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Anyone familiar with a concept known as “Monk mode”? In trying to look up MGTOW Monk (people who go a spartan route, that is akin to a monk going MGTOW), I ran into something called “Monk mode”.
Here is one of numerous articles on this:
http://lifehacker.com/the-magic-of-being-in-monk-mode-1464321610
Anyone else familiar with this? I could see a power of MGTOW is you touch on to this. By the very least, freeing oneself from try to go through hops of the dating game, enables a guy to do what monks do, get more time, more focus, more energy and do more, and become a better person.
So, anyone else familiar with monk mode?
"I am my own thang. Any questions?" - Davis S Pumpkins.
I guess my current isolated location would be fairly close to monk mode (but mostly in regards to women) … here’s my comment posted back on 2015-04-22 at 8:08 AM.
Makes me glad there are basically no women to date where I live. Just too rural and too few opportunities in my line of work and daily life. If they’re out there, I just don’t see ’em. I really don’t socialize well anyway. It probably would be nice to have some female companionship once in awhile; but overall, I’d rather go it alone. I truly mean that. Life is way better without the baggage. My isolation will continue to serve me well; it’s a blessing in disguise.
I live quite frugally (spending only a fraction each month of the average family) yet surrounded by lots of nature and open fields on the ridge tops. My neighbors are basically Amish or Mennonite. I also have one neighbor a couple miles across wooded valley who is a middle aged widow woman. We only chat infrequently like concerning our short common fence line along an isolated parcel of hilly land she rents for grazing some cattle. Part of the fence is down 400 foot hill at over 30 degree slope with thorny bushes so, needless to say, it isn’t walked unless necessary. My closest Amish neighbor is about two miles away across several different fields.
During winter months, I sometimes go over two weeks without seeing a woman and much longer w/o speaking to one. Along with natural isolation from females, also working on going a modified minimalist route. Holding on to a frugal lifestyle and having far fewer possessions (less in number – but try to buy each of slightly better quality to hopefully last longer). Seems to actually cost less in the long run.
I have fiber optic cable to my home for work but I don’t subscribe to television service; have my own collections of dvd’s and blu-ray collected over long period. Keep very busy with work and lots of painting (staining) and mowing (several hilly acres to mow). With nature close by for hiking, lots of books that need to be read and my own media … contact with outside world is mainly limited to a little time each day on a few web sites. Rarely read the news anymore. One mile round trip walk for mail.
Life is not boring and most people around here live same way I do – two of my Amish neighbor’s kids were walking along logging road on his property late last week and saw (what he claims was) a cougar … that’s about one mile from me – so we do have our excitement around here.
Alan Watts hits the mark on the monk mode thing:
Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?
RoyDal, that is really good. I think it is a place for MGTOW to tie into.
"I am my own thang. Any questions?" - Davis S Pumpkins.
Alan Watts hits the mark on the monk mode thing:
fantastic video 🙂
I am thinking while one can go into monk mode, and be MGTOW, not all reflections of MGTOW are the monk mode. I have been listening to more Alan Watts audio stuff, on YouTube, and I see a subset of the reflection of here. Maybe monk mode involves lapdances, and such, but I saw it as going spartan and working on oneself, more than reaping pleasure out of a woman. But, words are labels. My interest is in what works. For myself, monk mode means being much more to an actual monk and find the vows they take, like I have no room for a woman, the pursuit of riches, and so on, so I need to work on being more with much less.
Ok, maybe I missed it here batcave, but were the lapdances you monk mode, or did they follow AFTER the monk mode? I reread after typing and I am a bit unclear. Go figure.
"I am my own thang. Any questions?" - Davis S Pumpkins.
Alan Watts hits the mark on the monk mode thing:
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Truly inspiration.
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