stackyFACTSRealizing that surviving totally alone in a barren wasteland usually leads to madness, some ascetics decided to group up.
Realizing that surviving totally alone in a barren wasteland usually leads to madness, some ascetics decided to group up. However, instead of a fun roommate situation, they implemented wildly strict, unyielding daily schedules. Every minute of sleeping, eating, and praying was ruthlessly managed by a harsh supervisor. It effectively replaced the random chaos of the wilderness with the suffocating bureaucracy of a highly efficient spiritual factory.
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