1. Do you observe Lent?
No. I was going to try last year but I got what I believe was H1N1 as a result.
2. Why (not)?
See above.
3. What does your observance of Lent typically entail? Giving things up, taking things on, or something else?
In the Orthodox Church, it's a much more structured thing. The idea of "giving something up" is a modern Catholic simplification that never caught on in the East.
4. What's the hardest thing you've ever given up/taken on/something else?
Back in the summer of 2001 I did the hardcore Atkins diet. I gave up all carbs - no Coke, no french fries, no bread, no vegetables with a few exceptions, no juice. It was nuts, cheese, meat and a few veggies that were extremely low carb with water. Just water. You get actual sugar withdrawal like you were going off a drug or something. After I did it for six weeks I decided that I had lost the weight I wanted to and quit.
5. What, if anything, are you planning to do for observing Lent this year?
*watches tumbleweed blow across the board*6. Do you observe Sundays as feast days (and as such, exempt from fasting/abstinence), considering that the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Holy Saturday don't include Sundays?
In Orthodoxy this means an extra full week of Lent, because otherwise it isn't a 40-day thing. Besides, on Sundays you still can't have meat or cheese during Lent in Orthodoxy. You can have fish on the Annunciation and Lazarus Sunday, but that's it.
Six is a good number. I'll stop here.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
/Survey: Lent approaches! Anyone giving up anything?
- 16/02/2010 04:28:08 AM
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*NM*
I'm giving up christianity. Challenging but worthwhile. *NM*
- 16/02/2010 04:53:11 AM
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I have a friend who used to pledge to be a better Buddhist for Lent.
- 16/02/2010 05:02:03 PM
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Non-essential internet sounds like a haaard one.
- 16/02/2010 05:38:25 AM
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I'm actually looking forward to it. I'm quite good at not doing something if I have a reason.
- 16/02/2010 05:48:34 AM
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Great Lent already began on Monday.
- 16/02/2010 01:45:16 PM
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the orthodox lent sounds similar to what Catholic Lent was >.>
- 16/02/2010 05:21:10 PM
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Pretty much.
- 16/02/2010 09:38:48 PM
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That's still on the books for Episcopalians, if I recall correctly, but as an option.
- 16/02/2010 11:48:24 PM
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I'm not a Christian, but I've given things up in the name of Lent.
- 16/02/2010 02:20:14 PM
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Is it weird that I really like Lent?
- 16/02/2010 05:21:54 PM
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Perhaps it is. But, less so than lint, I'm thinking.
- 16/02/2010 05:25:28 PM
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I actually do enjoy cleaning lint traps in the dryer. It's fun! 
*NM*
- 16/02/2010 05:34:08 PM
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*NM*
- 16/02/2010 05:34:08 PM
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*NM*
I don't think anyone here does 
I guess it's not our tradition (though I'm not even Christian) *NM*
- 16/02/2010 08:04:55 PM
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I guess it's not our tradition (though I'm not even Christian) *NM*
- 16/02/2010 08:04:55 PM
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Nyet!
- 17/02/2010 01:02:01 PM
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- 17/02/2010 01:42:59 PM
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- 17/02/2010 02:13:35 PM
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- 17/02/2010 01:42:59 PM
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- 17/02/2010 02:13:35 PM
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The question that comes to my mind is....
- 17/02/2010 06:19:46 PM
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And there's another huge difference between abstinence and self-denial. 
- 21/02/2010 08:18:15 PM
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- 21/02/2010 08:18:15 PM
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