Ascetic Monks of Eastern Orthodox vs Generation-X punks.
They are both extreme in ideology and fashion. The book invites the comparison, so hopefully I’m not greeted with too much hostility.
What is Nihilism? How did it destroy the world and breed Antichrist(s)?
Nihilism. It is the belief that “there is no truth.” It is like a heartless and gutless machine that presses on, giving birth to destruction, sorrow, pain and death.
Nihilism is the faith of falsehood.
Monasticism is frighteningly similar to the cutting culture of Gen-X punk rock fashion. One of them wears heavy chains of self flagellation, fasts and prays until their body gives way to the Holy Spirit. The other cuts himself, invoking the blood to flow, to feel alive, to feel anything at all.
What is the difference between a monk and a punk?
The penitent man rejects the world, lives alone in the woods, prays unceasingly, eats only bread and water. Fasting and praying to find the way, the light, THE TRUTH.
The monk wears dark robes and chains of the crucifixion.
The punk wears a leather jacket and jack boots.
The monk desires ascetic faith.
The punk despises the modern world and seeks nothing from it; only to escape it.
The monk seeks redemption through INTENSE SUFFERING.
The punk overdoses after the show.
The monk SUFFERS FOR THE SAKE of the TRUTH.
The punk SUFFERS FOR THE LACK OF IT.
“It is the height of the human experience– martyrdom for the truth.”
The fanzine middle part of the book is sainthood story time; Eastern Orthodox origin stories. They find their lives lacking and full of charnal lies. They leave the world behind in search of faith, ascetic suffering, prayers, and a contrite heart.
Eastern Orthodox history includes persecution and death by the commies, and Russian mob agents stealing priceless icons from their humble church buildings.
The final part of the book is full of deep insight and knowledge. The next level I’m seeking is found written in the text. I aim to keep praying, keep fasting, keep my spirit pure with fresh revelations. As best I can.
Thank you, Father.
Youth of The Apocalypse and the LAST TRUE REBELLION by Monks John Marler and Andrew Wermuth
Highlights from the book:
All the monks were required to be registered with the state which was atheist.
Commies everywhere.
This generation of youth, which could very well be the last generation, is shackled in despair to this cry because they see all too well that this broken world is coming to an end.
How can it continue?
We are the children of Nihilism; we are the youth of the apocalypse.
In order to embrace this Truth we must die to this world and be resurrected. This is the unshackling. This is the Last True Rebellion.
We were born under the waters of apostasy and were raised to drown, and our many tears are mixed with this ocean.
Generation in search of identity: Generation X
Popular rebellion of insanity.
In a world barren of love and compassion, our cold-hearted society has sold the virginal purity of its daughters in its unquenchable lust for power and money.
Without love, sex becomes violence.
Next to television, alcohol is the most common way of avoiding the question of truth.
War always makes reality ugly.
Now that deformity is in vogue, who is the conformist?
Apathy is the willful refusal to reach for higher truths.
I’m sorry, my karma has run over your dogma!
No one program can satisfy the youthful mind any more; rather, it is the anticipation of the fleeting moment of hope experienced between channels that has drawn him back to the set.
Apathy leads to sympathy… Sympathy for the devil.
This is the contemporary manifesto of deception: our supposed rebellion against the “system” has itself turned into the worst system.
Until our rebellion is rooted in truth, it will not be successful in conquering the world that oppresses us.
No one who looks for comfort can expect to attain interior peace.
In the world there are many people who are merely walking corpses, thinking nothing except about their comfort.
Reading from YOUTH OF THE APOCALYPSE – Book Review
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