deluded and exploited girls. A third world of starving children, wars for cheaper petrol/profit margins of western corporations merely ensures such a 'comfortable' lifestyle.

Cool. Where do I sign up?

zilog_jones

I've seen monks walking down O'Connell St. in Limerick recently. Either that or they were just pretend monks O_o

Tha Gopher

Id have thought theyve largely died out.

Or serving time in Arbour Hill prison.



Theres a monk you see regularly around Blanch, dunno where hes based. I actually have a monks outfit left over from a fancy dress a while back, maybe Ill put it on then go into town and hang around O`Connell Street drinking, smoking spliffs, chatting up birds and generally confusing people as to what monks actually do these days.

Zapp Brannigan

Tha Gopher wrote:

Id have thought theyve largely died out.

Or serving time in Arbour Hill prison.



Theres a monk you see regularly around Blanch, dunno where hes based. I actually have a monks outfit left over from a fancy dress a while back, maybe Ill put it on then go into town and hang around O`Connell Street drinking, smoking spliffs, chatting up birds and generally confusing people as to what monks actually do these days.

Is he an older guy? Brown Robe?

If he is thats Father Dan Joe. He used to be friar in Coolmine Community School. He's of the Franciscan Order. There's a home in the Village where the order reside.

Stephen

I see a couple of monks around Kilkenny, but there is a franciscan friary in the centre of town, so it kinda makes sense.