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Mike Pence reminds me of a guy I with in my 20’s.
He was in his 50’s but when he was young, he had been a monk. A novitiate rather. A monk in training.
He had these insane stories about being a young monk trainee with a bunch of other, uh, monklets, I guess...
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He was in his 50’s but when he was young, he had been a monk. A novitiate rather. A monk in training.
He had these insane stories about being a young monk trainee with a bunch of other, uh, monklets, I guess...
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All day, they’d be these incredibly serious, devout students of piety toiling silently in their chores and studies.
When they finished their monkwork, they were allowed to talk but only to each other and only for an hour.
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When they finished their monkwork, they were allowed to talk but only to each other and only for an hour.
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He said the monks-in-training would get in a room and just... unload... feverishly talking over each other in dueling firehoses of the most vile, depraved filth you can imagine.
Then the bell would ring and they’d go back to being monkish.
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Then the bell would ring and they’d go back to being monkish.
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The guy I worked with got right up to the point of becoming a full monk and taking his vow of silence...
...but he couldn’t do it.
So he left the order, moved to the city and went completely anti-monk.
Smoked, drank, went out. The guy was a blast.
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...but he couldn’t do it.
So he left the order, moved to the city and went completely anti-monk.
Smoked, drank, went out. The guy was a blast.
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Pence totally reminds me of the monk trainees he described.
Spends his days putting on the mask of someone of pure thought and deed.
If he ever had that one-hour monk-chat though, you just know he’d be firehosing all the really whacked sh** in his head...
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Spends his days putting on the mask of someone of pure thought and deed.
If he ever had that one-hour monk-chat though, you just know he’d be firehosing all the really whacked sh** in his head...
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