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What did you give up for Lent?
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Nothing.
If anything I added a whole bunch of ill-conceived things others arbitrarily consider vices.
Just to spite the potentiality of a 'caring', 'benevolent' 'deity' that inflicts my world with pain and misery as a test of how worthy I am to enjoy a dictator's 'paradise' in the afterlife if we operate from an Irenaean theodicy of ever-present salvation in life and death.
I will continue to accrue these vices at my leisure until the day I die, and if there is an afterlife I shall do so then as well. Because if at least 0.1% of humanity does likewise, Hell must be filled with some pretty awesome people I don't mind spending eternity with and you can't stop me doing lines of blow off a Gideon's travel Bible!
That and only communists and the Amish probably go to Heaven if we truly make an active judgment clause of self-denial in a world of pain and loneliness as the truest measure of human penitence. We're all screwed by simply thinking of Lent as a transitory thing in our spatiotemporal exitence, arbitrarily measured as such to provide relief from self-denial rather than living a life of it ... then again Amish heaven won't be my idea of heaven, either.
That's not where all the gambling and drugs will be, and all the people who treat life as an ecstatic jubilee of temporary graces.
If anything I added a whole bunch of ill-conceived things others arbitrarily consider vices.
Just to spite the potentiality of a 'caring', 'benevolent' 'deity' that inflicts my world with pain and misery as a test of how worthy I am to enjoy a dictator's 'paradise' in the afterlife if we operate from an Irenaean theodicy of ever-present salvation in life and death.
I will continue to accrue these vices at my leisure until the day I die, and if there is an afterlife I shall do so then as well. Because if at least 0.1% of humanity does likewise, Hell must be filled with some pretty awesome people I don't mind spending eternity with and you can't stop me doing lines of blow off a Gideon's travel Bible!
That and only communists and the Amish probably go to Heaven if we truly make an active judgment clause of self-denial in a world of pain and loneliness as the truest measure of human penitence. We're all screwed by simply thinking of Lent as a transitory thing in our spatiotemporal exitence, arbitrarily measured as such to provide relief from self-denial rather than living a life of it ... then again Amish heaven won't be my idea of heaven, either.
That's not where all the gambling and drugs will be, and all the people who treat life as an ecstatic jubilee of temporary graces.
I gave up givin--
By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians and Catholics "replicate" Jesus' sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. Some people fast, but the big thing is that for those 40 days you give up something (i.e. social media, internet, or something that plays a large part in your day-to-day life) and spend that time praying, repenting, etc. It's like a religious pre-game thing, get all high on repentance before the big Holy Week commemoration.
Well shit.Marik2 said:
Lent is a period of 40 days of "reflection and preparation" before the celebrations of Easter.bartholen said:
By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians and Catholics "replicate" Jesus' sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days. Some people fast, but the big thing is that for those 40 days you give up something (i.e. social media, internet, or something that plays a large part in your day-to-day life) and spend that time praying, repenting, etc. It's like a religious pre-game thing, get all high on repentance before the big Holy Week commemoration.
I have never given up anything for Lent, and I say this as a practicing and formerly devout Catholic.
I was referring to other followers of Lent, of course. If you wanted to make a joke about it, saying 'I gave up god for Lent' would've been funny, given your stance on religion.Dr. McD said:
One thing I never understood about Lent from a protestant perspective is Fat Tuesday (AKA Mardi Gras, Carnival, international hedonism day). If you're recognizing something as a vice and promising to give it up, why have a day celebrating it and just, sin in general?
I mean if you want to have a party that's great, but the timing is really freaking weird.
I mean if you want to have a party that's great, but the timing is really freaking weird.
I forgot it's a thing. Then again, the only special days I can care about are halloween and christmas.
Dostoyevsky is edgy now? News to me.inu-kun said:
Maximum edgelord.
Also, since when is refusing self-denial suddenly edgy? I was baptised Roman Catholic ... I don't suffer eternally for saying; "Nup. Par~tay~!"
The Pope told me it was okay. Catholics got rid of eternal damnation ages ago. Unlike heathen Protestants I'm covered whether I'm right or wrong about God. Catholics have been increasingly chill over the centuries...
