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Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by skinkestek »

axus wrote: post #43
zvmaz wrote: post #38

Ramadan has little to do with intermittent fasting: the former is a religious prescription enforced by law in some countries [1], the latter is completely up to the individual. Happy Eid. [1] https://www-lepoint-fr.translate.goog/monde/algerie-2-ans-de...

Fasting is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. Maybe someone could explain what "non-intermittent" fasting would be?

I'd say the difference is if there is some regularity to it.

Intermittent fasting can be fasting Monday to Friday and only eating in the weekends like how I think one HN-er described his 5/2 diet.

It can be OMAD (one meal a day) or something else. The main thing is you fast and stop fasting repeatedly.

None-intermittent fasting is when you just skip food for a day like I did last week or for a few days like I did as a teenager.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by anon223345 »

I have new neighbors who are Muslim, how would I wish them happy Eid Mubarak? Like a card or something?

I barely know them they’re new, but want them to feel welcome, think they might be the only Muslim neighbors

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by IndigoIncognito »

kioleanu wrote: post #45
IndigoIncognito wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People sit exams during ramadan, I don't know how

In Germany, Muslim students had their exams excused this week, when everyone else wrote them. They can take them next week

I wonder why, Muslims only make up 5% of Germany's population, fiscally this wouldn't make much sense given that they would have to make a second exam paper & provide more labour

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by broast »

skinkestek wrote: post #61
axus wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fasting is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. Maybe someone could explain what "non-intermittent" fasting would be?

I'd say the difference is if there is some regularity to it. Intermittent fasting can be fasting Monday to Friday and only eating in the weekends like how I think one HN-er described his 5/2 diet. It can be OMAD (one meal a day) or something else. The main thing is you fast and stop fasting repeatedly. None-intermittent fasting is when you just skip food for a day like I did last week or for a few days like I did as…

An important distinction is while fasting for Ramadan, you can't ingest anything at all, including water. Unlike intermittent fasting where practitioners might still have 0 calorie coffee to stay stimulated, and water to stay hydrated.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by oneiric »

zvmaz wrote: post #58
adityapurwa wrote: post #52

Even deeper, the essence of Ramadan is to not eat and drink while you need it the most, during the day, where you work and get tired. It resonates with the feeling of holding your anger even when you have the rights to be angry. Holding your arrogance when faced against someone who had less money, fame, etc, than you. And Ramadan fasting is more than just not eating and drinking. You are not allowed to lie, to be ang…

A study on judicial rulings show a link between rulings and the time they have been issued between food breaks [1]. It appears that the more hungry the judges are, the less they show clemency. Similarly, living in a Mulsim country, I have not observed the virtues that supposedly stem from religious fasting. [1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018033108

The Hungry Judge Effect has been debunked. Not that your larger point is not valid.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by Toobam »

anon223345 wrote: post #63

I have new neighbors who are Muslim, how would I wish them happy Eid Mubarak? Like a card or something? I barely know them they’re new, but want them to feel welcome, think they might be the only Muslim neighbors

Just saying the word "Happy Eid Mubarak" alone is okay.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by zen_1 »

H8crilA wrote: post #54
psyfi wrote: post #53

وَلِتُكۡمِلُوا۟ ٱلۡعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ مَا هَدَىٰكُمۡ وَلَعَلَّكُمۡ تَشۡكُرُونَ :)

TIL that emojis are not rotated 180 degrees in Arabic. Also, you don't rotate numbers either, right? As in, if you were to embed 12345 in a sentence it would look like: This sentence talks about 54321, which is a number just under 00002.

Yes, numbers in Arabic are LTR even when they're used mid (RTL) sentence.

We'd also use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals instead of the confusingly named (western) Arabic numbers 0123456789...

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by skinkestek »

broast wrote: post #65
skinkestek wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say the difference is if there is some regularity to it. Intermittent fasting can be fasting Monday to Friday and only eating in the weekends like how I think one HN-er described his 5/2 diet. It can be OMAD (one meal a day) or something else. The main thing is you fast and stop fasting repeatedly. None-intermittent fasting is when you just skip food for a day like I did last week or for a few days like I did as…

An important distinction is while fasting for Ramadan, you can't ingest anything at all, including water. Unlike intermittent fasting where practitioners might still have 0 calorie coffee to stay stimulated, and water to stay hydrated.

Agreed. I think it is correct to say that Ramadan fasting is intermittent but intermittent fasting is not Ramadan fasting, except the subset of fasting that is Muslims fasting during Ramadan.

I also think some others, among them Christians, fast completely.

Personally I am Christian but when I fast, the vast majority of the times it has been because I was bored or needed to focus, and I didn't punish myself by breaking fast once a day but just went without food a day or two or three until I became bored of that too or family demanded I ate.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by natrys »

zvmaz wrote: post #38

Ramadan has little to do with intermittent fasting: the former is a religious prescription enforced by law in some countries [1], the latter is completely up to the individual. Happy Eid. [1] https://www-lepoint-fr.translate.goog/monde/algerie-2-ans-de...

At least it doesn't seem like the law in question was specifically about enforcing Ramadan, rather a sinister abuse of the general "Blasphamy law"[1] which exists in some non-muslim countries too.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171211105140/http://freethough...

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