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NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:

I'm not even sure what Lent is about, to be honest. :confused:

I'm not even sure what Lent is about, to be honest. :confused:

It's a season in the Christian church. The point is following Christ on His journey to the cross. The traditional disciplines of Lent are prayer, fasting, and charitable works. In addition, many people choose to give up something that is destructive to them, or they will choose to add something else to their faith life (like extra time reading the Bible or praying).
That help answer your question?

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:

I'd rather have a girlfriend than succeed at an ancient ritual.

Lent is easy for me. I gave it up for Lent.

It's a season in the Christian church. The point is following Christ on His journey to the cross. The traditional disciplines of Lent are prayer, fasting, and charitable works. In addition, many people choose to give up something that is destructive to them, or they will choose to add something else to their faith life (like extra time reading the Bible or praying).
That help answer your question?

Yes, thanks.

I gave up being kicked in the groin for Lent. So far, so good. :)

I gave up being kicked in the groin for Lent. So far, so good. :)

*kicks LG in the groin*

I'm Jewish. I fail miserably at Lent.

Trumpets, trombones, and double basses.

Or to be less enigmatic, I don't observe ("celebrate" doesn't sound like the right word) Lent.

Lent is easy for me. I gave it up for Lent.

:rolleyes:

*kicks LG in the groin*

>.<

Dammit!

*collapses*

I faild by knowing about it

It's Lent? :O

I haven't given anything up since I gave up the whole "Believe in God" thing. Some say as in exercise in itself its worth carrying on despite this, but as I reckon you get to give everything up forever when you're dead, I doubt their wisdom on the matter.

Nope. But that's because I don't observe lent. Never try, never fail.

I've been trying to not yell at my brothers so much for Lent, but when they seem to intentionally deprive me of sleep and almost make me late for school it's difficult. :(

As an athiest/non-believer I have never done Lent, and thus cannot fail at it.
:)

Lent is easy for me. I gave it up for Lent.

beat me (and redwulf) to it. Phooey.

I also forgot about not eating meat on Ash Wednesday. :( I still only ate like 1000 calories though...

I am a slave to atheist decadence.

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:

I've already failed, so no worries mate. I tried to give up computer games, but I caught myself playing at 5:30 in the morning when I realized it was Ash Wednesday. :headbang:

I failed before I started, I was leaving church and my priest said to me, "What are you giving up for lent?" and I replied, "Nothing, I hate Lent and I would rather be a Jew."

After saying that my priest gives me an evil look when ever he sees me, he thinks I possesed or somthing.

I like lentil soup.:)
Ohhhh lent.
I lent someone a fiver the other day.:D
Oh sorry i lent into a lampost the other day.:)
Oh wait i mean, lighted a little lentie.
Oh no i mean Lent a little live a lot.
No not that one.........
Lent was invented by the non existant devil.:D

i've succeded at lent for last 6 years since i gave up giving up things for lent

I thought I would try to give up gossip until Easter, not just like nasty rumors (which I totally didn't do) but not passing information just for the sake of passing information (which I totally do) but I couldn't do it......I found out Saturday night that a friend had indeed married a furry and I had to blab. I did blab to internet people who don't know her though, so maybe it doesn't count.

For Lent this year, I made a resolution that I would make no resolutions for Lent this year.

Really, it was the best of all worlds. I could auto-fail and therefore stop stressing about it.

Not only do I not celebrate lent, I have managed to manipulate my housemate and his girlfriend into failing! (Not that it was too hard, I didn't have to say anything to the housemante, and only the slightest provocation was needed for his gf to faiiiil!)

I thought I would try to give up gossip until Easter, not just like nasty rumors (which I totally didn't do) but not passing information just for the sake of passing information (which I totally do) but I couldn't do it......I found out Saturday night that a friend had indeed married a furry and I had to blab. I did blab to internet people who don't know her though, so maybe it doesn't count.
Okay, I must not be up on the most current slang. No surprise there... What's a furry?

Okay, I must not be up on the most current slang. No surprise there... What's a furry?
it's slang for a sexual fetish involving people dressed up like animals.

that's the least graphic I can get... I think.

They went to a convention recently, she confirmed. I joked for like a year about how I suspected, but she thought I was kidding, then on the honeymoon, he brought out the costume. :eek:

I have never participated because I don't have the will power, however the premise of Lent is pretty nifty!

Lent is easy for me. I gave it up for Lent.

I got you beat. I gave up religion. :D

Never try, never fail.

QFT :D

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:
How sad. I am trying to get a girlfriend for Lent. I already ate lots of food and lots of meat on Ash Wednesday, and went to church just to have dirt on my forehead (but did not attend Mass). Yup, I am a pretty damn good Catholic boy.

I got you beat. I gave up religion. :D

Reminds me of a friend of mine from high school. He was Catholic and gave up Catholicism for Lent every year. Drove the priest crazy.

My friends all give up chocolate for Lent, so, being the evil athiest, I give them all chocolate the day after Ash Wednesday X3

I gave up being kicked in the groin for Lent. So far, so good. :)

In hindsight giving up being pied would've been better.

*nods*

I did blab to internet people who don't know her though, so maybe it doesn't count.

:p. C'mon, you have to count it, lol.

But that doesn't mean you should stop trying either....

Yep

I didn't even make a lent promise

I have never participated because I don't have the will power, however the premise of Lent is pretty nifty!

I don't participate because I'm not Catholic. Aside from that, I like the symbolism behind it, if not the cultural 'mandate' to follow it. It seems a lot of people participate in Lent because that's what people do during this time of year, which I find ridiculous. If you're not going to do it with sincerity (religious, or otherwise) why do it at all?

My friends all give up chocolate for Lent, so, being the evil athiest, I give them all chocolate the day after Ash Wednesday X3

Well? Did they eat it or what? (I'm not talking about in secret, of course they ate the chocolate, who wouldn't?! Rather, I ask if they ate it in public.)

I never even bother giving anything up for Lent. My parents and priests don't make me, so I don't.

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:

Merely because you expect romantic entanglement does not mean you have already failed at Lent.

You could always just lead him on for the next month.

Tell him you want to be friends first. (It's also a pretty good idea anyway).

I don't do Lent; I did once propose giving up turning left while cycling before, but thought it may be a bit of a hassle.

I'm not catholic, I'm anglican, but I still gave up swearing for lent. Its hard, but I knew that it wasn't a win/fail thing- I've cut down a lot.

Lent? I don't do anything for Lent.

From just a kick? You've grown soft LG. *hefts sledgehammer*

He lost his special skill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMqNzbrQtc)

>.<

Dammit!

*collapses*

From just a kick? You've grown soft LG. *hefts sledgehammer*

I hadn't even realised it was lent.

I'm Jewish. I fail miserably at Lent.

If you're a guy you could give up having a foreskin for Lent every year; instant success. You'd be the best Catholic in town. I'm pretty sure you'd end up Pope.

I hadn't even realised it was lent.
Count back 40 weekdays from Palm Sunday and you get the start of Lent, or failing that just Google it. Hope it helps

never borrowed never lent.

have kept the 19 day fast from the 2nd to the 21st of march a number of years in the past though.

back when i was an active baha'i

mostly from the early 70s well into the mid to late 80s.

obviously that doesn't mean completely not eating for 19 days every year, just eating, drinking nor smoking nothing from sun up to sun set and not gorging yourself at night either.

it's actually good for the health once a year to do something like that, unless you've got a health or some other condition that prevents it, like my wife's medication.

before i married her i kept it most years, even when i wasn't active in the faith.

i mean if you're gonna talk about catholic lent, it only makes sense to include the baha'i fast and islamic ramadan as well, as all are the same basic concept of outer dicipline as means to inner purification to open the channels as it were, to higher planes or whatever you want to call it for the fallowing year.

i don't know if hindus or buddhists have anything like that, but i'm guessing they probable do, though not perhapse as a predesignated time of year or anything. i know they both have kind of like mendicant priest which is kind of an all year sort of thing, and i seem to recall there were some protestant christian sects that did or do so as well, though i don't recall right off hand which ones they might be.

=^^=
.../\...

Every year, when I realize that Lent is coming around again, I think to myself, "Thank God for Martin Luther!" :p

I failed at....The Game.

I failed at....The Game.

Gah.....*dies in The-Game-induced disembowelment*

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:

Well, I decided to give up any form of restraint when it comes to food or sex.
I'm doing well on the sex front, but I found myself not taking a second helping of chocolate pudding last night. I have to repent and seek forgiveness....

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?


Yes, I've respected all my tenets so far. Since the Ambrosian Church (that is, the Catholic Church of Milan) has only 35 days of Lent, I resolved to take it a step further and reduce Lent to 0 days.

I also forgot about not eating meat on Ash Wednesday. :( I still only ate like 1000 calories though...

I didn't know you weren't supposed to eat meat on Ash Wednesday. I did eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday though.

Wanted to give up work for Lent, but my boss said I couldn't.

From just a kick? You've grown soft LG. *hefts sledgehammer*

Those e-kicks can be especially nasty. :p

He lost his special skill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMqNzbrQtc)

My special skill involved the ability to laugh at myself despite rolling on the ground, writhing and gasping for air. It's a terrible gift. :(

My special skill involved the ability to laugh at myself despite rolling on the ground, writhing and gasping for air. It's a terrible gift. :(Yeah, it sends the message that you're enjoying it, which in turn encourages such behavior.

Yeah, it sends the message that you're enjoying it, which in turn encourages such behavior.

Damn objective sense of humor. :(

It's just as funny when it's someone else writhing and gasping and my balls don't hurt. :p

Still, the occasional sudden groinal trauma in rugby, football, paintball or otherwise just being a total maniac is a small price to pay for the ability to inflict it upon others. :)

Well, besides going to Mass on Ash Wednesday and praying, nope, I haven't given anything up fpr Lent. So, technically, I've failed. Does it matter?:confused:

I haven't given anything up, not being religious myself, but all the same, best of luck to all those who have.:)

So far, I am technically following Lent but probably doing worse than I otherwise would. I've stopped drinking soda (but substituted lemonade and Capri Sun) and I've stopped going out for lunch (but still eat out for dinner.)

I've also abstained from meat on Ash Wednesday and the only Friday of Lent to pass (but substituted chips and candy instead.)

I gave up all material possessions: my apartment building burned down on Ash Wednesday, and I lost just about everything I owned.

I gave up all material possessions: my apartment building burned down on Ash Wednesday, and I lost just about everything I owned.

But won at Lent...

Sorry, that was in poor taste :(


Hope things get better for you.

well i forgot completely about lent, that gives me an automatic epic fail

I didn't give up anything, and am doing great! :D

I didn't give up anything, and am doing great! :D

So, for Lent you gave up giving up stuff for Lent?

That's brilliant!!

But won at Lent...

Sorry, that was in poor taste :(
No, I liked it. I need gallows humor right now, it's the only kind I've got.

No, I liked it. I need gallows humor right now, it's the only kind I've got.

Well, OK then

* bows *

My Lenten Abstinences are going well, so far (Keeping in mind it has not even been a week).

Note the lack of sickly nicotinated smog around my head. :cool:

I am also not drinking (alcohol). That was easy up to now, since I have not gone out anywhere yet. This is karaoke night at the local university pub, though... Unless one of my pals gets a pitcher and plops a glass in front of me, I hope to get along alright relying on my water-ordering skills.

Count back 40 weekdays from Palm Sunday and you get the start of Lent, or failing that just Google it. Hope it helps

I doubt it. I'm an atheist, so I don't practice/follow it anyway.

For lent, I think I'll give up my virginity(or lack therfore of).:D

Didn't even realize it was lent. Hm.. Oh well.

And then there's the Dutch Catholic concept of Lent... Ramadan for the rest of us.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/12/wlent112.xml

I guess Europe really is on its way to becoming a Muslim continent. Shows what a negligent immigration policy can do for a nation.

NSG, if you gave up something for Lent, have you been good so far?
Me? I gave up the thought of having a boyfriend. I'm not entirely sure what's happening, but I suspect it will end with me in another relationship.
I fail at Lent. :headbang:

As with 'most every year, I gave up Lent for Lent.

I gave up all material possessions: my apartment building burned down on Ash Wednesday, and I lost just about everything I owned.

I am so sorry... I hope you can recover at least some of the worth of your belongings and find a new place.

Always. It's just too hard to get Lent off your clothes, even with the Lent remover thingy.

For us Eastern Orthodox Christians, Lent and Easter are five weeks behind your heretical schismatic western Easter this year {those who know my posts know I'm only teasing over the heretical bit}, so it's impossible for me to have failed at Lent because it hasn't even even started yet.

For us Eastern Orthodox Christians, Lent and Easter are five weeks behind your heretical schismatic western Easter this year {those who know my posts know I'm only teasing over the heretical bit}, so it's impossible for me to have failed at Lent because it hasn't even even started yet.

We're all heretics.:D

O-asatsu,
Nanatsu no Tsuki-hime

Lent is easy for me. I gave it up for Lent.

But by following the lent tradition of giving something up are you not observing it ? (if even that was the ONLY lent tradition you followed)

But by following the lent tradition of giving something up are you not observing it ? (if even that was the ONLY lent tradition you followed)

I think that just by knowing Lent has come, we're sort of observing it. Correct me inf I'm wrong.:confused:

O-asatsu,
Nanatsu no Tsuki-hime

I wonder where clowns go when they die?

Haven't failed it yet, though I came very close. I mean, giving up tasty junk food, why is it so hard to give up?

Because it's tasty....

I always give up in lent i can't hack it.
I agree i am pathic beond imagination :( :( :(
Madonasa

And then there's the Dutch Catholic concept of Lent... Ramadan for the rest of us.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/12/wlent112.xml

I guess Europe really is on its way to becoming a Muslim continent. Shows what a negligent immigration policy can do for a nation.

Huh? I thought the Netherlands were predominantly Protestant and have been for centuries?

Huh? I thought the Netherlands were predominantly Protestant and have been for centuries?
Contrary to popular belief, I don't make this up... I guess the Dutch Catholic church couldn't get enough interest in Lent, so they started calling it Christian Ramadan.

I think they made the wrong decision, but then I liked the Latin mass, too.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't make this up... I guess the Dutch Catholic church couldn't get enough interest in Lent, so they started calling it Christian Ramadan.

I think they made the wrong decision, but then I liked the Latin mass, too.

Well, according to the CIA factbook, the Roman Catholics are only outnumbered by atheists :

Roman Catholic 31%, Dutch Reformed 13%, Calvinist 7%, Muslim 5.5%, other 2.5%, none 41%

And calling it "Christian Ramadan" isn't going to endear them to many, I should think... But then again, the Catholic church isn't exactly known to be informed about public opinions.

I am so sorry... I hope you can recover at least some of the worth of your belongings and find a new place.
The manager went in (at some risk: from what I understand, my apartment was right below the one where the fire started, the whole ceiling caved in, and that section of the 3rd floor is off-limits) and retrieved most of the things that were actually of monetary value, even some stacks of photos and so on. Unpacking the bag of stuff he gave me was like Christmas: I didn't get everything I wanted, of course, but lots of "oh wow! oh wow!" after I was reconciled to everything being gone.