Agonoclita

Agonoclita or the Agonoclites in antiquity was a Christian sect from the 7th century whose distinguishing principle was never to kneel, but to deliver all their prayers standing.[1]

Etymology

The name of this group is derived from the following Greek words: the privative particle α ("not"), γονυ ("knee"), and κλινω ("I bend").

gollark: You can probably run DALL-E Mini locally if you have a good enough GPU and want it to suffer more.
gollark: Although, to be fair, humans can talk about theirs, so I guess they apparently still have *some* effect on the world.
gollark: I don't think it's a relevant question. Digital systems can simulate analog ones to any desired degree of precision, if possibly slowly.
gollark: Given that consciousness/qualia/whatever is/are *subjective* experience.
gollark: There's not really a way to know what digital systems subjectively experience in response to stimuli.

References
  1. Chambers, Ephraim (1728). "Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences". Retrieved 26 May 2015.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "article name needed". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (first ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.

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