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John
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6/09/2002
21:15:01
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I found this article a while back, and I am interested to see what you all think:
"Death to the World: Punks Turned Monks
By Frederica Mathewes-Green
High in a Russian Orthodox monastery in the California mountains, Father Damascene and Father John had a problem. They wanted to place an ad in Maximum Rock and Roll, "the most hardcore" of all the punk magazines, but were having trouble getting it past the editor.
If this sounds like the beginning of an interesting story, just wait.
The story actually began a few years earlier. Four years ago, John Marler arrived at the St. Herman of Alaska monastery in Platina, California, weary of life. Though only nineteen, he had already been guitarist in two successful punk-rock bands, Sleep and Paxton Quiggly. Once he found faith in Christ and a home in Orthodoxy, the new monk wanted to bring the same hope to the punk subculture he had just escaped, a community of kids crippled by nihilism and despair."
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http://www.theooze.com/articles/read.cfm?ID=236&CATID=2
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Jim Kalb
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6/10/2002
14:05:00
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Could be something to it. I tend to view punk etc. as nihilism turned into a consumer good, which wouldn't naturally lead to a deeper view of things, but all sorts of people take up that sort of thing so why not try making a pitch?
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John
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6/10/2002
22:01:35
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Also, the ultimate in "authenticity" is the traditional way of life.
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Jim Kalb
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6/11/2002
05:19:46
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Oh, I agree - any other kind of authenticity is a will-o-the-wisp.
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