Fasting?

Many Christian traditions include fasts during the season of Lent. Does yours? If so, how's it going? Keep it up, you can do it.

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🌲 Half_Elf_Monk

Mar 13 · 2 months ago

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🚀 stack · Mar 14 at 01:55:

A friend of mine and her boyfriend had given up alcohol for Lent, except for the weekends, when they get shitfaced. I really don't get religeon...

🐐 satch · Mar 14 at 03:52:

@stack That’s hysterical. It’s a problem that that’s giving something up for them.

🚀 stack · Mar 14 at 16:10:

More so for the boyfriend... I can't imagine drinking every day, but I know a ton of people who start with a lunch martini and kill a bottle of wine later on, perhaps with a few scotches in-between... My next door neigbor's glass recycling makes as much noise as a busy restaurant on bin days.

🌲 Half_Elf_Monk [OP] · Mar 20 at 02:40:

With respect and good wishes for those friends, that... doesn't seem like the best example of fasting, religion or otherwise. I guess when people do it right, it's hard to tell that they're fasting at all.

💀 requiem · Apr 06 at 21:47:

Lent is over! Every year I give up meat and alcohol. Except for Sundays and high feast days - those days actually one is _not_ supposed to fast. That doesn't mean I Get hammered on the weekends, but perhaps that I have a steak for lunch. I have cut out alcohol anyway a while back - just lost interest in it.

Each year the same thing happens to me tho: I just eat way more carbs and cheese and I end up gaining weight... Something to work off after Easter!

But I guess we don't really speak of the spiritual and mental benefits of it. It helps me focus, it helps me to pray, and to grow in character. That's why I do it.