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On 3/4/2019 at 11:45 AM, MoJames said:

Granted my wife qualified eggs and fish as not meat for this, but I think I'm going to try to limit fish as well.

How about ribeye? Is that also not meat for this?

 

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2 minutes ago, Asithappens said:

How about ribeye? Is that also not meat for this?

 

I try to use the bacon is fat argument and not protein, but it gets me no where.

 

Any fast foods...will likely get a craving but I have slowly been drifting away from this anyway...we shall see!

When I was in my late teens, I heard that you can break your Lenten fast on Sundays during Lent.  I can't remember the reasoning, but it seems contrary to the whole 40 day fast idea.  It's not like Jesus got manna from heaven every Sunday he was in the desert.

https://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=180

 

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Even when the US Bishops made it no longer required to abstain from meat on all the other Fridays of the year, they never intended that the Catholic faithful should discontinue this practice. What they hoped was that people would continue to do it out of their love for God and not because they had to, and also to give us an opportunity to deny ourselves in other ways. Friday has never ceased to be a day of penance and self-denial, and abstaining from meat on that day is given first place, because it was on a Friday that our Lord died for our sins. Every Friday is a day to prepare for Sunday - the day that, for us who believe, is Easter every week of the year. And Sunday is never a day of fasting (not even during Lent). It is the glorious Day of the Lord!

 

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6 hours ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

I become an asshole that I’m not in real life when I post here. That especially manifests itself on the mess that is the Cloak Room and on the Caravan thread in particular. I don’t like what I become there. I’m giving up on posting here for the remainder of Lent because I don’t act like God how would want me to act. I’m sure lots of y’all would like it if I never came back. Football season is too much of a pull for me to remain silent forever :) giving up something and taking on a new discipline is what I’m looking to do. I will probably incorporate some fasting and morning prayer by reading the daily office. I will leave y’all with this:

Ephesians 4:29 - 5:2

29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. 31 Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, 32 and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Chapter 5
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

or you could just quit posting in cloakroom?

7 minutes ago, hopkinsnhorns said:

When I was in my late teens, I heard that you can break your Lenten fast on Sundays during Lent.  I can't remember the reasoning, but it seems contrary to the whole 40 day fast idea.  It's not like Jesus got manna from heaven every Sunday he was in the desert.

https://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=180

 

 

sundays are feast days, not fast days.  count the number of days from today until easter sunday.  subtract the 6 sundays. 

7 hours ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

I become an asshole that I’m not in real life when I post here. That especially manifests itself on the mess that is the Cloak Room and on the Caravan thread in particular. I don’t like what I become there. I’m giving up on posting here for the remainder of Lent because I don’t act like God how would want me to act.

I know that feelin', bro. 

1 hour ago, hopkinsnhorns said:

8 year old sugar-deprived me would be pissed to have been sheltered from this knowledge.

i didn't know this until a couple years back, either.  but then again, we never fasted anyway.  pepperoni pizza every friday.

"Friday has never ceased to be a day of penance and self-denial...."

 

Uh, yeah it has. 

On March 4, 2019 at 10:46 PM, Armybrat said:

Hamburgers and steak taste best on Fridays.

 

On March 5, 2019 at 7:31 AM, South Austin said:

In hell.

Thats how you get a really nice sear. 

19 hours ago, elfenix said:

sundays are feast days, not fast days.  count the number of days from today until easter sunday.  subtract the 6 sundays. 

Wait WTF?? 

1 hour ago, luke duke said:

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Lol.

Just what the catholic priests give out to the altar boys, eh?

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18 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

is it Easter yet?

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Fasting until 1700 every day. On Fridays, fast all day and then the next. Not sure if I'm going to "rest" on Sundays, gonna play that by ear. Wish me luck.

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10 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

Fasting until 1700 every day. On Fridays, fast all day and then the next. Not sure if I'm going to "rest" on Sundays, gonna play that by ear. Wish me luck.

Good luck!

 

This Whataburger is out of fish already.

Or you could do what I'm doing and opt for the Spicy Polynesian Poke Bowl Salad at Pei Wei.  They say that it's only 760 calories, but I'd bet my left nut it's closer to 1260 calories.

15 hours ago, MoJames said:

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How about now?

I gave up alcohol and caffeinated beverages.

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Just now, Rimbo said:

How about now?

I gave up alcohol and caffeinated beverages.

Ya definitely closer, but for giggles, what is your resting heart rate and do you have bilateral hand tremors?

13 minutes ago, MoJames said:

Ya definitely closer, but for giggles, what is your resting heart rate and do you have bilateral hand tremors?

oh, 'bout 85bpm

as for the other thing

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Someday, somebody explain to me how fish is not made of meat.  What exactly are we eating when we eat fish if not the meat of an animal?  

6 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Someday, somebody explain to me how fish is not made of meat.  What exactly are we eating when we eat fish if not the meat of an animal?  

some different reasons, but one major one is that it was less about 'meat' and more about indulgences.  beef/lamb/chicken were for the rich.  fish was an everyday food.  

Church law is written in Latin. In Latin, carnis means the flesh of warm-blooded land animals.

Yada yada. Holy See. Conf of Bishops. More yada yada.

“Meat” doesn’t include fish.

Yeah, I get that.  But what do Catholics think fish are made of?  I'm just curious what word they use.  

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31 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Yeah, I get that.  But what do Catholics think fish are made of?  I'm just curious what word they use.  

Flish

FlishLight?  

I think fish is meat, and I'm Catholic.  I never got it, but I like fish fries, so what ever.

2 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I think fish is meat, and I'm Catholic.  I never got it, but I like fish fries, so what ever.

but do you like fish sticks?

10 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

but do you like fish sticks?

I'm the greatest musical genius of our time.

Think Pescatarianism is an offshoot of Reformed Church of Scotland. Have a good friend who was became a deacon in Pescatarianism church. 2nd Pescatarian over at the intersection Western and Main. Cool building.

3 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I'm the greatest musical genius of our time.

TIL: Mencia loved the portrayal and told everyone to catch the rerun. Kanye was "hurt," and dissed South Park's writers in not one but two songs afterwards. This despite the fact that the episode was much meaner to Mencia than it was to Kanye...

3 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

TIL: Mencia loved the portrayal and told everyone to catch the rerun. Kanye was "hurt," and dissed South Park's writers in not one but two songs afterwards. This despite the fact that the episode was much meaner to Mencia than it was to Kanye...

I think Mencia is more desperate to repair his image, as he definitely took a financial hit over the years.  Kanye is still loaded and making money.  I think they're both insane (listen to the epsiodes of WTF with Marc Maron that Mencia did), but that just shows how far off the reservation Kanye is.

The Cathaholic church classifiies capybara as a fish for dietary purposes. The world's largest rodent is commonly eaten during Lent in Venezuela. "It's delicious," one restaurant owner told the New York Sun in 2005.  Also acceptable are beaver, muskrat, and alligator.  

 

9 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I think Mencia is more desperate to repair his image, as he definitely took a financial hit over the years.  Kanye is still loaded and making money.  I think they're both insane (listen to the epsiodes of WTF with Marc Maron that Mencia did), but that just shows how far off the reservation Kanye is.

...or how close to the mark the satire hit.

16 minutes ago, Harrison Stafford said:

The Cathaholic church classifiies capybara as a fish for dietary purposes. The world's largest rodent is commonly eaten during Lent in Venezuela. "It's delicious," one restaurant owner told the New York Sun in 2005.  Also acceptable are beaver, muskrat, and alligator.  

 

For a faith not terribly rooted in science, they're suddenly marine biologists walking the halls of the Vatican?  A Muskrat is fish?  Really?  That's what they're going with?  Ducks spend way more time in the water than Muskrats do, how come we can't have duck on Friday?  

On 3/4/2019 at 12:00 PM, Rimbo said:

i'm giving up abstinence

Pretty sure your wife is not going to give this one up with you.

47 minutes ago, ABSR said:

Pretty sure your wife is not going to give this one up with you.

That's what prostitutes are for, no?

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

For a faith not terribly rooted in science, they're suddenly marine biologists walking the halls of the Vatican?  A Muskrat is fish?  Really?  That's what they're going with?  Ducks spend way more time in the water than Muskrats do, how come we can't have duck on Friday?  

There was probably a medieval pope whose family owned a fish business and that started the fish rule.  This caused the butchers selling beef, pork, and chicken to adopt the phrase, "Something's fishy".

On 3/6/2019 at 3:23 PM, immamac said:

or you could just quit posting in cloakroom?

Thanks for the suggestion. I have amended my Lenten fast accordingly. Not going in to the cesspool CR to even read it. 

I could eat lobster on Fridays. Actually I have done that, at Fort Sam, they served lobster. 

I just don't eat on Fridays. I figure that's more authentic and a better representation of the 40 days.

Fasting from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday would be more Jesus-like, but you do you. Like you, I’d rather just fast on a Friday than eat Muskrat.  

23 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

I could eat lobster on Fridays. Actually I have done that, at Fort Sam, they served lobster. 

I just don't eat on Fridays. I figure that's more authentic and a better representation of the 40 days.

Imitation crabmeat is good every day in Lent.

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