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is this an elaborate long term scheme to get your le pure virgin waifu? because this is what your pic says. If this is not the case check out a monastery

>>710418

No it's just the only decent pic that showed up when I googled "christian commune". Monasteries are too strict and regimented, too focused on prayer. I want a Christian community that focuses on the basics, simple living, work hard, go to church, worship together, etc.

I would settle for some kind of Benedict Option type parallel society, were it possible.

But I don't think it is

>>710420

>too focused on prayer

"Pray without ceasing" - 1 Thessalonians 5:17

>>710420

You actually have no idea what you are talking about

>too strict and regimented

Working in a commune is produce food or starve. There is no personal freedom. They have no hesitation in kicking you out if you dont put in 90% of your waking hours farming, as you'll just be another mouth to feed.

>too focused on prayer.

Bruh…

It sounds like you want to be a welfare queen with some friends and put in minimal effort into your spiritual life. Go for it I guess.

>>710433

Did you read the post?

>simple living, work hard, go to church, worship together

How did you read that and come to the conclusion that I wasn't ready to put in my fair share and wanted to put "minimal effort" into my spiritual life? Living in a commune is very different to monastic life and it's silly to pretend they're even remotely comparable. Living as a Monk is far harder than just living in a commune because you have all the work involved in making a living in addition to praying 5-7 times a day

Secondly you don't need to farm 90% of your waking hours in a commune, that's stupid. You work about the same hours you would in a secular job, from 8am to around 4pm.

Simply put I don't want to live as a monk, I want to have a family of my own and live in a community that has strong Christian values and lives a simple hardworking life where you make a living by doing something of value not a pointless secular paper pushing job. Whats so hard to understand about that?

>>710437

You're actually wrong. A monastry is far easier because you get subsidised by the diocese, most monastries do trivial work with long periods of break. Plus praying 7 times a day is not even that hard. It takes approximatly 1 and a half to 3 hours (depending on the form of divine office used). You will probably be expected to do that in a commune as well.

A commune is 6 days a week farm work,and on sunday youre at church and then doing all your cleaning and household chores.

The fact that you're asking on an imageboard shows how little you know about these things

>>710441

>You will probably be expected to do that in a commune as well.

I've visited one and they only had church on Sunday. You prayed each day of course, giving thanks before meals, etc. Nothing like the regulated daily prayer of a Monk doing the Divine Office. It's an utterly ridiculous comparison. Monastic life is completely different to living in a Christian commune. You're the one who has no idea what he's talking about by trying to claim the two are in any way interchangeable. Life in a Christian commune is family and community based with the emphasis placed on living a simple life working with your hands. Monastic life is focused entirely on your spiritual life and involves vows of celibacy, no family environment at all and living a highly rigid life scheduled down to the minute each and every day.

You're simply being retarded if you think that a person who is interested in commune life would be happy in a monastery and vice verse, they're fundamentally different ways of living, literally the only thing they have in common in separation from the secular world to live a Christ focused life, that's it.

I've already told you that I don't want to be a Monk. I want to have a family, but I want to raise them in a Christian focused community. One of these options is a viable way of achieving that goal, one of them is a retarded suggestion who thinks that an Anabaptist Commune has absolutely anything at all in common with a Catholic/Orthodox monastery.

Amish are good boys, very old christian communes are good but those born in the 60s are christian hippy pseudocommunists.

Anyway I ask you a question: do you really like the life in a commune or it's more like you are not well in this world? Because if it is the second case moving to a small town can be enough for your needs, just stay away from big anonymous cities.

>Secondly you don't need to farm 90% of your waking hours in a commune, that's stupid. You work about the same hours you would in a secular job, from 8am to around 4pm.

Lmao is this what anglo city dwellers actually believe?

t. farmer

>>710393

yeah just make sure it isn't a cult

>>710446

I'm not saying that a commune and monastry are the same. I'm saying that a commune is much more demanding than a monastry and your idea that it will be just like a normal job with all the perks of living with Christians is just imagination and not reality at all.

>>710478

>But anon, all the movies about living in the country show that life is slow and relaxing, isn't my commune just gonna be like all the movies?

>>710441

>monasteries do trivial work

That's a huge generalization and in some monasteries the brothers/sisters work like dogs day in and day out. Stop trying so hard to sound knowledgeable.

>>710481

I've visited a commune and it really isn't that hard. Not everyone farms either, there's a variety of jobs to do. I think you're massively overstating it. Is it harder than a desk job? Yeah sure, it's physical labor. Is it toiling 7 days a week from dawn to dusk? No, not even close. I understand that you don't want someone idealizing the lifestyle and thinking it's not hard going but you're going to the opposite extreme. Communes are pretty good places to live if you're not afraid of rolling your sleeves up and actually doing manual labor.