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  1. 1,500-year-old female ascetic buried in chains discovered near Jerusalem

    Recently, excavations at the Khirbat el-Masani monastery, northwest of Jerusalem, revealed the remains of an individual wrapped in heavy metal chains. Generally, this was a theme associated with male ascetics, but scientific analyses revealed a surprising truth: the remains belonged to a woman...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/fem

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #anthropology #ascetic #byzantine

  2. @mrcippy I am really torn because as a young person I worked consistently at a lot of very low wage jobs. But there has to be some kind of social contract, something fair. And if tips are meant to replace a living wage, well honestly, I'm just going to be #ascetic and go to the grocery store for some bread and peanut butter, maybe just a carton of buttermilk. Both things I like anyway! You just have to check out of a bad system when it goes too awful. And I am, for four years at least.

  3. @larryneufeld I just posted about this. Cutting away the BS like tipping fraud is part of my #Trump plan. Withdraw, go #ascetic.

  4. From the door sills of their private jets, billionaires preach #ascetic life and #freedom from personal posessions.

    Social mediarati venerate them as visionaries and defenders of freedom.

  5. Simple Pleasures

    Mefi member nightrecordings is asking for "recommendations for memoirs and personal diaries written by people who made a conscious choice to live a more ascetic life, and in turn discover how to better appreciate simple, but meaningful, pleasures," and the Ask Me crew is coming through!

    ask.metafilter.com/378663/Stor

    #ascetic #books #diaries #journals #memoirs #recommendations #SimpleLife #SimplePleasures

  6. #Promptodon #SciFi #writing

    "I'd call this hell, if it weren't so cold."

    "Norse hell was a frozen, #ascetic place for people who died unheroic deaths."

    "Unheroic? We stopped global warming!"

    "With nuclear winter. But I suppose we saved the icebergs."

    "You mean my toes?"

    "Keep walking. It'll help circulation."

    "And get us to the equator faster. Will we really find other survivors?"

    "If radiation didn't turn them into mutants. Or frost giants."

    "That's just more mythology...right?"