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Registered: June 06, 2004
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If you observe lent, what are you giving up? Honorablecoalition.tripod.com Whereas;This message has hereby been proudly deemed racism and bigotry free by the Great and Honorable Coalition Against Racism. MMIV - Youthnoise's First Coalition.
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Registered: June 22, 2004
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I am giving up gum and sweets. In school, one of my teachers makes this chart and everyone puts down what they are giving up. He holds us to and it and keeps track of when we have that something that we were supposed to have given up. I think it's cool that he is doing it.
I have not yet reached my goal, and I am not perfect. But Christ has taken hold of me. So I keep on running and struggling to take hold of the prize. My friends, I don't feel that I have already arrived. But I forget what is behind, and I struggle for wha
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Registered: August 17, 2001
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quote: No, none of it's wrong Ikki...none of it but YOURSELF. You're a terrible Lutheran, you disgrace the ELCA with your shoddy attendance record.
Whoa... You know my religion cause of Georgia, correct? Sea Monster... How come I haven't heard that one?
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Registered: May 03, 2003
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I'm with clpo for once.
I like these calm little moments before the storm.
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Registered: November 05, 2004
Posts: 6040
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quote: Interesting Lutheran Fact of The Day: Lutherans believe Jesus didn't actually walk on water---he was just standing on the floating dead body of a seamonster he killed with his bare hands.
What now?!
The more you know, the less you don't know.
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Registered: July 28, 2003
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I know someone who gets Absinthe smuggled in from France on a regular basis. Also they drink Absinthe in Eurotrip, funny movie, but it's a stupid scene. -----"""If any of this is wrong, I'm sorry. I haven't been to church in a year and a half.""" No, none of it's wrong Ikki...none of it but YOURSELF. You're a terrible Lutheran, you disgrace the ELCA with your shoddy attendance record. Interesting Lutheran Fact of The Day: Lutherans believe Jesus didn't actually walk on water---he was just standing on the floating dead body of a seamonster he killed with his bare hands.
"To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour..." -William Blake
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Registered: April 03, 2004
Posts: 6525
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Good luck on that Dave. I tried that for a few weeks, I went crazy within 3 days without a smoke.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
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Registered: March 09, 2004
Posts: 701
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i'm cutting back on smoking but not for ay religous reasons
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Registered: January 02, 2005
Posts: 29
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I am giving up my favorite food: ice cream. I am also going to try to be a better person and do volunteer projects during this season of lent.
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." -Mother Theresa
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Registered: June 14, 2004
Posts: 2721
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quote: Originally posted by jamaica17:
I will give up eating too much...lol... and I will give up sadness.
Um, I hate to tell you, but you can't really give up sadness. You feel how you feel about different situations and you can't really change that.
Belief makes things real/Makes things feel, feel alright/Belief makes things true/Things like you, you and I
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Registered: April 03, 2004
Posts: 6525
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Because he wants to. I haven't been to church in 2 months, so I might as well give up Catholicism as well. I don't pay attention in church anyway. Drinking Cookies Catholicism
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
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Registered: June 28, 2003
Posts: 2745
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quote: catholicism...
Why would you give up catholicism when Catholics observe lent?? and so do other Christians? |
Registered: April 03, 2004
Posts: 6525
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I'm giving up cookies and drinking.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
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Registered: June 28, 2003
Posts: 2745
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I will give up eating too much...lol... and I will give up sadness.
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Registered: November 22, 2004
Posts: 750
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catholicism... and absinthe.
"Mac, you ever been in love?" - "No, I've been a bartender all my life."
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Registered: February 18, 2004
Posts: 3177
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Chocolate, Ice cream, swearing, and solataire. Also meat on fridays most likely. One of my friends got ash on her forehead during ash wednesday and it smudged and ended up looking like a swastika.  Sorry, I just had to share that.
Hope for the best and expect the worst............take whatever life throws at you...
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Registered: February 05, 2005
Posts: 66
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Thanks for describing Lent. I have never observed it, though it sounds cool. I might try it some year. I think it is really cool you all are doing it.
I wish I could be like my dog Cloe and fall down in complete obedience to God. - Miss Teen Illionois
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Registered: August 17, 2001
Posts: 5811
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quote: Lent is the period of time between Ash Wednesday and....Palm Sunday, I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Palm Sunday (cuz that would be 40 days---I counted). People who observe Lent, give up something for that 40 days & 40 nights (if you've seen the movie, he gives up sex). I don't know the Christian history behind it exactly except it's supposed to represent the suffering and sacrifices that Jesus had to go through until his death and his rising from the tomb. That's why Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday was yesterday, so people who observe Lent can like eat as much chocolate as they want (like if chocolate was what they were giving up).
Okay. I'm pretty sure Lent goes from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday... Weekends don't always count. The 40 days were when Jesus fasted in the desert and decided whether to be betrayed or to flee. Palm Sunday is the start of the Holy Week which is when Jesus entered the City again. And Maundy Thursday is the last supper/night he was betrayed, Good Friday is the day he was Crucified, and Easter, when Lent ends, is the day he rose from the dead. If any of this is wrong, I'm sorry. I haven't been to church in a year and a half.
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Registered: November 05, 2004
Posts: 6040
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I do observe Lent, being a Christian and all, but I don't think I will give up anything. The only vice I may have is spending too much time on the computer, but I will not give up the computer for 40 days. It's bad enough if I can't get on for a weekend. I simply have too many things I need access to on the computer. Yes, I do have other things I could possibly give up, but I don't particularly want to. Maybe I'll give up cursing people out when they cut me off in the school parking lot...
The more you know, the less you don't know.
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Registered: May 03, 2003
Posts: 8901
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How did you procure Absinthe in the US, FML?
I like these calm little moments before the storm.
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