Friday I’m In Lent
Today I will try not to eat meat. Not a big deal to most, I’m sure. but to me it’s like not breathing. I’m hardcore carnivore.
I’ve gone a few Fridays without eating meat a few times here and there, but never stuck to it. Most likely, I’ll busts open a can of chili or get halfway through a cheeseburger and be like “aw, crap.”
Posted on February 15, 2013, in ♫ ♪ ♫, Life and tagged life, music. Bookmark the permalink. 14 Comments.
Are you Catholic?
I totally failed Ash Wednesday. I went to someone’s house at lunch and decided it was too rude to not eat the chicken salad.
I grew up Catholic, but stopped going to church once I got out of school. I never really gave up the faith, but I never really embraced it either, you know? Mostly I just tried to stick to the 10 Commandments and let everything else sort it self out.
These days I’m thinking more about things.
Can you believe I actually chose to be Catholic? I mean, how ****ed up is that?
Did you make it through Fri. w/out chomping down on the red stuff? I’m doing really good on the abstention from Abba.
As of 19 minutes ago, I did. With a Slim Jim style beef snack right here tempting me the entire time.
Man, I almost always forget. Around lunchtime I usually get halfway through a ham sandwich and think “shit”. I got through last Friday though!
Lent gives me a good excuse to look up more fish/veggie recipes, so win.
Some years I would think about it and still manage to forget, remembering halfway through a cheeseburger or some chili.
This time I had pizza with extra cheese and no pepperoni for lunch. It’s good but just not the same somehow.
Is there anyone here who’s not Catholic? Is this just a coincidence or are we responding to some spiritual dogwhistle?
Most of the comments I post are on Christian manosphere sites, with a couple music sites thrown in, so mostly I get comments back from them I get likes from people I’ve never heard of – thank you! – but they almost never comment, I don’t know if their Christian or not. I think they find me on the Freshly Pressed lists.
I got a post for you coming up.
NSR
Don’t you like fish?
I’m no longer Catholic (I’m now Protestant) but still follow the no-meat Fridays during lent.
I hate fish. Gonna be a lot of grilled cheese for the next several Fridays. Why, you and HHG gonna cook for me?
OK, but commenters seem to be almost all baptized Catholics. You can change your church affiliation, but you can’t undo your baptism.
Of course, there are a whole lot of contestable theological assumptions wrapped up in that statement.
Nevertheless, I’m sticking with my provisional hypothesis: Nightsky is a Catholic magnet.
If the data doesn’t fit, why, then I’ll just adjust the data and make it fit.
my provisional hypothesis: Nightsky is a Catholic magnet.
i’m good with that. Let’s hope more drop by.
You and HHG are in agreement about fish, actually. I can’t even bake it in the house; it has to be grilled outside, even in winter.
But I’ll cook for you, hun. A nice tofu burger, perhaps?
Tofu burger? Why you gotta be a h8r?
One of these days I’m going to show up for dinner just to see the looks on your faces. It would be worth a tofu burger.