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  • #32
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,932 ✭✭✭Calibos


    pharmaton wrote: »
    think its more to do with the forty days and nights enduring temptation in the desert story.

    I stand corrected. :o

    In recognition of their deity sacrificing himself to himself on a cross starving himself in the baking heat of a middle eastern desert for 40 days and in solidarity with him dying an agonising death to forgive them their sins resisting the temptation of another demi-god who according to their bible killed millions of people less than their God, grown adults give up sweeties for 40 days.

    Hows that? :D


  • #33
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'm giving up all junk food for Lent. It's a great way to shed a bit of post-Christmas flab and kickstart healthier eating patterns.


  • #34
    highly1111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭highly1111


    Religion


  • #35
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Is this the bit where people stop drinking ? Then they wind up in hospital on Paddys Day getting their stomach pumped. I've great respect for JC mainly because he did the loaves and fishes but also because he didn't block up A & E after the desert gig.


  • #36
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    The last time i gave up anything for lent - and kept it up for the duration -was in first class. I gave up sugar in tea and never went back to it. Which is mad really, cos my diet generally speaking, is mostly sugar based :-) It must have been the impending first confession and holy Communion that gave me the strength.!
    Not once in the many many years since have I succeeded in staying off whatever I gave up. I'm such a failure.


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  • #37
    Mourinho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Mourinho


    I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.


  • #38
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Mourinho wrote: »
    I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.

    Fair play and best wishes on the fags...same with the booze.. Evict rollerblade man because one or both of you is likely to kill him before the 40 days are up. For their own good.


  • #39
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    There is an oul one on the deli in my local centra that always barks on about mass. Im looking forward to tomorrow when I go in for a breakfast roll and some steak for dinner.
    Her and the catholic cult can kiss my arse

    Do you think any Catholic really gives a hoot?


  • #40
    libelula
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭libelula


    Guinness. The beloved, creamy couple of pints of a weekend :(
    The timing suits well though, I've just gotten back into a half-right training routine and have a race mid-march to cop myself on for.


  • #41
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


    Mourinho wrote: »
    I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.

    Jaysus, alcohol AND rollerblading ,not smart.


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  • #42
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    I'm giving up giving up.


  • #43
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Thinking of taking up something instead, doing an anti-Lent.


  • #44
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    What is the tradition behind giving things up for Lent?

    Raised non-religious, genuinely ignorant about all this stuff :confused:

    Cutting back on food consumption and abstaining from certain foods at this time of the year predate the spread of Christianity.

    Like many seasonal traditions long since adopted by religions of all types, it has it's roots in early methods of agriculture.

    With the arrival of Spring came the opportunity to re sow the land and take stock of the previous year's harvest. What remains of it may need to be rationed sensibly depending on how severe the Winter was, and with a look ahead to the harvest in the year to come still many months away.

    The new lease of life ushered in during Spring was simply an opportune time to conserve the fruits of the previous harvest and that often meant cutting back a bit until the Summer arrived and the new crops could be reaped.

    That's how Lenten sacrifice originated. It's got sod all to do with a bloke swanning around a desert for six weeks trying to stop a snake from selling him shìt but I must admit, thats a much cooler story than mine.

    I'd just love to know what the codgers who wrote it were smokin.


  • #45
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    mad muffin wrote: »
    I'm giving up lent.

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  • #46
    Grays Sports Almanac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Grays Sports Almanac


    I'm not religious or anything, but I'm giving up bread, dairy and the awful habit I got into recently of having tea and biscuits after dinner.


  • #47
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    This year I shall be giving up auto-erotic asphyxiation.

    Good for you.
    It will be like a breath of fresh air :p


  • #48
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Hope


  • #49
    Username here
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭Username here


    Mourinho wrote: »
    I'm giving up the cigarettes and my two housemates are giving up alcohol and rollerblading.

    .....Ted? Is that you?


  • #50
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    White bread...

    But it's really a health thing rather than for Lent


  • #51
    force eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭force eleven


    All processed sugar. Hell if you love a sugary cereal followed by white toast slathered in butter and marmalade, washed down with a mug of white tae and three sugars.

    This morning I had shredded cardboard, sorry, wheat, and unsweetened tea. 6 weeks of this?


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  • #52
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    What is this obsession with giving things up? Is there some sort of competition going on?


  • #53
    Swampy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭Swampy


    Biscuits


  • #54
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,074 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Haven't bothered with Lent in more than thirty years. Load of rubbish.

    Kids came home from school wondering what they would give up. I told them they don't have to bother.


  • #55
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    Homework.

    :cool:


  • #56
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    I'm giving up work for lent.


  • #57
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Shenshen wrote: »
    What is this obsession with giving things up? Is there some sort of competition going on?

    Yeah, it's lent. A time of year when all the a la carte/cultural catholics come out of the woodwork and try to outdo each other in showing how catholic and pious they are by giving stuff up (usually only maintained half heartedly for about a week or so) then they get a break from pretending to be religious until around Easter when they'll show up at the church.


  • #58
    iDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Shenshen wrote: »
    What is this obsession with giving things up? Is there some sort of competition going on?

    I am not losing to Fr Dick Byrne in a giving things up competition. Thats what this is, a giving things up competition.


  • #59
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Decided to give up sex for lent and the wife said she'd give me a hand.


  • #60
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,956 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Canis Lupus wrote: »
    Yeah, it's lent. A time of year when all the a la carte/cultural catholics come out of the woodwork and try to outdo each other in showing how catholic and pious they are by giving stuff up (usually only maintained half heartedly for about a week or so) then they get a break from pretending to be religious until around Easter when they'll show up at the church.

    I'm with you......wish the country would just leave behind it's catholic stuff.

    It's just become culturally engrained and people just feel that they have to do it without actually thinking about it despite not doing anything religious for the rest of the year apart from weddings funerals, christenings and then Christmas.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Don't forget no meat or drink allowed today either!!


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