6 comments

  • ChiMan 20 minutes ago
    The monks likely have the time to think about implementation, and feeling like they’re part of an institution that transcends them and that they value for its own sake, they likely have an incentive to invest effort into maintaining and improving it.

    Both of these are unlike, say, corporate environments, where the core work uses up almost all available time and where most people are looking mostly to extract something from the organization.

  • bxk76 29 minutes ago
    Whats is always interesting about monestic life and its emergence (minus light sabers) is that society across cultures has created spaces for people who dont fit. This need has been recognized and supported for thousands of years.
    • MrBuddyCasino 23 minutes ago
      And there hasn’t really been a replacement for that in modern times. This is a problem.
      • lukan 4 minutes ago
        There are still plenty of religious cults out there if that is your thing, probably more than have ever been. Otherwise the "misfits" are nowdays also organizing themself to indeed fit somewhere and don't just accept to be outcasts.

        Sorry, but the whole concept of "place for people who don't fit" - is really not appropriate for monasteries in general. Because they have been very strict about who can fit. Only those who are fine with this special lifestyle and fixed rituals (and fixed hierachy and dogma). And most monks had to adopt to accept, whether they liked it or not, as the alternative was starving.

  • blackoil 1 hour ago
    Religion is one of the best at marketing and fund-raising since millenias. Why is it surprising that they adapt to new tech? They have done it for printing press before that.
  • wartywhoa23 1 hour ago
    Well, AI is the New Messiah, and very VC backed at this point, so no surprise.
  • recurseP 2 days ago
    In my country most monasteries are becoming luxury hotels so yes, they are adapting remarkably well to these times.
    • Keirmot 33 minutes ago
      That is not a new phenomenon, per se. The hospitality industry was shaped by monasteries, based on the Rule of St. Benedict.
  • steve1977 1 hour ago
    Religion was behind the spread of printed books, at least here in Europe, so this seems in line.
    • andrepd 1 hour ago
      It was also behind unspeakable acts of massive cultural destruction, so there's that.
      • forgetfreeman 32 minutes ago
        So was the search for condiments.
        • defrost 29 minutes ago
          The Spice must flow.
      • otabdeveloper4 19 minutes ago
        Source? Proofs?

        Do communism and secular humanism count as "religions" here?