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According to [1], he didn't wash in water, but with Fire instead: "He would reject water in favour of what he called a “fire bath”. “Every evening as villagers gather, Kalau … lights a bonfire, smokes marijuana and stands on a leg praying to Lord Shiva,” the paper said." [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/25/worlds-dirties...
That's referring to an Indian man, not this individual. Interesting story nonetheless.
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yeah, I wonder what religion was this Iranian guy, doesn't seem like very good believer
I don't know if your comment is being serious or snarky, but have you looked at his heart to judge his belief?
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I don't know if your comment is being serious or snarky, but have you looked at his heart to judge his belief?
well he clearly didn't do this ritual and as Iranian he is very likely Muslim, so...
If he was a Muslim, then yes, he maybe was not practicing, and that would be considered a sin. But you can't deduce anything from that about his fate or whether is was a "bad believer". Why? For a number of reasons:
- From a religious perspective, God charges no soul beyond its capacity, that is, what it is capable of bearing. We know nothing about the guy. What circumstances lead him to this lifestyle? Was he trapped? In the islamic view, actions are but by intentions. Do we know anything about his intentions? Only God knows.
- Also from a religous perspective, there is no perfect human, we are all sinful. Good deeds balance bad ones. One of the stories in the islamic texts is that of a prostitute who saw a thirsty dog, took off her shoe and watered it, and god forgave her because of that good deed.
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I had a 40 year old car that was rarely serviced but ran like a champ. I moved across country and the new mechanic told me I should use some cleansing agent to de-gunk all of the various hoses/manifolds/whatever in the engine. It seemed expensive so I went for to a second mechanic and mentioned it, and he was adamant that I not do it, and that all that gunk was what was sealing the hoses and letting the car operate.…
You're talking about a car and you have no idea what happened to it.
It’s a good story.
An anecdote: A reporter interviews an old highlander at his home: - What's your secret? How did you manage to live for so long? - For all my life I've followed three simple rules: no alcohol, no tobacco and no women! Suddenly they hear some noise behind the wall in the other room. - What's that? - asks the reporter. - Oh, that's my elder brother. He's drunk again and is beating his wives for hiding his cigarettes.
I stopped using soap a decade ago. The only time I use it now is for rare occasions where I get something on me that requires soap, such as motor oil or chemicals. I also only wash twice a week or so. People always recoil when I tell them, but then I ask them what I smell like to them. They say I don't really smell like anything. The first month was the worst, because my skin took time to adjust to not having its oil…
Soap isn't what gets things clean, anyway, water does. Soap merely lowers water surface tension, and making water molecules stick together less helps water clean more easily.
I stopped using soap a decade ago. The only time I use it now is for rare occasions where I get something on me that requires soap, such as motor oil or chemicals. I also only wash twice a week or so. People always recoil when I tell them, but then I ask them what I smell like to them. They say I don't really smell like anything. The first month was the worst, because my skin took time to adjust to not having its oil…
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well he clearly didn't do this ritual and as Iranian he is very likely Muslim, so...
Well, it's not a black-or-white thing where you can label a person as either "bad" or "good" based on your perception of one of his actions. If he was a Muslim, then yes, he maybe was not practicing, and that would be considered a sin. But you can't deduce anything from that about his fate or whether is was a "bad believer". Why? For a number of reasons: - From a religious perspective, God charges no soul beyond its…
Don't twist my words, only one writing here - he is bad - is you. It's like I will say about someone getting only Bs they are not very good student and you will argue I am saying they are bad student.
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I've lived all over the place, from dry to wet-towel-in-your-face humid, from -25c to 45c. Even after an hour long workout dripping with sweat I don't really smell like anything. The way to test your own body odor without asking other people is to take a deep whiff of yesterday's shirt when you wake up in the morning. Even better would be to walk around outside a bit before you smell your old shirt in order to keep a…
or you could just ask your own (young) kids, they have no filter, sometimes when we lay in bed they tell me I stink, they mean armpits, not that it would be necessary, even I can smell it at that point if I try