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I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don't eat beef. It's not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn't raised very religious, I didn't go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it's advantages).

But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don't care that I don't eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?

edit: I like religious music, religious temples (Churches, Gurudwara's, Temples & Mosques in Iran), religious paintings and art sometimes. I know for a fact that the only art you could produce is those days was indeed religious and the greatest artists needed to make something religious to be funded, that we will never know what those artists would have produced in the absence of religion, but yeah, religious art is good nonetheless.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Exmormon here, going on 20 years now. Don't miss pretty much anything from it except some of the music. Ignore the Republican-looking motherfuckers here and enjoy this: https://youtu.be/WwYm_mKQ3Gs

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me it's funeral potatoes, or half the desert dishes from various potlucks that would happen in the chapel gym.

Jokes on them though, all those recipes are posted online now! Don't need a temple recommend for that shit lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a moment I was worried that "funeral potatoes" was some euphemism for something there that I couldn't identify

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You may be thinking of soaking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Only true friends will jump-hump for you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just seeing urban dictionary in the link makes me worry

Edit: Welp, I actually recognize this. And now this will stay in my mind in a funeral-potatoes-context

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, even though I went on a mission and have tons of family from Utah/AZ/Nevada/Cali, I'm on the East Coast so a lot of LDS culture like that didn't sink in. I would honestly probably participate in ex-mo stuff more if I had to deal with it on a daily basis, but I'm fine mostly pretending it doesn't exist!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Osmonds were Mormons weren't they, which I guess makes this banger a Mormon choon:

https://youtu.be/iXcj8dFOd1E?feature=shared

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep! Imagine Dragons is also kind of Mormon, but has very much butt heads with the church on their LGBTQ stance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://youtu.be/WwYm_mKQ3Gs

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.