So...what are you giving up for Lent?

[trof]

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.

For the Western Christian calendar, Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days (forty days not counting Sundays) before Easter. It is a moveable feast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as 4 February or as late as 10 March.

Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of repentance. The ashes used are gathered after the Palm Crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday are burned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Wednesday

I'm giving up cilantro for Lent.
"Um...do you LIKE cilantro?"
"No."
:-)

What are you doing without for the next 46 days?

[Inchworm]

1. Self procured orgasm

naw... not reeeealy :P

:hide:

[Skittles]

23. .

[Inchworm]

35. Is that a nice guy smile

or am I being lured into an ASS KICKING?

I thank you either way :evilgrin:

:*

[Skittles]

39. Smiling Bob

he smiles about his woodies :D

[MiddleFingerMom]

63. Who doesn't? ... ... n/t

[PeaceNikki]

2. I am an agnostic Protestant.

So... a whole lotta nothin'.

[TrogL]

3. Heresy

Lent is a time of study, prayer, contemplation and meditation.

The only reason to give up anything would be if it interferes with that. Giving up something for Lent is not an end unto itself.

[trof]

5. I thought it was like self-flagellation to show your faith.

No?

[TrogL]

10. That's also heresy

Faith in Jesus Christ is sufficient.

Christ exhorts us to perform good works.

Nothin' in there about whips and chains. That's for the BDSM crowd.

[trof]

16. "Prayer, penitence, almsgiving, and SELF-DENIAL"

Lent, in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

[CBHagman]

24. I so want to use that for my sigline.

Christ exhorts us to perform good works.

Nothin' in there about whips and chains. That's for the BDSM crowd.

Especially given some of the wrongheaded things perfectly sincere people have been encouraged to do in the name of their faith.

[mdmc]

61. Yes

Ya can give up things that prevent good works or subvert your faith..
I plan to give up a couple things for lent .. "bad" things that are holding me back..
God willing, I will be a better person down the line..

[hobbit709]

4. Nothing.

[Bucky]

6. If it was lent, you're not really giving it up, just returning it to its proper owner.

Silly Catholics, tricks are for kids!

[Inchworm]

9. I may have to change my answer

:scared:

[trof]

12. That's gotta be a DUzy, Bucky.

Nice one.

[NM_hemilover]

20. neither a lenter nor a borrower be

[Raven]

7. Lent. n/t

[trof]

14. I think that's counter-counter-productive.

Or maybe it's double-reverse, over-and-under reasoning.
Or something.
That makes my head hurt.

[Raven]

40. Really? Makes perfect sense to me. I used to do Lent and then the

Good Friday 3 hour silence. My grandparents always arrived with great fanfare during the end of the 3rd hour. Never made it. Just gave up on the whole thing.:-)

[Urban Prairie]

56. lol!!

[geardaddy]

8. DU

:hide:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

68. I did that once.

Sadly, no one noticed.

[geardaddy]

70. I lied

Here it is Thursday and I haven't been able to keep away.

[mulsh]

11. Either belief in the infalability of the Pope or Virgin Birth.

A better question is "what did you give up for Advent?"

[Mike 03]

13. How does Lent work? I am curious.

I was shocked to find out that today was "Fat Tuesday." I thought that was later in the year.

I think Lent is a great idea, even though I am probably not in that religion. It would probably save my life to practice Lent, so I want to learn more about it.

[trof]

15. Everything you ever wanted to know about Lent and then some:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

[Mike 03]

17. Trof, thank you very much. I am upoading and printing this out. Thank you

very much.

[trof]

19. It is very interesting.

Like most things clerical, it has it's roots in the pagan.

[Mike 03]

18. The concept of Lent is humbling and important. NT

[SoxFan]

47. +1

[CBHagman]

21. I don't give up things for Lent.

However, one of my New Year's resolutions was to try to avoid being a jerk about things, and I guess that'll do for a Lenten resolution too.

[hippywife]

22. Religion.

Oh wait...I already did that. LOL

[Kali]

25. dammit

you stole my answer!:rofl:

although technically I never had it to give up

[hippywife]

29. Wish I could say the same.

So you're still ahead of me. ;)

[AwakeAtLast]

26. Giving up things

:evilgrin:

[Ohio Joe]

27. I gave up lent for lent years ago...

and never went back.

[UTUSN]

28. I'm GAINING the Lenten cuisine, like salmon croquettes on Fridays!1 n/t

[City of Mills]

30. Farting

It's gonna be tough!

[rcrush]

38. If you hold it in for 46 days you could die!

[rurallib]

31. Seemed to me like a good time to drop christianity.

[old mark]

32. Long ago, I decided to give up Lent.

I have never regreted it.


Mark

[Gore1FL]

33. I am giving up Christianity!!! n/t

[GoCubsGo]

43. I did that 15 years ago...

Liked it so much, I gave it up permanently.

[mcctatas]

34. sanity...

it's highly over-rated anyway :P

[Bertha Venation]

36. my atheism

Thanks to Klinger in M*A*S*H

[rcrush]

37. I do the opposite and go nuts on everything!

I'm going to eat, smoke, drink and masturbate non stop for Lent!

[blueamy66]

41. Well, my answer may be the only "real" one....

I just don't eat meat on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays and try to fast...only 2 meals instead of 3.

:-)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. Snacking.

Although I don't know if that will include coffee breaks (i.e. Starbucks products) or not. I'm definitely giving up snacking on solid foods between meals though.

[SoxFan]

49. I tried giving up caffeine a few years back

It was a really, really bad idea that lasted about three days. I modified it to carbonated drinks, but kept my morning coffee for the sake of survival and sanity.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

53. I don't think I could ever give up caffeine.

After having a bad acid reflux attack about a month or two ago, I looked over the foods to cut back on. Two irked me--caffeine and orange (citrus) juice.

I've cut back my orange juice to one small glass a day, but I don't think there's anything that's going to stop me from caffeine.

[Roon]

44. Watermelon and women n/t

[Iggo]

45. Wow. Lent. I forgot about that.

Been a looooooong time.

[SoxFan]

46. Light beer and reality television

Oh, wait...

[arbusto_baboso]

48. Some years back, I gave up Catholicism for Lent.

Best decision I ever made. Not tough to drpive myself of it, either.

[mike_c]

50. christianity and voodoo....

I'm doing without!

[av8rdave]

51. Crack

Hey....I believe in achievable goals!

[rcrush]

59. You should give up NOT smoking crack.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. Sugar and non-essential shopping

as well as time. This is the beginning of the busy season for a cathedral choir.

[Swede]

54. coffee

It's gonna be hard.

[ChickMagic]

55. My ashes look like someone smeared it on with their palm

Some of the Dominican order were there and they looked like they used a stencil and packed as much ash into it as possible. It almost looked like it had been burned on. Mine doesn't even resemble a cross unless you look very, very hard.

For lent? I decided to give up cussin'. However, I was laughing so hard about the F***wad post that I had to read it to my hubby. I guess I didn't make it very long.

[blueamy66]

60. My Dad used to call the ashes

his bullet hole. :-)

[ChickMagic]

67. LOL!!!

The ashes usually give me pimples, so I explain that
the evil in me made the ashes burn me.

[blueamy66]

75. Did you get ashes yesterday?

I didn't. I just can't bring myself to go to mass anymore. I am torn.

[Blue-Jay]

57. I'm giving up religion.

[Arugula Latte]

65. Me too.

In fact, I've been selflessly abstaining from it for my entire life.

[Urban Prairie]

58. My vehicle...

The tranny recently blew up on the very night before I was gonna take the next morning to a mechanic to do some engine work on it, and I don't have the funds (and won't for months) to repair it or replace it with a rebuilt one...sigh...

;(

We desperately need to use it to visit our family doctor each month for our Rx, and last December, I was able to apply for dental and vision care b/c I was a federal employee for 18 years before I became disabled, and we both need some serious dental work done, as well as new Rxs for glasses/contact lenses. Both cost a total of about $80.00 in monthly premiums. We gave up cable TV to be able to afford them, b/c our health is obviously far more important. Having dental issues can cause serious health problems. That is why I feel that dental as well as medical coverage should be included in a public option for health care.

A guy I knew who was in the Army reserves at work once told me that his commanding officer said to him (quote) "You can ignore most pain, but not when it is coming from your teeth"...how very true!!

[RushIsRot]

62. I'll give up moderation, just as I do every year.

[Arugula Latte]

64. nevahmind

[MiddleFingerMom]

66. I'd give up abstinence, but somehow that seems really REALLY redundant.

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Who cares?
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I'm giving it up anyways.
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I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope. I hope.
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Finally... a reason to pray!!!!!!!
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[Deep13]

69. Staring with dispair into a Nietzschean abyss. nt

[pintobean]

71. Posting

in graywarrior's thread that never dies.

[PassingFair]

72. Token religious symbolism.

That, and SPAM.

[madinmaryland]

73. Religion.

:shrug:

[Sky Masterson]

74. sex

It shouldn't be a problem :cry: