My cousin's ex's father founded a major buddhist center in...St.Paul? I think it was St.Paul, not Minneapolis. Oh! He's on wikipedia! [link]
Now hold on, I'm gonna press the right pedal harder. I expect us to accelerate.
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - May 26, 2007 1:12:09 pm PDT #9383 of 10001
Jesse - May 26, 2007 1:20:14 pm PDT #9384 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wikipedia tells me that among Catholics, at least, the nun/sister thing I was saying is right: [link] I realize Wikipedia is not infallible, but it sure is convenient.
Jesse - May 26, 2007 1:24:15 pm PDT #9385 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This is so interesting! Here's a sister's blog, which says much of the difference is about money. [link] She says she uses "nun" in general conversation, because it's easier, but also says she didn't realize that her Ursuline coworker was actually a nun!
Kat - May 26, 2007 1:26:09 pm PDT #9386 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita, I've been on a tour of Green Gulch and can totally see going there.
shrift - May 26, 2007 1:30:34 pm PDT #9387 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've been running errands and cleaning like crazy most of the day. Now I have ice cream and porn while I wait to rotate in more laundry. And seven open tabs on Zappos for casual walking shoes.
Kat - May 26, 2007 1:33:42 pm PDT #9388 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh, and no, I don't think cloistering dictates the job title. Many, many nuns in my program lived independently...apart from a mother house. Though, I'm not sure about monks.
It's actually true, in Catholicism. Monks are cloistered and Friars are not. Though, medeivally speaking, it got messy as monasteries became major landholders and they needed outrider monks to visit the property.
Initially all nuns were cloistered.
§ ita § - May 26, 2007 1:38:11 pm PDT #9389 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kat, that sounds really amazing. Man, I wish I had some vacation time, or would within the next four months. I really need a shift of some sort.
Hmm. I could never actually be a monk without the fighting thing. One of the krav junior instructors went on a long trip to China last year, and went from temple to temple looking for some fighting instruction. NSM of that--though he did get shooed off by a monk on his cellphone arranging stock trades.
Jesse - May 26, 2007 1:41:54 pm PDT #9390 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, you'd be looking for the Shaolin, then, ita?
Which makes me laugh now, thinking of it as Staten Island, per the Wu-Tang Clan.
Jesse - May 26, 2007 2:09:40 pm PDT #9391 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just had a kind of pathetic revelation: I've been dreaming about taking an at-home vacation to just relax around the house, since I have at least two weeks banked at this point, but I just realized that this weekend might do the trick, now that my parents aren't here.
msbelle - May 26, 2007 2:22:31 pm PDT #9392 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Jesse, do you have any home stuff you've been putting off. That is what I always plan on doing in my (not yet realised) stay at home vacation.