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Monks' once-flourishing business ends
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via KansasCityStar ^
| Nov. 23, 2011
| ANNYSA JOHNSON
Posted on 11/26/2011 11:17:01 AM PST by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
May they find a new venture and thrive.
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:05:33 PM PST
by
Yaelle
(This weekend, donate $9.99 to Herman Cain!)
To: Joe 6-pack
Are you the handsome one in the middle hugging the GSD? You are a lucky man, I’m told, to have a New Skete dog. A few years back, I remember reading that there was so much demand and such a long waiting list for their puppies that they were not taking any new orders.
To: Yaelle
Perhaps if they start small...like Brother McCoy, did in the beginning.
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:11:43 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( **Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an effete could ignore it**)
To: afraidfortherepublic
"Are you the handsome one in the middle hugging the GSD?" LOL...the handsome one in the middle is the GSD ;-)
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:14:56 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Daffynition
They shoulda just stuck with brewing beer and ale!
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:29:09 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: SpringtoLiberty
You don’t even know how a nonprofit business works do you? Didn’t think so.
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:36:39 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Daffynition
I LOVE these Trappist jams; they are DEEElicious.
Love the honey, too.
Perhaps monks and nuns who make things should stick to NON-tech stuff and stay with the old-fashioned things. Hard to explain it but I think the simple food, soap and such keep the religious closer to God.
Doesn't make that much sense but then it's just a SENSE I have about it.
To: Daffynition
"Here's what happened..."
To: ladyjane
it’s not anti-christian to point out a cult, we are supposed to call down the false prophets.
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posted on
11/26/2011 1:01:37 PM PST
by
Bulwyf
To: afraidfortherepublic
“How do you think they are going to support themselves? It’s not like they have a parish that pays them a salary derived from donations. Monks work. Always have; always will. Some monks make brandy, fruitcakes, package coffee, candy, train dogs, etc. These monks supply recycled ink and toner cartridges. They are not on welfare, so what’s your beef?”
They should survive like the monks in Belgium and make beer. Good Trappist beer. The best beer in the world!
To: JoeProBono
I was really disappointed when I spent a week with the Dalai Lama. He is much more a political leader than a spiritual one.
To: Daffynition
Sad story. I often buy various monastery products as gifts, but we use so little printer-ink that this vendor wasn’t something we could use.
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posted on
11/26/2011 1:08:04 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Thomas Sowell. Accept no substitutes!)
To: GeronL
In this case, the advance of technology is making an older technology obsolete.
Six years ago, the Sherman/Denison area of Texas supported a Staples, an Office Depot, and maybe ten specialty office supplies. Today there is still an Office Depot (and two specialty office supply stores) bit only about seventeen or eighteen percent of the Office Depot is devoted to paper and writing supplies.
Two years ago I upgraded my word processing software to one that natively outputs epub.
53
posted on
11/26/2011 1:27:41 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: SpringtoLiberty
Why are monks involved in for profit business?
So that monks can eat and have a place to live. Because some bigoted people would rather throw rocks at monks than donate a little money so they will have a place to live and have something to eat.
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posted on
11/26/2011 1:33:03 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine)
To: TheWriterTX
The article said it was a for profit business.
To: Red_Devil 232
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posted on
11/26/2011 1:34:52 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( **Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an effete could ignore it**)
To: cloudmountain
57
posted on
11/26/2011 1:38:56 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( **Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an effete could ignore it**)
To: Lancey Howard
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posted on
11/26/2011 1:39:58 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( **Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an effete could ignore it**)
To: afraidfortherepublic
How do you think they are going to support themselves? It's not like they have a parish that pays them a salary derived from donations. Monks work. Always have; always will. Some monks make brandy, fruitcakes, package coffee, candy, train dogs, etc. These monks supply recycled ink and toner cartridges. Well....if they don't have anything to do....
perhaps they could build a full size replica of Ely Cathederal....
only took the original builders 600 years from start to finish.
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posted on
11/26/2011 1:40:12 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(Cain....100% American, 100% Black and 100% for the Constitution...999 an added benefit.)
To: Kirkwood
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