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All photos by Arkasha Keysers This article originally appeared on VICE Belgium. Despite my devoutly Catholic grandmother’s warnings that I’d go straight to hell, my parents never had me baptized. It was an unusual decision to make in Belgium in the late 80s, particularly if you grow up in a town known around the world […]
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This Mountain Has Been Home to Monks for 12 Centuries (Video)
September 7th, 2023 
Awake Goy Nestled on a Greek peninsula stands Mount Athos, a venerable sanctuary for Christian Orthodox adherents. Read more Section: News Ancient Places Europe Videos History Read Later Source Views: 0
Leiston Abbey 13th-Century Pirating Monks Of Rural Suffolk
June 20th, 2023 Awake Goy The original Leiston Abbey was once the home of pirating monks, but today the ruins of the second Leiston Abbey, showcasing some of the finest and most complete monastic remains in the south of England Read more Section: News Premium Preview Read Later Source Views: 0
Orthodox monks in Ukraine defy order to leave Kyiv monastery over Russia links
March 15th, 2023 Awake Goy Orthodox monks from Kyiv’s 11th-century Pechersk Lavra monastery are fighting eviction by the Ukrainian government because of their church’s links with Russia. The ancient golden-domed religious complex is the country’s most significant Orthodox monastery. The monks in residency were, until recently, under Moscow’s jurisdiction. However, they say they broke with the Russian Orthodox Church after […]
Bloodthirsty Buddhists: The Sohei Warrior Monks of Feudal Japan
February 9th, 2023 Awake Goy When we think of Buddhism today, we think of pacifism, being at one with the world, love for one’s neighbor and nature, and other aspects of peaceful living. Modern Buddhist monks are devoted to spreading the message of peace and love, but it was not always so. The Sohei monks of medieval Japan were a […]
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No Comments »New Study Debunks the “Ruthless Vikings, Helpless Monks” Narrative
February 2nd, 2023 Awake Goy Medieval English monasteries didn’t just passively cave in to the long-running Viking attacks on English shores that culminated in the victory of the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great . Lyminge, a monastery in Kent, was in the thick of Viking hostility from the late eighth century, but survived it for almost a century through defensive […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: debunks, helpless, monks, narrative, ruthless, study, Vikings No Comments »For 1,000 Years, Monks of Mt Athos Have Banned Women and Female Animals!
January 22nd, 2023 Awake Goy Believe it or not, but beside men’s toilets, gentlemen’s clubs and certain temples, there is actually an entire peninsula in northern Greece, now a semiautonomous republic of Eastern Orthodox monks, which for over 1,000 years has banned women from entering its borders. Read more Section: News Weird Facts Read Later Source Views: 0
Justification by clicks: Austrian monks point to the cloud
December 23rd, 2022 Awake Goy In the age of Instagram and Tik Tok the Admont Monastery in Styria, in the heart of Austria, has become one of the favourite scenes of influencers from all over the world. Source Views: 0
Alchemist British Monks: Digging Up The Old Gunpowder Mills
November 1st, 2022 Awake Goy 16th-Century monks in Britain had a blast! They were the first to experiment with the recipe of saltpeter, Sulphur and charcoal to produce gunpowder in Britain. Read more Section: News Premium Preview Read Later Source Views: 0
Buddhist Monks Self-Mummified Their Bodies While Still Alive
May 24th, 2022 Awake Goy Over 1,000 years ago, an esoteric sect known as Shingon – which combined elements from Buddhism, Old Shinto, Taoism, and other religions – developed a horrifying practice of self-mummification of the living body. Read more Section: News Weird Facts Read Later Views: 0
Solitary confinement? Monks in France charged over 5G mast attack
September 22nd, 2021 Awake Goy Two French monks from a fundamentalist Catholic convent have been charged over allegedly attacking 5G phone masts to protest at their deployment, a judicial source confirmed to AFP. The public prosecutor’s office in Villefranche-sur-Saône, in the Rhône region, said the two men, aged 39 and 40, admitted setting fire to phone mast on the night […]
Eduard von Grützner’s Paintings of Fat, Drunk Monks
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy From ArtNet: Eduard von Grützner (1846 – 1925) was a German painter best known for his genre scenes of the theater and of monks consuming beer in rowdy groups. I don’t like the subject matter, but appreciate the skill and how we can get a picture of these “holy” drunkards. Not all of these images […]
Rhodes Island, Home to Famed Warrior-Monks Who Fought for their Beliefs
November 13th, 2020 Awake Goy The island of Rhodes which now forms part of Greece, has a long and dramatic history dating back 12,000 years to the Neolithic era. In the medieval period it was the headquarters of The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem as they were officially known, or more commonly, The Knights […]
Monks With Powerful Minds Show Harvard Scientists How Real The Mind-Body Connection Is
May 7th, 2018 Awake Goy Next Story This is an article we are re-posting which originated at Collective Evolution It’s fascinating to consider just how many ancient teachings tell us that humans have the capacity to gain extraordinary powers through various techniques. Some of these techniques, known as siddhis in the yoga tradition (from the Sanskrit, meaning “perfection”), include meditation, static dancing, […]
Why Do Tibetan Monks Wash Away The Mandalas They Create?
July 12th, 2017 Awake Goy Imagine making something so time consuming, so intricate, so special that you put all your talent, energy, and attention into it for hours or even days. Now imagine admiring the finished project, only to destroy it moments later. Wouldn’t that feel like a waste of time? An aggressive, distorted attempt to control? According to Tibetan […]
The Shaolin Flying Monks Temple Blasts Monks Into The Sky Above a Mountainside Amphitheater
April 26th, 2017 Awake Goy Perched on the Songshan mountain in rural Henan, China, this new temple designed by Latvian architecture studio Mailītis Architects brings a whole new perspective to the legendary Shaolin monks: specifically an aerial perspective. The recently completed Shaolin Flying Monks Temple contains a one-of-a-kind levitation pavilion that houses a vertical wind tunnel designed in part by Aerodium that blasts participants toward the sky in […]
London: Monkeys Rallying in Support Killing Humans in America
July 11th, 2016 Awake Goy Andrew AnglinDaily Stormer July 10, 2016 Blacks in London are rallying in support of Black-on-White terrorism in America. Because of course. Daily Mail: Black Lives Matter activists forced the closure of Oxford Street as they protested against the killing of African Americans by U.S police. Hundreds of marchers gathered on the busiest shopping street […]
French soldier slashed by man angry over ‘Syria bombings’
May 27th, 2016 Awake Goy The incident happened on Thursday night as the victim was exercising in the town of Saint-Julien-du Puy, in the Tarn area of southern France. The man, who belongs to the 8th parachute regiment based in Castres, was wearing his military attire at the time, L’Express reported. Paris knife attack blamed on ‘serial asylum seeker’ with […]
Posted in World News Tags: Amp, antipedophile, bishop, certificate, monks, priests, spanish, tells No Comments »Elusive “Turtle Island” Rising from the Waters of the Muodaoxi River
April 24th, 2016 Awake Goy Every year around the months of spring, thousands of Chinese tourists flock to the The Gorges Reservoir to see an elusive “turtle island” rising from the waters of the Muodaoxi River. The event, dubbed ‘spring turtle rising’, is an important annual celebration, as local residents believe that turtles signify longevity. Fascinating though the idea of […]
Watch The Most Truthful & Honest 3 Minutes In Television History
March 1st, 2016 Awake Goy I think we can all attest to the immense popularity of television these days. While the average viewer has pulled their attention from live TV over to OnDemand platforms, the love for and obsession over television programming remains strong. I see this as a reflection of the state of not only our world in the West but […]
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