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Elven Lady of Speed-posting
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: the cheese state
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Bye for a while!
*sob...* Sad news, everyone...Lent is starting tomorrow. ( For those who care to know, Lent is a Christian season of repentence and prayer lasting for forty days.) During the season, my parents are making the whole family go without computer and TV except on Sundays. So as you can tell, I WON'T be doing much posting for the next 40 days. But on Sundays, expect me on ALL DAY!
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Retired Ent
Join Date: Sep 1999
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Wow! Good luck. (Why couldn't they have made it easier and made you go without food or water instead?
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Bard of Mangled Songs
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila
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See 'ya,
At least I got it a little easier. No meat on fridays 'cept for fish.
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'Sober' Mullet Frosh
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Heh heh
On Yom Kippur us Jews can't eat or drink for a whole 27 hours. But it's only 27 hours. I hope it's spiritually fulfilling and such
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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27?
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the greg the admin
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: NJ
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Good luck with lent. I'm Jewish. I'm not a very good Jew though. But I do like the jokes you get to use by being part of the religion.
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'Sober' Mullet Frosh
Join Date: Jan 2002
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From sunset until slightly after sunset 6:00pm-8:00pm the next night. You're pretty hungry by the last hour and since you've spent 18 hours praying (the last 2 standing up) you're about to faint.
It's supposed to be spiritually uplifting, but it could be the hallucinations. ![]()
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Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: NJ
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No offense, but I don't do the 18 hours of praying. First, I get a nice sleep, go to temple for maybe 3 hours (but not in the service most of the time) and then just hang out the rest of the afternoon. Usually family and friends come over or we go somewhere and then we break the fast together. I'm just not very religious. Although I do fast. And this year I made it successfuly by just occupying my mind. The time flew by, and before I knew it, it was time to eat.
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill
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Thanks for reminding me, I'd forgotten...I'm not Catholic, but I give something up.
Oh, yeah, fasting for 27 hours really sucks. I fast for 30 hours as a fundraiser for my church every year, but it's really, reallllly lenient.
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I am Freddie/UNDERCOVER/ Founder of The Great Continent of Entmoot
Join Date: Dec 2001
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I grew up Catholic - You're supposed to give up something that you choose - not your parents. I suggest giving up liver or something - it always worked for me and I never failed once.
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Elven Lady of Speed-posting
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Quote:
![]() Jerseydevil, my parents are making me give up computer plus something of my own choosing. I respond to their questions of "So what else are you giving up?" with "I won't have a life for forty days...do I HAVE to give up anything else?" ![]()
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Canada
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My school also had one of those 30 hr famine things and it was really really lenient. I wasn't doing it, but my choir was doing some of the entertainment (where people get together for the last few hours of the fast)
Why so easy? I think because we were partly sponsored by a soy products/tofu company, so instead of being allowed just water, the participants got all the soymilk they could drink. I thought that was really funny. ![]() To all those people who have these fasts and rituals, hang in there! |
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Elf Lord
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Omigosh though, the 30 hour famine is sooo much fun! The year I did it (year before last) I got about 2 hours of sleep. We slept in the school building and it was crazy. We were allowed to drink whatever we wanted, but I actually wasn't too hungry after awhile. Guess what we did during the last four hours of the fast?
A bake sale! Well, actually, we had about an hour or so left, so we went to an archery range, but I slept in the van because I was tired. This other guy was there too, he hadn't slept at all. I'm really excited about this year, I can't wait! We are allowed to drink 1 can of Ensure (yuck) and have one bowl of icecream, and any drink we bring. I found out that drinking tea isn't really cheating, because if you don't but any sweetener in it it has 0 calories...yum!
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Elven Warrior
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Canada
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Tea isn't cheating.
Soymilk is definitely cheating, as far as I'm concerned. I mean, it's basically the liquid form of tofu (doesn't have as much calcium), usually with some sugar in it. ![]() Good luck with your famine. Raise lots of money! |
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the greg the admin
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: NJ
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When you're Jewish and fasting for Yom Kippur, it's very strict. You don't get drinks or food, not even water. You're not even supposed to chew gum or take a shower or brush your teeth. (Although, I do take a shower and use mouthwash...no food breath is horrible)
I was just watching the Seinfeld episode yesturday where Jerry's dentist converted to Judaism, and he starts telling a lot of Jewish jokes. Jerry thinks that the dentist converted to Judaism just for the jokes. He goes and talks to the dentist's former priest. The priest asks "Does this offend you as a Jew?" and Jerry replies "No, it offends me as a comedian". ![]() btw, I noticed that the dentist was played by the guy who plays Malcom's dad Hal in Fox's show Malcom in the Middle. |
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Elven Lady of Speed-posting
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: the cheese state
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Last time 'til Sunday...NOOO! But semi-good news...they let me use e-mail all week! So someone, pllleeaase e-mail me and tell me what I'm missing. Thanks...see you on Sunday.
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Enting
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: California
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Though break. My mom tried to pull that card too!
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t2t relic
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Bay Area, California
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Id die of a panic attack if i couldn't bite my nails for 40 days. Good luck.
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