Comments on: Q&A: When ever you drink water from a refrigerator and their is a pure water filtering system on it…?

By: Darwinall

Darwinall — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:01:53 +0000

The point of a fast that does not allow the drinking of water during a certain period is to give up the *water*, not to give up whatever else may be in the water. The sacrifice is in suffering thru the thirst. The discipline is in making yourself voluntarily deny a normal satisfying need. The contaminants that may be in a glass of water have nothing to do with it – the point isn’t to worry whether the water contains bits of food, which you are also fasting from. It’s about the water itself.

P.S. A little of this fasting goes a long way. Don’t let weird religious type thinking outweigh common sense, or hurt your health.

By: Mike N

Mike N — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 04:03:56 +0000

I have a refrigerator with some filtering system on it, and every now and then we replace it when the red light on the door comes on. We also have a water filtering system for all the water coming into the house because of the high amount of calcium or something that is in our water. Frankly, however, during all the years I’ve lived when there was no such filters, we had no problem whatsoever drinking water during a religious fast. For different reasons, maybe, “choko_canyon” may have it right when he infers, “Don’t sweat the small stuff”. There were eons before now when no one had any water filtering system anywhere, so, as “Yotser Bereshi th” says, “knock yourself out”. God Bless you.

By: Every Little Thing I Do Is Magic

Every Little Thing I Do Is Magic — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:22:45 +0000

i dunno. if there’s just a few chemicals in your body, i’m sure your god(s) will ignore you completely. that’s why i can’t find any gods. cause i eat a lot of candy. that’s it

By: The Great Gazoo

The Great Gazoo — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:19:55 +0000

There is no way to filter something in solution. So no. It’s going to carry some ions from every salt it contacts.

The only way to have something close to 100 percent water is to distill it. But even then, as soon as it comes in contact with a plastic, or metal it is going to get a few ions in it. Heck…even if you use glass you are going to have something there.

I mean if you are going to be silly about it, the science of absolute purity is a bear.

By: choko_canyon

choko_canyon — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:35:24 +0000

If ‘there’ is a water filtration system on your refrigerator water supply, what impurities do you imagine would remain that might have been mentioned in anyone’s holy book? In other words, instead of tormenting yourself with inane, magical thinking, use the light of pure reason.