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 Post subject: Nuns on the rise
New postPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:23 pm 
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The figures aren't significant, but apparently the number of women devoting their life to god and becoming nuns is on the rise in Britain. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15385144

The article describes a 25-year-old who is looking for something more in life:

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Catherine describes herself as "a girly girl" who loves to be pampered. She has also wanted to be a nun since she was four years old.

Like many of her contemporaries, the 25-year-old has spent the last few years travelling, partying and studying for a degree in languages at King's College in London.

She also worked as a model, but for her it was an unfulfilling experience and left her thinking again about devoting her life to God.



Personally I think Catherine is looking in the wrong place to discover something more in life, but hopefully she'll get there some day.
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 Post subject: Re: Nuns on the rise
New postPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:16 pm 
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I think of this as a form of Darwinian selection. They're doing us all a favour by taking themselves out of the gene pool. All the better if they go into a closed order and take themselves out of society altogether.

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