how do Catholic and Orthodox monks know they’ve received a calling from Christ to live the life they will? like what is it that makes someone willingly renounce all worldly pleasures, live in poverty, live off of your own grown food, live out in the remote woods, live in rags, pray all the time, help those in need etc.
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They make it up, same as the rest of them have for all of time
Most people wouldn't cast off their entire lives for something so petty.
Your calling should be learning to just worry about yourself instead of projecting your impotence and cynicism on to everyone else.
It’s an addiction response, it doesn’t mean the justification is not made up
Supernaturalism gives those of low agency the illusion of control
And do not project your own lack of ability onto those who do not require mysticism to succeed
>Most people wouldn't cast off their entire lives for something so petty.
Yes exactly; only a few do
meh, seems like a handwave proof of why someone would willingly choose a more difficult path than a path of worldly pleasure and dopamine rushes
>willingly choose a more difficult path
They don’t. They choose to insulate themselves from responsibility and from the market in the first place because they can’t compete.
Hedonism and Abrahamism are the same thing. The only difference is the particular substance one chooses to indulge in. They’re both a form of responsibility avoidance.
moron pagan vagueposter
If you were capable of producing a rational and empirical argument you would. Run along to your crayon eating session with the rest of the theology rabble
>le rational septic
gtfo you don't contribute anything to nothing
It's a vocational calling, but the story is going to be slightly different for all. You should ask one. But many of them often say they already knew it when they were still young.
That’s not what he asked
>how do Catholic and Orthodox monks know they’ve received a calling from Christ to live the life they will
They make it up
Threadly reminder that monasticism is a cultural import from India.
Being a homosexual loser and realising there's a socially accepted excuse to go live in a homosexual reservation buttfricking each other, living on welfare(donations from morons) and not working
>live in poverty, live off of your own grown food, live out in the remote woods, live in rags
Yeah that's why all those monasteries have opulent architecture and originated so many european beers, wines, liquors, cheeses, sausages etc.
There used to be monastic orders that were basically just special forces units. Why has nobody tried it since?
You need a state and nation-scale economy/industry to support modern warfare
Pretty much since the early modern period; you can't have a monastery forging cannons
Unless you mean just a PMC-style mostly light infantry force... in which case it's just a PMC
And no one's stopping you from starting a Christ-themed PMC and seeking donations from christians
It's a mystical thing.