Posted on 03/07/2007 4:24:40 AM PST by Chi-townChief
GMTA!
There's almost no fish in fish-sticks. It's kind of revolting, really.
LOL!
Here is some food for thought (fish is good brain food, according to Curly Howard):
http://www.writing.com/main/polls/item_id/909581
Where would fishsticks be without tartar sauce?
Are fishsticks harder to catch?
Can you light a fire using two fishsticks?
Should fishsticks be sold on a sliding scale?
Has Martha Stuart just learned what a fishsticks are?
Should marriage between fishsticks and corndogs be legalized?
Can fish sticks be in any other shape and still be called a fishsicks?
Do fishsticks stick to things once the've started them?
Are fishsticks just an old fisherman's wives "tail?"
yeah, i know, but i'll take breading over an eyeball : )
LOL!!!
Being that I don't watch MSM for news that also meant giving up all news reports.
But it was good letting go that part of my life to concentrate more on God.
This year I've given up the left-hand lane on my way to work. My route is 25 miles of dodging speed crazed drivers, construction vehicles, semi-trailers, and interspersed with creeping bumper to bumper traffic. Driving only in the right hand lane allows me to separate myself from all that, not worry about how slow I'm going or how much I'm being passed.
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LOL! I'm with you on that one. :)
Here, I don't mind telling you what it is. I had to find out for myself also. Some people have such attitudes. Probably gave up sex for lent.
"The article rightly notes that giving up something like Facebook for nearly six weeks is a pretty big deal.
"The site, where friends track birthdays, post pictures, check homework, monitor romances and generally gossip, has become the connective tissue of undergraduate life, and ignoring it from Ash Wednesday to Easter is no small sacrifice."
The point is that "back in the day" you went to hell if you ate meat on any Friday and didn't fast and abstain on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
You didn't get a choice about it, it was a church law.
Your voluntary penance had to be something in addition to that.
Good for you!
Giving up your works as the path to God is the one thing that will save you!
I tried to give up hair metal, but it only lasted an hour...
You'll see the link I posted is to the Code of Canon Law. It's still "the law".
As to whether or not one is going to Hell, the "law" doesn't speak to that. Someone may have told you that for some misguided reason but I believe the Church has always recognized that there is only one Judge of the living and the dead.
I could be wrong, perhaps there is indeed a citation somewhere showing that the Church has stated definitively that someone would go to Hell; no ifs, ands, or buts.
The Church's position is that anyone who commits mortal sin without afterwards going to confession or having perfect contrition* does, indeed, sentence himself to hell.
What the Church does not have a position on is whether any particular sinner has actually comitted a mortal sin (extenuating circumstances could render a usually mortal sin venial), or whether that sinner might have repented before death. That is up to the mercy of God.
*Perfect contrition being repentance for the sake of the love of God and sorrow at offending Him, not simply from fear of Hell.
I gave up giving up anything for Lent.
They're very pretty. :)
I gave up lemonade (the all you can drink kind). :(
Sleeping with Nancy Pelosi.
I don't recall any rule to that effect.
Not that there was any shellfish consumption going on at the Waring house.
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