I was taught by a nun at school who was genuinely lovely (husband's experience of nuns at school was VERY different). I would like to meet more monks, rather than just going 'ooh, Monk' internally when I see one Monking about - ThreadSky

scriblit.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

I was taught by a nun at school who was genuinely lovely (husband's experience of nuns at school was VERY different).

I would like to meet more monks, rather than just going 'ooh, Monk' internally when I see one Monking about

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cethanleahy.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I briefly met one who was in his 90s and wrote murder mysteries. He was nice!

scriblit.bsky.social•8 hours ago

That's FANTASTIC

cethanleahy.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It seems like a good life if you get the calling! (I saw an interview with a woman recently who was about to take her vows and her reason to joining the convent seemed to be she didn't like social media and this was the easiest way to avoid it)

thebrainofchris.bsky.social•7 hours ago

That... is a surprisingly compelling argument.

cethanleahy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Not a WhatsApp group to be seen 😇

ewacat.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Haha just imagine all these tech bros driving people to religion like this

scriblit.bsky.social•7 hours ago

hahahaha

hypocriticaldog.bsky.social•7 hours ago

There's going to be a whole wave of anchorites

cethanleahy.bsky.social•7 hours ago

If someone gives me the choice between ecstatic visions and ChatGPT, I know what I'm picking!

ewacat.bsky.social•7 hours ago

No contest

reddite.bsky.social•6 hours ago

My first year university philosophy class was taught by a monk. Fine chap.

ewacat.bsky.social•8 hours ago

See I've never met a nun and I'm so curious lol

scriblit.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I have a whole ass nunnery not far from me, it's huge and beautiful

thebrainofchris.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Got enough Catholic family members to have heard plenty of Nun Teacher Horror Stories. But the big nun story is my aunt met her husband literally the night before she was supposed to take her vows.

scriblit.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Haha WOW, you have Out Catholicked us all!

thebrainofchris.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Alas, I was baptised CofE (to *much* scandal and people not talking) but my dad sometimes claimed he suspected that aunt had done a stealth emergency baptising on me when nobody was looking.

scriblit.bsky.social•7 hours ago

My MiL told my husband she had seriously thought about doing this to our kids back in the days when we trusted her to babysit* and I was SO MAD at her, haha. Like OK, NED FLANDERS

*The reason we stopped trusting her to do that is a different, also wild story

ewacat.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Ahhh! See current discussion here about the christening of the Niece is becoming more fraught lol

scriblit.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Oh noooooo

thebrainofchris.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Ahhh! Good luck! The controversy was still talked about in shadowy terms in our house when I was in my teens...

ewacat.bsky.social•8 hours ago

OOOOOOOH that's brilliant

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