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Re:Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit roc... by patapong on Saturday March 04, 2023 @11:44AM (#35022193)
I mean, monasteries have existed for hundreds of years.
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Re:Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit roc... by ianai on Saturday March 04, 2023 @12:06PM (#35022382)
Thousands. And a phd program is pretty similar to a modern monastery.
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Re:Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit roc... by carlosjobim on Saturday March 04, 2023 @06:20PM (#35025512)
Monasteries were a system for sustaining unwanted children, and those children united became a very powerful institution in the world. Before monasteries unwanted children were generally "exposed", meaning left in the wilderness as infants to be devoured by animals or freeze to death. Birth control is why you only see old monks or nuns today.

Still, monasteries didn't produce any children.

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