87:2:4 (959.5) Fasting and other forms of self-denial were thought to be pleasing to the ghosts, who took pleasure in the discomfort of the living during the transition period of lurking about before their actual departure for deadland.
(Do we really want to continue pleasing the non-existent "ghost culture"?)
136:3:3 (1512.7) Jesus did not go into retirement for the purpose of fasting and for the affliction of his soul.
(...which was misunderstood and then made into dogma by churches later on
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