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As Willy said, it's not about fasting as such.Quote:
Originally Posted by misskit
Since we don't eat meat, I've given up chocolate for Lent :sad: . . . but had a nice bottle of wine at a vineyard in an area just north of Auckland . . . Aaaaahhhh :smile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
The muslims I've seen pray, do fast religiously during Ramadan. Even kids (at least grade 4 and up) pray and fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by TTraveler
I don't miss the call to prayer that used to wake me up at 4am or so every morning when I lived in the Middle East.
I had no problem with Adhaan. I was up anyway getting in a few kilometers before the sun came up. Noon, afternoon, sundown, and evening calls to prayer didn't bother me either. I just had to adjust my comings and goings around the times the prayers were performed.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe
^
im a big fan of them myself. absolutely beautiful when multiples are going off
perhaps not in a shit northern england town though
but i suspect the point of ramadan is not to0 be happy, a lot like lent
That's what I thought. Very atmospheric.Quote:
Originally Posted by reinvented
Yeah, I did have a temporary flat about 5 yards from a mosque in Abu Dhabi, though.
Thankfully for just a few days, as it turned out, before I got a place a hundred yards away from any mosque.
Then it was atmospheric. :D
Me too, but, as Cy says above, distance is key. I've been 10 metres away from one in Cairo and 500 metres away from one in rural Malaysia.Quote:
Originally Posted by reinvented
The former is not an option I plan to repeat any time soon. :)
After my first stint in Sharjah in the early nineties I headed off to Don Muang for my first break.
Well, it seemed rude not to. :D
I was on Koh Lanta within a couple of days. It was lovely back then.
But first morning there I was woken up by the call to prayer.
There was a moment of panic before I fully came around and realised...S. Thailand. :D
Some are backwards (still), some dumb as shit, some are smart, and some are sneaky :tieme:Quote:
Originally Posted by DrWilly
They needed something other than water to sustain them, so the monks turned to a common staple of the time of their region – beer. They concocted an “unusually strong” brew, full of carbohydrates and nutrients, because “liquid bread wouldn’t break the fast,” Zuber noted.
This was an early doppelbock-style beer, which the monks eventually sold in the community and which was an original product of Paulaner brewery, founded in 1634. They gave it the name “Salvator,” named after “Sankt Vater,” which “roughly translates as ‘Holy Father beer,’”
These 17th century monks did a beer fast for Lent – Catholic Telegraph
I drink "Salavator" not only at Lent :)
https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com...20/02/beer.jpg
^ Uuuups wrong beer
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/image/sz...5?v=1517051439
there you go.
Happy Ramadan Lamadana Ding Dong
Passover
Lent
or whatever you are wasting your time with.
The first experience i had of dealing with ramadan was plenty fucked up. Sudan near the egyptian border looking after a small diamond coring rig sudanese offsiders and tanzanian drillers . The day shift lasted from about 6.00 am until about 11.00 am.when they would start dropping like flies in 50 degree heat, credit to them for trying but we couldnt get anything done. I had to wonder what sort of god makes you put up with that shit? Allah. My ass. All that praying 4 times a day and its still hot n shitty. Nothing happy about it.
^Haha, no doubt. Sounds like a shit experience.
I agree with reinvented and happynz that the sound of the Adhan's are quite nice, but I had one across the street which is not a good way to wake up so early in the morning. It isn't like earplugs can block the noise either. ;)
Middle east is somehow calling me back with job interviews to possibly go back.. maybe I am nuts..but maybe Bahrain or Abu Dhabi.
:smileylaughing:Good Friday and Easter is this weekend......anyone celebrating?Quote:
Originally Posted by HermantheGerman
Funnily enough, when walking through through the Jerusalem Mall which straddles the Panamá/Costa Rica border in Canoas the department store loudspeaker started playing the adhaan, lol. Definitely a "wut, wait, wut?" moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
Looks like Palestinians and Israel are celebrating their Ramadan and Passover :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe
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