part 353 whalers on the moon

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We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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[(Anonymous)]

which is counter-productive to the actual point of ramadan

o, tumblr. o u

[(Anonymous)]

how so?

/know nothing about it

[(Anonymous)]

Part of the general idea of fasting during Ramadan is to practice self-control, to resist temptation, to practice self-discipline, etc.

I mean, obviously, someone observing the fast probably wouldn't go looking in food porn tags. That is practicing self-discipline. But for others to change their habits in order for you to resist temptation - that feels contradictory.

[(Anonymous)]

/diff

As far as I'm aware, part of the significance of the fasting during Ramadan is about self restraint, self discipline, self control.

So it is rather ironic that one who wishes to practice self control would, rather than stopping themselves from temptation, ask other people to change their behaviors so as not to inadvertently tempt them. It's on the believer to exhibit the self control and resist or avoid temptation, it's not on the people around them.

[(Anonymous)]

Whoops, a minute late. But yeah, as above anon said.

/same anon you replied to /also to above anon

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I wasn't clear enough. I've never actually seen anyone who observes Ramadan ask food to be tagged--it's always been other people (who don't observe) giving "friendly reminders" for others to tag in case they have Muslim followers or in case people are browsing the /tagged part of the site.

Re: /same anon you replied to /also to above anon

[(Anonymous)]

/above-above anon

Oh, I see. Yes, I've seen that too.

It seems well-intentioned, but realllly not necessary, because of the above points. If someone isn't already tagging their stuff for categorization purposes, then, again - it's changing the habits for someone else, which is kind of against the point for the observer.