DAE hate it when people go on a diet and claim it's for "Lent?"
Posted Feb 18, 2010, 3:38 AM UTC
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It's not really different than someone going on a diet and claiming it's a "New Years resolution."
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IANACatholic, but I have always thought that Lent is a time for reflection and sacrifice. With the events leading to a resurrection/rebirth, I think it's the perfect time to make this type of change. Any day is a good day to get started making your life better so you can do everything else better, but if a symbolic reason is meaningful to you and helps you, then I'm all for it.
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Not really, sometimes it's just more of an insentive. It'd be better for someone to claim it's for lent and actually achieve something because of it than be on an all year round 'diet' and not achieve anything.
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Why yes, I hate that more than anything in the world. Who the fuck do they think they are?
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Even better - "I gave up giving up for Lent"
That's such a cop out. I don't understand why people do that - give something meaningful up, or don't give anything up.