Monasticism is isolation from the world to have a deeper spiritual meaning. This doesn't mean it is the belief that all world things are evil, such as giving up eating delicious foods, entertainment, etc - but it's a sacrifice of those things to be closer to God. This is popular with monks.

Some monks live in complete isolation, while others live with a community of other monks. The words differing them are eremitic and cenobitic. Eremitic is the practice of living in complete isolation from people, like a hermit, or like Luke Skywalker in the star wars prequels when he lived in hiding on that island. Cenotibic is the practice of separation from materialism, but living in a community with others practicing the same, such as a monastery.

The monks were very distinct in their beliefs with monasticism, as at the time, there was a large movement in the church that believed all materialistic things were evil. In contrast, the monks believed they weren't evil but were sacrificing those pleasures as a way to discipline themselves and devote themselves to God.

Tom Woods talks about a specific instance with St. Anthony of Egypt, who was a Christian who wanted to go into the desert and practice the life of a hermit in complete isolation. He told his friends and fellow Christians not to follow him, but as he goes into the desert about 5000 people follow him

Tom Woods talks about Constantine's ruleship, and after the battle of the Milvian Bridge. Constantine was baptized soon before he died. Some people speculated as to why he was baptized so late, and during those times it was customary to get baptized as late as possible, since they believed once you get baptized, then all the sins before that point were forgiven. 

During Constantine's ruleship, he implemented new laws to protect the Christians. He abolished the crucifixion of Christians, and he made Sunday a holiday.

He also removed gladiator games, which was a game where 2 people, often convicts, would fight to the death for entertainment. Constantine also improved the living conditions for women and slaves, which at the time it was legal to beat women and slaves under your household.

Sacrilege to the Christian faith was also made a crime. Much of society at the time started discouraging other practiced pagan religions.

Tom Woods covers early Christian written sources still kept besides the New Testament.

He starts off with the Didache, also known as the 'Teaching of the 12 apostles". At the time it was highly regarded, and even some people thought it should've been in the new testament, but was only rediscovered in 1873. You can now find all of the documents online to read. The book is about the rules of being a Christian. What to do and what not to do. It emphasizes especially the "golden rule", first love God above all things and treat your neighbor as you would yourself.

This lesson talks about Christianity transforming from an underground religion to widespread. This would be a massive change since the standard for religions is that "everyone can have their own god" and that there are multiple gods. Christianity would make a change with the stance that the Christian God cannot be compared to the pagan gods, and in fact he is the only 1 true God. 

A Roman general conducted an experiment where he interviewed people from Rome. He asked whether they were Christian or not. The ones who said they were he ordered executed, the one's who denied they were he let go, and the ones who said they were Christian but were Roman citizens he transported out of Rome.

He interrogated some of the self proclaimed Christians, and they told him their traditions which consisted of collective prayers, praising, hymn singing, etc. 

After seeing many of Tyler the Creator's music videos, I was very curious on what inspired his style of filming in the videos. After some looking around on the internet, I noticed his music videos look a lot like Wes Anderson style films, but with more "grain" and a vintage look. Youtube suggested a video on "The Wes Anderson Style Explained", and naturally I was curious on what exactly makes it so unique, and personally I LOVE the style of his films.

One of his main special touches is the camera movement and placement. He always has the camera facing "flat", which means that instead of using side angles or any angles that isn't 90 or 180 degrees, he keeps it face forward or exactly to the side. Here's some image examples I made with some of his movie shots: