Lent

nbar12

I gave up chocolate for lent and I'm struggling badly. I just want to find out is there any truth in what my mam told me...I can eat chocolate on St.Patricks day because it's the only day you're allowed??

jprboy

Sundays too, according to some.

What did I give up?

I gave up giving things up, a long time ago.

humanji

Jesus died for your sins, and you acknowledge that by giving up chocolate for lent, and not even for all of lent.

You should be out in the cold, whipping yourself. That's how a true believer does it!

G Power

nbar12 wrote: »

I gave up chocolate for lent and I'm struggling badly. I just want to find out is there any truth in what my mam told me...I can eat chocolate on St.Patricks day because it's the only day you're allowed??

you should be questioning the whole lent/religon charade that your Mum passed on when you were too young to make your own mind up and not be bothered too much about lent.

I gave up religion years ago for lent and i'm still off it, go me!!

Flaker

I gave up chocolate too and was also struggling - until I discovered Thorntons toffee!

Hello sugar rush!

fishy fishy

you can eat chocolate every day of the year if you want. Lent is a farce. along with santa, easter bunny, limbo, and every other fable - in my own personal opinion of course.

G Power

G Power wrote: »

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I gave up religion years ago for lent and i'm still off it, go me!!

CardBordWindow

Try eating a Cadbury's Creme Egg. After all, they are eggs, and an egg a day is okay!

gallag

G Power wrote: »

you should be questioning the whole lent/religon charade that your Mum passed on when you were too young to make your own mind up and not be bothered too much about lent.

I gave up religion years ago for lent and i'm still off it, go me!!

If you dont do lent for the baby jesus the easter bunny wont leave any money under your pillow at Christmas.

Banjo String

I gave up my new years resolution for lent.


/swigs whiskey, /blows Marlboro smoke out off nostrils.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I had an uncle who gave up alochol religiously for lent, but went back on it for Paddy's Day. He said it was called a "bridge".

not sure if the same applied to choclate. Eating ****loads of chocolate is not really a Paddy's Day tradition.

FatherLen

ha i love eating sweets in lent on front of all the eejits giving stuff up.

No. You're supposed to keep it up all through lent. The St. Patrick's day thing is something made up because it's incredibly inconvenient to follow lent on a national day of indulgence.

If you're gonna bother doing it, you might as well do it right. No chocolate for you.

Merkin

fishy fishy wrote: »

you can eat chocolate every day of the year if you want. Lent is a farce. along with santa, easter bunny, limbo, and every other fable - in my own personal opinion of course.

:eek:

Banjo String

true-or-false wrote: »

No. You're supposed to keep it up all through lent. The St. Patrick's day thing is something made up because it's incredibly inconvenient to follow lent on a national day of indulgence.

If you're gonna bother doing it, you might as well do it right. No chocolate for you.

Don't have the stamina for that tbh.

2 shakes of the ass and its usually over for me. :mad:

ejmaztec

FatherLen wrote: »

ha i love eating sweets in lent on front of all the eejits giving stuff up.

They'll use all the money that they've saved, and chip in to get you a gastric band, so's you don't have to travel around on the back of a huge truck.:P

nibtrix

FatherLen wrote: »

ha i love eating sweets in lent on front of all the eejits giving stuff up.

I've started bringing sweets and chocolate biscuits in to work, putting them in the centre of the room and telling everyone to help themselves. There's two people in the office off chocolate despite the fact they are not religious in any other way and don't go to mass.

Didn't give up anything but I'm trying not to miss mass any Sunday for lent.

brummytom

My lenten promise was going so well. Didn't have any drink or smokes on Ash Wednesday. But the second the clock went to 00:00, I gave in.

I have no willpower

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

fishy fishy wrote: »

you can eat chocolate every day of the year if you want. Lent is a farce. along with santa, easter bunny, limbo, and every other fable - in my own personal opinion of course.

Not entirley sure you understand what a fable is!

Oranage2

jprboy wrote: »

Sundays too, according to some.

What did I give up?

I gave up giving things up, a long time ago.

I think that joke was banging about the same time Jesus was around.

COYVB

nbar12 wrote: »

I gave up chocolate for lent and I'm struggling badly. I just want to find out is there any truth in what my mam told me...I can eat chocolate on St.Patricks day because it's the only day you're allowed??

You can eat whatever you want, whenever you want

Tarzann

The 40 days of Lent do not include Sundays. Therefore you can eat whatever you want on Sundays.

Mysteriouschic

I failed my lent thing the next day it was to be ontime for college as I'm always late I was late by 10mins. I did try setting my phone time 20mins ahead the next time I just about managed it I still can't seem to be ontime I'm always either 10mins later or 10mins early.

My second lent thing was to get back to the gym and go 3 times a week thats going well but that my new years resolution too.

Pumpkinseeds

For the past couple of years Mr Pumpkinseeds gives up booze and I give up sweets and other junk food for Lent, not for religious reasons just to lose a few pounds. I usually give up the booze to give Mr Pumpkinseeds moral support as I don't think it'd be fair to sit beside him on the sofa knocking back the Tullamore Dew while he sips coffee. Sadly he doesn't have the same view about junk food. That half tub of strawberry Carte d'or he ate while sitting next to me on Sunday night was calling to me:(

topper75

humanji wrote: »

Jesus died for your sins, and you acknowledge that by giving up chocolate for lent, and not even for all of lent.

You should be out in the cold, whipping yourself. That's how a true believer does it!

Jesus: What am I supposed to have gone and done now?

Pontius Pilate: It's not you. It's an Irish lad who will be born in 2000 years time. He's constantly robbing magazines out of shops, eating his Ma's good biscuits, and masturbating to Thelma Mansfield in the RTE guide. You pick up the tab though mate.

ejmaztec

COYVB wrote: »

You can eat whatever you want, whenever you want

Even if you're a diabetic, or a coeliac, or allergic to nuts, or asleep?:P

Knasher

humanji wrote: »

Jesus died for your sins, and you acknowledge that by giving up chocolate for lent, and not even for all of lent.

You should be out in the cold, whipping yourself. That's how a true believer does it!

That seems a little extreme, this all powerful god being could have just chosen to forgive people. Hell I'm not even a little bit all powerful and I can forgive people without physically hurting myself. Instead he decided to nail his son, who is also himself, to a cross in order to make a loop hole for rules he created in the first place and that he knew people would break, being all knowing. The guy is clearly a schizophrenic masochist...

Actually on second though, whipping yourself might be an appropriate way of commemorating him.

fishy fishy

what a cop out for these ones believing in "Lent" by giving up "chocolate" - sure thats only a luxury. If you are really that into the oul lenten thing, go out and find yourself a desert and bring a five litre bottle water with ya for the duration - you might get a little bit of respect. :pac::pac:

Grayson

I never got giveing up stuff. Or climbing Croagh Patrick barefoot. I'm sure that's what jesus wanted. people making themselves miserable and suffering pointlessly. Why the **** don't they go and do something good to help others?

fishy fishy

Grayson wrote: »

I never got giveing up stuff. Or climbing Croagh Patrick barefoot. I'm sure that's what jesus wanted. people making themselves miserable and suffering pointlessly. Why the **** don't they go and do something good to help others?

yard never see the ould cardinals doing that sh*te, or the oul pope in his prada shoes. :o

Grayson

fishy fishy wrote: »

yard never see the ould cardinals doing that sh*te, or the oul pope in his prada shoes. :o

Reminds me of that nutcase dictator Turkmenbashi. He used to make his entire government walk to the top of a mountain every year, so they could show their devotion to the state. He'd meet them at the top after getting a lift in a helicopter.

Mr Benevolent

Da fuk? WHo does lent nowadays? Grannies and the like I imagine.

kylith

true-or-false wrote: »

No. You're supposed to keep it up all through lent. The St. Patrick's day thing is something made up because it's incredibly inconvenient to follow lent on a national day of indulgence.

If you're gonna bother doing it, you might as well do it right. No chocolate for you.

You're wrong. The RCC says that you lenten sacrifice doesn't have to be done on Sundays. What, whatever you've given up, you can eat/drink/smoke/snort/whatever as much as you can every Sunday.

ScumLord

Come over to the Dark (chocolate) side, eat the chocolate.

dan1895

Sure didn't Jesus himself come out of the desert on St. Patrick's Day to over-indulge on beer and sweets?

ScumLord

dan1895 wrote: »

Sure didn't Jesus himself come out of the desert on St. Patrick's Day to over-indulge on beer and sweets?

For all we know he brought a can of beer and a mars bar into the desert and gorged himself for 30 days.

tony007

Grayson wrote: »

I never got giveing up stuff. Or climbing Croagh Patrick barefoot. I'm sure that's what jesus wanted. people making themselves miserable and suffering pointlessly. Why the **** don't they go and do something good to help others?

Bejaysus, its only a couple of biscuits.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

I failed my lent thing the next day it was to be ontime for college as I'm always late I was late by 10mins. I did try setting my phone time 20mins ahead the next time I just about managed it I still can't seem to be ontime I'm always either 10mins later or 10mins early.

My second lent thing was to get back to the gym and go 3 times a week thats going well but that my new years resolution too.

How the bloody hell do you ge all that into the Trocaire box??

fishy fishy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Not entirley sure you understand what a fable is!

on the contrary - I am not sure that you understand that fable can have more than one "meaning"



1.
a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
2.
a story not founded on fact:
3.
a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents;
4.
legends or myths collectively
5.
an untruth; falsehood

fishy fishy

dan1895 wrote: »

Sure didn't Jesus himself come out of the desert on St. Patrick's Day to over-indulge on beer and sweets?

that's only cause he was at the parade.

alph

I gave up chocolate too OP. I actually have a box full of fun size treats beside me and I haven't touched a single one since lent. Can't say I'm missing them to be honest.

maximoose

OP you are pathetic, you need to ring the Matty Hislop crowd.

Duggy747

Eat chocolate on St. Patrick's Day and eternal damnation will be awaiting you, Heathen, where you'll spend a firey, painful eternity with Hitler.....................and homosexuals...................and Bosco.

IM0

I gave up god for lent and the proof was it didnt rise again and even now years later. in your face god.

ScumLord

IM0 wrote: »

I gave up god for lent and the proof was it didnt rise again and even now years later.

God hasn't given up on you! He is currently writing a sad, sorry ballad to try and get you back.

Lawrence1895

I'm glad to be an Atheist

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

fishy fishy wrote: »

on the contrary - I am not sure that you understand that fable can have more than one "meaning"



1.
a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters; apologue: the fable of the tortoise and the hare; Aesop's fables.
2.
a story not founded on fact:
3.
a story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents;
4.
legends or myths collectively
5.
an untruth; falsehood

Fair enough. I was going on the first definition more, myself. I always felt you could have a fable based on fact as much as on mythology, as long as the moral was there.

the culture of deference

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I had an uncle who gave up alochol religiously for lent, but went back on it for Paddy's Day. He said it was called a "bridge".

not sure if the same applied to choclate. Eating ****loads of chocolate is not really a Paddy's Day tradition.

I love this.

A fictitious religion makes lent up in the 4th century and the Irish use a fictitious saint to get out of it.

Tarzann wrote: »

The 40 days of Lent do not include Sundays. Therefore you can eat whatever you want on Sundays.

Do all school kids know this, I bet the K fiddlers in our primary schools haven't mentioned this.

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

I always felt you could have a fable based on fact as much as on mythology, as long as the moral was there.

A mythical based fable invented by someone who doesn't understand the word fact.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

the culture of deference wrote: »

I love this.

A fictitious religion makes lent up in the 4th century and the Irish use a fictitious saint to get out of it.

Not entirely sure St Pat was ficticious. Like Jesus, probably did exist, although the stories are bull****. The Catholic Chruch are certainly not ficticious.
Good gist though.

Do all school kids know this, I bet the K fiddlers in our primary schools haven't mentioned this.

Would certainly have been useful knowledge when I was kid!! I'll assume the reference to "K fiddlers" is there for cool factor.

A mythical based fable invented by someone who doesn't understand the word fact.

Capt'n Midnight

nbar12 wrote: »

I gave up chocolate for lent and I'm struggling badly.

The Pope's set a high bar this year all right.







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