>>Fasting doesn't prove anything other than a need to feel like a good person.
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>So you say.
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>I think when performed as a ritual as a community a deeper meaning is instilled in the individual.
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>The sort of meaning that leads to a change in actions.
Hey! If we have a national day of feasting we can kill all the poor people.
I ain't skeert of nuttin eh?
Yikes! What was that?