Weird religious news: Thai Buddhist monks defrocked and expelled from temple after all were tested and found to have Meth in their systems. The temple currently has no monks to run it.
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waitingforgodo
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Nov 30, 2022
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Having lived in Thailand I can assure you that not all monks in temples are good holy people. There have been monks charged with crimes and all kinds of things. Sometimes crooks and creeps run into temples and monk-up in order to " make merit' for bad deeds (Buddhist baloney) and avoid punishment. I developed a healthy scepticism about monk dudes walking around in orange garb with bald heads, when I lived there. It's religion, and it's all bullshit, as George Carlin would say.
David1955
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Nov 29, 2022
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I visited long ago while in the military. My daughter was an exchange student there as well. Pretty much anybody can become a monk. Most seem to take being a Monk serious and roam around and study or hang at one place.
@Beowulfsfriend I am told that a lot of degeneration set in at the time, when the government allowed service as a monk to count as your national service. Many saw that as the easy option, when compared to the armed forces or the police etc. and you know the easy option never attracts the best people.
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