Lent Thread

[Favpack]

It's the season of Lent. I need to give up something come Wednesday - not sure what.

How about you?

[grayowl60]

It's the season of Lent. I need to give up something come Wednesday - not sure what.

How about you?
As I do every year, I will be giving up skydiving and sushi.

[Favpack]

As I do every year, I will be giving up skydiving and sushi.

Look up sacrifice in the dictionary and you see this.

:rolleyes:

[mad_fan]

investing...

[slorch]

giving up my extra tax dollars...

I guess Obama was just helping me along on this one...:rolleyes:

[pied]

giving up my extra tax dollars...

I guess Obama was just helping me along on this one...:rolleyes:

True, but your giving less than you were under Bush and likely would have under McCain correct?

I am a Methodist, but am thinking of taking a spiritual discipline, daily reading/prayer/something, and not giving something up.

Anyone have any good suggestions?

[slorch]

True, but your giving less than you were under Bush and likely would have under McCain correct? not in the long run. we get to pay for the $ Trillion Spendulus Package, remember...

I am a Methodist, but am thinking of taking a spiritual discipline, daily reading/prayer/something, and not giving something up.

Anyone have any good suggestions?

study Mike Leach on public speaking/ interviewing. see if you could pull off a more disheveled yet candid performance while doing the weather, calling out 85k aggies, or just thumbing your nose at your AD...:D

cannot go wrong with prayer and Bible study, IMO.

[ktCarl]

It's the season of Lent. I need to give up something come Wednesday - not sure what.

How about you?

How about Catholicism?


:eek:

I've suggested to KT2000 to make a sticky thread on religion. I bet it would be as volatile and interesting as any political thread.

[pied]

study Mike Leach on public speaking/ interviewing. see if you could pull off a more disheveled yet candid performance while doing the weather, calling out 85k aggies, or just thumbing your nose at your AD...:D

cannot go wrong with prayer and Bible study, IMO.

not in the long run. we get to pay for the $ Trillion Spendulus Package, remember...


ummm- lent only lasts until April 12th, depends on what long run means to you I guess.

[chunky79]

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[Firebird]

not in the long run. we get to pay for the $ Trillion Spendulus Package, remember...


ummm- lent only lasts until April 12th, depends on what long run means to you I guess.

I amazed at the number of Republicans that have suddenly become budget hawks and are now worried about long term deficits and the national debt. If you have voted Republican after 2004, you have voted for big spending, big government, deficits, and wasetful stimulus packages.I will forgive 2000, because you voted for a promise, but by 2004 the record is now clear.

Unless you voted Ron Paul in the primary and then Libertarian in the general, then there's no grounds for you to to gripe about spending. You've been voting and nodding your heads along with the Republican pundits in praise of the biggest spendthrifts in history until this group. You're just mad that it isn't your side spending away my future.

[slorch]

I amazed at the number of Republicans that have suddenly become budget hawks and are now worried about long term deficits and the national debt. If you have voted Republican after 2004, you have voted for big spending, big government, deficits, and wasetful stimulus packages.I will forgive 2000, because you voted for a promise, but by 2004 the record is now clear.

Unless you voted Ron Paul in the primary and then Libertarian in the general, then there's no grounds for you to to gripe about spending. You've been voting and nodding your heads along with the Republican pundits in praise of the biggest spendthrifts in history until this group. You're just mad that it isn't your side spending away my future.

so i must sell out my other values strictly for Paul's economic views?

i voted. My candidate did not win the election.

i get to gripe.

next...

[Firebird]

so i must sell out my other values strictly for Paul's economic views?

i voted. My candidate did not win the election.

i get to gripe.

next...

You don't get to gripe. You never had any gripes when GWB was doing the same thing as Obama for eight years, which was spending the nation into oblivion. You went out of your way to explain it away and justify it. Like most, you don't really care what anyone does as long as they have the right letter behind their name.

[slorch]

You don't get to gripe. You never had any gripes when GWB was doing the same thing as Obama for eight years, which was spending the nation into oblivion. You went out of your way to explain it away and justify it. Like most, you don't really care what anyone does as long as they have the right letter behind their name.

I did?

i never took issue with 43?

wow I guess I forgot.:rolleyes:

[slorch]

You don't get to gripe. You never had any gripes when GWB was doing the same thing as Obama for eight years, which was spending the nation into oblivion. You went out of your way to explain it away and justify it. Like most, you don't really care what anyone does as long as they have the right letter behind their name.

you say that is if GWB never turned off his conservative base with his liberal like behavior...

you work for a history book company?

[ktCarl]

so i must sell out my other values strictly for Paul's economic views?

i voted. My candidate did not win the election.

i get to gripe.

next...

Paul was the only conservative and fiscally responsible candidate in the primaries.

[rocketgrl94]

It's the season of Lent. I need to give up something come Wednesday - not sure what.

How about you?

i used too.. i did soda, another time beef...this time im doin' nothing, nada, zilch, goose egg, zero

[slorch]

Paul was the only conservative and fiscally responsible candidate in the primaries.

I could make a case for Alan Keyes, for whom I voted, even if he is not AS fiscally conservative as Paul.

[smw358]

I could make a case for Alan Keyes, for whom I voted, even if he is not AS fiscally conservative as Paul.

Yep!

[hunterbunter]

If i keep reading this board, i might give up on Obama

[rocketgrl94]

If i keep reading this board, i might give up on Obama

give up Mickey D's!!!... i have for awhile anyways:D

[hunterbunter]

give up Mickey D's!!!... i have for awhile anyways:D

psssh you're craaazy. how bout you give up black guys. see, how does that feel?

[rocketgrl94]

psssh you're craaazy. how bout you give up black guys. see, how does that feel?

ohhh heeeelllllllll naaaaaaawwww u must be out your damn mind!!!!:eek::D

[svhorns]

ohhh heeeelllllllll naaaaaaawwww u must be out your damn mind!!!!:eek::D

It's "You must be out of your damn mind."

[rocketgrl94]

It's "You must be out of your damn mind."

nooo...its not Mr. Proper

[svhorns]

nooo...its not Mr. Proper

it's

and you forgot a period at the end of your statement.

[rocketgrl94]

it's

and you forgot a period at the end of your statement.

im saving keystrokes damn it!

[katyfan52]

True, but your giving less than you were under Bush and likely would have under McCain correct?

I am a Methodist, but am thinking of taking a spiritual discipline, daily reading/prayer/something, and not giving something up.

Anyone have any good suggestions?
The Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox.

I used to always try to get my Mom to let me give up broccoli stems and celery, but it never worked. :(;)

[okt0ber]

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[RocklandDragon]

Haha1 It's Lent... not lint. (It ain't pronounced the same). :D :D :D :p

A few years ago, I gave up red meat for lent (still got to eat chicken). That sh** was HARD!!! Then I gave up fast-food for lent...and that was hard!!

I ain't gonna lie, though. It worked! I lost weight each time and when I gave up fast-food I saved a good amount of money. Ramen Noodles were my friend.

:cool:

[lonny23]

It's the season of Lent. I need to give up something come Wednesday - not sure what.

How about you?
The whole plan is flawed. Anything that a person, in most cases, gives up for 40 days is something they shouldn't be doing to start with. I used to live in New Orleans and was there for the last few days and God doesn't want people to act like fools and then be good for 40 days.

[BDB]

The whole plan is flawed. Anything that a person, in most cases, gives up for 40 days is something they shouldn't be doing to start with. I used to live in New Orleans and was there for the last few days and God doesn't want people to act like fools and then be good for 40 days.

sometimes i think you're a real person...then you say this ****, and i realize you're pretty much the higher-ended version of that steaming pile that people step in when they're wearing their good shoes...

[TexasRed6x]

give up Mickey D's!!!... i have for awhile anyways:D

Liar! the first day will kill you enough that you will be in line the next day for the McRib! :D

[Fleeman93]

I am going to give up lint for lent. I picked up a belly button lint blocker that I will use religiously for 40 days.

[rocketgrl94]

Liar! the first day will kill you enough that you will be in line the next day for the McRib! :D

25 days in detox!!!!:D

[The King]

The whole plan is flawed. Anything that a person, in most cases, gives up for 40 days is something they shouldn't be doing to start with. I used to live in New Orleans and was there for the last few days and God doesn't want people to act like fools and then be good for 40 days.

This!!

Also I wonder if anybody is giving up 5Atexasfootball for lent???

[rocketgrl94]

This!!

Also I wonder if anybody is giving up 5Atexasfootball for lent???

helll nooo...not me!:D

[The King]

helll nooo...not me!:D

Yeah I just thought it might be sacrilidge sp to do that.

[ktCarl]

I could make a case for Alan Keyes, for whom I voted, even if he is not AS fiscally conservative as Paul.

I forgot Keyes was running but wasn't he running as an Independant? I should have specified Republicans :cool:

[RocklandDragon]

The whole plan is flawed. Anything that a person, in most cases, gives up for 40 days is something they shouldn't be doing to start with. I used to live in New Orleans and was there for the last few days and God doesn't want people to act like fools and then be good for 40 days.

You do realize that the point of Lent is not to just give up your vices for 40 days but to limit or eliminate your vices altogether. Lent is a highlighted time to remind Christians (notably Catholics) that it's time to try to live without some of your guilty pleasures or things you indulge in too much.

Lent season (for me anyway) is a time to reflect on some things I will try to limit or better myself in. I gave up cussing for Lent a long while back and it helped. I didn't have to cuss like a sailor to get my point across. I didn't have to eat out as much (and I don't eat out as much as I used to). I don't eat as much as red meat as I used to.

So, please understand this...Lent is not a time where you give up something, like smoking a bag of weed a day, for 40 days and after Easter you smoke a bag of weed a day again.

[okt0ber]

sometimes i think you're a real person...then you say this ****, and i realize you're pretty much the higher-ended version of that steaming pile that people step in when they're wearing their good shoes...


Why? He's right....

[okt0ber]

You do realize that the point of Lent is not to just give up your vices for 40 days but to limit or eliminate your vices altogether. Lent is a highlighted time to remind Christians (notably Catholics) that it's time to try to live without some of your guilty pleasures or things you indulge in too much.

Lent season (for me anyway) is a time to reflect on some things I will try to limit or better myself in. I gave up cussing for Lent a long while back and it helped. I didn't have to cuss like a sailor to get my point across. I didn't have to eat out as much (and I don't eat out as much as I used to). I don't eat as much as red meat as I used to.

So, please understand this...Lent is not a time where you give up something, like smoking a bag of weed a day, for 40 days and after Easter you smoke a bag of weed a day again.


blah blah blah.... see, why did you need lent to be a better person? If I needed to stop something indulgent, I would do it. I don't need a religous reason to do so.

[BDB]

Why? He's right....

so i can't pay a pilgrimage to jesus for the 40 days he spent in the desert?

[RedRage00]

I gave up being Catholic years ago. lol

[ktCarl]

Someone PM me. I'm not Catholic and I don't understand Lent, Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. The only thing I know about Mardi Gras is a bunch of people get drunk and they may not all be Catholics.

[The King]

Someone PM me. I'm not Catholic and I don't understand Lent, Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. The only thing I know about Mardi Gras is a bunch of people get drunk and they may not all be Catholics.

You don't have to be Catholic to Celebrate Mardi Grau, you just have to wanna drink many beers, throw beads, or flash.

[RocklandDragon]

blah blah blah.... see, why did you need lent to be a better person? If I needed to stop something indulgent, I would do it. I don't need a religous reason to do so.

It's not like I decide to make changes only during Lent but when Lent arrives I look and see what else I should be doing to become better.

See...I don't get this. I don't see why you bash something that is (meant to be) used to help people better themselves. If Lent helps people to limit their vices, then what's the problem? It has helped me very well so why do you have issues with that?

Geez...

[rocketgrl94]

It's not like I decide to make changes only during Lent but when Lent arrives I look and see what else I should be doing to become better.

See...I don't get this. I don't see why you bash something that is (meant to be) used to help people better themselves. If Lent helps people to limit their vices, then what's the problem? It has helped me very well so why do you have issues with that?

Geez...

Oktober has issues

[RocklandDragon]

I gave up being Catholic years ago. lol

That's ok. Many people have and I don't really have a problem with it. I really don't. Catholicism, I guess, isn't meant for everybody, I suppose. I've noticed though that each Catholic church can vary greatly on how they present the word. Just in Lubbock alone, I've been to a few Catholic churches and each have a different approach. Some speak very coldly and say we must repent. Others are more optimistic and seem more friendly and open to people that have sinned. It just seems that way.

[slorch]

I think I'll give up on JTK for lent...