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the most important time of year is upon us: the season of #lent. i'm not going to waste time on the internet at home for #lent. how are all of you going to improve yourselves this #lent season?
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It's Ass Wednesday
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Poronto
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are you going to waste time on the internet at work, like all us staunch communists
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yes
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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hashtag lent is like that doug stanhope joke about people who have a saint and a GPS on the same dashboard
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Keven posted:

It's Ass Wednesday


it's actually hash wednesday

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It's actually Trash Wednesday, as organized religion belongs in the dumpster.
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Needless to say, I am already eating out of the dumpster all the time.
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

hashtag lent is like that doug stanhope joke about people who have a saint and a GPS on the same dashboard

they're both terrible jokes? i suppose

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It's Bernie Time now. In fact, now that Bernie has proved reformist democracy works, I move we start winding down these forums.
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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they're talking about how you gotta PHONEBANK in the bernie thread and....idk. i know its a real thing but call it something else, the obamatars ruined it
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im gonna stop doing something that i really didnt do that often before, like eating chocolate, until easter, except on sundays, when im going to do it because its like a well-earned timeout from my quasi-fast
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isnt lent about reflecting on your own mortality and your sinful ways?

seems inappropriate to give up something like chocolate while the bourgeoisie is still allowed to live
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tpaine posted:

TG posted:

im gonna stop doing something that i really didnt do that often before, like eating chocolate

we've heard the eating chocolate euphemism for fucking before, tg.



the euphemism is for going down on black women, and calling it a euphemism is probably generous

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Dont Mess With Sucess
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I'm giving up for Lent
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Mike Nelson here.
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i am going to try to more generally mortify myself and redouble my efforts at school. i will also give up chicken wings.
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we all respect your #piety getfiscal
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Now it's regular Thursday.
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tpaine posted:

give up for what



2/10: actually accidentally invented a new catholic meme today. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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you realize that jesus had no magic powers therefore we're not obligated to respect the rituals surrounding his apocryphal death, right? i feel like i'm taking crazy pills
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come for the wine, stay to drive goatstein crazy
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sometimes I'm so sad about my lack of meaningful connection with other humans that the idea of church makes me really happy, and then I remember there's the whole God thing

I went to Catholic elementary but when we were 7 years old or so we were supposed to all do Confirmation together, which if you don't know is when you are supposed to declare that you truly believe blah blah blah. It's the 2nd of the Seven Sacraments (according to the Wikipedia article I just looked up), after baptism. Anyway I said to my mom uhhh "confirmation" sounds like you are supposed to be sure about what you're saying and I definitely don't so uh could I not. and that was the end of my religious life. rip
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anyway I think one can coopt religious tradition to do good things and getting less fat is good so I think I'll try to eat healthily for a month. maybe it will work.
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why are there so many Catholics all over the place
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drwhat posted:

sometimes I'm so sad about my lack of meaningful connection with other humans that the idea of church makes me really happy, and then I remember there's the whole God thing

I went to Catholic elementary but when we were 7 years old or so we were supposed to all do Confirmation together, which if you don't know is when you are supposed to declare that you truly believe blah blah blah. It's the 2nd of the Seven Sacraments (according to the Wikipedia article I just looked up), after baptism. Anyway I said to my mom uhhh "confirmation" sounds like you are supposed to be sure about what you're saying and I definitely don't so uh could I not. and that was the end of my religious life. rip


my parents openly told me that the only reason i had to go was to please my grandparents

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i still like lent though. its a nice opportunity to try and be better, and to see what i can get to stick
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littlegreenpills posted:

why are there so many Catholics all over the place



not allowed to use condoms

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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

you realize that jesus had no magic powers therefore we're not obligated to respect the rituals surrounding his apocryphal death, right? i feel like i'm taking crazy pills

In this scenario, wouldn't you be taking sanity pills? Im concerned your idioms are getting off of hand.

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i wasnt confirmed til 8th or 9th grade. i got to pick a second middle name, it was pretty keen. i chose stephen because i liked the name, turns out he was a badass martyr. i feel like at 7 i would have picked donatello or something
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TG posted:

i wasnt confirmed til 8th or 9th grade. i got to pick a second middle name, it was pretty keen. i chose stephen because i liked the name, turns out he was a badass martyr. i feel like at 7 i would have picked donatello or something


i dunno, maybe it wasn't confirmation, because when i look up what that is it seems like you should be older. it was some big deal. but confirmation is supposed to be the second thing? when is first communion? idk maybe everything was in the wrong order in my little town.

also doesn't your name have to have some kind of christian significance? i definitely didn't do any name picking. i didn't know anything about anything other than singing about candles or something and then colouring in pictures of candles in Religion Class. i was crazy about learning stuff and reading as a kid and aced all my classes etc but everything religious bounced off me completely

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if you remember it being confirmation it probably was especially since you described it as confirming your beliefs. my confirmation was also in 8th/9th grade and after first communion which came at a young age but that's not always rthe way it is, confirmation at 7 happens, i think it's more of the old school way
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1st communion is what you're thinking of confirmation happens at like 14-15. I chose zero additional names for either because Keven exists on his own terms.
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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i'm gonna give up this thing i like because i feel bad that god felt it was necessary to kill a guy to partially remove his own torturecurse under certain circumstances
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I'm going to give up this thing because the earth did one entire rotation around the sun, I'm going to give up this thing because my retarded shitty brain chemicals shoot bad feelings juice when I think about a generalized hypothetical person looking at my belly, I'm going to give up this thing because in two months I would have the option to leave the house without a coat on.
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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ayo god. how about you just drop the whole "all life is doomed to death and pain" thing you're still so worked up about and then we'll talk about giving up those vices i have to cope with it