why does sri lanka ban the selling of meat on full moon days?
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Just another pagan tradition!
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In Australia only some states still have daylight savings. Queensland got rid of it for a number of reasons. One being that the farmers complained it was upsetting the cows timetable.
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the price of the commodoties in any country is affected mainly by the law of supply and demand. what it afected most are the lumber cause it will take many years to grow trees,next is medication cause the sea is containated by the pathogenic organisms coming from the victims of tsunamih. food supply will be resolved by the agricultural sectors of other regions in your archipelago.
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Pongal - The four day harvest festival of Tamil Nadu\n\nPongal is the first festival beginning off each new year in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As the dates for this festival are calculated by the solar calander (ie. Western), the dates of January 13-16 never change. Each day of this festival has a special significance, however, it is celebrated more grandly in the villages, while the city folk mainly celebrate on the second day only.\n\n The first day of the festival is called Bhogi. On Bhogi all people clean out their homes from top to bottom, and collect all unwanted goods. In the evening, people will light bonfires and burn what can be burnt. In the village where I celebrated Pongal, the people lived in mud huts with thatched roves. The porches of these homes was fully covered by the thatch material, but somewhat elevated from the ground. This part of the home was taken apart and reconstructed on this day along with the front section of the walkway in front of their home (pictured to the left). Both the porch and ground in front of their home was solid mud which had dried. So, to undo this, they put in water to soften it, and dug it out and rebuilt it. After rebuilding it, they took cow dung and added water to make a paste and spread this mixture evenly over the new fixtures to coat and sanitize them. This mixture was also spread on the floor of the hut, on which we slept at night. As they don't have beds, we slept on the floor of the mud hut with a mat between our bodies and the floor. Although, the mixture had been spread on the floor, it did not at all smell fowl in any way. In addition, the family I stayed with installed a new ceiling fan for Pongal.\n\n\nPutting Kolum\n \n\nPreparing the stove for cooking. \nThe second day of the festival, Surya Pongal, is the day on which the celebrations actually begins, is the first day of the Tamil month Thai. On this day, Surya, the sun God is worshipped and women will wake early on this day to create elaborate kolum on the grounds in front of their doorway or home. Kolums are created with colored rice flour placed on the ground carefully by using one's hand. The picture shown to the right shows the beginnings of this. The women in the picture took several hours to finish that kolum. All people will wear their new dresses and use the new utensils or household items which replace the ones discarded the previous day. On this day the new rice is collected and cooked in pots until they over flow. It is this overflowing which means Pongal. This overflowing of rice is a joyous occasion, and the children and adults as well will shout out 'Pongal-o Pongal!' Children will dance and make music to the tune of these words. As far as I know, the words have no real meaning but an expression of happiness that the new harvest is here and we should enjoy it! The rice is cooked and prepared as a dish called Pongal, which is rice with dhal and sugar. This Pongal variety is called venpongal, ven meaning white. Another variety is also prepared with dhal and jaggery (sweet), called chakra1pongal, chakrai meaning sweet. To accompany the venpongal, people eat brinjal (eggplant) sambar (stew), vadai, idli, and spicy accompaniments. This is one of my favorite meals!! \n\n\nChildren wearing new clothes.\n \n\nView from top of temple steps.\n \nThe third day is called Maatu Pongal, maatu meaning cattle. This day is devoted to paying homage to cattle. Cows and Bulls are decorated with paint and bells and people pray to them. In fact, in my Pongal experience, the cattle were decorated with bells on their neck, and kum kum placed on their head, and we (My friend, her family and I.) paid respect to them by bending down, like praying in temple, and touching their feet and foreheads, followed by an aarthi (showing fire to the object of praise) and offering the cattle prasadam (food offering, in this case, pongal).. In some villages in south India, there are bull fights of varying types. These
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I think this is individual. Those visiting Thailand or Sri Lanka during the tsuami had a horrible nightmare. I also think it would be a nightmare for a woman to visit an Islamic country since they restrict women so much.
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when it is full moon, the lunar influences are strongest\nit is TRUE that human behaviour is affected,\nthe strongest effect is on people of zodiac cancer as their ruling planet is moon
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May be because thursday is related with yellow colour. This colour is related with puja to Vishnu.\n\nI am not sure either. But Termric boiled in milk tastes fine and is good for health. Hindusism has incorporated many healthy habits in religius practice. Many revered tree are just grand ma's medicene. Yellow milk is not drunk by all hindus. At the most it is a custom in Maharashtra or in the family of your friend.\n\nI am a Hindu and only time I was given termeric milk to drink was after an accident and I was hurt. It has healing features. Many people drink it just for healty life.
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1 Cor 10:25 - 1 Cor 10:27 (NIV) 25Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, 26for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” 27If some unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. \n\nRom 14:20 - Rom 14:21 (NIV) 20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble. 21It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother to fall.\n\nCol 2:16 - Col 2:17 (NIV) 16Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.\n\nThere's another one in Acts I can't recall. In any event, when Christianity was new, it was having major problems finding new adherents, so circumcision, kosher laws and other distinctly Jewish traditions had to go in order to win over the hearts and minds of the pagan near east. The rest is history.\n\nKashrus, or kosher laws only apply to Jews, they have never applied to anyone else and Jews do not contend anyone elkse need live by them. There is nothing inherently wrong with pork, it's the world most consumed meat. The laws specifically state they are spiritual, not health related. Leviticus 20:25.
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A traditional British Christmas involves maxing the credit cards buying lots of unnecessary presents for people you don't like, buying lots of unhealthy food which is then either undercooked and causes salmonella poisoning or overcooked and elicits unwelcome advice from his mother, the rest of the family then all fall asleep until some poor hostess has done all the washing up, before waking up in a bad mood to drink sufficient alcohol to cause the family equivalent of World War III before someone is arrested and dragged off to the cells.  Why would you want to give up your peaceful Buddhist way of life to join in such a debacle?
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< I think it's because it is healthier,some people just don't believe in killing animals,even for food,and for some it is because of religious beliefs.Some religions don't believe in eating meat.
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Slaughterhouses wouldn't exist were it not for the demand for meat.  It must be hellish to work in an abottoir, and, in the attached link, is depicted ways in which societies have kept it under cover and its employees have been condemned.\n\nIf it is any consolation, there are many societies in which efforts are made to make this as painless as possible.
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Yes, when there's a full moon in Txas the moon will also be full in India.  The phases of the moon depend on the angle between the earth, moon and sun, and this angle changes as the moon orbits the earth.\n\nWhile the moon may look like it's in different parts of the sky, the phase that you see on any day will be the same phase that everyone else in the world sees that day.
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Dawn of New Year in Sri Lanka Time:\nFriday 14 th April 2006 at 06:49\n\nPunyakalaya (Time for religious activities)\nThe period between 00:25 AM on 14th April to 01:13 AM 14th April 2005 is deemed the Punyakalaya and it is advisable to give up all work before 00.25 AM. on 14th April and engage in meritorious acts\n\nPreparing Meals "Ahara Peseema"\nApril 14th Friday at 07:14 am\nAuspicious direction South,\nAuspicious cloth multicoloured,\nPrepare a "Kiri Bath" , Oil Cakes and a delicacy mixed with "Thala"\n\nStarting Work, Transactions and Taking Meals "Ahara Anubavaya, Weda Alleema ha Ganudenu Kerreema"\nApril 14th Friday at 08:24 AM\nAuspicious direction South,\nAuspicious cloth multicoloured\n\nApplying Oil "Hisa tel Gaama"\nApril 15th at 07:39 am (Morning)\nAuspicious herbs, Banyan Leaves on you head and "Karanda" Leaves at your feet,\nApply oil and "Nanu" Mixed with Banyan Leaves\nAuspicious direction South,\nAuspicious cloth Blue mixed cloth\n\nGoing to Work\nApril 20th Thursday at 6:35 AM (Morning)\nAuspicious direction East,\nAuspicious cloth Gold Coloured
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Full moon is supposed to be the 5th of November.
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Nobody "cancelled" it - The Roman Catholic Church just didn't include it on their official calendar of feastdays that year.  And not because of consumerism, but because of confusion concerning its historical origins.\n\nhttp://www.americancatholic.org/Features/ValentinesDay/
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the Tamils have no choice but 2 revolt.The Sri Lankan gov is racist and tortures them.i heard there was a time wen they even killed the tamils and sold their meat.I don noe bout malaysia but in s'pore we r multiracial and united we(tamils) don get bullied by others.
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First, Catholics are not allowed to eat meat products as a discipline but if you eat meat nothing bad will happen to you.  It is to prepare one for spiritual battle.  It is a stripping down as a wrestler would do.  We also give alms to further help us to do battle and pray constantly to prepare as a warrior would for battle.  If you do it, you are better off, if you don't do it you just give up the benefits. Consider it a normative suggestion, but not a rule (just to clarify). The practice arose because people were fasting anyway and it is destructive for some. Therefore the bishops chose to regulate it, there are people who are not to fast. When God entered into the covenant with Noah, he gave mankind permission to eat animal products. Since that means in Paradise we were vegetarians, ancient Christians saw this as a preparation for the Resurrection and the restoration of Paradise. Because of poor nutrition in the West, the western bishops reduced the fast requirements and permitted fish on Friday in the western countries.  Eastern Christians still maintain the stricter fast.\n\nCatholics do not fast on celebratory days, such as the day Patrick returned home to the Father, or on the celebration of the Annunciation.\n\nThere are extensive passages on fasting and almsgiving in the old and new testament.  Jesus certainly fasted and Catholics are called to imitate Jesus to prepare ourselves for the evil which is still loose in the world.\n\nIt is a threefold responsibility fast, give alms and pray.  It is dangerous not to do all three.  And, since you are saving money on food, you have extra to give.