Thai cave boys


It’s a good idea. It will give them time to come to terms with what happened away from the media spotlight and pressure from friends and family to discuss the event. It’s a shame we don’t have a similar process for victims of adversity in this country.
 
It’s a good idea. It will give them time to come to terms with what happened away from the media spotlight and pressure from friends and family to discuss the event. It’s a shame we don’t have a similar process for victims of adversity in this country.

We do. But I'm sure they don't all have to have religious connotations.
However, if that's what the lads want then that's fair enough.

This is from the BBC Article

Most members of the Thai youth football team rescued from a flooded cave have had their heads shaved as part of a Buddhist ceremony to ordain them as novices.
Their coach is also receiving monk's orders. One of the boys is not joining the ceremony as he is a Christian.
The group will spend nine days living in a monastery, a tradition for males in Thailand who experience adversity.
They were trapped for more than two weeks before a dramatic rescue.
The boys were all released from hospital last week and are said to be in good health after their ordeal in the snaking caverns of the Tham Luang caves of northern Thailand.
This step is intended to be a "spiritual cleansing" for the group, and to fulfil a promise by the families to remember one of the divers who died in the rescue operation.
"They should spend time in a monastery. It's for their protection," Seewad Sompiangjai, grandfather of Night, one of the rescued boys told the BBC earlier. "It's like they died but now have been reborn."
They will stay in different monasteries until 4 August meditating, praying and cleaning their temple. The length of time they will spend doing this - nine days - is a nod to a Thai lucky number.

Correspondents say it's seen as normal by Thais for boys and men to spend time as monks as a rite of passage.

That all seems fair enough to me
 
BBC painting this as some challenge of East vs West because there has been an order imposed preventing the media from engaging with them or the fact they aren't seeking out therapists. As if there be an alternative way?
 
BBC painting this as some challenge of East vs West because there has been an order imposed preventing the media from engaging with them or the fact they aren't seeking out therapists. As if there be an alternative way?

How have you come up with that from the article posted?
 
How have you come up with that from the article posted?
It isn't from the article posted but the segment they've just played whilst I was at work, it'll probably repeat if you watch long enough but I'm not going to prompt you when it does because I'm clocking off shortly.
 
Fucks sake. We just call it a mindfulness retreat and everybody thinks it’s all corporate and buzzy.
Yeah but that's organised by your Chief Employee Engagement Officer who is a complete twat and hosted by a perma-smile facilitator who just wants to sell more wanky days out. Not by your spiritual leader. Though the CEEO would like to think he was.
 

Back
Top