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What does your faith say about abstemiousness, if anything. Do you try to apply it?
Reading this after two glasses of rum, lol.Afaik, not much. Paganism as a whole is rather doctrine lite.
But the Havamal has this to say:
-11
A traveler cannot bring
a better burden on the road
than plenty of wisdom,
and he can bring
no worse a burden
than too much alcohol.
— 12
There is not as much good
as men claim there is
in alcohol for one’s well-being.
A man knows less
as he drinks more,
and loses more and more of his wisdom.
— 13
It’s as if a memory-stealing bird
flies overhead while you drink,
and steals your mind away.
I myself have been trapped
in that bird’s feathers,
when I drank at Gunnloth’s home.
— 14
I was drunk,
I was too drunk,
at Fjalar’s house.
The best kind of feast
is the one you go home from
with all your wits about you.
Reading this after two glasses of rum, lol.
It is, but for someone as small and inexperienced at drinking as me it can be enough lol.Hey, two glasses is moderate IMO
It is, but for someone as small and inexperienced at drinking as me it can be enough lol.
Do you mean just alcohol or food or other things?What does your faith say about abstemiousness, if anything. Do you try to apply it?
Food mostly. In Hinduism it's best expressed in the 9th yama, as mitahara, or restraint.Do you mean just alcohol or food or other things?
In that case, I don't think there is.Food mostly. In Hinduism it's best expressed in the 9th yama, as mitahara, or restraint.
It tells me that I have to get out my dictionary. And yes, that is exactly what I did.What does your faith say about abstemiousness, if anything. Do you try to apply it?
Wait, wait. Two glasses of straight rumHey, two glasses is moderate IMO
Rum and coke.Wait, wait. Two glasses of straight rum
Wait, wait. Two glasses of straight rum
Me too.It tells me that I have to get out my dictionary. And yes, that is exactly what I did.
It tells me that I have to get out my dictionary. And yes, that is exactly what I did.