No more conversations about what Breakfast Club character you'd be (I'd be the one that dies)
I saw this advert on the Guardian website this morning, next to a story about a rightwing Dutch anti-Islamic politician.
Inadequately-Sourced Wikipedia Claim Of The Day:Other movements notable for their unconventional practices include the Grazers, holy men who ate only grass and chained themselves up like barnyard animals[citation needed]; the Holy Fool movement, in which acting like a fool was considered more divine than folly; and the Stylites movement, where one practitioner lived atop a 50-foot pole for 40-years.*
Meanwhileprophet Ezekiel lay before a stone, which symbolized beleaguered Jerusalem, and while first was instructed by God to eat bread baked on human waste, ultimately used cow dung instead; Hosea married a harlot to symbolize the infidelity of Israel before God*
At least that was Hosea's story.
Inadequately-Sourced Wikipedia Claim Of The Day:Other movements notable for their unconventional practices include the Grazers, holy men who ate only grass and chained themselves up like barnyard animals[citation needed]; the Holy Fool movement, in which acting like a fool was considered more divine than folly; and the Stylites movement, where one practitioner lived atop a 50-foot pole for 40-years.*
Meanwhileprophet Ezekiel lay before a stone, which symbolized beleaguered Jerusalem, and while first was instructed by God to eat bread baked on human waste, ultimately used cow dung instead; Hosea married a harlot to symbolize the infidelity of Israel before God*
At least that was Hosea's story.