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25th Feb 2009, 08:16 PM
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w_sims
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Join Date: Jan 2009 |
Have you given up anything for lent? I've given up text speak (and the use of "lol.") I've never used it in texts, but now my instant messaging will be proper speech, too! Have you given up anything interesting for lent? (this year or any others!) and have you stuck to it? |
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Last edited by wgroome : 14th Jun 2011 at 03:16 PM.
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25th Feb 2009, 08:42 PM
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Petchy
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I am trying to stick to not saying "Oh My God", for lots of reasons; I *will* stick to it.. Honestly! Its more about breaking out of the Habit, and finding an alternative 
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26th Feb 2009, 12:40 AM
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PuX- 80's
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Join Date: Mar 2008 |
I'm not a Christian, but 'was' and like the challenge. I think I've desided to give up on 'after dinner' snacks. Today is the only exeption, my grandma made Portugeese donuts :D My only reason of picking that is to possibly help nudge closer to my (small) weight loss goal. Last year and the year before I gave up red meat (making me semi-vegetarian for 40 days). I sucessfully pulled it off both times and completely became semi-veg. :D |
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So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you I should've known you'd bring me heartache Almost lovers always do |
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26th Feb 2009, 12:51 AM
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slipknot93
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Join Date: Oct 2008 |
I seriously only heard about "lent" this year and what I think is that's the most pointless thing ever, so basically your suposed to give up something you liek doing? no way |
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“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”-Marilyn Manson |
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26th Feb 2009, 12:59 AM
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Slytherin-Girl
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Join Date: Feb 2006 |
I'm giving up Candy. No seriously, I am. I eat far to much and it's not good for me. |
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26th Feb 2009, 01:15 AM
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BR_FL
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slipknot93, the point is to get limit something that detracts from what's really important in our lives. Whether it be to better the communication with God, people around you, or yourself. It's kinda like fasting from whatever you choose. I'm giving up french fries. Junk food has become too much of a norm for me (and I eat fries everyday now at school. Not healthy mind or body). I really plan on sticking to it but sometimes I forget  Not this year.
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26th Feb 2009, 01:15 AM
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Kirbs
Field Researcher
Join Date: Dec 2008 |
I'm giving up sugary snacks. Like ice cream, candy, soda, sugar cookies. I eat to many =/ |
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Just put your paws up, Cause you were born this way, Baby.
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26th Feb 2009, 01:28 AM
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Dreamydre
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I've honestly never heard of this Lent thing 
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26th Feb 2009, 04:42 AM
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Hmm. . . Well, I am going to give up sloppiness. My locker is a sty, and I found what I think is a brown vanilla pudding behind my Society and History book. It is very distracting to find something in your locker that you can't remember putting in.I am going to give up eating so little. I had a small bucket of chips (those small packets of chips that say "hot chips", some of you may know what I am talking about.) and I was full for the rest of the day, and at camp, I would eat a small piece of meat and a potato. It isn't healthy, and it has become too normal, so I am going to eat more. :P |
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This allows me to see into the minds of people! That's right, I can actually see what they're thinking!
So long as what they're thinking is exactly what I think they're thinking.
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26th Feb 2009, 12:46 PM
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Rabid
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Join Date: Jan 1970 |
I have a friend whose little brothers (they're fifteen and twelve) have been giving up beer ever since they were old enough to understand the concept of Lent. It's not that they actually drink beer- they just don't see that Lent is giving up something important to you . They tried to give up homework once, but that didn't fly.
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27th Feb 2009, 08:56 AM
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KyleTheArtist
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I'll try give up laziness and snacks. I need to loose a bit of weight and also i need to practise putting things away(I'm about to be a wife so I will be looking after the house most of the time >_>) |
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27th Feb 2009, 01:21 PM
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ceegamus_SC
Join Date: Feb 2009 |
I gave up religion for Lent once, and never went back. No, that's not a troll post. Religion, with it's constant hatred of anything different, detracts from my life's goal, which is happiness. |
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27th Feb 2009, 03:43 PM
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SimLove
Test Subject
Join Date: Nov 2008 |
I will try and stop smoking, I really need to. I will also try and stop being rude to people who cross my path(meaning"walking in a shop or eating out.ect) Im really rude when my mood hits the bottom. But i will try this year to be smoke free and friendly to everybody. Q. Who came up with Lent? |
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27th Feb 2009, 05:10 PM
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cavilez
Forum Resident
Join Date: Aug 2006 |
What the heck is "lent"? That sounds like the dryer stuff but spelled differently.
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27th Feb 2009, 05:15 PM
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Slytherin-Girl
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Join Date: Feb 2006 |
Copy and pasted from Wikipedia, because it explains stuff better than I can: Lent, in some Christian denominations, is the forty-day-long liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. The forty days represent the time Jesus spent in the desert, where according to the Bible he endured temptation by Satan. Different churches calculate the forty days differently. The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer—through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial—for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. So a lot of people give up something they like for lent (Booze, chocolate etc) as a form of fasting/penance/whatever you wanna call it. |
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27th Feb 2009, 05:38 PM
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moldova49
Join Date: Jan 1970 |
Slipknot93, it isn't pointless for Christians.  It's a sacrfice, to cleanse oneself.I am giving up television except for American Idol. And I am also giving up sweets, I do that every year. And good job Pux - 80's I could never give up red meat! :p |
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