Lent

I am not religious, but, in the spirit of tradition I may give up something after today until Easter.

I may give up pancakes.
 
After watching this video:


I'm going to try and go the 40 days without buying any plastic. Should be an interesting challenge!
 
Decided to follow along last year and gave up fizzy drinks. Been on 1 litre to 1.5 litres a day of the stuff and just canned it last year. Now I don't even miss them. :)
 
A pointless exercise. Why not make concerted efforts to rid yourself of (what you consider to be) negative aspects of your life now, and forever, in an attempt to better yourself instead of doing to appease some sort of religious duty or idea, or god?

If you don't believe in the religious aspect, why not then do it now? Or any other day? Why wait for a small amount of time during which you'll essentially rid yourself of certain things which you'll probably just restart aftewards because the event is meaningless?
 
I do that as part of my daily life, bettering myself. My whole life is a continuous path to improvement and minimising negativity. However, whilst I do understand what you're saying, and I completely agree, it's something I've always done, and something I believe in doing. :)
 
I'm gonna give up telling people they should take off and nuke things from orbit. I'll also fail to mention its the only way to be sure.

I'm not actually a Catholic, but I dont mind playing along.
 
Freefaller said:
I do that as part of my daily life, bettering myself. My whole life is a continuous path to improvement and minimising negativity. However, whilst I do understand what you're saying, and I completely agree, it's something I've always done, and something I believe in doing. :)
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Fair enough then. And I hope you acheive what you set out to. :D

I just wish more people had your attitude.
 
Gackt said:
A pointless exercise. Why not make concerted efforts to rid yourself of (what you consider to be) negative aspects of your life now, and forever, in an attempt to better yourself instead of doing to appease some sort of religious duty or idea, or god?

If you don't believe in the religious aspect, why not then do it now? Or any other day? Why wait for a small amount of time during which you'll essentially rid yourself of certain things which you'll probably just restart aftewards because the event is meaningless?
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Your position is obviously rational - but doesn't take into account psychology. A lot of people need artificial structures (like Lent) to do this kind of thing. It's not rational but that doesn't make it a pointless exercise. A lot of how people's heads work isn't rational.
 
Gackt said:
A pointless exercise. Why not make concerted efforts to rid yourself of (what you consider to be) negative aspects of your life now, and forever, in an attempt to better yourself instead of doing to appease some sort of religious duty or idea, or god?

If you don't believe in the religious aspect, why not then do it now? Or any other day? Why wait for a small amount of time during which you'll essentially rid yourself of certain things which you'll probably just restart aftewards because the event is meaningless?
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Oh shut up, whats it got to do with you what other people want to do!
 
Gackt said:
Fair enough then. And I hope you acheive what you set out to. :D

I just wish more people had your attitude.
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Well having been through a lot of rubbish in my life, I decided to turn myself around and look for the positive aspects in everything I see. One of the reasons I'm so into my fitness/gym and eating well, as well as generally being laid back and as friendly as I can be to those around me. Life's too short!

I do feel for people who genuinely do not want to better themselves, or are just happy milling along achieving very little who then are outwardly negative, bitter and hateful to those that are not.

Whilst I agree, it can seem a little daft to try and improve yourself in the short term, sometimes the short term gains, can lead to long term benefits. Lent was always supposed to be a period of relfection too - however, these days we're all so busy that being introspective is spared little time. If people can draw a parallel with ridding something out of their lives for 40 days, they may come to the realisation that they may be able to do it with other negative or unnecessary items within their lives?

It's a good point you make thoug.

clv101 said:
Your position is obviously rational - but doesn't take into account psychology. A lot of people need artificial structures (like Lent) to do this kind of thing. It's not rational but that doesn't make it a pointless exercise. A lot of how people's heads work isn't rational.
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So true, we're irrational beings - I think that's what he's aiming at though. Try to rationally bring your life into order as much as possible, in the hope that in time that irrationality and reactionary and dependent behaviour can start to subside?

As I said above, which completely agrees with your point, sometimes Lent can be the catalyst to further improvements, or some form of right of passage to achieving something with conviction which can then later be applied to other aspects of one's life...
 
I don't really do/eat anything in excess to the point where giving it up for lent would have a point. The only thing I do too much is play video games, however I enjoy that and it helps me relax in the evenings so why give it up?

If I needed to eat less cake or something then that'd be something to give up for lent I suppose :)

I don't do "religion" so don't try that reasoning on me ;)
 
I'm going to give up sleeping with women for lent.

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