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So you converted to Islam of your own free will, not born into it ?
Interested as to why anyone would do that or take up any religion, especially if it means being hungry for a month, not being allowed to have a beer, bacon and many of the other limiting factors inherent in organised religion ?
Interested as to why anyone would do that or take up any religion, especially if it means being hungry for a month, not being allowed to have a beer, bacon and many of the other limiting factors inherent in organised religion ?
J4CKO said:
So you converted to Islam of your own free will, not born into it ?
Interested as to why anyone would do that or take up any religion, especially if it means being hungry for a month, not being allowed to have a beer, bacon and many of the other limiting factors inherent in organised religion ?
Don't really know what brought me to it to be exact. (No I am not on the terror list).Interested as to why anyone would do that or take up any religion, especially if it means being hungry for a month, not being allowed to have a beer, bacon and many of the other limiting factors inherent in organised religion ?
I now have turkey bacon with my poached eggs and toast
When you pray you feel good.
After fasting you feel like you've succeeded something.
I've always been kind of Agnostic because you can't prove anything. Science can't prove there is no God and vice versa.
Everyone has their own views and beliefs but this one felt right for me.
Shame so many mentalists give it a bad name but we really aren't all bad!
GravelMachineGun said:
J4CKO said:
So you converted to Islam of your own free will, not born into it ?
Interested as to why anyone would do that or take up any religion, especially if it means being hungry for a month, not being allowed to have a beer, bacon and many of the other limiting factors inherent in organised religion ?
Don't really know what brought me to it to be exact. (No I am not on the terror list).Interested as to why anyone would do that or take up any religion, especially if it means being hungry for a month, not being allowed to have a beer, bacon and many of the other limiting factors inherent in organised religion ?
I now have turkey bacon with my poached eggs and toast
When you pray you feel good.
After fasting you feel like you've succeeded something.
I've always been kind of Agnostic because you can't prove anything. Science can't prove there is no God and vice versa.
Everyone has their own views and beliefs but this one felt right for me.
Shame so many mentalists give it a bad name but we really aren't all bad!
If you get something from it then fair enough, just cant get my head round actually taking on a religion voluntarily, and I am not very good at growing a beard.
J4CKO said:
No I know that all Muslims aren't bad, have some good mates who are Muslim, but they were born into it so its kind of ingrained.
If you get something from it then fair enough, just cant get my head round actually taking on a religion voluntarily, and I am not very good at growing a beard.
I shave all the time!If you get something from it then fair enough, just cant get my head round actually taking on a religion voluntarily, and I am not very good at growing a beard.
Can't stand facial hair.
Worth pointing you're still allowed to practice if you don't have a beard
GravelMachineGun said:
Surprised no one has made this thread yet so here we go!
Everyone prepared?
This is my second one since converting and I found the first one rather easy tbh!
Do you think drinking a weight gainer at 0300 would be okay to tie me over for the day? Has around 1200cals in it.
Fair do'sEveryone prepared?
This is my second one since converting and I found the first one rather easy tbh!
Do you think drinking a weight gainer at 0300 would be okay to tie me over for the day? Has around 1200cals in it.
But just recently, Muslim, Islam, ISIS, all seem to be tarred with the same brush, and doesn't seem to be the most favoured religion recently............. "WAY OF LIFE"
I guess it's good for people to sit back and quietly re-analyse life every now and then. Either pray to your chosen deity, meditate, or take the scenic route back from work on a motorbike (my preferred method!). I can see the appeal of the structure of religion for some people, but as an ex-churchgoer I'm not going back!
GravelMachineGun said:
Science can't prove there is no God
Logically the burden of proof falls on those making the positive assertion. Just saying. Hope it works out Ok for you anyway; the month involving the shortest nights strikes me as an, unfortunate, time to be trying to fast from dawn until dusk.
This will be my 11th Ramadan living in the Middle East.
Did a booze run on Saturday so we're fully stocked up and I did a big food shop earlier today.
Yup, I'm prepared.
I basically just ignore it and pity those that gorge themselves during Iftar when I know that they couldn't give two f
ks for the values of Ramadan. They're pathetic.
Did a booze run on Saturday so we're fully stocked up and I did a big food shop earlier today.
Yup, I'm prepared.
I basically just ignore it and pity those that gorge themselves during Iftar when I know that they couldn't give two f
ks for the values of Ramadan. They're pathetic.GravelMachineGun said:
Dromedary66 said:
GravelMachineGun said:
This is my second one since converting and I found the first one rather easy tbh!
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