Working through Ramadan
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Working through Ramadan
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#2>> 2. If you accidentally fall asleep in your office cubicle, people won’t judge you because you are fasting.
Oh, yes, please don't judge me while I underperform this entire month because I feel compelled to follow some ancient superstition.
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#3What is interesting in Ramadan is being dependent on the moon for the calculation of this month starts and end, so in 33 years you will experience fasting in different seasons
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#4>> 2. If you accidentally fall asleep in your office cubicle, people won’t judge you because you are fasting. Oh, yes, please don't judge me while I underperform this entire month because I feel compelled to follow some ancient superstition.
Any religious activity is fine if it doesn't interfere with your duties in society.
If you're falling asleep while fasting, isn't that a sign of going too far with it? Seems intuitively unhealthy.
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#5I was just saying the other day that fasting in Ramadan could work as alternative to Soylent[1]. Eating one meal a day frees up a lot of mental cycles that goes into thinking about food (what will I eat for lunch, where from, etc). It also allows for longer stretches of uninterrupted coding time. And probably most importantly the post-lunch slump is gone.
One phenomenon that I hadn't found an explanation for is that I get an explosive amount of energy around 6 or 7pm (just before breakfast at 8.30pm). And this hour is my most productive hour of the day.
[1]: https://twitter.com/amasad/status/746870830370533376?s=09
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#6>> 2. If you accidentally fall asleep in your office cubicle, people won’t judge you because you are fasting. Oh, yes, please don't judge me while I underperform this entire month because I feel compelled to follow some ancient superstition.
Any religious activity is fine if it doesn't interfere with your duties in society. If you're falling asleep while fasting, isn't that a sign of going too far with it? Seems intuitively unhealthy.
I believe I've read that the typical fasting done during Ramadan said to be healthy (assuming you're already healthy to begin with, and yes, I mean medical literature, not religious) and I believe falling asleep when you're hungry is also natural for a lot of people, so I'm not sure it's unhealthy.
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#7>> 2. If you accidentally fall asleep in your office cubicle, people won’t judge you because you are fasting. Oh, yes, please don't judge me while I underperform this entire month because I feel compelled to follow some ancient superstition.
Any religious activity is fine if it doesn't interfere with your duties in society. If you're falling asleep while fasting, isn't that a sign of going too far with it? Seems intuitively unhealthy.
There are a lot of stuff going on in Ramadan, not only the abstention from food/drink, those activities will change your sleep cycle
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#8>> 2. If you accidentally fall asleep in your office cubicle, people won’t judge you because you are fasting. Oh, yes, please don't judge me while I underperform this entire month because I feel compelled to follow some ancient superstition.
Any religious activity is fine if it doesn't interfere with your duties in society. If you're falling asleep while fasting, isn't that a sign of going too far with it? Seems intuitively unhealthy.
I wonder how this would affect individuals who do physically intensive work such as manual labor. The article seemed to focus on writers, CEOs, I wish they had included a few people involved in physically intensive work. I wonder what these people do, is there some sort of Ramadan exception for those involved in physically intensive work? What about for diabetics? Do people struggling through Ramadan experience some sort of closeness with God or spiritual feelings of joy?
I have a lot of questions about Ramadan and the Muslim faith. I thought the topic was very good but I feel like this article article didn't really do a good job of providing insight into the struggles and spiritual journey involved in Ramadan.
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#9>> 2. If you accidentally fall asleep in your office cubicle, people won’t judge you because you are fasting. Oh, yes, please don't judge me while I underperform this entire month because I feel compelled to follow some ancient superstition.
It's hard to believe that some thing going on for ~1430 years without changing is a superstition, IMHO.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any religious activity is fine if it doesn't interfere with your duties in society. If you're falling asleep while fasting, isn't that a sign of going too far with it? Seems intuitively unhealthy.
I wonder how this would affect individuals who do physically intensive work such as manual labor. The article seemed to focus on writers, CEOs, I wish they had included a few people involved in physically intensive work. I wonder what these people do, is there some sort of Ramadan exception for those involved in physically intensive work? What about for diabetics? Do people struggling through Ramadan experience some…
IIRC some soccer players and athletes have obtained the blessing of a friendly imam to break their fast during competitions for safety reasons. I don't know if this is widely approved or not.
For your questions, as usual Wikipedia has the basics: