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  • Think fast. Slow Down.

    reintroducing regular days of fast
  • Founder: copystar

    food,

  • Who We Need

    We need the compliance of government and business to reduce the working week by one day. We need cultural creators to help envision how to integrate fast days into each culture.For example, should each fast day be named, not unlike the 'feast days' of the middle ages?

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  • Mission
    To encourage all of humanity to fast once a week. Not only would this reduce the amount of food consumed by one seventh, it would act as a means to encourage humanity to slow down, to spend idle time in contemplation or in the company of loved ones. Those who are performing essential services to humanity or whose health would be compromised by fasting, could participate by eating vegetarian on fast day.
  • What we can accomplish
    • While a fast day would create an objective result of less food consumed, its purpose is much larger. It is proposed as one step closer to a future world in which consumption of goods is not the driving force within humanity.
  • How this superstruct works

    • On fast day, you don't eat!

      WE SHOULD CONSIDER VARIATIONS OF "THE FAST." I know from experience that a wake-until-sleep fast is really grueling. It can indeed by quite satisfying and spiritually engaging, but I have doubts that we could achieve critical mass of full-day fasting. What about other models of fasting, such as the Ramadan model? Fasting from dawn to sunset is something I believe would ease consumption, slow lifestyle, and create a sense of shared community/hardship that would all have positive effects on quality of life.  - POSTED BY AVANTGAME

      FASTING MARKETS. I also like the Ramadan penance for intentionally breaking fast -- it requires that the individual "must feed sixty poor people-one average meal each." I wonder if there would be some non-compulsory offset for fasting, similar to the Carbon offset market. -- POSTED BY AVANTGAME

       COMMUNITY SUPPORT. I think one thing that distinguishes fasting from mere dieting is the ritual and spiritual element. It isn't just about pursuing an end for yourself, it is a way of demonstrating solidarity, fixity of purpose, dedication to a larger cause. Kwanzaa demostrates that new rituals can be adopted or adapted into a culture relatively quickly. What can we do to support and encourage fasting? Here are some ideas: 1) tie this to the "Stone Soup for 12" Superstruct--host community dinners for groups of 12 at the end of a fast day. 2) create community meditation centers (with rooms designed for small groups of meditators) where people can spend all or part of a fast day. These facilities might also include areas for walking meditation, or labyrinths. 3) Create on-line communities of support. When people choose a fast day, they can connect with others fasting on the same day, and trade notes on their intentions for the day, and provide a little moral support. 4) establish some new "traditional" element of dress (a sash? armband?) that indicates you are fasting so a well-meaning coworker doesn't offer you cookies! --Posted by Elizabeth Merritt

       

      I think these are fabulous additions to this superstruct and I give much thanks for the improvements. At this point, I should explain why I'm uncomfortable creating a brand new superstruct to 'officially' combine these ideas into this one. To me, the comments provided that have already created a new superstruct. I don't mean to be facicious, but if the ultimate goal is to combine existing superstructs into new ones, then what's the point of making each superstruct in the format of a wiki which already allows group collaboration and authorship? If we all created new superstrcuts to represent every permutation of superstruct combinations, wouldn't lead to more noise as opposed to more clarity? -- copystar

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    • Why not make up a fast day? Here's mine. 3rd fast day in October: Bonfire day. Because I love bonfires.

       

      I love this!!!!  We'll do friday fast days - November 7th - The Taboo Fast - because we love playing taboo - and imagine the game when you can't say the name of any food stuff too!

       

      Calorie restriction like this is also good for our health.  It can delay ageing and promote wellbeing.  All very good when there is such pressure on healthcare resources given the REDS pandemic.

       

      My faith (Baha'i) fasts from dawn til dusk for 19 days - a Baha'i month every year.  It is community building because we gather together to break bread together before dawn and after sunset frequently.  It makes for much more intentional eating then.  I love the idea of combining it with stone soup for 12! WE MUST DESIGN NEW MYTHS, AND NEW RITUALS TO GO WITH THEM.  I really like copystar's idea for this reason.  However, the description of this 'struct implies that business and government would serve as principal supporters of this idea.  I'd like to add an obvious but so far only implicit idea to the mix: the cooperation and support of major faiths and religious organisations.  Of course it is notoriously difficult to broker cooperation between such groups but the traditional leverage they enjoy over people's behaviour -- notably dietary restrictions, prohibitions and fasting -- suggests to me that it would be worth a try.  See also this Discussion on the problems with the "Three meals a day" paradigm/pattern: http://superstructgame.org/DiscussionView/325  //futuryst

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    • Please consider collaborating with GAMEDEMIC! http://www.superstructgame.net/SuperstructView/10 I founded this superstructure to enlist game designers to design games that would keep people at home during ReDS outbreaks. Based on your mission statement, I think game designers could also help design games for fast days. - POSTED BY AVANTGAME

       Consider collaborating with Stone Soup for 12--pairing fasting with community feasts. Posted by Elizabeth Merritt

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