We’re being asked to keep functioning normally while living through institutional failure in real time. Be gentle with yourself. This is a lot.
monks debating whether vows of silence should still allow you to leave emoji reacts on the monastery groupchat
So a guy I went to middle school with now works in the vatican and according to Cam, the rules on:
- Whether you can leave emoji reacts in the groupchat
- Whether you can leave regular messages in the groupchat
- Whether you can HAVE a groupchat
- Whether you can have Electronic Devices
-vary from one silent monastic order to another, but none of them have ever successfully banned "Long trail of increasingly hostile post-it messages on the fridge".














