View Full Version : Did anyone see 60 Minutes tonight (Easter Sunday)?
If you did, just wondering what you though of the two segments on Mount Athos, the millenium old center of Orthodox monasticism in northern Greece?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/21/60minutes/main20056101.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel
If not, you can watch online.
Will withhold my comments until I hear some of yours. ;)
iris lily
4-24-11, 11:33pm
I can't comment on the show because I watched, literally, 5 seconds of it, but I thought of you when I saw that it was about Orthodox church.
I made a point to watch. I've never bought that the only way to get to whatever your understanding of the afterlife is is through unending prayer/ritual/denial. If there's any point to all this, it is that we all have a turn at this material dimension to make what we will of it, and I don't think you have to be a saint to move on--if indeed we do move on. But I do long for a quiet, scenically beautiful sanctuary to live in, and that icon studio was very appealing to me. I can see why the monastic life calls out to some.
ETA: Living in the real world is so much more fraught with frustration, struggle and strife, I can see why these men are considerably healthier than average--they're living in a pretty little bubble.
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