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Username: Jrvass
Post Number: 452
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 7:27 am: |    |
So, what are you giving up for Lent?
I decided to give up self-denial.
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Mauser765
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Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2448
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 7:59 am: | |
I gave up Catholicism. |
Scooter2k7
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Username: Scooter2k7
Post Number: 70
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 8:35 am: | |
Mauser, then why are practicing a Catholic tradition? |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11495
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 9:31 am: | |
Logically, he might've UP until that point of decision.
Unfortunately, once baptized and confirmed, he'll be counted for life! I don't think they even stop counting those who are EXcommunicated in their tallies, can't show the numbers going down! |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 10091
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 11:20 am: | |
Sweets of any kind including pastries, pop, chips.
Next year I might go for alcohol. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2679
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 1:22 pm: | |
If it's lent, when are you getting it back? |
Foxyscholar
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Username: Foxyscholar
Post Number: 24
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 1:26 pm: | |
Meat... I'm not Roman Catholic. I do appreciate the principle behind Lent: as a sacrifice.... Plus I hope to come out a vegetarian on the other side of the 40 days....
(Message edited by Foxyscholar on February 06, 2008) |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 11512
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 1:31 pm: | |
Ah-h-h, Ray, it is 'lent' to the Maker, the return will be magnificently more...but different, what each needs for their faith. |
Ptpelee
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Username: Ptpelee
Post Number: 32
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 1:35 pm: | |
Better Made potato chips, actually all potato chips! |
Rb336
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Username: Rb336
Post Number: 4987
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 1:45 pm: | |
I gave up religion for lent a looooong time ago |
El_jimbo
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Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 566
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 2:14 pm: | |
alcohol...It's going to be a LONG couple of weeks. I apologize in advance for my grouchiness. |
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 256
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 2:14 pm: | |
Shovelling my driveway. |
Awfavre
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Username: Awfavre
Post Number: 194
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 2:31 pm: | |
“Lightening Ups” (I’m not Catholic, but it’s good for me, so I’ll lighten up a bit):
1) Chocolate only 2x week (it’s not as hard as it was ten years ago).
2) Alcohol only 2x week (I’m a homebrewer, I must partake of the nectar of the gods!) Anything past that is a $5 penalty, to be donated to charity at the end of Lent.
3) Cussing only 2x day – one for the drive in, & one for the drive home (the actual timeframe of occurrence is negotiable). Anything past that is a $1 penalty per cuss word, to be donated to charity at the end of Lent.
“Take Ups:”
1) Each day, write down the three things for which I am most thankful that day.
2) Once a week, do something beyond what I normally do to better myself, my work environment, my career, my health, etc. (I can complain all I want, but that won’t make me healthier or happier.)
3) Don’t always take the easy path or do something the easy way – do the right thing, or do something the right way. [This one’s the hardest to describe] E.G.: It may be easiest for me to shoot an email to someone, but the better way may be to make a phone call; or, it may be easiest for me to ignore the trash by my office building, but the right thing to do is pick it up. |
Jrvass
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Username: Jrvass
Post Number: 456
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 3:15 pm: | |
Awfavre,
That's the spirit!
I found out today that the battery in my 2004 Avalanche gave up the ghost for Lent! |
Fury13
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Username: Fury13
Post Number: 3840
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 3:18 pm: | |
Junk food, processed snacks, candy, etc. |
Bobj
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Username: Bobj
Post Number: 3777
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 4:04 pm: | |
Awfawre,
great post - you gave me a few ideas |
Waz
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Username: Waz
Post Number: 258
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 9:57 pm: | |
El_jimbo, uhh...it's 40 days and 40 nights, not just a couple of weeks.
I was going to give up the demon rum as well, but after tonite's drive home (3 hrs.) I already submitted. |
Raptor56
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Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 258
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 10:20 pm: | |
Awfavre: very commendable!
I'm making the effort to get back in the groove of going to Church every weekend. I started going every Sunday during Lent as a teenager, and it lasted for about 5 years before I got overly self indulged busy on the weekends.
Also giving up meat on Wednesdays and Fridays. No ulterior vegetarian motives |