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Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by joemazerino »

There's something to note that Middle-East has a low incident of cancer in comparison to other regions while still having a high fat/sugar diet. I believe fasting is a large part of that equation.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by IMTDb »

hd4 wrote: post #138
tokyolights2 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and from your own desires As a non-religious gay I probably wasn't invited anyway. But this kind of thinking is what leads conservatives to so much repression and hate. The idea that the wants and needs of your body are something which the mind must actively fight. That the scratchy, ill-fitting wool sweater of your culture is something that you must keep on at all costs. And it leads to resentment of people who ar…

That sounds like you're coming at this from a similar standpoint to one of the other major religions which I would rather not mention as I don't want to start a religious war here. In Islam you're not hated or judged for what you call your true feelings. You are however instructed to gain mastery over those feelings and make them subordinate to you rather than the other way around. Fasting is one of the things that c…

> In Islam you're not hated or judged for what you call your true feelings. You are however instructed to gain mastery over those feelings and make them subordinate to you rather than the other way around

To me, that sounds like a very fancy way of saying : repress your feelings and who you are to conform to an arbitrary set of rules written by one dude hundreds years ago.

Enlighten me on how are you supposed to act/feel to “gain mastery over your feeling” when said feeling is “as a male; I want to spend the rest of my life sharing experiences with this other male, intimate and not intimate, without endangering anyone else” ?

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by username3 »

rsynnott wrote: post #98

I was unaware until this year that it was based on when the moon was _sighted_, not just on a conventional lunar calendar. This leads to very short notice public holidays in a couple of countries AIUI.

In Torah, months start when a crescent moon is sighted with an unaided eye without a binocular. They have moon charts like this in their calendars. https://eliyah.com/calendar2023.pdf There’s one holy day that starts on the first day of the seventh month.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by doetoe »

zen_1 wrote: post #68
H8crilA wrote: post #54

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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...

In a way it makes more sense to have the units come first, i.e. how the numbers are written in Arabic. Namely, when you do arithmetic you start with the units, so that in English (etc) when you compute 1234 + 5678 you cannot just start writing down digits, but you have to reserve space and work backwards.

Re: Tell HN: Eid Mubarak

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Post by shepherdjerred »

iso1631 wrote: post #132
shepherdjerred wrote: post #85

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You're right, most people do... > Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/breakfast-adults-sk... > One in four adults skip breakfast most days, says survey

Which means they're participating in a comparatively longer fast
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