Lent - Feb 22nd, 2023, What do You Deny Yourself?

Yeah. I give up pretending to not be religious and giving up shit for some arbitrary month.

I plan to give up poppers for Lent.

And that's quite a challenge for me since I'm a big poppers queen.

I give up splitting infinitives.

This year, I will give up violent eye-rolls, when someone like OP says something mind-numblingly stupid.

Fortunately, it isn't Lent yet.

Actually, as an atheist, I won't give up anything - why would I? I don't celebrate Lent, as I am an atheist.

OP, why, if you're an atheist would you indulge in a silly Catholic ritual?

Hello DL, I gave up "Being Catholic" after that "Childhood-Foster care from Hell"

Everyyear, I give up smoking. drinking, race car driving& parachute jumping. I tell my very funny, nice Episcopalian Minister the same thing every time. It's "Catholic light".

I try to be nicer to people, but sometimes I fail at that (a lot)

You know what else you fail at, R6? Punctuation. Are you posting while getting pounded, Phillywhore, is that why your post is such a mess? Like your pussy?

I'll give up Catholicism. And my horrible, recurrent memories of being an altar boy for a molesting priest.

Lent is not a diet.

Lent is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness. It's not so you can give up Gummi Bears.

Some of you need to give up DL for Lent.

To R7, see, that is "being mean" for no reason. Let a smile be your umbrella, OP.

Smile and the world smiles with you, bitch and act like a Cunt and you Cunt alone! We will not mention that run on sentence you typed. plus your hole is "bigger. wider and looser than Pam Anderson's stretched out pussy".

lol, r11

and not a bad idea

I'm an atheist. I'm a nice person. I punctuate correctly. I will deny myself nothing!

I'll be giving up sugar, too, OP. I'm not religious, but I like the ritual. And after a gluttonous Christmas and post-Christmas, the doing without will do me good.

"bitch and act like a Cunt and you Cunt alone!"

Not on Datalounge, R12 darling.

Booze.

Do you, Philly whore! We love you. And get your car off the street and board up your windows.

[quote] But every year during Lent, sugar, chocolate, cakes, pies, candy, etc. cannot cross my lips.

Except when your oral top shoots all that stuff down your throat. You are not on your knees because of lent.

Most Irish Catholic men used to give up drinking. It probably was a good thing. I gave up cunnilingus.

I give up suffering during Lent. I'm no good in the wilderness alone.

-To R17, Thanks OP. all of my multiple personalities love all of your multiple personalities. BTW, I wanted the 49'ers to win the SUPER BOWL!! My Condo is the 5th floor in a very nice quiet area of CC Philly (very secure,safe Gilded age townhouse)

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During Lent, I’ll give up being Kosher.

[quote] (very secure,safe Gilded age townhouse)

That means nothing. There have been drive-by shootings in Rittenhouse Square.

Don't worry OP, I know exactly what has been going on in CC Philly since Thanksgiving. I have a permit to carry a gun and I know how to shoot for maximum damage. Also, I know what body parts to blow away. I grew up in and beside a housing project in East Falls.

I do not participate in religious paganry.

[quote]I'm a stone-cold atheist. But every year during Lent, sugar, chocolate, cakes, pies, candy, etc. cannot cross my lips.

Are you serious OP? But you're a self confessed "stone-cold atheist".

Cannot cross your lips? Sounds to me like you're extremely religious.

I'm not religious, but I heard a priest speak about Lent some years ago. He said instead of approaching it as "giving up" something, to reframe it as giving OF something--you. Giving of your free/spare time to do good works for others. This benefits both yourself spiritually and those you give of your time to. It doesn't have to be people you are giving your time to. You could pick trash up off of the beach or in your local parks. Get out in nature and nurture it. He pointedly remarked that in his experience most people would much rather go with the sacrifice of a favorite food or drink as they "suffer through the ordeal" while lying on the couch watching Netflix. I agree with what R9 said.

I gave up giving up things for Lent and went the opposite direction, trying to do something positive as R27 suggests. Last year, I corralled all the loose shopping carts in any parking lot I was in.

This year for Lent I will go on a bender that will last 40 days and 40 nights.

I’ll will continue to ignore this superstitious nonsense and live a rational life

I'm atheist as well, but I'm all about spring cleaning, pairing down things I don't need, organizing my place, deep cleaning, etc.

Being seasonally inspired doesn't need to have anything to do with any religion or dogma. I live in Ohio, so we get all the seasons.

I'm not "denying" myself anything tbh, just a happy squirrel looking for a nut, lol.

I don't pick up trash.. I pay taxes so someone will do that.

A former coworker of mine used to say she’d get pink champagne in Heaven as her reward for giving up sweets for Lent.

And 122 virgins!