Lent

I haven't got anything worth giving up.

Some mates are doing various different things.
One is giving up alcohol... But only while he's in England (going on a beach hol soon)
Two others are giving up facebook :-/
 
Azza said:
Nothing, it's like New Year's resolution rubbish... why do something on 'X' day in 'X' days time for 'X' amount of time when you can do it right away. Should be doing something for yourself, to improve your quality of life. Like no drinking or eating crappy foods just for the sake of it because it's Lent... honestly! Proper grinds my gears!
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Missing the point much? It's not about yourself its about the celebration of the Christian faith. :p
 
Time to get on the health food kick again. Lent's as good a time as any. I'll start properly when I wake up tomorrow. I'm busy eating biscuits at the moment.
 
i'm going to try giving up procrastination.

my Dissertation is due on the 28th of April, but my birthday is on the 24th.

Hopefully i can finish my dissertation before the 24th so i can have some birthday-fun before handing it in :)
 
I'm not religious and if there was anything I wanted to give up I would have done so by now, I don't need some stupid tradition to make me feel like I am superior because I didn't touch a bag of crisps for 40 days
 
I lent giving things up to someone else and never got it back :)

I'm surprised that joke hasn't appeared already.

Lent doesn't apply to me, so I won't be doing anything. And no, I don't celebrate Christmas or any other religious midwinter festival.
 
Angilion said:
I lent giving things up to someone else and never got it back :)

I'm surprised that joke hasn't appeared already.

Lent doesn't apply to me, so I won't be doing anything. And no, I don't celebrate Christmas or any other religious midwinter festival.
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lolwut, you don't celebrate Christmas?
 
steve-h said:
lolwut, you don't celebrate Christmas?
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You have just asked me if I don't celebrate Christmas in reply to a post in which I wrote that I don't celebrate Christmas. Doesn't that seem strange to you?

If you meant to ask if I meant that I don't celebrate Christmas, then yes, that is what I meant. I don't celebrate Christmas.

If you meant to ask why, the answer is simple. It's a religious festival for two religions in ancient Rome, none of which I follow, that was usurped by a made-up festival for Christianity, another religion I don't follow, and peppered with bits Christianity absorbed from other religions I don't follow. So Christmas has nothing to do with me - why would I celebrate it?

If you're mistaking Christmas for the secular midwinter festival, well, that's a common mistake that I don't make. Christ's Mass is not a secular thing. I don't celebrate the secular midwinter festival either, but that's just because I don't care about a commercialism festival that's usurped a Christian festival that's usurped a Mithraic festival and an older Roman festival.
 
Angilion - I think you have missed the other point of Christmas, you don't have to be religious to celebrate it. If you only believed in that, i presume your life is pretty dull if you believe in everything so strongly as you do in the drivel above. Or are you selectively trying to be cool by not 'conforming'
 
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