So lent started the other day. While I'm definitely not a Practicing Catholic and wouldn't call myself a Catholic if someone asked - I will claim the moniker "Raised Catholic". As a Raised Catholic person who is not sure what / if anything he wants to be (religion wise) I do still enjoy the little traditions that go with Christianity / Catholicism. I'll always celebrate the holidays and will sometimes attend mass on said holidays or on vacation with the folks. Despite being bored to death as a child, I enjoy the traditional flow of the mass between the readings and the prayers and the following sunday breakfast. Although, I must say I don't feel right taking the communion any more and I hate that they sing all the prayers now. Generally speaking I still think that religion is a good way to learn and keep one's morals. Now I'm not talking about the "right winged agenda" BS, but rather the "do onto others" stuff.
Anywho - so where am I going with this? Well even though I am not a practicing catholic, I decided to give something up for lent this year. I'm going Vegetarian! No fish on fridays for me - just beans. I wouldn't say I'm doing it for god, but rather I'm doing it to hopefully learn something about myself, which I think is probably the whole point behind lent anyways.
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I hear ya, but why not include nuts on Fridays too? mmmm... mixed nuts.
mmmm...nuts.
I didn't have any nuts on friday but I did have a whole bunch of nuts just now. I had a salted nut roll, which is always a treat, and a baggie of jalepeno smokehouse almonds, which were good but not at all spicy as I had hoped. Suffices to say that my lunch didn't do shit for me.
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