So what are you giving up for lent?

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:32 am

Are ya gonna give up something you really like or chicken out and pick something you don't actually care about? (Guess which option I choose.)

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:38 am

Never really got the idea of giving up something for Lent. Guess I'm not very religious.

Maybe I'll give up shortening nicks for everyone on the board, except of course for Izzaryn_du.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:41 am

I'm giving up religious observance.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:42 am

I promise not to play Danny Boy the entire time.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:43 am

Oddly enough, none of the people I know who always go on about "giving summats up fer Lent" are religious, and the 'giving up' normally lasts about as long as New Year resolutions.
This year I'm giving up pancakes. (After tonight I won't be able to face them for weeks anyway.)

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:46 am

I've never done it. And as I believe I may be in the process of seguing from lifelong Presbyterian to Unitarian, I'll have to wait and see whether UU's are into that, but I expect not.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:47 am

I recall Redwolf giving up posting here for Lent one year. She stuck to it too.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:49 am

I'm thinking of giving up broccoli, but my wife is not being supportive.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:50 am

Ah, in that case I'm giving up humour and Jello pudding.

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:59 am

Martin Milner wrote:Ah, in that case I'm giving up humour and Jello pudding.

So, you'll only be watching American comedies, then? (Since they contain humor, not humour.)

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:02 am

Wombat wrote:I'm giving up religious observance.

Oh, you beat me to it.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:12 am

Martin Milner wrote:Ah, in that case I'm giving up humour ...

I thought you did that already!

I'm giving up posting to off-topic threads. Yeah, right.

Okay, then really I'm giving up lusting after Bloomfield. ... Yeah, right.

Okay, then really I'm giving up ...well, everything is just so important to me... I guess I'll just stick with all of it!

Susan

benwalker · Post by **benwalker** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:29 am

I'll try not to f*rt so much.... Don't think I can abstain completely

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:41 am

I used to give up the internet entirely during Lent for various reasons (and it was a good discipline too...hard to do!). I haven't done that for the past couple of years, however, because I'm a moderator on another board and I don't like to leave them in the lurch.

This year I'll be doing a dawn to dusk fast, with only liquids during the day and one small meal in the evening. Food is a major compulsive issue with me, so that will be a good discipline too. Also, as a family, we will be praying the office of Compline nightly before bed.

Lenten observance is an offering, so there's really no reason for someone who isn't religious to do it. There's really no compulsion to do it at all...as my old rector used to say: "All may, some should, none must." I find it beneficial, personally, but that's me.

Redwolf

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:52 am

I'm going to give up being so nice to other people.