Intriguing Story

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

This is a fairly quick read and very intriguing story.

Basically, the best NCAA women's basketball player played overseas for a year or two after graduating from Villanova. She was offered a new contract at $200,000/year in the early '90s (about $400,000 in today's money), but she turned it down to enter a monastery. Already, that's shocking. But it wasn't just any monastery. It was basically a solitary-confinement-for-life-monastery.

The monastery is the Monastery for the Poor Clares. They live extremely poor (sleep in straw mats, no shoes for most of the day) and believe that their suffering will somehow make their prayers answered more for others. But that's not even the hardest part. The hardest part is that they can have no in-person contact with others. This girl walked away from her loving parents and siblings knowing she wouldn't be able to do something as basic as hug any of them for 25 years. It's not been 25 years, so she was able to briefly see all of them.

On an individual level, she is a great person, in that she is giving up everything for her belief that it helps others. But on the macro level, what the fvck! How screwed up is religion?!

https://www.espn.com/womens-college...ketball-star-shelly-pennefather-made-deal-god

 

[Dreh_Nagi_HC_IM]

Does she know she could have gotten to do that here, had she only come up with a manifesto and pipe bombed a few people?

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

If any other "mother leader" was getting 20-something females to turn down $400,000/year jobs to come live there in isolation, sleep on a straw mat, not wear shoes, live as poor as possible, have no in-person contact with anyone outside of the house for 25 years, etc., they would immediately be labeled a "cult" and have the feds trying to raid them for some bogus excuse.

But since this is covered under the cult of Christianity, it makes it acceptable.

 

[WV-FAN]

If any other "mother leader" was getting 20-something females to turn down $400,000/year jobs to come live there in isolation, sleep on a straw mat, not wear shoes, live as poor as possible, have no in-person contact with anyone outside of the house for 25 years, etc., they would immediately be labeled a "cult" and have the feds trying to raid them for some bogus excuse.

But since this is covered under the cult of Christianity, it makes it acceptable.

david koresh, jim jones, and warren jeffs all say hello. oh wait, two of those were all about suiciding people and the other was stockpiling firearms for "the pending apocalypse". just a tad bit different than committing oneself to solitary confinement with the belief it would benefit others.

you spin it however it fits yore agenda, though.

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

david koresh, jim jones, and warren jeffs all say hello. oh wait, two of those were all about suiciding people and the other was stockpiling firearms for "the pending apocalypse". just a tad bit different than committing oneself to solitary confinement with the belief it would benefit others.

you spin it however it fits yore agenda, though.

Oh, so the frequent use of "cult" on here when discussing E.T.'s other religion are just lies by you and your cohorts?

 

[WV-FAN]

Oh, so the frequent use of "cult" on here when discussing E.T.'s other religion are just lies by you and your cohorts?

wtf are you even talking about? nowhere in your incoherent blah blah blah . . . you get no points.

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

wtf are you even talking about? nowhere in your incoherent blah blah blah . . . you get no points.

Scientology has frequently been referred to as a "cult" on here. They are not stockpiling weapons, assisting people with suicide, etc. In fact, they have been called a "cult" on here simply for being able to brainwash people and make them believe crazy things, all while controlling parts of their life.

How is that any different than this monastery which is controlling entire parts of people's lives and making them believe crazy things?

If Scientology is a cult, how do you argue that this monastery is not the same? Did I dumb that down enough for you?

 

[WV-FAN]

Scientology has frequently been referred to as a "cult" on here. They are not stockpiling weapons, assisting people with suicide, etc. In fact, they have been called a "cult" on here simply for being able to brainwash people and make them believe crazy things, all while controlling parts of their life.

How is that any different than this monastery which is controlling entire parts of people's lives and making them believe crazy things?

If Scientology is a cult, how do you argue that this monastery is not the same? Did I dumb that down enough for you?

i never said none of them were a cult, idiot. you were making a piss poor attempt to say the government wouldn't raid them because they're a christian cult. all i did was provide three examples that fukt that idea in the throat.

judas priest, potato head, get yore shit together . . .

 

[Y.A.G Si Ye Nots]

i never said none of them were a cult, idiot. you were making a piss poor attempt to say the government wouldn't raid them because they're a christian cult. all i did was provide three examples that fukt that idea in the throat.

judas priest, potato head, get yore shit together . . .

Yes, outside of Christianity (or Judaism), push back would be so great on this that the feds would create an excuse to raid them.

Hell, look at the R Kelly girlfriend thing. That was one individual - an adult - who was seen frequently in public and spoke about being perfectly healthy, not being held against her will, etc. Yet because of public/media push back on it, the police have contacted/interviewed her multiple times to make sure she is alright. Again, that's one adult who is free to go out in public whenever.

Compare that to how they'd react about 2-3 dozen females being held in a house where they aren't allowed to leave, have no in-person contact with the outside world for the most part, have absolutely no communication with the outside world other than if somebody writes them, live in poverty, etc.

Anything outside of Christianity, and the police/feds would be quite active with it.

 

[WV-FAN]

Yes, outside of Christianity (or Judaism), push back would be so great on this that the feds would create an excuse to raid them.

Hell, look at the R Kelly girlfriend thing. That was one individual - an adult - who was seen frequently in public and spoke about being perfectly healthy, not being held against her will, etc. Yet because of public/media push back on it, the police have contacted/interviewed her multiple times to make sure she is alright. Again, that's one adult who is free to go out in public whenever.

Compare that to how they'd react about 2-3 dozen females being held in a house where they aren't allowed to leave, have no in-person contact with the outside world for the most part, have absolutely no communication with the outside world other than if somebody writes them, live in poverty, etc.

Anything outside of Christianity, and the police/feds would be quite active with it.

as already indicated, the three referenced above all say hello.

now, scour the interwebs and find something better than a guy indicted for aggravated criminal sexual abuse (hardly a cult, lol) to support yore claim.

hell, the majority of cults raided in the united states over the past however many years you want to look at have been christian, so, good luck . . .