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  • Ramadhaan fever
     OP - May 18, 2014, 04:07 PM
    So ramadaan is comming up, the claws of muslims are getting temporarily sharper.

    How do you guys cope with families and friends over this trying period, it will be my first as a kaffir
    "I Knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then." Alice in wonderland

    "This is the only heaven we have how dare you make it a hell" Dr Marlene Winell
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #1 - May 18, 2014, 04:09 PM
    Stay away from family.
    I'm going to fast this year anyways, I've been meaning to try out intermittent fasting. I'm going to document how it impacts my bodybuilding.

    Ironically, the "cleansing" part of Ramadan is lost since many Muslims engorge.
    My mind runs, I can never catch it even if I get a head start.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #2 - May 18, 2014, 04:10 PM
    This will be my first "Ramadan" as a vegan.
    My mind runs, I can never catch it even if I get a head start.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #3 - May 18, 2014, 04:28 PM
    Quote from: confusedagno on May 18, 2014, 04:07 PM
    So ramadaan is comming up, the claws of muslims are getting temporarily sharper.

    How do you guys cope with families and friends over this trying period, it will be my first as a kaffir


    As I have told you before that my family is secular and liberal so i won't have any problem. Even as a Muslim my parents never put much pressure on me about fasting. The highest number of days I had fasted was five, that too not on consecutive days! When it comes to fasting I was the worst Muslim. I felt embarrassed to go to school where my classmates and friends would always inquire whether I was fasting or not, how many days I did it and why I wasn't fasting (I didn't lie about it much), so on and so forth. It seemed that all the days of the month of Ramadan were Fridays as people got very devout. My ex-boyfriend even refused to talk romantically to me on the phone or meet me during the day during those times Grin!
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #4 - May 18, 2014, 04:41 PM
    in my mums house ramadaan is taken VERY seriously, from reading extra quraan, listening to lectures, making zikr, making changes in your life, learning. Its the whole nine yards n i am for the first time in my life dreading ramadaan, but luckily i will be out most of the time at work
    "I Knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then." Alice in wonderland

    "This is the only heaven we have how dare you make it a hell" Dr Marlene Winell
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #5 - May 18, 2014, 04:48 PM
    Don't you have your own apartment yet Confused?

    Just stay there, fuck what they think.
    My mind runs, I can never catch it even if I get a head start.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #6 - May 18, 2014, 04:50 PM
    Quote from: Rubaya on May 18, 2014, 04:28 PM
    My ex-boyfriend even refused to talk romantically to me on the phone or meet me during the day during those times Grin!


    Not too devout to have a girlfriend during Ramadan, but too devout to acknowledge it? Grin
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #7 - May 18, 2014, 04:50 PM
    @Qtian- Sometimes conservative families can be very dominating. You can't just ignore them. This will lead to bickering and tension. At worse punishment for the disobedient child.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #8 - May 18, 2014, 04:52 PM
    child - the fuck indian mentality. I am going to spend this ramadaan becoming a devout disbeliever
    "I Knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then." Alice in wonderland

    "This is the only heaven we have how dare you make it a hell" Dr Marlene Winell
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #9 - May 18, 2014, 04:54 PM
    @Rubaya.
    I know, my family aren't exactly liberal lol.

    If you don't want to do something, don't let appeals to tradition coerce you ,this is my humble opinion. However others may have dispositions which deter them from making said decisions.
    My mind runs, I can never catch it even if I get a head start.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #10 - May 18, 2014, 04:55 PM
    Quote from: confusedagno on May 18, 2014, 04:52 PM
    child - the fuck indian mentality. I am going to spend this ramadaan becoming a devout disbeliever


    Luckily I'm only half Pakistani, I wouldn't be able to handle the full culture LOL.
    Even half Pakistani is not an accurate description in my opinion, I'm British.
    My mind runs, I can never catch it even if I get a head start.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #11 - May 18, 2014, 05:34 PM
    Like last year, I will be spending this Ramadan sneakily eating food and drinking water throughout the day so as not to play havoc with my blood sugar levels. (is it any wonder British Asians suffer so badly from diabetes and other weight related health problems?)
    Also, I don't like eating food so late in the day. So while everyone else gorge themselves on lots of food due to forced hunger, I will have to pretend that I have had my share, but secretly store it away to eat later the next day. I might have to invest in a mini fridge that I can hide somewhere so the food doesn't go off in this hot weather.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #12 - May 18, 2014, 09:21 PM
    1) go to the doctors.
    2) Tell them that I am attempting to quit smoking.
    3) get a prescription for valium and chantix.
    4) sleep.

    Job done!
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #13 - May 18, 2014, 09:52 PM
    Ah don't remind me . . . Will spend it by eating and drinking in daylight hours also encourage weaker willed Muslims around me not to over do it and generally try and plant seeds of doubt.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #14 - May 20, 2014, 05:57 PM
    This one will be my first as a non-Muslim as well. Last year I was a model believer, for the whole month I fasted and refrained from sexual pleasure; which was hard, I went to taraweeh nearly every day as well, Regent's Park (London Central) Mosque. This year I will make sure I'm not at home that much, I'll probably try and work more shifts although people at work still think I'm Muslim as well. That and go to the gym. But I don't know about gorging on the food my fasting mother was slaving away making. I'll devise some sort of plan though.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #15 - May 20, 2014, 05:59 PM
    I have been devout every ramadhaan till now, so it is all strange to me now
    "I Knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then." Alice in wonderland

    "This is the only heaven we have how dare you make it a hell" Dr Marlene Winell
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #16 - May 20, 2014, 06:52 PM
    I like that Alice in Wonderland quote. Just think of it as a regular month, despite everything going on around you. What is the date of it by the way?
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #17 - May 20, 2014, 06:56 PM
    Quote from: FinalForesight on May 20, 2014, 06:52 PM
    I like that Alice in Wonderland quote

    Thought you were addressing me for a second.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #18 - May 20, 2014, 07:06 PM
    I like that quote as well actually.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #19 - May 20, 2014, 07:08 PM
    Quote from: FinalForesight on May 20, 2014, 06:52 PM
    I like that Alice in Wonderland quote. Just think of it as a regular month, despite everything going on around you. What is the date of it by the way?


    sometime in mid-june
    "I Knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then." Alice in wonderland

    "This is the only heaven we have how dare you make it a hell" Dr Marlene Winell
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #20 - May 20, 2014, 07:21 PM
    By my calculations, it should start on 28th June. Give or take a day or two.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #21 - May 20, 2014, 07:34 PM
    I feel for you all who have to live through Ramadan as apostates. I lived through one Ramadan and it was horrible with fasting for almost 20 hours a day. I did drink throughout the day because my ex wasn't around, but couldn't eat much without risking getting caught. The whole concept of fasting and whatnot throughout Ramadan is a big farce, the hypocrisy and shallowness is really disgusting. I never felt the "magic Ramadan feeling" as a Muslim, and felt bad because I had some reservations for the whole thing deep down (but wouldn't dare to utter any of it!).
    "The healthiest people I know are those who are the first to label themselves fucked up." - three
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #22 - May 20, 2014, 10:21 PM
    Damn... I am enjoying this ice cold water atm that I know I'd have to settle for warm in a month.. wacko
    I'm in same boat as all of you, and the most ironic thing of all is that I became an apostate last year during Ramadan.
    Although the food...
    Is good.
    Just like Johnny Flynn said, the breath I've taken and the one I must to go on.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #23 - May 20, 2014, 10:57 PM
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  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #24 - May 21, 2014, 07:49 AM
    I just avoid family members during the day and keep snacks in my room. I don't eat much anyways.  piggy. It used to be much worse when I smoked because I couldn't stop and it reeks.
    "Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."
    هذا من فضل جدي
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #25 - May 21, 2014, 08:32 AM
    My family keeps fast but i will avoid eating in front of them (they know i am a kafir lol).

    Although, i do miss the ramadan food back in UAE. the best food in my view.
    "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." ― Frank Zappa
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #26 - May 28, 2014, 05:47 PM
    Urgh, I'm dreading this!

    I remember last Ramadan I was fasting the first day and I always get these fucked up headaches the first couple of days (due to water depletion and coffee withdrawal). After Iftar it was so bad, I threw up and I remember thinking: why am I suffering so much for something I don't even believe anymore? And that was just a tiny voice in the back of my head. Now that I've been honest with myself and I've accepted my apostasy, it's going to be even harder to fast. I'm wondering if I can eat and still look and behave as if I have been fasting all day.

    I'm not fucking going to taraweeh prayers anymore, though. I remember feeling really guilty because I never liked taraweeh. I just went there and used the hour and a half to ponder on life or plan what I was going to eat as soon as I got home. Luckily, taraweeh is not fardh and my parents never bug me about it, so I will just say I will clean up the dishes (damn Ramadan dishes) and stay at home.
    The future is full of thrilling possibilities.
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #27 - May 28, 2014, 07:13 PM
    Isn't the first rule of cooking taste everything?  How does that work for the cook making the meals for after sunset?
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #28 - May 28, 2014, 07:22 PM
    ...I know I'm going to be booed out of the thread for this, but I'll just say it. I like Ramadan! Yes, it was annoying when I had to fast, but I plan on doing it this year, voluntarily for the first time in a while! Terror couch
  • Ramadhaan fever
     Reply #29 - May 28, 2014, 07:28 PM
    Yes, finally! Something I don't agree with Lua.

    Ramadhan sucks, and I hate fasting.
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