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Ha! Take THAT Lent

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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: tfcmasta97
Ive never understood this: How come on days you cant eat meat, you can eat fish? Dont mean to start any flame wars or anything, just wondering how that works
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umm...its religion...nothing makes sense...
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:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Originally posted by: LolaWiz
My priest told me the following....
Many years ago... Fish was usually cheaper than meat was, so to "give up something extra" on Fridays durring lent, people would eat fish because it was cheaper. That is why we are supposed to eat fish now... eventhough fish is usually more expensive. Who knows if that is true or not, but it seems believable to me.
To be honest, i do not do it anymore... but rather do something EXTRA for lent and not give something up...exept i try to fast on the important days like ash wed. and good friday.
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The story I always heard was that the church wanted to help out the fish industry. So by giving up meat on friday people would buy fish instead.
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same here. and that it was every friday not just during lent.
 
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Originally posted by: slag
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Originally posted by: Xanis
Usually I don't care too much about observing Lent, but today I decided to be a good Catholic for once and see what meatless creation I could come up with. The result: three egg omlette with mozarella cheese, fresh ground black pepper and chili powder, with a side of hand-made garlic toast. Not too bad if I do say so myself. 😛
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Mozzarella cheese and the eggs come from animal, thus are meat according to someone practicing over here. I saw f* it and eat whatever the hell you want.
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That "someone" who practices over near you doesn't know squat. Just because it comes from an animal doesn't mean its the flesh of the animal.

Eggs =/ meat.
Cheese =/ meat.
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She is orthodox. They have to eat vegan for the week. :shrugs;

I would never participate in anything that would limit what I wanted to eat for food.
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I had some (Russian) Orthodox friends in high school and it was all bread rice and veggies for them during lent. I think they could only eat when the sun was down too.
Their after Easter parties were crazy... so much vomiting
 
As an atheist, I enjoy our religious holiday observation the most of all...we get to cherry pick the fun ones, and only do the fun parts. 😛

Easter = Candy and fun
Christmas = Capitalist paradise / Celebration of goodwill among men
Uh...that's pretty much it for me... Hanukkah is cool too, and I've never seriously encountered Ramadan, but I guess firing AKs into the air at the end is fun <😛 /racist>
 
Man, I want fish fry so bad. Does anyone else have fish fry in their town? Where I grew up (Pittsburgh), every Friday in Lent, every Catholic church, firehall, and VFW had a fish fry on Friday evenings. Man, we would go there and just buy a big bucket the size of a KFC bucket, overflowing with fish and french fries, and heaping sides of cole slaw and haluski. And tartar sauce, mmmmmmmm. F&ck I'm so hungry! And everywhere else that I've lived, no one has had these friday fish fries. Why is that?
 
Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: dainthomas
Originally posted by: Aquaman
I am on my 15th day of no Chips 😀 25 more days to go 🙂

Cheers,
Aquaman
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Wow, you must be a big Eric Estrada fan if you're counting down the days.
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That would be no CHiPs
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I'm happy that I've gone 38 months without a road side meeting with those Chips.
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: Aquaman
I am on my 15th day of no Chips 😀 25 more days to go 🙂

Cheers,
Aquaman
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YOU TOO?!

😀 :beer:
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After that 40 days of no fast food 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman
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Unpossible! Well, it might be for me anyway. Does Subway count? 😛
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Why......... you meeting Jared there? I am not into Subway/Quzinos..... seem a bit $$$ for what you get.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: Ktulu
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: Ktulu
Fish 'n' Chips for me. It was a well known fact Jesus LOVED fish 'n' chips 😉
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That's true! It says it right there in... something 3:16.
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"And woe, Jesus did have the extra large platter of fish 'n' chips with extra tarter sauce, he ate from it, and said it was good"
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Mocking the bible... yeah thats real mature...
:roll:
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Have a sense of humor. God does - look at the platypus.

I'm a devout Christian and I participated. There's nothing offensive or blasphemous in what was said.
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: sao123
Originally posted by: Ktulu
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: Ktulu
Fish 'n' Chips for me. It was a well known fact Jesus LOVED fish 'n' chips 😉
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That's true! It says it right there in... something 3:16.
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"And woe, Jesus did have the extra large platter of fish 'n' chips with extra tarter sauce, he ate from it, and said it was good"
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Mocking the bible... yeah thats real mature...
:roll:
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Have a sense of humor. God does - look at the platypus.

I'm a devout Christian and I participated. There's nothing offensive or blasphemous in what was said.
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For some reason, your post made me think of the TMBG song Mammal. Most likely simply talk of platypus..es?

Anyway:

:music:
Glass of milk
Standing in between extinction in the cold
and explosive radiating growth.
So the warm blood flows
Through the large four-chambered heart,
Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have.
Mammal, mammal
Their names are called
They raise a paw
The bat, the cat
Dolphin and dog
Koala bear and hog
One of us might lose his hair
But you're reminded that it once was there
From the embryonic whale to the monkey with no tail.
So the warm blood flows
with the red blood cells, lacking nuclei
Through the large four-chambered heart
Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have
Mammal, mammal
Their names are called
They raise a paw
The bat, the cat
Dolphin and dog
Koala bear and hog
Placental the sister of her brother Marsupial
Their cousin called Monotreme
Dead uncle Allotheria
Mammal, mammal
Their names are called
They raise a paw
The bat, the cat
Dolphin and dog
Koala bear and hog
The fox, the ox
Giraffe and shrew
Echidna, caribou
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Screw it, eat meat and repent on your death bed. All those priests who molest kids and all those priests that covered for them think they're going to heaven. If that's true you can certainly get in if you have a burger.
 
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Each Friday night after work, Bubba would fire up his outdoor grill and cook venison steak. But, all of Bubba's neighbors were Catholic--and since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating meat on Friday.

The delicious aroma from the grilled venison steaks was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their priest. The priest came to visit Bubba and suggested that he become a Catholic. After several classes and much study, Bubba attended Mass---and the Priest sprinkled holy water over him and said, "You were born a Baptist and raised as a Baptist but now you are Catholic."

Bubba's neighbors were greatly relieved, until Friday night arrived and the wonderful aroma of grilled venison filled the neighborhood. The priest was called immediately by the neighbors.

As the priest rushed into Bubba's yard, clutching a rosary, and prepared to scold him, he stopped and watched in amazement. There stood Bubba, clutching a small bottle of holy water which he carefully sprinkled over the grilling meat and chanted: "You wuz born a deer, you was raised a deer, but now you is a catfish."
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Haven't heard that one. For some reason the fact he said "now you is a catfish" made it even funnier.
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
Man, I want fish fry so bad. Does anyone else have fish fry in their town? Where I grew up (Pittsburgh), every Friday in Lent, every Catholic church, firehall, and VFW had a fish fry on Friday evenings. Man, we would go there and just buy a big bucket the size of a KFC bucket, overflowing with fish and french fries, and heaping sides of cole slaw and haluski. And tartar sauce, mmmmmmmm. F&ck I'm so hungry! And everywhere else that I've lived, no one has had these friday fish fries. Why is that?
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Milwaukee has some excellent Fish fry's this time of year. Although I don't observe a religion, I sure as hell love the food 😛. I think I am going to get some tonight.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Screw it, eat meat and repent on your death bed. All those priests who molest kids and all those priests that covered for them think they're going to heaven. If that's true you can certainly get in if you have a burger.
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:heart: :beer: :evil:
 
Originally posted by: So
As an atheist, I enjoy our religious holiday observation the most of all...we get to cherry pick the fun ones, and only do the fun parts. 😛

Easter = Candy and fun
Christmas = Capitalist paradise / Celebration of goodwill among men
Uh...that's pretty much it for me... Hanukkah is cool too, and I've never seriously encountered Ramadan, but I guess firing AKs into the air at the end is fun <😛 /racist>
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As an athiest? Dude, what you just described is what many Christians do already. 😛

 
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