How do you become a monk?

wolly said:

Well,about God. He never helped me with anything in life.

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Interesting. He gave you life. He gave you your capacities to think, to act, to experience the world around you, to love, and enjoy pleasurable things. You can do nothing without God.

But God isn't willing just to be your Helper. He is your Creator and He is your God, whether you recognize that He is or not. He won't deal with you as anything other than He is. This means, when you approach God, it has to be as your Boss, your Lord and King. Too many people, though, ignore God most of the time, only turning to Him for help here and there, as though He is some kind of divine servant, or a piece of furniture to be sat on once in a while. As you can imagine, God doesn't respond well to being treated this way.

wolly said:

Only my mother was the one who accepted me and cared for me,not God,Satan or other beings.

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And your mother? Who made her? Who gave you your Mother? God.

wolly said:

Because of her my intelligence grew,not because of prayer God,Satan or other beings.

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Friend, without God you would have no intelligence! You would not even exist!

wolly said:

I don't know if Jesus was in a better position than me but at least he had a father who cared about him while my father was a complete douchebag,a loser who worked in the bar and sold alcohol to other people,he used his money to buy alcohol from a military police officer(gendarmerie).

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Jesus died for you, Wolly. All along, all through the misery of your life, he has loved you and offered to you a relationship with God through himself. He's still offering you this relationship, if you'll take it. He'll connect you to his Father (who is nothing like your own earthly father) who will adopt you as one of His own. And when you're connected to God through Jesus, you'll finally be in a place where God can deal with you as one of His own.

Matthew 11:27-30
27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Romans 10:9-13
9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

wolly said:

Well,about God. He never helped me with anything in life. I had to deal with every problem myself.

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How many times did God save your life and you were not aware of it? A near miss accident, a disease you recovered from, a gun that was pointed at you but jammed, and you never knew it.

How many times did God provide for your needs, and you never knew it? A job? Food? A home?

Next time something good happens, don't think it is just chance. Give thanks to God.

All good things come from God.

wolly said:

Orthodox.

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Go talk to either your parish priest or go to a monastery and speak to a staretz for wisdom regarding your situation...

wolly said:

1)If you read in my post you would know that my capacity of thinking was reduced to a level of a rabbit....I haven't experienced the world until the age of 14 when I went to my aunt who lives in Greece,until then I haven't experienced anything interesting in life. All I did was living in an appartment with my family. I don't understand why you are comparing God's life with mine.

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I'm not comparing God's life with yours. I'm telling you that your life comes from God. He made you; He gave you life. To say God hasn't helped you, then, is a bit odd. The food you eat, the air you breathe, the heart that pumps your blood and the brain with which you think, are all God's doing. He made it all. Is it true, then, that God has done nothing for you? Not at all.

wolly said:

2)Well if He is not my Helper then can he at least send his children angels,archangels or other beings and teach me something about life?

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If you will not accept God as the God He is, you are living in rebellion toward Him and are His enemy. He would be your Heavenly Father, if you'd let Him, but this means submitting yourself to His will and way. If you refuse to accept God, why should He send you anything?

If you want to understand how to live life well, read the Bible. In it, God tells us everything we need to know to live the best possible life.

wolly said:

I read somewhere that angels and archangels or other beings have higher intelligence than us.
Why do they posses that and mortals/humans have to work hard to get that?
I find that a discrimination!

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Do you complain that the sky is blue, or that the sun is round? Do you object to elephants being bigger than you and stronger? Is it unfair that you can't slither through the grass like a snake, or don't have a tail? There are all sorts of things about reality that we might not like but we accept anyway because we didn't make reality and have no right, then, to object to it. And our complaints don't change anything, do they? They only change the one who complains, and never for the better.

wolly said:

3) And if God made my mother how does that help me?

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Didn't you say your mother was good to you? She would not have existed without God.

wolly said:

4)Well if my intelligence was below the IQ of 90 how can you call that intelligence? Intelligence is when you know about certain subjects math,physics,chemistry biology,geography,history,etc.
If you know nothing about any of these how can you call that intelligence?

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No, intelligence is not merely what you know. There are many people who know a great deal but who are as stupid as a rock. You meet a lot of them in university, actually.

You're pretty concerned about how intelligent you are, but God isn't. He accepts you just as you are, whether a genius or not. He's much more concerned that you know Him as your Heavenly Father and walk in the ways for which He created you.

wolly said:

5) So you're saying that when you die you are sent to another dimension by the archangel of death,angels of death?
I'm pretty sure that happens only when you die.

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No. I'm not saying this. I'm not sure why you think I have.

wolly said:

How can you predict what would happen to someone who dies? Have you ever had visions or other abilities to prove that someone will accept you as a total stranger?

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It is what Jesus said was true. And I believe him. He did rise from the dead and this makes him very convincing, in my opinion. Jesus said God will accept you if you come to Him in humility, trusting in Jesus as your Savior and Lord. But this is the only way to come to God.

wolly said:

If we are talking about Jesus,I'm pretty sure that he died long ago and he is a spirit in another realm/dimension. How can someone who died long ago know you?

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Jesus is God, Wolly. He knows everyone and everything. And when he died, he did not stay dead, but rose again from the dead and then, a short while later, ascended to heaven before a crowd of eye-witnesses. Jesus is not, then, dead and gone, blind to the life you are living. He knows every single thing about you. And he loves you.

wolly said:

I've never seen a spirit interact with me except by that vision of my father.

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Every day you have life, it is God who has given it to you. God is Spirit and so it isn't actually true that a spirit has never interacted with you. God is interacting with you all the time, keeping you alive, sustaining the world in which you live, shouting His existence at you through the wonder and beauty of Creation.

wolly said:

Hi,I'm in hard relationships with my family which divorced 1 year ago. I'm struggling in an engineering college and I don't have someone to help me with my studies. I'm a complete failure and I decided that I wanted to choose this path because that way I don't have to deal with aggression,hostility and the world that wants to harm me.
I'm saying this because my father was an alcoholic person and when I wanted justice I couldn't get it because my father had a ,,vision'' that if I had a proof of him commiting an illegal act he would erase the act and blame it on myself so I had no idea how to solve this conflict between me,my father and my mother.
I want to choose this path because I could have my own salary and my own room from the help of the monastery.
I have no idea how hard the life of a monk actually is so I'm asking some guidance here!

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*** " I have thought of Monkhood myself, probably for similar reasons, but I know the words of Jesus too much. I get on my knees more now than ever. Jesus speaks of the talents he gave to this person and those he gave to others, and he expects each of us to do something with what he gave us to gain more for His kingdom before he returns. So, I have learned to pray for strength, patience, and tolerance. I found that I have strength, patience and tolerance and to carry my cross daily as the Bible teaches, because it will be just as hard for a monk in a monastery as for me in a busy city. I suggest you read the small letters of the New Testament and red letters of Jesus to gain strength against a mean world." DL

- I was also surrounded by suspect religious movements when I was young (and since)
- there is a country besides yours, which I frequently read about, where the education system continues to exhibit the problems you've described
- But England is still fairly abusive towards those with specific learning differences (SpLD) (and getting worse again)
- when i was headed for poor marks at colleges I was mysteriously awarded good ones and I worry now, how that got "arranged" as my parents didn't have money
- I was being offered a support plan when I was 10 but my mother had it cancelled (misplaced shame)
- when I was 42 I suddenly came across information about SpLDs. I have been severely dyspraxic all my life but hadn't been told. I did get a small amount of coaching at a workplace for a while.
- a "floating support worker" (a short lived scheme) helped me use shelving more. An acquaintance told me to arrange everything in my home at right angles or parallel for ease of seeing. this is not obsession!
- I have dated little and I get lonelier and lonelier.