Fast on Thanksgiving?

I dont know why but I think it would be cool to fast on thanksgiving, like wouldnt that be more of showwing thanks than stuffing your face when other people are starving to death?

 

you got the right idea definatley. we stuff our faces with way more than we need everyday, and our body and internal organs would sure appreciate the rest and the break im sure. fasting is actually very healthy when done right, and also very fun once you start to feel it after the first couple hours. very much like getting high, have you ever done it before?
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is there a "proper" way to fast? im interrested...

 

No, I've never fasted, and what would you describe as the proper way to fast?

 

sounds like a good idea. i might fast then. 'cept my birthday is on thanksgiving. i dont like cake anyway.

 

my birthday party is on thanksgiving! (but my birthday is december 10th)

 

I'm gonna fast on Thanksgiving


ahaha..

 

first and foremost, eat more healthy right now. just make small simple easy steps, whole grains instead of white bread. brown rice instead of white. more organic foods... more fruits,some vegetables,more soy products for protein instead of animals(i recommend trying vanilla soymilk and cutting out as much dairy as possible, try some fake meat too), etc...and google and read the vegetarian+health forum and just learn and keep an eye open for new knowledge about health now and then..google also has a lot of fasting info... this is basically what i did and it worked just fine. it would be too intense on the body to cleanse so much at one time i would think...

now just go to my profile and check out my created threads and read the one on fasting in the psychadelics forum...

 

ahha, i am not even going to say anything

 

Exactly....

Simply not eating won't change a damn thing. That's why I don't understand why people fast and don't donate their time and energy instead.

 

At least that makes sense...donating money that would've been food...

 

Are you not gonna say anything burbot, because you dont KNOW what to say?

Are you laughing that im a promoter of a plant based diet which is the one thing common within the oldest living people in the world today??? you know, supporting torture and cruelty to animals isnt very jesus or christian like, but im willing to bet your not very jesus like at all. pretty sinful if you ask me,torturing the helpless mindlessly, and then trying to mock those who advocate not doing it for the many many reasons there are to do so... and you know, gluttony is also a deady sin, something your weight seems to tell me your familiar with. your spiritualities a joke man

BR, people fast for spiritual+health reasons, and to alter their consciousness. many do it for the same reason they do drugs..and many people of different religions do it because they realize it brings you closer to the great spirit or your soul, whatever you call the unphysical forces of the universe. it also has the potential to lower your tolerance for food BIGTIME. i can get filled up on an nice big organic apple alone after a days fasting and not be very hungry at all the next day. shrinks your stomach, and your ego, something we could all use a little more of..and something that would go a long way if we all did it more.

it can make you require more nutritious food, but no where NEAR as much. whiiich equals money and helping with world hunger, if thats your trip...

 

Hate to be a bastard but fasting in itself wont actually change anything in the third world.

Surley it'd be better to have fun on thanks giving and then try and change things for the better.

 

well, first off...woah, what did i do to you to accuse me of being "unChristian"--wow--i am willing to bet you don't know who i am at all

the reason i thought it was kinda funny [and then didnt want to reply so i didnt have to get into an argument] was because this is your admittidly uneducated reply, where you give fairly specific health adive...

also the "try fake meat" thing was slightly *giggle giggle* in my mind

ahha- i am commiting the sin of gluttony? what basis do you have for this, that i enjoy eating a balanced diet containing red meats and fish [i do eat chickens and pork, but i am not the biggest fan of those], and that i am now an overeater?

look, i dropped down from 160[estimate] to 112 lbs when i was really sick with Crohns Disease, my intestines were quite inflammed and my body had to struggle to absorb nutrients. My diet also dropped sharply and i fund it hard eatign a decent sized meal. right now i am 143 lbs [i wish i was 150, and am trying to gain a little weight by eating more nuts and stuff liek that, hi calorie diets] i really had to work to get my weirght up to 150 pound and it took a long time--right now my arms really need more muscle on them [which also tells me i need to excercise more too] but yeah



look at this kid, does this look like a glutton to you?

ahha--now i really have an excuse to laugh

 

alright kids no fighting

 

yes mother

<joke> but she started it </joke>

 

fuck no. i wouldnt miss my ma's pecan pie for nothin.

 

Why would anyone fast on Thanksgiving? It doesnt make sense. Thanksgiving celebrates man's ability to produce. Thanksgiving is a testament to the creation of wealth.

We can only consume what we produce. We are celebrating the productivity of America.

Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday like so many people strive to make it out to be. We should not be thankful to a divine being for our wealth. To say that we are recipients of God's hard work and not our own is an insult to anyone who's ever worked hard for something on thier own. The values of Thanksgiving are not faith and charity, but thought and production.

You say that we should fast on Thanksgiving because other people in the world are starving. Thats not what Thanksgiving is about. Its a holiday celebrating hard work and reaping the benefits of ones labors.

"Come Thanksgiving Day, when some success-hating commentator condemns America for being the world's leading consumer, tell him that he is evading the underlying fact: that this country is the world's leading producer."