Happy Ramadan coming up!

**panama hat** · 25-03-2023, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by misskit

^ Hmmm. I know a few Catholics in the US and have been out to eat with them while they are wearing the ashes on thier foreheads. Drinking margaritas, too. I am not sure many Catholics observe Lent by fasting these days.

As Willy said, it's not about fasting as such.

Originally Posted by Troy

Why do people go on about Ramadan but forget Lent?

Since we don't eat meat, I've given up chocolate for Lent

. . . but had a nice bottle of wine at a vineyard in an area just north of Auckland . . . Aaaaahhhh

**MarilynMonroe** · 25-03-2023, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by TTraveler

It always gets me when people do these sorts of fasts, but then come up with excuses to break them...God or whatever your higher power your doing this for knows your intentions, so stop making the excuses...do it or don't!

The muslims I've seen pray, do fast religiously during Ramadan. Even kids (at least grade 4 and up) pray and fast.

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.

**happynz** · 05-04-2023, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

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.

**reinvented** · 05-04-2023, 01:16 PM

^
im a big fan of them myself. absolutely beautiful when multiples are going off
perhaps not in a shit northern england town though

**reinvented** · 05-04-2023, 01:18 PM

but i suspect the point of ramadan is not to0 be happy, a lot like lent

**happynz** · 05-04-2023, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by reinvented

absolutely beautiful when multiples are going off

That's what I thought. Very atmospheric.

**cyrille** · 05-04-2023, 03:09 PM

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.

**hallelujah** · 05-04-2023, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by reinvented

^
im a big fan of them myself. absolutely beautiful when multiples are going off
perhaps not in a shit northern england town though

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.

The former is not an option I plan to repeat any time soon.

**cyrille** · 05-04-2023, 03:53 PM

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.

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.

**HermantheGerman** · 05-04-2023, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Which means you didn’t grow up Catholic.

Some are backwards (still), some dumb as shit, some are smart, and some are sneaky

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

**HermantheGerman** · 05-04-2023, 04:12 PM

^ Uuuups wrong beer

there you go.

Happy Ramadan Lamadana Ding Dong
Passover
Lent
or whatever you are wasting your time with.

**BLD** · 05-04-2023, 04:59 PM

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.

**MarilynMonroe** · 06-04-2023, 07:30 AM

^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.

**MarilynMonroe** · 06-04-2023, 07:32 AM

Originally Posted by HermantheGerman

Happy Ramadan Lamadana Ding Dong
Passover
Lent
or whatever you are wasting your time with.

Good Friday and Easter is this weekend......anyone celebrating?

**happynz** · 06-04-2023, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by cyrille

There was a moment of panic before I fully came around and realised...

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.

**HermantheGerman** · 07-04-2023, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Good Friday and Easter is this weekend......anyone celebrating?

Looks like Palestinians and Israel are celebrating their Ramadan and Passover

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