The monks are not expected to increase shareholder profits in stale air and incessant fluorescent lighting.
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A half-year pilgrim sounds fantastic! Get a break from my job and explore the world, probably share the expenses and burden with other fellow pilgrims.
Sign me the fuck up now.
I live in a part of America where you can drive at 70 mph for 4 hours and still be in the middle of nowhere…💀
Tell me you live in Texas without telling me.
Nope, north eastern Nevada.
Unless you're driving in the opposite direction.
Then you're back somewhere
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Time is a luxury. Even on a small scale - I bike or walk to work most days, because I have the luxury of waking up when I wake up, having a morning and a slow human powered commute. That is privilege, yes? So many have to drive an hour or even more.
If I had the time to walk to somewhere far, I would take it.
I guess on the upside, a faster life means more stuff done in each life?
I get vibes of "the king requests an audience so you need to travel 20 days to get to the capital" vibes. You need to waste 41-50 days of your life because your manager wants to talk to you face to face for a few minutes.
If the king request an audience with you, then you're probably some middle management as well, which mean you also do the exact same thing but this time to a peasant because they didn't pay enough tax or their tribute isn't as good as last year, so they have to waste a few hours of their life just so you can threaten them face to face.
Medieval, amirite
It's a break from the tedium of subsistance sharecropping...
Do you think the king is going to send a laborer in your place?
That's what your 16 kids are for, duh...
Also, the whole village likely cultivates the same fields, so it's not like it's some private landholding that will fallow if you're not there to tend it. Long live the commons!
Would you rather...
- 6-month boat ride to the Holy Land (you believe in it and it's real),
OR
- 5-month plane ride to the 43rd Annual Corporate Circlejerk
5-month plane ride
Is the meeting on Mars?
...yes
...yeah ok, sign me up.
An alternate version from the 1960s would show taking 3-5 days on a bus to take that 5 hour flight.
Plus, some of y'all ain't never taken a 16 hour flight with a refuel stop at hour 12 and it shows.
When I was in the US Air Force, I returned to the US on a flight they call the Milk Run. There were layovers in Aviano, Madrid, and th Azores Islands (that I can remember, at least). This was over 30 years ago, but if the Milk Run still exists, I would not recommend it.
"Milk run" is a generic term for routes with many stops, we have one here too :)
I think the furthest I've flown direct is 14 hrs and they didn't refuel. But normally I'm doing a layover/transfer somewhere so the 14 hrs is usually closer to 20 for total travel time
Yeeah, the 16er was to Joburg from the States. There's nowhere to refuel between Ghana and SA, so if was a standard stop both ways.
Leisurely travel vs rush travel? Hmm, I wonder what is better and more enjoyable?!
To be fair a lot of things never get better unless people are complaining and TSA is one of them.
Trains over planes all day
We went from "the canterbury tales" to "travel vlogging couples"
This juxtaposition does not take into account airports, or airplane seats. I'd absolutely, preferentially fight off waves of brigands. At least you can move around and stretch.
Plus, you'd get to carry a sword and no one would bat an eye. I mean how cool is that?
Well if modern travel wouldn't be so upset with the whole "why did you murder them" response of "they were fucking annoying", it would improve things drastically.
I just opened the door and tossed them out of it. They wouldn't shut up about wanting the flight to end, and being back on the ground as fast as possible...
Now that baby in 16E...
Dude, you seem to have been for way too long inside an airplane.
I know, but they wouldn't let me drive it. It's just like gta, just gotta go full power. We would have been there by now if I was in charge...
At least the monks could vape.
Are we assuming a 6 month journey didnt come with exhaustion and certain death from starvation, pneumonias, dysentery, disease, infections, freezing and trauma from attacks on the way ? In cooler moist climates a mere cut could be life or death back then. There was not any penicillin.
Have you not heard the horror stories even of today’s boat slaves who die packed in?
I think video games filled with light quests of picking moss might be deluding a few people with how the medieval times actually were.
Open a book.
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