Japanese Monks Hated Their Boy Apprentices, But Couldn’t Resist Them (Chigo)

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[@vilevagrant4632]

"He dtarts undoing his pants..." Hold up! Wait a minute!😦🤮

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

Hey, please regulate the homophobia in the comments section

[@vilevagrant4632]

@@Carlos-bz5oo where do you see homophobia...its mostly disgust towards pdfs

[@ameowmeowwe]

yoooooo, can i ask u a question? can i pls know where did you get your sources for the legend saying that Qin Shi Huang had a secret male lover? i did a bit of research on Qin Shi Huang and found nothing, and i also tried finding some info on Jido/Peng Zu and only found this: “Jidō was a boy who served Emperor Mu of the Zhou dynasty in ancient China. One day, he committed an offense by stepping over the emperor’s headrest. So severe was this offense that he barely escaped being put to death. He was driven from the court and banished to Mount Rekken. Feeling pity for the boy, Emperor Mu secretly gave him a headrest upon which he had written two verses from the Lotus Sutra and he taught him to recite these verses and pray every morning." ...blablabla etc... its from “Jidō of the Chrysanthemum” (Kiku-Jidō) :3 just asking...... :/ maybe im wrong idk............ :C

[@rocky_red_ant]

The Buddha gives the hardest tests to his most devoted followers (They had to not molest boys)

[@goldcoinz420]

Medieval monks stay away from kids challenge (they failed) 😞

[@givemeawand]

The the tests weren’t the only hard thing the monks had

[@Danap-mykaykat]

TFW you’re the son of an aristocrat in feudal Japan and your dad just got you an internship at the local temple (You didn’t know this is the start of your villain arc) 😔

[@nowhereman6019]

Imagine Siddhartha Gautama seeing what his self-help religion/philosophy eventually evolved into. NGL, he'd probably be disappointed, but never mad. Succumbing to that sort of thing is beyond him.

[@Takisan111]

@@nowhereman6019 I think a lot of holy figures throughout history would be horrified what their worshipers started doing with their teachings.

[@PirvateerKurei]

The more we look at history, the more we learn that abusing children for adult gratification is not an isolated thing but something deeply insidious to all mankind.

[@Mortablunt]

Especially when it’s rainbow flavored.

[@seeleunit2000]

​@@Mortablunt...Up yours, you lying, hateful, homophobe.🙄

[@arcamaru8116]

​@@Mortablunt most popularly with bland holy water flavour

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

​@@arcamaru8116 nah, rainbow flavoured

[@WretchedRedoran]

​@@rizkiramadhan9266 Or rather, what provides the easiest to access positions of nigh unquestionable authority.

[@MrGregory777]

Priests, boyscouts leaders, coaches, it's like you should not leave your children with people of authority

[@respectthefish4992]

when I first heard how old boyscouts leaders are in the US I was flabbergasted

[@Darkgeranium127]

​@@respectthefish4992What are boyscouts? I'm not from the US so I've never heard of this

[@jynxx37]

It's sort of like summer camp for boys, but it's not necessaryily summer​@@Darkgeranium127

[@hope-cat4894]

​@@Darkgeranium127Boy scouts is a youth group kids can join to earn badges for different thing like camping, volunteering, and teamwork. There are boy scouts and girl scouts. Boy scouts sell popcorn and girl scouts sell cookies to learn financial literacy, business skills, and responsibility.

[@cam4636]

Cause & effect reversal--it's not that leaving your kids with priests (or etc) causes them to be molested. It's that molesters seek positions of power where they'll have the chance to abuse kids...or sometimes, to abuse anyone, and kids are just the most convenient.

[@Lithiel]

Brain: *sees Monks and their Boy Apprentices* Brain: I HATE I already know what this is gonna be about... *clicks anyway cause knowledge is power*

[@Windmelodie]

Also Brain: Oh God this is WORSE than I thought, the amount of Copeium these Monks go through...

[@JasonAizatoZemeckis]

That's exactly my thought process

[@thehuntermikipl1170]

I clicked, because I knew what this is gonna be about and I LOVED it

[@Windmelodie]

@@thehuntermikipl1170 r/holup lmao

[@jennydelgado8517]

So their like Christian pastors and catholic priests

[@nowhereman6019]

This seems to be a systemic problem in all celibate priesthoods.

[@Linfamy]

Human urges need a release I guess

[@yeetlydiscreetly]

Given the prevalence of such abuses committed by teachers, I think there's a component beyond the celibacy that's key here.

[@Nicole-kc1vx]

Not just, pederasty was a thing, and that wasn't related to any celibate priesthood.

[@nowhereman6019]

@@Nicole-kc1vx it must be the result of not being around women for most of your life. Young boys are unfortunately the closest thing to women in the mind of a desperate man.

[@nowhereman6019]

@@yeetlydiscreetly power probably.

[@Jobe-13]

The absolute irony of Buddhist monks having boy consorts.

[@themelancholyofgay3543]

desiring no desires is fake

[@multiversemokona]

Just like about every religious charge that implies trying to refuse the human condition, they just end up using any substitute that their authority can keep hidden

[@BygoneT]

​@@themelancholyofgay3543Go tell that to the batshit insane dudes who meditate for weeks-months at a time

[@Wolffanghurricane]

@@BygoneT yeah that's self inflicted brain damage that gets them that far, no better than being a vegetable in a hospital bed

[@lisprn-tt1tu]

Ask a medieval monk about that, he'd simply answer "Doing it with women is worse karma."

[@77professional]

"Some compare it to the relationship between a vassal and a lord. Or... a child and Woody Allen." I'm already dying. 🤣

[@lovewenwin]

💀💀

[@MrGksarathy]

Except Woody Allen fucked little girls, so he'd have been a bit disappointed in a medieval monstery. Peter Thiel, however...

[@nightslasher9384]

who woody Allen 😮

[@MrGksarathy]

@@nightslasher9384 You sweet innocent child...

[@nightslasher9384]

@@MrGksarathy is he woody from Toy Story 2 :o

[@Angelofdeth20]

Sigh.. can people just… crazy idea here. NOT molest children?

[@Ктоя-ь1м]

No, that's what some animals in nature do. And we, humans, deep down at our cores are practically still animal beings too. It's purely an instinctually driven behaviour, without even a drop of rationality or consciousness consisting in it. It's animalistic in nature. I believe that only would be achievable if we could find a way to remove the carnal instinct off a human being entirely, without leaving behind even a tiniest trail of it in the brain. I don't know how exactly the humanity could reach to that level of progress in science and technology, but I hope the future generations could find a cure to kiddin tingling.

[@KawaiiHamsteruwubean69]

Castration isn't a thing (also being an animal isn't an excuse, we're still smart enough to know it's bad and simply choose the right action. We aren't robots)

[@Ктоя-ь1м]

@@KawaiiHamsteruwubean69 I wasn't excusing them, I was comparing them to a wild animal. And animals that are ***ually aggressive towards other animals usually tend to get fixed by people, so why not do the same to humans?

[@darkredsmiley8196]

​@@Ктоя-ь1м A lot of animals also don't have those instincts as for reproductive reasons it doesn't make sense to try and breed with a member of the same species incapable of having or taking care of offspring, not all animals have the same instincts, and humans tend to...well not be attracted to younger humans, if you analyze history it all points that it has to do more with positions of power and the need to control others (as children are easy to control and abuse), that's why most of this kinds off things seem to be mostly done by men, because they used to (and sometimes still) have the position and power to do that sort of thing, an instinct is something more species based rather than individual based so it doesn't make sense to call an instinct something that only a few members of a species do (members that lack the ability to reproduce or bring something good to the rest of the species.)

[@libervitaexaltis4551]

It's a systematic problem. It's easy for us to say, as people with freedom to choose what we do and understanding. Don't forget that not so long ago, slavery was considered a normal thing. All the "religions", from Christianity to Buddhism, consider celibacy to be some sort of virtue and strictly control exposure to knowledge. Kings and queens also preferred pacifist yes men to be priests, so that their rule could be legitimised. What happens when s3xually repressed, poorly educated old men with large egos come to be in charge of everything? Well, you can imagine. It's like saying "can't people just...NOT commit crime". If everyone was capable of such self control, we would be in paradise. Religious superstition, political authority and general neglect enabled, and continues to enable, the abuse of children. It's when you take profoundly mediocre old men and tell them they're special, be they priests or celebrities.

[@PewPewPlasmagun]

Age is but a number, and prison is but a room.

[@unclenogbad1509]

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. But they do help.

[@alexv3357]

And hell is just a place

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Make no mistake, though, solitary confinement drives people mad.

[@maisiephillips8564]

That's a good one. 😆👍

[@Evil_Beauty]

And s*x is just physical activity to release stress, and horni hormones. 😂

[@feralwarden4873]

What the hell is it with Priests and Children!?

[@shawn6796]

The psychosis of religion 😢

[@allthenewsordeath5772]

@@shawn6796 You could say the same thing about public schools, Boy Scouts, youth sports, etc., turns out when you put people in positions of authority, some people are going to abuse that authority, which if anything is a point in support of sin being a thing that exists, but I digress.

[@licas3214]

​@@shawn6796 lol yes blame the religion instead of mankind would you

[@LibrarianSankore]

Priests and *Boys.

[@LibrarianSankore]

@@allthenewsordeath5772 But this one is different, the abuse in this case is fully institutionalized, way more than just some rando breaking the rules.

[@maxthepaladin2147]

You know you're coming of age when you walk pass a group of monks and they won't even look back

[@buckshotpower4646]

😂

[@Blondegenius3]

I like the part when you mentioned that the boys misbehaved and were still as rowdy as any child today. It shows they still rebelled in spite of the various forms of abuse. It shows that their acting out might have been a way to get some amount of power here. They raised as much hell as a child can in an abusive environment. And it shows that today's children not getting worse- children were always little terrors. Ours are not stealing real swords to play with.

[@tablescissors]

I don’t find it’s “children” being terrors and acting out is different than the Orwellian notion of becoming brainwashed into WWII Hitler Youth that rat out (turn on) their own parents for social status points and so forth. I pity parents today who’ve fallen into these cults.

[@baibac6065]

"Ours are not stealing real swords to play with." In America they steal guns and shoot schools 💀

[@ShortArmOfGod]

Tell that to the children in Chicago.

[@ScooterinAB]

I suspect that's always been true, though I'm not sure how much abuse there was. This rings closer to apprenticeship than modern predatory sexual abuse. Still not appropriate, but proximity and lifestyle probably had more to do with this than abuse.

[@chandranapier2259]

Sex doesn't always mean love, people can pursue and have sex with someone they don't respect or even hate. It's unfortunate but true and more common than one thinks.

[@helion_ut]

It's not unfortunate- If you wanna have consensual fun just for the fun of it and move on nothing is wrong with that. Though obviously the word "consensual" involves both parties being of age, which yeah, does not happen here.

[@carlosandleon]

@@helion_utit was being of age for them. Depends where you are

[@helion_ut]

@@carlosandleon I know that there were different standards throughout history, if these people were to be revived it would not be fair to put them in prison or something because in their time this bs was normalised, but it is completely undeniable that those acts were atrocious and objectively horrible and wrong. It wasn't just about the age, but also the fact that the act was completely non-consensual, the students were forced to do it because their masters had complete authority over them, which probably completely messed those kids up mentally and inflicted and incredible amount of pain on them. I'm aware that society back then was fucked up like that, but that doesn't make it any less fucked up.

[@carlosandleon]

@@helion_ut You can’t say there were different moral standards across history and then go on to say it’s objectively wrong. Hell the average American will think europe is “objectively” wrong since age of consent in many countries is 16 over there regardless of the age gap. In modern japan it’s even 12 - and that’s modern day.

[@helion_ut]

@@carlosandleon Dude. I don't know where you are going with your argumentation and I don't want to know. My point is: In those societies atroceties were normalised. That doesn't mean they are not atrocities. That is what cults do, they try to create these secluded societies in which horrible acts are normalised. That doesn't suddenly make these acts just okay. The exact age of consent or exact kind of relationships that should be disallowed for a certain amount of time can vary - I'm no expert in that field, but as long as studies show that it does not have a high chance of harming you anymore, it's acceptable. Also just to debunk some information about Europe because I'm an actual european person (from germany, to be exact): This whole thing about or ages of consent being incredibly low is bs for two reasons. 1. With age of consent we don't mean the exact same thing as americans. There is this misconception that the aoc in germany is 14, aka that you can legally do the deed with a 14 year old as an adult. No, you can't, you will go straight to prison. Age of consent for us usually means "Age from which you can legally have sex". As a 14 year old you can legally do the deed with other minors above the age of 14, but NOT with adults. You can legally do it with adults only once you are an adult (Or have a difference of at max two years because obviously it's okay for a 18 and 17 year old to be together). This counts for lots of european countries simply because we mean something slightly else with "age of consent". 2. Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean it's socially acceptable or considered normal. Poland has an age of consent of 15, as in, from the age of 15 on you can have sex with people of any ages. That is NOT socially acceptable, though. Many eastern europe countries suffer from aged judical systems, but society is still progressed. If an adult openly has a relationship with a 15 year old in Poland they will be extremely frowned upon. And called a p-phile. Laws are not necessarily what determine what a society generally sees as morally acceptable. At all.

[@killianmotto2684]

What surprise me the most is that it became so popular the samurai and then the merchant decided it was THE thing to do

[@adzi6164]

that's the most intriguing (as much as disturbing) aspect here. Another reminder that humans across world and time don't have to perceive same things in the same way, no matter what. I wonder, however, what was the perception of this among the common people - if there's any source out there about it.

[@nunyabiznes33]

​@@adzi6164maybe they found it scandalous and a "disease" of the upper class.

[@helentee9863]

Hmm, definitely a way to demonstrate 'status'. Status can be embodied in so many 'strange' or even what is generally considered 'abnormal' behaviours and objects There is a whole thesis in psychology here 🙃

[@fatuusdottore]

@@nunyabiznes33Much like now, considering Hollyweird.

[@tablescissors]

@@fatuusdottore Agree, and sports. We are also seeing a disturbing rise among teachers.

[@4flyingfish]

This gives me flashbacks of my college classes in which the phase "Buddhist Catamite" was in our textbook... and the few of us who did our homework (which meant looking at the word in the dictionary) were horrified. The slackers passed through the next few classes in ignorant bliss.

[@romypotash7114]

I remember one time a frind of mine thought about taking one of my books to read with here nephews (they spend their former years in English speaking countries, me and she are not , I have a lot of fantasy books in English because fantasy is relatively unpopular here) and I was like "do you want to explain ti your 10yo nephew what is a catemite ?!?!"

[@MrGksarathy]

I didn't learn what that word meant until I was like 19.

[@flyingstonemon3564]

Ngl I never heard of that word before and I am too scared to look It up now

[@seleciaa]

TIL what that means and the Greek myth that originated the word 😭

[@annannya1356]

uh just learned what this means... how tf is this and Buddhist in the same sentence?

[@Vajrasattvam]

It's ironic how apprentices and monks slept together, considering that in India, where buddhism originated, if a student/apprentice slept with his master ,classmate or his master's wife , it was considered nearly as bad as incest( although he could marry his teacher's daughter with his permission) Edit: Wow. Looking at the replies to this all I have to say is while India I'd definately not the best country, y'all seriously need to check where you get your archaic knowledge on Indian affairs from

[@ditalotl]

Actually, a while ago, I saw a documentary about something similar happening in India as well...sooo...yeah! It's everywhere, where cults rule :/

[@Vajrasattvam]

​@@ditalotlNah, in India people would lynch anyone doing that ( because of our tradition of seeing teacher and student like father and son). But if the documentary was about a cult, then maybe. We have way too many modern spiritual and political cults (although they keep a low profile unlike cults elsewhere in the world )

[@ditalotl]

@@Vajrasattvam Sorry, my bad! I managed to find the video I was referring to, and it was indeed about Tibet, and not India! It seems like I remembered it wrong, so sorry for the confusion 👍

[@flingonber]

@@Vajrasattvam Are you seriously suggesting that pederasty doesn't happen in India? Almost a third (28.9%) of Indian children experience CSA and 90% of the reports involve a family member, so being "nearly as bad as incest" isn't saying much. Both of these numbers are from the Ministry for Women and Child Development and were reported on India Today last year.

[@toolatetothestory]

@@flingonber Damn, forget Alabama, India looked at it and went "That's childs play"

[@youremakingprogress144]

I'll say it again - you're the only KZbinr who actually makes me enjoy the sponsor segment. Great work.

[@tablescissors]

Try Mr. Ballen, he’s pretty great at it too!

[@wandiriswan6116]

You haven't been watching enough youtube clearly

[@oflameo8927]

You must have not seen Zach Star Himself yet.

[@vidyasreeram2587]

Humans can be so horrendous 💔 Anyone who can hurt children so horribly is a monster in human skin.

[@marionberry2648]

Even worse than animals eating their own young.

[@Serjo777]

Funny how you turn this completely fine thing into "hurting" someone, just because you have been bra in wa shed that way.

[@bel2047]

@@Serjo777????..

[@Serjo777]

@@bel2047 !!!!..

[@dtm2741]

so... 99% of humanity are monsters?

[@annav7669]

The process and ceremony of preparation for ... Is called grooming. 😢

[@geometrysquared1939]

Yep and its been going on for centuries... Good god

[@meen8735]

The fact that it has its own ceremony is just so disgusting 😭 so the higher ones than the priests either supports it or doesnt know or probably gaslighted and lied to

[@ScooterinAB]

It's not necessarily grooming. When we talk about grooming, it's about asserting power and taking what you want. While still inappropriate, this is more like an apprenticeship, and it shows up in a lot of places in history. These kids/guys were being taught other things. It's just that proximity to only other males is going to lead to certain things. And it's not like this kind of thing didn't exist until really recently. Fathers used to witness their daughters being deflowered in order to validate their marriage.

[@pitchsmovingcastle]

I am still hyperfixated on ancient Japan and you are the reason.

[@Linfamy]

Woohoo!

[@Mau-P]

same!

[@tell-me-a-story-]

This is so sad and evil. 😢😢 Something similar happened in Ancient Greece, to the point where parents wanted guards to be present when boys studied with their tutors because it was well known what the men often did to their young students. 😢😢😢😢😢

[@oompalumpus699]

Pederasty I think was the term. So much mental gymnastics were involved in justifying it during the times of Ancient Greece.

[@Booren]

​@@oompalumpus699 oh, so this is from the word Pydarast in Russian came from.

[@Serjo777]

It's neither sad nor evil.

[@illTemperedSeaBass]

​@@Serjo777You only claim it's neither because you yourself are both. You & all your fellow Eps Islanders will get exactly what you deserve. It's only a matter of time.

[@azazel166]

Greek here, that is not true. Any sexual abuse towards a minor was punishable by death.

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

My favorite part of the video is working in the commercial for the Japanese snacks with the master keeping the snacks for himself since he's teaching the student self denial but then the kid calls the pedo squad on him and gets the snacks. Nice

[@TheGalCantHelpIt]

The Woody Allen joke was unexpected, but appreciated

[@berniekatzroy]

I mean he's not wrong

[@Kaikenkeru]

Sexual gratification at the cost of a childs innocence is one of the worst things a person can do. The offenders life should be forfeit. And dont give me that "it was a different time, then." We dont accept the racism of the past, so why would we accept something so evil, ever?

[@hermescarraro3393]

Pederasty was criticized back then too. The Greeks did it, but not everyone condoned it. Christians were vehemently against it for example. So, yeah, it was not universally accepted even back then, wich means it should be criticized like anything else

[@dr.markus-level3researcher]

​@@hermescarraro3393 "Christians were against it" *glances at the questionable actions of priests throughout history*

[@ReadilyAvailibleChomper]

@@dr.markus-level3researcherPedos will imbed themself into just about any community or position of power they can get.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@hermescarraro3393are you stupid? Your christian god impregnated mary at 12 years old, and in parts of the bible like NUMBERS your got explicitly advocated for child rape of the enemies of the jews 😂😂😂

[@chronoxwx5888]

that pfp with that comment lmao

[@beckc101ify]

Ah, desire can lead you to a prison. Sage advice!

[@sagejungwirth4155]

I don't remember giving this advise lol

[@badfoody]

in ancient Greece this was so bad rich families hired bodyguards to watch their kids as they were being tutored

[@benthomason3307]

The apostle Paul himself actually calls this practice out for the abomination it is in one book of the new testament; unfortunately it's usually been mistranslated as him criticizing gay sex as a general concept.

[@odavex2848]

​@@benthomason3307 Well what can one do at this point 😮‍💨

[@kristenhlady4079]

..those poor kids 😢😢😢😢

[@Baslium]

I still can't believe how respectful the Chigo was in the ancient. Chigo is a low-level staff disposable in nowadays temples, especially in Thailand.

[@nerdicusdorkum2923]

7:25 I would not be surprised if the 7 foot rule was just simply how far a master could reach with his staff. If he can hit you, you're too close, and you know would...

[@Kiwi.an_bean]

Its so ironic how human kind is totally down to use any excuse to bring pleasure(of any kind) to itself even if its a child in question of same or other species with excuse of any sort even if its a belive they carry (which might go against every moral value they have studied but still would find a way to make it right). Man thats depressing and irritating. Kudos to your hardwork and thanks for a great video~

[@valhatan3907]

Indeed. Makes me wondering, in Christian concept of 7 deadly sins, the deadliest sin not supposed to be pride but lust 😂

[@sakura-dante9059]

@@valhatan3907it is pride, because pride is the basis of most of the sins. Pride leads to lust

[@19Pyrus70]

​@@sakura-dante9059 Pride is lust for self-esteem.🤔

[@cookie856]

​@@19Pyrus70 Basically pride is "I am better than X/Y => If I do something it's not the same as normal people doing it"

[@zakosist]

@@sakura-dante9059 pride doesnt lead to lust, lust is an animal instinct. Not sure if flies posess pride but they still have sex... And people with low self esteem can still have a high sex drive. Pride can actually be healthy (but also unhealthy) and the least harmful of the sins: simply having good self esteem and being proud of your accomplisments, thats a good thing in itself. Its when you start to devalue and putting others down it becomes bad

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[@Linfamy]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@Creampuf1977]

11:04 made me spit my drink! The idea of a kid just breaking into your room swinging a sword around like a mad man is one thing, that it was so common that people were getting annoyed with it is hilarious to me.

[@SewardWriter]

I've heard people say, "Fuck G-d," but I didn't expect it to be taken so literally.

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[@Linfamy]

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[@livingmasquerade1418]

its so sad that that a lot of young girls and boys were easily ab4sed and it was seen as acceptable. like large age gap marriages or teacher student stuff like this monk. its so gross. im happy things are changing for the better and we recongise kids and teens are not adults and should not be s3xually abused by adults or married off at young ages. they need time to develop and grow into adults. and ab4sing them will never lead them to that. it only creates a cycle of trauma. ofc that doesnt mean this was happeing in all countries or normalised in all cultures, but it sure seems like a lot of them.

[@falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962]

While glancing through my Royall Tyler collection of Japanese tales I came upon a story about a monk who finds another monk in the mountain. The mountain monk had reached Satori, or near enough that he was attended by "Celestial boys" that were said to be "beautiful". When I first read this story years ago I thought it was just a detail to show how holy they were. Now I think that story is a horror story parading as a story about Enlightenment. Thanks for that.

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[@Linfamy]

Gasp, normal speed? :O

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My guy out here watching everything on 200% speed. It's a great compliment lol.

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Popular youtubers from our childhood would love to live in that era…

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[@Linfamy]

Sorry to hear about your eyebrows! 😅 It's okay, it's only temporary.

[@Onora619]

Reminds me of Sparta...they also had a ritualized pedophilia system. I just don't (want) to understand how something like that gets normalized.

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“They were interested in their religion, like they were interested in their paint, or watching taxes dry” I don’t know why that tickled me so much lmao 🤣

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[@netowner666]

Stop, i havent been able to think about the air nomads taking away the children from their parents to raise them, why did they do that...

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That's what i'm saying-

[@utibenoah2897]

Dropping well written comedic lines each minute! So fun to watch from beginning till end

[@shockwavecg]

FINALLY we're talking about the abuse in Buddhism! (At least starting to)

[@magicalmilimi894]

0:40 Im sorry, WHAT?

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[@floflo1645]

Was there any monks that stood against those practice and denounced them as "anti-buddhist" or something ? I know Greece had a similar system of master and apprentice that could often devolve into "love" relationship but not everyone approved of those relationship and some even wrote and complained about it

[@MrGksarathy]

I think some of the previous videos in this series cited written criticisms by other monks.

[@ScooterinAB]

Of course there were other monks who didn't do this. We have to be careful about making broad, sweeping, and biased statements about entire populations. I imagine in 500 years, people misreading our records are going to think were were raping kids 24/7, given how much kids are weirdly sexualized in our culture and how much those acts get reported about. How many news articles do you read that are explicitly about kids not being raped?

[@floflo1645]

@ScooterinAB you misunderstood me. I did not intend to imply most monks were pedos. My question was do we know if many monks opposed this and denounced them in writings as "not appropriate Buddhist behavior" or was it just a shamefull stuff that was sometimes shunned behind closed doors but mostly ignored because "if you don't talk about it, it is not happening"

[@ScooterinAB]

@@floflo1645 And I said the vast majority probably weren't into this, because when we assume that behaviour is common from just a few accounts, we are making inappropriate generalizations.

[@floflo1645]

@@ScooterinABI am not making any generalisations I am just asking questions. Also that behavior was common enough that we have good documentation about it, and that pederasty between older male toward a younger apprentice is somewhat common throughout history hence why some wrote about it to denounce it (I am thinking about the greeks). I think my question was not a dumb one

[@rosswebster7877]

Another masterful Linfamy video demonstrating in spite of all of whatever high-falootin' socio-philosphical-religious traditions we develop, at the end of the day we're all too human for good or for ill.

[@erikaarnold4780]

The way you go ham on these subjects is GENIUS, and so simple. Thanks for cutting through the dogma and getting down to business. I love your channel! 💖

[@Linfamy]

Glad you like! :)

[@jacobicrockett2421]

“All that advise about working hard? It went in one year and out the ass” You remind me of my 10th grade history teacher. Dude used comedy and humor as a teaching style and to this day I miss that man…. Chigo misses his master

[@Linfamy]

"Chigo misses his master" oh no 😂

[@ktlivingherway516]

Those monks were sure Master Baiters. 🤙🏼💚🏵️

[@joycejoy4119]

🍩🍩🍩🍭 no no they were not …. Or were they 😮

[@seankim7473]

EXTREME Try Not To Molest Kids Challenge: MONK EDITION (IMPOSSIBLE)

[@bluefox8011]

Religions existed as a way to lay down and idea or I guess guidelines for people to make sense of the world around us. But, some people don't like change, or maybe those in the past with religion had an overall great experience with it so we passed down these teachings. Until books, computers, and now Internet is now a thing to keep all information. Religion helped make sense of the world, but now we know better thanks to the ability to pass down knowledge. Our past experiences and knowledge don't get passed down to our kids so, for a very long time everything was always "new." I'm sure there's a video out there somewhere that talks about how the now growing population is smarter now thanks to the internet.

[@RamnaViaz]

I did some research on this after reading the manga "dead man wonderland" because there is a character in that manga who is a nihilistic murderous psychotic monk, and a big part of why he became that way is because he suffered heavy physical and s abuse as a child from the older monks; it was the first time I really stopped to think about the fact that just like with catholic priests who are surrounded by altar boys the Buddhist and shinto monks are also celibate and surrounded by young apprentices and the horrible implications came to mind. I did some reading on the matter and it turns out yes, this kind of thing has never been restricted to the catholic church only, basically any situation in which children are placed under the care and orders of adults 24/7 runs an extremely high risk of developing into an abuse situation, so yeah, never send your kids to school, church retreat, summer camp, boarding schools, military schools, boy scouts or Buddhist temples/ Indian ashrams if you don't want their chances of getting molested to increase by quite a bit.

[@gryla5290]

So it's like a Catholic boarding school. Rich influential parents ship off their wayward sons to be disciplined only for them to act out even more. And then you have your pious students that take the religion seriously. And then of course, the poor souls who fell victim to the abuse.

[@temptemp4174]

And the sons that stay are turned into femboys because they were groomed by the jap monks. This only furthers to prove the narrative that femboys and transwomen are created out of childhood trauma and abuse

[@mikanmandarin]

Wake up babe new Linfamy video just dropped!!!!

[@unclenogbad1509]

Much of this sounds disturbingly like a British private school. Floreat Aetona.

[@you2angel1]

Ohhhhh There's a restaurant in Wyoming that serves chocolate cake with a gold foil squares placed on top. Sushi would be much harder to do. °~•.☆.•~° I've never had the cake 🥺

[@shaurmiath6719]

You regularly see this in cults, in more established religious organizations, in schools and clubs and cultures. When children are strictly controlled and taught not to question authority, abuse runs rampant. When the emphasis is on order and not justice, on obedience and not the truth, on manners and respect for people who are supposed to be "above" you rather than on what is fair or good, you will see tremendous amounts of horrific behavior by people in authority. They are not in power because they are wise and good, they are considered wise and good because they are in power.

[@youraftermyrobotbee]

Bro is the only one who can make a sponsored segment both segue naturally from the topic and be funny as hell

[@francisnopantses1108]

Linfamy is sooooo cynical about Buddhism and I am so here for it.

[@utkarshsingh-rp2dq]

Why? What did buddhism do?

[@Carlos-bz5oo]

@@utkarshsingh-rp2dq Pedesrasty, corruption, genocide against Muslims, you name it

[@AndroidNoir-L06k]

​@@utkarshsingh-rp2dq the teaching is good and straight to nirvana, but the one who follow is all kind of trouble. Most of the monk do a bunch of justification to get giddy with the young'un, it's nasty stuff but that's just the way they did it. Like liking femboy cuz they look cute and breedable, it's not that the monk is gay (Kinda) stuff but imagine you in prison and that one lad just got in and looking meaty. Yep.... Crazy

[@seeleunit2000]

This has been very informative.

[@Selene_Suki]

Who else is here within a minute 😂

[@Linfamy]

Me!

[@JH-lb6qf]

Here!

[@MikeBrown-kb7yl]

Heyyyyyy

[@Kreshura-tm5rb]

I'm 1 hour late, why you guy's didn't invite me 😭

[@imnugget8085]

Sus since the thumbnail and title veeu sus

[@Tiayra]

i love how you include your promotions :D Thank you!

[@WilliamGoeth]

Thank you for another upload

[@jingalls9142]

I LOVE the Samurai Champloo flavor in this video. You're a cultured individual. I approve.

[@siamesefightingfish2861]

I am in TEARS over the sponsor plug. Wtf. 😂

[@Infinitebrandon]

That's why I love Kannon, he preached the same truth of easy enlightenment. The proof is in the pudding 😌. Really, go to a Bon Dance instead of a monastery. Good video Lin. Namo Amida Butsu 🙏

[@ImLostAtSeaDontBotherMe]

Age is just a number; hell is just an eternity

[@Mae_Dastardly]

Not in buddhism! Its just a million billion years then u reincarnate as a leper

[@aliceslab]

Its so interesting to think about all the lives throughout history and what they must have been like. The emotions and bright city lights, memories and studying topics, all lost to the ages.

[@abimbolacoker2865]

That has to be the smoothest way to slide in a sponsorship in a video well done dude

[@ReinaNoi]

Yay new bed time story just dropped 😃 thank you for another great video! I can’t get enough of the cute art!!

[@itsBINGO357]

Oh yes, the shota problem of medieval japan...🤔

[@4_sparks_4]

I laughed hard at how you infused the sponsorship ad 🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMG

[@PunkinThePie]

Didn’t even realise how early I was 😂

[@Linfamy]

🎉🎉🎉

[@javzo520]

I love the ad reads almost as much as the rest of the video

[@imthewokerbaby]

i never knew it was possible to make an advertisement actually fun to watch lmao

[@utibenoah2897]

9:26 the top notch sarcasm everyone seemed to ignore

[@Larzang]

Being from an Esoteric subsect of Buddhism that is more focused on the philosophical side of things rather than theological tradition? I think more people should know about this stuff. Among other things. Because I think it's sort of unfair that Christians(Catholics in particular) have the big market cornered on getting ridiculed because of the questionable morality amongst their clergy. I strive to remain critical of all faith, including my own.

[@ekamandalaputra5517]

Good, every clergy is human after all. They have mistake or desire on one or another, they're not holy, they just know a lot about their religion

[@quaffie]

0:28 thrid sign looks like a guy stomping a snake

[@singingsquirrel2030]

14:36 Alfred Kinsey would be proud.

[@RoyAkahoshi-tsukasa]

LINFAMY VIDEO!! HAPPINES

[@catinacafe7105]

Me trying to find a religion that doesn't prey on people lol.

[@mizu7662]

Unfortunately, being seen as a moral and spiritual authority figure makes it easy for terrible people to abuse their position of trust. The easiest way to test a person's true character is to give them a position of authority and see what they do to the people they have authority over.

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

None of them do. Look at reality, not mispractice

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

​@@mizu7662 exactly. Morality being predatory is oxymoronic lol

[@romypotash7114]

Every religion was /is used for evil. I think most religions are cool in theory (and I the kindest people are like, in the middle religion /no religion wise ) but every religion was used to abuse

[@Marewig]

Find one that fits you. Organised religion, though? With their power structure? Well, positions of power attracts those who crave it, who wants to use it against others. The presence of those kind of people are kinda unavoidable once any structure gets large enough, whether secular or religious.

[@cucumbrouschimera3123]

Idk but as im learning more about different histories and religions, im seeing adults asssulting children was rampant. And its terrifying!

[@larafr752]

A wild Miroku appeared. He was quite the perv.

[@19Pyrus70]

But he only went after girls...right?🤔

[@nunyabiznes33]

​@@19Pyrus70he'll just suck in anything anyway

[@wtfsamusidk7574]

RIP miroku

[@Fanimati0n]

Don't do Miroku like that. He turned down a girl who wanted him b/c she was too young

[@mimicchest101]

Amazing story telling skill

[@nathan25229]

That product placement needs to be talked about..... omg......

[@WildBillCox13]

As much fun as ever, Lin. Nice work.

[@talpark8796]

tyvm for the 'interesting' upload 🐝🇨🇦😁

[@Linfamy]

😁👍

[@captainmorgana8842]

Was fast this time.... How did you know i was craving some crazy from times of old 😂

[@Linfamy]

:D

[@captainmorgana8842]

@@Linfamy never cease your humor 🤣 Thanks for the educational laugh 🤭

[@Evillfellas]

Why am i not surprised

[@manzar42]

linfamy, you are a cool guy, i have been binging on your wonderful vlongs, thank you for opening a new world to me!

[@Linfamy]

I'm glad you like the vids!

[@mynthecooldude]

You became a master of innuendos.

[@bw5020]

That snack ad was diabolic 😆

[@uchenna8885]

Couldn’t resist them is fucking crazy 😅😭😭😭