[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45238541]I live in a majority Christian country but I have never heard of Lent in my entire life[/QUOTE]
it's the stuff that sometimes gets stuck in your belly button
[QUOTE=nikomo;45240511]I'm still really confused about the whole "you're fine after the sun sets" thing.
God doesn't have night vision? He created the fucking universe, but can't see during night?
Would explain why all kinds of stuff is so fucked up, he probably created all that stuff before creating light.[/QUOTE]
It's just minor inconvenience and discomfort for the purpose of remembrance/empathy for people less fortunate
personally i don't agree with Ramadan why starve yourself, that causes some health problems and i really wish people would recognize that and work up another form to replace that. I just don't understand it seems rather silly to be honest.
[QUOTE=confinedUser;45241753]personally i don't agree with Ramadan why starve yourself, that causes some health problems and i really wish people would recognize that and work up another form to replace that. I just don't understand it seems rather silly to be honest.[/QUOTE]
It's too remind muslims of what it's like to be poor and starving so they're more compassionate to those less fortunate and encourage them to help out their fellow man.
Also this is probably the worst time for Ramadan to fall considering how long the days are. Holy shit it was still light out last night at 9.
[QUOTE=confinedUser;45241753]personally i don't agree with Ramadan why starve yourself, that causes some health problems and i really wish people would recognize that and work up another form to replace that. I just don't understand it seems rather silly to be honest.[/QUOTE]
Studies show that fasting is actually healthy. Google is your friend.
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[QUOTE=elitehakor;45236911]i dunno how to fit my exercise plan with fasting so i'm gonna have to drop it and pick it back up in august
[editline]28th June 2014[/editline]
and i'll probably just not eat a lot during community iftars which sucks b/c people make some really good food[/QUOTE]
Are you lifting or running/swimming/whatever.
Intermittent fasting is the same thing as this and is something you could look into, tons of lifters do it. I'm on a similar diet myself at the moment.
[QUOTE=Wii60;45240351]i never looked into ramadan much, but like can't you just eat at night and wake up early and eat before the sun goes up?
kind of a retarded restriction though if thats true.[/QUOTE]
When I was in the middle East who did Ramadan wrong by eating like goddamn gluttons as soon as the sun went down until the wee hours of the morning and then "fasted" the whole of the next day.
Bub, if you eat 6 goddamn helpings of Chicken Biryani
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and a shit ton of fruits, what you're doing the next day is not fasting - it's called digesting, which to my eyes, defeats the whole spiritual point beyond the ritualistic fasting.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;45238541]I live in a majority Christian country but I have never heard of Lent in my entire life[/QUOTE]
I live in a majority Christian country and boy you don't get out much.
[QUOTE=AK'z;45235914]allahu malnourishment[/QUOTE]
i had this muslim friend who weighed about 123kg (and was 170cm tall)
he was just terrible at keeping diets going and basically took a pretty long time to start losing weight every time he tried
and i mean a reeeaally long time because it'd always get ruined by ramadan, where he'd eat as much as possible when he was allowed to and ended up gaining even more weight
Ramadan is A good way to save money and lose weight.
[QUOTE=BCell;45243123]Ramadan is A good way to save money and lose weight.[/QUOTE]
Ehhhh most people seems to overspend by buying more food than than what they can handle or just to stuff themselves because they're hungry as hell
[QUOTE=BCell;45243123]Ramadan is A good way to save money and lose weight.[/QUOTE]
this is true if you're legitimately smart about ramadan. i dunno about anywhere else but in my city the local masjid always has someone serving food there for iftar. if i wanted to i could basically spend little to no money on food.
[QUOTE=LaTrefle;45235945]I'm not fasting but i may get beat up&knifed if i try to eat outside[/QUOTE]
I didn't knew they took it this seriously in Turkey. That sucks.
Come to Azerbaijan. No one really cares if you are fasting or not and all the restaurants and cafes are open just as usual except Turkish Kebap places.
[QUOTE=mchapra;45237566]It's based on clock timings, so you open your fast when the sun is suppose to set where Muslims normally live.[/QUOTE]
So if the sun sets in Jakarta then I begin my fast?
[QUOTE=cucumber;45243416]I didn't knew they took it this seriously in Turkey. That sucks.
Come to Azerbaijan. No one really cares if you are fasting or not and all the restaurants and cafes are open just as usual except Turkish Kebap places.[/QUOTE]
Also, this is off topic but what is the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh?
[QUOTE=RockmanYoshi;45243453]
Also, this is off topic but what is the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh?[/QUOTE]
typical, they fire, we fire back.
Last week a little boy got hit on our side fortunately he survived, and as a result gas pipe destroyed on their.
[QUOTE=arthuro12;45237443]Add the fact that they eat the most delicious things before sunrise and I wouldn't have too many difficulties with it myself.
Woops hell no.
Half of the people I know are muslim, I just enjoy messing around with some folks.
I once (accidentally he asked for it I promise) gave a bacon crisp to one of my mates and I felt really bad about it :c[/QUOTE]
You definitely have some psychopathic tendencies .
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;45236095]Cause we feel bad (yes even though we have different religions). It just feels not good/wrong when you are doing it in front of em.
Like I feel bad eating beef in front of my hindu/buddhist friends.
On a worst case, they might feel like you are spiteful to them. Like doing it on purpose. Like for example, you might give em the impression
"you can order everything else on the menu but you decide to order beef/pork in front of me, of all days?!"[/QUOTE]
Well that's awfully nice of you, I literally do not give a shit. They themselves preach that your life (that of a fasting muslim) should go on as normally as it did before/after Ramadan.
[editline]29th June 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Proffrink;45236120]Ramadan is pretty fucking annoying if you're not someone that practices fasting.
All the restaurants close, and when they actually open (and you perhaps want to go out) they're choick-full of people noshing their way through a days worth of calories. Then there's the fact that the majority of them get up early, eat a shed-load of food for the day and then do even less than they usually do because their blood sugar levels are low before clocking off early to sit at home and wait for the sun to go down.
It's a bit of a joke really.[/QUOTE]
Full to bursting of people just sitting in front of their food not eating while they wait for the sun to set.
The main goal of the Ramadan is actually to live the poor's men life.
But like 90% of the Muslim eat just too luch at night.
[QUOTE=Radaghast;45244034]The main goal of the Ramadan is actually to live the poor's men life.
But like 90% of the Muslim eat just too luch at night.[/QUOTE]
Isn't that just one of countless religious practices that's lost its original meaning/spirit over time?
Nowadays, most Muslims just stay up all night, eat sohoor, sleep during all the prayers (which you're actually meant to pray, since it's the holy month of Ramadan??) and just wake up before sunset to eat. It's not really fasting at all.
When you do it properly, waking up to pray the dawn prayer, then staying up all the way to sunset, it's really difficult.
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