Comments on: nuns http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/ Two prophets, living together. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:52:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: fenchurch http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-175217 fenchurch Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:00:55 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-175217 @TB: I'm glad to be part of a culture that has even a *better* use for women than Islam: whatever she decides she wants to be. @TB: I’m glad to be part of a culture that has even a *better* use for women than Islam: whatever she decides she wants to be.

]]> By: JET http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-125244 JET Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:25:18 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-125244 Virtually all religious systems have some sort of ascetic/monastic element. If you want to call the female participants in such practices "nuns" then you could say that virtually all religions have nuns. Virtually all religious systems have some sort of ascetic/monastic element. If you want to call the female participants in such practices “nuns” then you could say that virtually all religions have nuns.

]]> By: bjarke http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-89762 bjarke Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:06:07 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-89762 Actually buddhist's have nuns too Actually buddhist’s have nuns too

]]> By: JoeyJoeJoeJunior http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-27354 JoeyJoeJoeJunior Fri, 11 May 2007 18:12:11 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-27354 Are nuns useful? Question answered: http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF218-The_Great_Circle.jpg#206 Are nuns useful?

Question answered:

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF218-The_Great_Circle.jpg#206

]]> By: John Cowan http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-25882 John Cowan Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:25:15 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-25882 The Anglican church is a broad one, from fairly conservative Protestants to Catholics that happen not to be Roman. It's not surprising they have nuns. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" rel="nofollow">Orthodox</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy" rel="nofollow">Oriental Orthodox</a> ("Monophysite"), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" rel="nofollow">Assyrian</a> ("Nestorian") variants of Christianity have nuns as well. The Anglican church is a broad one, from fairly conservative Protestants to Catholics that happen not to be Roman. It’s not surprising they have nuns. The Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox (“Monophysite”), and Assyrian (“Nestorian”) variants of Christianity have nuns as well.

]]> By: bernarda http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-21489 bernarda Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:48:35 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-21489 As Ambrose Bierce defined it in his "Devil's Dictionary" convent, n. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate on the vice of idleness. As Ambrose Bierce defined it in his “Devil’s Dictionary”

convent, n. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate on the vice of idleness.

]]> By: Albert Ross http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20977 Albert Ross Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:55:24 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20977 JohnnieCannuck Google is your friend and a search for "Anglican Nuns" will turn up such communities even in the USA. In the UK Walsingham is a well known Anglican place of pilgrimage where high church people carry on in ways that would embarrass the average Catlick today. Mind you in times of crisis a couple of days stay at Walsingham can help even a non-believer. JohnnieCannuck

Google is your friend and a search for “Anglican Nuns” will turn up such communities even in the USA.

In the UK Walsingham is a well known Anglican place of pilgrimage where high church people carry on in ways that would embarrass the average Catlick today.

Mind you in times of crisis a couple of days stay at Walsingham can help even a non-believer.

]]> By: TaoAndZen http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20914 TaoAndZen Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:33:17 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20914 Carolita, you are quite right. There is no organizational continuity between the Vestals and the Nuns. Sloppy of me not to qualify that statement. I could have put it thus: Nuns served the same invested socio-political function as the Vestals inasmuch as the Catholic church is manifestly a perpetuation of the vestigial Roman State. Vestals were not just the maiden keepers of the flame of Vesta. They held significant institutional status, powers and priveleges sanctioned by Pontifex Maximus (the Pope). Carolita, you are quite right. There is no organizational continuity between the Vestals and the Nuns. Sloppy of me not to qualify that statement. I could have put it thus: Nuns served the same invested socio-political function as the Vestals inasmuch as the Catholic church is manifestly a perpetuation of the vestigial Roman State.

Vestals were not just the maiden keepers of the flame of Vesta. They held significant institutional status, powers and priveleges sanctioned by Pontifex Maximus (the Pope).

]]> By: JohnnieCanuck http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20906 JohnnieCanuck Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:23:53 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20906 Of course, Anglicans are often accused of being wannabe Catholics, so it figures they'd have nuns too. Not that I ever heard of any while I was one. An Anglican, that is. :-p Of course, Anglicans are often accused of being wannabe Catholics, so it figures they’d have nuns too. Not that I ever heard of any while I was one. An Anglican, that is. :-p

]]> By: carolita http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20898 carolita Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:26:16 +0000 http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/04/16/nuns/#comment-20898 Hehehe. Yes, it was Rabelais (Gargantua, specifically)! And Author, don't you just love Leviticus? :) Actually, TaoAndZen, nuns have their origins in monks! Monks came first, and then the women had to have a piece of the action. It took them quite a while to be accepted by the Pope. And, according to Heloise (of Abelard and Heloise), it took them a while to get their own uniforms. (Heloise points out in a letter to Abelard that nuns on the rag aren't really comfortable in the men's robes and hose.) So, unless monks have their origins in the Vestal Virgins (who were simply the pure and maidenly keepers of the flame, since there was no ConEd in the time), nuns don't have their origin in Vestal Virgins either. Hey Sister Mable Syrup, are you serious? Non-celibate nuns? And not Catholic? That sound so unbelievable reasonable! Hehehe. Yes, it was Rabelais (Gargantua, specifically)!
And Author, don’t you just love Leviticus? :)

Actually, TaoAndZen, nuns have their origins in monks! Monks came first, and then the women had to have a piece of the action. It took them quite a while to be accepted by the Pope. And, according to Heloise (of Abelard and Heloise), it took them a while to get their own uniforms. (Heloise points out in a letter to Abelard that nuns on the rag aren’t really comfortable in the men’s robes and hose.)

So, unless monks have their origins in the Vestal Virgins (who were simply the pure and maidenly keepers of the flame, since there was no ConEd in the time), nuns don’t have their origin in Vestal Virgins either.

Hey Sister Mable Syrup, are you serious? Non-celibate nuns? And not Catholic? That sound so unbelievable reasonable!

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