>tfw forced to fast this week because religion
RIP gains and calories, you will be dearly missed
>>36924599
>falling for the imaginary friend meme
Whatever deity you are trying to please wants you to make gains instead. Go in peace.
>>36924599
orthodox ?
>>36924607
> Atheist meme
>>36924607
I keep telling myself this but as long as I live in my parent's home for the holidays, I have to eat only their stuff. It's a pain, being a vegan is cancer.
>>36924599
you're not forced to do anything
>>36924599
If God does not want you to make gains, then he is not God.
What religion?
>>36924647
yes!
>>36924599
Satan wants you to get those gains, and enjoy the carnal pleasures of endless sloots
>>36924599
Disavow your religion, bitch. God is a weak delusion. It's every man for himself in this world, and men are but animals.
I will tear you to fucking shreds.
Ain't no better sacrifice to the God's than your gains
>>36924599
Mate I have to fast for a month at june. It is summer, so cutting will be easier then. And I am not allowed to eat and drink, so workout has to be lower intensity and no cardio
>>36924670
see
>>36924647
>>36924669
This is what I want to tell my old man, but he doesn't care for it.
>>36924675
Then man up brate, be strong and go on, fast strengthen our minds so we can proceed to strengthen our body
>>36924660
You are the memiest of the memers. Let me guess, you also nofap?
>religion? Heh, I used to believe in fairy tales too. Then I became an adult.
>>36924709
Muslim?
>>36924721
Hey good job. You guessed it.
I'd rather never fap or have sex then not eat meat again. This is suffering.
>>36924731
I can't tell if this is supposed to mock me or fedoralords.
>>36924599
I'm doing it too, God will preserve our gains, srsly tho other than glycogen you only lose less than a pound of muscle during Easter fast, everything else is fat, water retention and all that shit that was sitting in your colon. Continuing to exercise helps too.
I wonder if Zyzz fasted, I know he was agnostic but he came from a Orthodox family.
>>36924816
I'm so happy to hear that. It doesn't feel like it but I'll just bear it in mind.
>>36924719
It literally strengthens our minds, fasting cleans all the shit out of the cells in your body, especially in the brain, even if you're not a religiousfag you should fast occasionally
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3106288/
I went to a Greek orthodox church recently, the service was amazing and I want to join but I'm not Greek in any way. I hear that I'll forever be "other-ed" if I'm not the same ethnicity. Be 100% honest, do you orthodox bros see that at all?
>>36924867
exactly.
thank you for this source
>>36924877
From my point of view, it would be a huge compliment if someone decided to join our religion, even though I am not that religious myself
>>36924675
Me too breh but I'm not fasting, just refraining from meat on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Then Sunday is the day of gains
>>36924877
Literally no religion rejects anybody except homosexuals and drunks. Be on your best behavior and all is fine.
Why do non-animal products have to taste so damn bland.
Report frogposters.
>>36924861
Like I said you think you're turning into a skelly but really it's 99% fat, glycogen and water, after 18-36 hours you'll enter ketosis, ketones are hard core diuretics so you'll piss out 2-3kg of water, around that time I usually stop feeling hungry and miserable and start feeling energetic and semi-euphoric due to dat beta-hydroxy-butarate. One day when "not fat just bulking" I want to do the full 40 day fast like Christ.
>>36924913
That's nice to hear. I really like the emphasis on mystery and meditation as opposed to the more dogmatic approach taken by the Catholic church. I'll go a few more times and actually talk to some people next time.
>>36924938
It's not about rejection, it's about out-grouping. I was going to a local Korean church for a while but eventually couldn't take the obvious weirdness it was creating. Everyone was nice and polite, but it reminded me of the feeling of being a foreigner in another country. Humans are tribal animals, and that's OK I guess, but I'd rather be in a group that feels I'm part of the tribe.
congrats on belonging to the most based religion
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>>36924599
>fasting
say goodbye to those gains
f for op's gains
>>36924967
Thanks!
>>36924698
>nothin personell... kid....
>>36924877
Not really, I'm not Greek either, these days lots of Orthodox members have Western European names because of intermarriage, everyone will just assume your mummy was Orthodox and your daddy converted, not to mention for the last 10 years Orthodox has by far the highest conversion rate of any branch of Christianity so you probably won't be the only convert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tavener
>>36924698
classy post. well meme'd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x14IJrpoBGE
>>36925015
Happy easter brother, I'm Catholic but my best buddy is Serbian Orthodox
![That+s+ackshually+bbc+s+april+fools+joke+about+penguins+that+fly+_77b75153b968d8d73d3547c91b4a3fd9[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/BOrT7In.png "That+s+ackshually+bbc+s+april+fools+joke+about+penguins+that+fly+_77b75153b968d8d73d3547c91b4a3fd9[1].png")
>>36924938
>Literally no religion rejects anybody except homosexuals and drunks
Gnostics like Mandaeans and Yazidi tend to have a "go away and leave us the fuck alone" philosophy towards conversion, they're fascinating tho
>>36925111
Happy Easter to you too. Any thoughts on your Pope wanting to reunite Catholics and Orthodox after almost a thousand years of IRL shitposting about it?
>>36924733
Yeah
>>36925045
Wow, Tavener's music is beautiful. Thanks bro
https://youtu.be/h-mSmEfLmZc
>>36925062
axaxxaxaxaxaxaxax
>>36925183
I pray that it will occur at some point, although there are many doctrinal reasons that make it unlikely. For the moment I'm jut glad to see good relations between the two.
>>36925111
I'm guessing you're not a Croatian Catholic though? It would be nice if you were. :<
>mfw all I have been eating was pb and js and some dark chocalate this entire week
it makes me shit hard but i am def nott eating some disgusting ass veggies. i get my vitamins and shit from pills now cuz fuck veggies.
man i hate fasting
>>36925242
French m8.
>>36925232
If there was ever a time when it could happen I think it's now, if not we'll probably be waiting another millennia.
I'd imagine that both Catholics and Orthodox would transition to a doctrine very similar to that of Eastern Catholics(who are already very Orthodoxy in practice, they even have wives), it helps that the last leader of the Orthodoxy(the Metropolitan) died centuries ago so it wouldn't be hard for the Pope to step in and fill that role
>>36925262
You make it worse eating shit like that IMO, I feel best when I eat as little as possible and just chew on a little celery before bed
>>36925346
That would be best, although I sometimes feel this Pope acts too instinctively and occasionally clumsily. I'm not sure if many Orthodox would wish to attach themslevs to that
>>36925409
Yeah, no offense senpai but tbqh the current Pope is kind of a cuck, that being said he's only going to be on the Papal throne for another 10-20 years max, reuniting East and West would (hopefully) be forever
Russian orthodox here. Fasting cleans your mind and body (at least that's what I feel from it). Plus it actually makes me happy to stick to such an old tradition.
Also get to experience pic related. Feelsgoodman
>>36924784
if you are an atheist, you are a fedoralord
>>36924607
This. You don't even deserve to make it.
>>36925707
What if I wasn't raised to be religious? What other fucking choice than being an atheist do I have?
>>36925789
>no atheist has ever converted to religion
>>36925707
What if you simply don't give a fuck?
>>36924731
its funny religious people always use this argument because they have literally nothing else to say
>>36925890
Okay, which?
And why? What's the point in pretending to believe?
>>36924599
>following a pseudo-pagan sect that goes against God
While you're doing that fast, pick up a bible.
>>36926232
>one kind of heretic un-ironically telling another heretic that he's wrong
kek
>>36926274
>heretic
Do you celebrate pagan festivals like Christmas and Easter ? Do you follow the unbiblical Trinity doctrine ? Do you believe baptism is for remission of sins(Acts 2:38) or a public profession of faith ? Do you believe that once saved, always saved ? Do you believe that infant baptism is not wrong ?
So many questions I could ask, but these we can do.
>>36926345
I'm not a Christian, so none of this applies to me.
I just find it funny when people who aren't strict biblical literalists tell other Christians that their interpretation is wrong.
>>36925553
oh shit iktf. can confirm it feels good and it makes everyone laugh.
>>36926232
>being a christian
>telling people they're going against God
>current year
>not believing there is no God but Allah and Muhammed is his messenger
>>36926225
Just because you don't believe there's a bearded guy living in the clouds and a guy with a pitchfork living underground doesn't mean that you don't believe, the sort of pseudo-Christianity that you see in public is nothing but an incredibly dumbed down basic for the uneducated masses.
Read the bible(keeping in mind that much of the original teaching of Christ has been lost with time and other parts are basically fanfiction written by the Paul and the apostles), read the Gnostic gospels, read the works of St Augustine and then make up your own mind as to what Church, if any that you want to become a part of. The teachings of the bible can also be read as a secular work of philosophy, not just as a work of God
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
HEATHENS OUT
>>36926399
>I just find it funny when people who aren't strict biblical literalists tell other Christians that their interpretation is wrong.
Because the bible clearly in the second commandment to not bow down before images and statues. Yet we have entire "churches" and people bowing down before image and statues, even going as far as kissing them and praying to them. The don't take the bible literally, don't take the bible in any way.
>>36925990
I'm not religous, and there's no argument to make.
What, are you going to objectively prove that someone doesn't believe in something? That objectively good practices like abstaining from drugs and alcohol are bad if you do it because you're religious?
