Lent, Giving up anything?

spunkymunky

So what are people giving up?
Chips and fry's (sausages, rashers and all that go with, except tea)
SM

ferdi

lent

Shrimp

I'm not giving up anything..

spunkymunky

ferdi wrote:

lent

Can you give up lent? Is that not going with it?

ferdi

spunkymunky wrote:

Can you give up lent? Is that not going with it?

yes, i am going with it.

monkeyfudge

Maybe I'll give up not smoking.

But if that proves too difficult I'll just try and stop murdering prostitutes.

Downtime

Pancakes and Christmas pudding

Shaque attack

no

Blub2k4

Gave up Catholocism ages ago, will be maintaining that religiously over the Lenten period.

Gilgamesh

I was planning on giving up paying Rent and my bills for Lent, but don't know if the guys will respect my beliefs as such

D!ve^Bomb!

i'm givin up breathing.. dont think it'll last tho

Kingp35

what is the deal with giving up stuff for lent anyway?? is this another thing the church decided to make up.

i wont be giving up anything thats for sure

Mr E

If you do give up something, do it for yourself (for a challenge).
You don't have to do it for religious purposes.

Shrimp

Yeah. I see at as like new years resolution, Pointless really. I respect that people want to do it. But just looking at it lent has no lesson, what does it do? nothing, nothing is what it does.

Mimikyu

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Shane™

Shrimp wrote:

Yeah. I see at as like new years resolution, Pointless really. I respect that people want to do it. But just looking at it lent has no lesson, what does it do? nothing, nothing is what it does.

Well when you do nothing it does nothing.

It teaches children loads, I'm glad I gave stuff up for lent when I was younger, can't see the sense in it for adults, unless you believe.

pickarooney

Can we have a Borrowed season, where we take up a new habit for 40 days?

Downtime

Lent is a season of soul-searching and repentance. It is a season for reflection and taking stock. Lent originated in the very earliest days of the Church as a preparatory time for Easter, when the faithful rededicated themselves and when converts were instructed in the faith and prepared for baptism. By observing the forty days of Lent, the individual Christian imitates Jesus’ withdrawal into the wilderness for forty days. All churches that have a continuous history extending before AD 1500 observe Lent. The ancient church that wrote, collected, canonized, and propagated the New Testament also observed Lent, believing it to be a commandment from the apostles.

Not to get all religious - not that I am

BEAT

I'm giving up Christianity for lent

Shrimp

Shane&#8482 wrote:

Well when you do nothing it does nothing.

If you must know, I am a muslim. I give a month of fasting, and do not eat anything from sun-rise, to sun-set for 30 days. Thats everything, not even water. No food/liquid can enter your mouth.

What I am saying is, lents pointless at teaching a lesson. It's basically giving you boundries, but at the same time, letting you set them?

By no means is it a fast.

D!ve^Bomb!

Shrimp wrote:

If you must know, I am a muslim. I give a month of fasting, and do not eat anything from sun-rise, to sun-set for 30 days. Thats everything, not even water. No food/liquid can enter your mouth.

that's just stupid

A.S.H.

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Starts Tomorrow, ASh Wednesday for 40 days I think

Shrimp

Why Stupid? If you are going make a comment, explain your motive?

jor el

Giving up is for quitters

I don't see the point in giving up things for lent, unless you want to for yourself. And if that's the case, why do you need a special time of year to give things up? Just stop doing that which you don't want to do anyway. Len is just like new year's resolutions, pointless and stupid.

Shrimp

yeah, thats what I said, drawing the comparison between lent and new years..

D!ve^Bomb!

i don't need a motive to make a comment

$lash

the internet ...

StupidLikeAFox

my dad gave up smoking for lent about 20yrs ago and never touched one since. Can do some people good, might give them a reason/motivation for giving up they wouldnt have otherwise.

Personally im toying with the idea of giving something up, jus to see could i last

spunkymunky

I gave up chips last year and it was a very hard thing to do. I did it for personal reasons, was eating them nearly every day, and i felt great at the achievment after also the body thanked me so was well worth it. So again ill try it. Not looking forward to it at all (and im not religious in any sense)
As far as new years resolutions, start the resolution in november and make the resolution on the 31st be, to keep it going.

Shrimp

yeah.. thats the right outlook to have ColHol.. fairplay to your dad

tuxy

BEAT wrote:

I'm giving up Christianity for lent

interesting
how strong a believer are you?

Johnny_the_fox

Sweets, Crisps, etc... Alcohol

and go to the gym at least twice a week. :eek:

Rabies

Absolutly nothing. Just another day of another week.
Meh

CathyMoran

Hoping to go to mass weekdays for lent (missing Saturday) - means that I have to get up an hour earlier (owch ) Last year I gave up chocolate.

Third_Echelon

... not having sex :cool:

billy the squid

In my country sobriety is frowned upon, therefore I shall give up that.

Crucifix

I'm going to eat twice as much sweets, drink twice as much and take up smoking to help keep the economy going while everyone else is doing lent.

tman

feeling a little rough after drinking a bottle of wine last night...

so i think i'll give up eating breakfast rolls/anything fried for brekkie

Sleepy

Can you Christians kindly keep your christianity to your own forum?

This thread is offensive to those of us that find your religeon repulsive.

tman

Sleepy wrote:

Can you Christians kindly keep your christianity to your own forum?

This thread is offensive to those of us that find your religeon repulsive.

what makes you think everybody is a christian?
i believe in no relegion, but see lent as a great oppertunity to actually try giving up something without having to commit fully (in my case, fried foodstuffs for brekkie. which can't have been doing my health any good every weekday morning for the past 11 months.)

Sleepy

Well, tman, given that giving up things for lent is part and parcel of christian dogma, I assumed it was a safe assumption...

Out of curiosity do you also fast during Ramadan?

tman

no.
do you celebrate christmas?

Sleepy

Nope. I do, however, celebrate at that time of year as I have holidays from work and get to spend time with my family and friends. The "holiday season" as the American's call it is what I'd celebrate, not the birth of a man who claimed to be the messiah. I'd argue that what I celebrate is what many people that claim to be christians celebrate too.

I attend Christmas mass as a favour to my mother. Usually I sit there and try to calculate the monetary value of the church and everything in it and figure out how much suffering that value could alleviate if spent in a wiser fashion.

Winters

No as I dont care what religious overlords tell me.

I have my own idea's.

Mossy Monk

never did give up anything, dont feel like starting now

0utshined

I'm giving up righteous indignation but I'm going to take up moral superiority.

NeoSlicerZ

no

I am MAN

Gave up alcohol last year and am going to give it another go more so for personal achievement, lent just seems like a good time to give up something because you know you're not alone!

stagolee

giving up boards, gonna get something done instead

idontknowmyname

lent is crap.....why should u start givin up something now? u could do it nxt month or last week....just think its really pointless

Chinafoot

well i had intended to give up drink but then a mate i havent seen in a while gave me a buzz....3days isnt too bad though!

besides im not a christian/catholic/whatever u want to label it!