Do you.........?

[bbor]

eat meat on good Friday?

Personally i don't...it's not really a religious statement for me...as i am not very religious...but as a kid my parents never ate meat on good Friday and i guess it rubbed off on me.My thoughts are it is one day out of the whole year without meat...so i can survive

[MikeVic]

I don't eat meat, and I try to eat as little as I can.. breakfast, lunch, dinner... nothing inbetween.

[scooper]

I'm going to my favorite fish fry. Oddly enough, it's not at a Catholic church. They just hold a fish fry to make a buck off of the rest of us.

[JeeberD]

Meat rox...

[Fritz]

Vegetarians don't have much of a burden on good Friday. Neither do non-Christians.

[Kodos]

It leaves more meat for me, so yes.

[MrBug708]

You mean Catholics Fritz?

[korme]

Todays Thursday, Dildoface.

[scooper]

Oddly enough, colossal squid is OK to eat on Good Friday.

[henry296]

Did not meat as a kid growing on any Friday's during Lent. Now that I am cooking dinner, I don't care because I am not religious at all.

Todd

[Draft Dodger]

I can't go more than 24 hours without eating meat, or I would die.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by MrBug708
You mean Catholics Fritz?

my wife is a Methodist and she does not eat meat on Good Friday.

[Easy Mac]

Since my girlfriend is an insane catholic, and i at least go to church, i appease her by not eating meat on friday. God its been rough, my whole diet consists of nothing but meat, I only like french fries if they're covered in steak blood. And I gave up pizza for lent... damn this sucks. Thank god for that Sunday loophole... I've actually gotten to have pizza once.

[Bee]

Originally posted by Fritz
my wife is a Methodist and she does not eat meat on Good Friday.

too bad for you.

[scooper]

Originally posted by Easy Mac
Since my girlfriend is an insane catholic, and i at least go to church, i appease her by not eating meat on friday. God its been rough, my whole diet consists of nothing but meat, I only like french fries if they're covered in steak blood. And I gave up pizza for lent... damn this sucks. Thank god for that Sunday loophole... I've actually gotten to have pizza once.

I gave up beef for lent once. That was rough. On Easter, I was presented with the biggest cheeseburger I've ever seen. It was roughly the size of a dinner plate. Ground beef never tasted better.

My dad died just before lent a few years ago. He used to not drink during lent so in honor, I gave up drinking that lent. It was also to make sure I didn't "drown my sorrows." That was actually easier than the beef one. The site of a beer is not as strong as the smell of a steak on the grill.

[bbor]

Originally posted by Fritz
my wife is a Methodist and she does not eat meat on Good Friday.

No hummers for Fritz tommorrow

[korme]

hummers for fritz

hummers for lebron

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lebron 1, fritz 0

[scooper]

Originally posted by bbor
No hummers for Fritz tommorrow

But he can still eat fish!

[MrBug708]

Scooper, didn't need that visual

Depends on the Methodist I guess. Free or Southern. Free is a no-no for Fish. Going down south is perfectly alright

[Craptacular]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
I can't go more than 24 hours without eating meat, or I would die.

I start having serious problems at 12 hours.

[Radii]

I'm pretty sure I, like Draft Dodger, would die after 24 hours without meat. I make sure I never come close to that limit to find out.

[QuikSand]

I always thought it was weird how fish got such a bad rap in this whole "don't eat meat" concept.


"don't eat meat... it's an important statement against killing god's creations..."

"uh, but what about fish?"

"fish... oh, hell yeah - go to town, eat all you want."


I realize there's a little bit more to it from a religious point of view, but I do know numerous "vegetarians" who object to eating meat on moral grounds, yet are perfectly content to gobble down salad shrimp like they are jelly beans. Where are the morals in that?

And from a perspecive of faith, if it's supposed to be about sacrifice... why leave such an easy out? Why not have the true believers show their faith by actually giving up something meaningful? Or is this really all about salesmanship at this point?


Ah, the questions I have about these things.

[GrantDawg]

Eat meat on every Friday of the year.

[digamma]

I have a "vegetarian" friend who falls into this trap. He is a vegetarian because of the "horrors" of the cattle and swine industries.

He had no good answer to the question of whether he was aware of the fact that we actually harvest certain types of seafood.

I agree with you Quick that I don't necessarily see where the sacrafice is. I wondered, when I was younger, whether it was more about trying to fit in to Jesus's time--the loaves and fish, etc.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by bbor
No hummers for Fritz tommorrow

I'm married. The only way I will ever get a hummer is if I stroke a check to American General.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by MrBug708
Scooper, didn't need that visual

Depends on the Methodist I guess. Free or Southern. Free is a no-no for Fish. Going down south is perfectly alright

United

[dacman]

Not only did I eat meat for lunch -- it was pork. I'm going straight to hell with passing GO or collecting $200, eh?

[digamma]

Originally posted by Fritz
United

Yeah, officially, there is no longer a distinction between Methodists. Everyone is a United Methodist. There may be lingering distinctions between what individual churches teach--as there always are--but as a whole the church merged sometime in the mid-20th century to form the UMC, and then encompassed several other branches of Methodism into the UMC umbrella in the latter part of the 20th century. But that is neither here nor there.

[QuikSand]

Originally posted by dacman
Not only did I eat meat for lunch -- it was pork. I'm going straight to hell with passing GO or collecting $200, eh?

Keep us posted.

[dacman]

Originally posted by QuikSand
And from a perspecive of faith, if it's supposed to be about sacrifice... why leave such an easy out? Why not have the true believers show their faith by actually giving up something meaningful? Or is this really all about salesmanship at this point?

You're right...it is supposed to be about sacrifice, but it seems most denominations have fallen into a rather bland tradition.

I think a much better sacrifice would be to give up something like desserts, or TV, or even *gasp* the internet.

[Draft Dodger]

or porn.

[bbor]

Whenever people ask me what i gave up for lent....my stock reply is excercise

[lcjjdnh]

One my friends who is Catholic(had his Confirmation) but not really religious at all has a pretty funny response when people ask what he gave up for lent:

"Church"

[mckerney]

Originally posted by digamma
I have a "vegetarian" friend who falls into this trap. He is a vegetarian because of the "horrors" of the cattle and swine industries.

He had no good answer to the question of whether he was aware of the fact that we actually harvest certain types of seafood.

Does he have a good answer for this:

from http://maddox.xmission.com

You think you're saving the world by eating a tofu-burger and sticking to a diet of grains and berries? Well here's something that not many vegetarians know (or care to acknowledge): every year millions of animals are killed by wheat and soy bean combines during harvesting season (soucre: Steven Davis, professor of animal science at Oregon State University (at least one study has shown that simply mowing an alfalfa field caused a 50% reduction in the gray-tailed vole population)). Oh yeah, go on and on for hours about how all of us meat eaters are going to hell for having a steak, but conveniently ignore the fact that each year millions of mice, rabbits, snakes, skunks, possums, squirrels, gophers and rats are ruthlessly murdered as a direct result of YOUR dieting habits. What's that? I'm sorry, I don't hear any more elitist banter from you pompous cocks. Could it be because your shit has been RUINED?


That's right: the gloves have come off. The vegetarian response to this embarrassing fact is "well, at least we're not killing intentionally." So let me get this straight; not only are animals ruthlessly being murdered as a direct result of your diet, but you're not even using the meat of the animals YOU kill? At least we're eating the animals we kill (and although we also contribute to the slaughter of animals during grain harvesting, keep in mind that we're not the ones with a moral qualm about it), not just leaving them to rot in a field somewhere. That makes you just as morally repugnant than any meat-eater any day. Not only that, but you're killing free-roaming animals, not animals that were raised for feed. Their bodies get mangled in the combine's machinery, bones crushed, and you have the audacity to point fingers at the meat industry for humanely punching a spike through a cow's neck? If you think that tofu burgers come at no cost to animals or the environment, guess again.


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[bosshogg23]

My girlfriends daughter refuses to eat meat on Good Friday, however I didnt even realize it was this Friday. I plan on having hamburgers if its warm enough outside.

[ice4277]

Jeez, its at most, five Fridays out of the year, and you guys are making it sound like giving up meat on those days is like giving up internet porn.

[cthomer5000]

I'm vegetarian, and practice my own beliefes, so it's a total non-issue.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by mckerney
Does he have a good answer for this:

from http://maddox.xmission.com

I raise my own Tofu, thank you. I have about 20 head on the back 1/2 acre.

[henry296]

Originally posted by ice4277
Jeez, its at most, five Fridays out of the year, and you guys are making it sound like giving up meat on those days is like giving up internet porn.

While I agree with you that it isn't too bad, it is 8 days if you include Ash Wednesday plus the 40 days after that.

Todd

[Poli]

Do you...yahoo?

[Ben E Lou]

Ardent:

From whence are you posting?

[Fritz]

SkyDog - he probably can't say much.

[Butter]

What I don't understand is why people insist on trying to get me to eat meat.

I'm a vegetarian, not on moral grounds, but for health reasons. I believe that eating meat is dangerous, because sanitation is so incredibly poor at most slaughterhouses. Don't eat chicken, same reason. Don't eat fish, b/c I don't like it. I don't force this on anyone, but if asked, I'll tell them that I'm a vegetarian. I don't even say why, generally, because I don't want to get that eye roll like "oh, you're one of THOSE".

So, why, if I am a respectful vegetarian, do people insist on trying to get me to go on the Atkins diet, or eating a hamburger? Just fuck off, people!

Oh, and about that article about "vegetarians claiming moral superiority"... seems like that article is trying to prove that meat-eaters are morally superior... so who's the elitist asshole now?

[dacman]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Ardent:

From whence are you posting?

Well, the Nimitz is in the Persian Gulf at the moment, so probably there.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally posted by Fritz
SkyDog - he probably can't say much.

True, I just was wondering if he was still on the ship or not.

[Fritz]

Originally posted by Butter_of_69

So, why, if I am a respectful vegetarian, do people insist on trying to get me to go on the Atkins diet, or eating a hamburger? Just fuck off, people!

Clap Clap Clap.

bring food with you if you go south.

[wbonnell]

I'm not Christian, but I'm curious, does Jesus/God tell his followers to not eat meat today?

[mckerney]

Originally posted by Butter_of_69
Oh, and about that article about "vegetarians claiming moral superiority"... seems like that article is trying to prove that meat-eaters are morally superior... so who's the elitist asshole now?

The article was about vegetarians who did so for moral reasons, not for health or other reasons. It wasn't trying to convert people, but point out the hypocrisy of claiming 'meat is murder' and how it's wrong for animals to be killed for food, when animals are killed to harvest the food that they eat, because it's too inconvient for them to actually have diets that no animals are killed as a result of.

[Butter]

Originally posted by mckerney
The article was about vegetarians who did so for moral reasons, not for health or other reasons. It wasn't trying to convert people, but point out the hypocrisy of claiming 'meat is murder' and how it's wrong for animals to be killed for food, when animals are killed to harvest the food that they eat, because it's too inconvient for them to actually have diets that no animals are killed as a result of.

I understand that, but he's still being an asshole.

Anybody who ever has seen Paul Reiser, the comedian, may remember a bit he did about this very thing. He talked about why people seemed to only want to save the cute animals.

Paraphrasing here:

"Oh, how can you kill that poor little baby seal? It's so cute and cuddly! What's that, a lobster? God that's ugly, kill it and eat it. Drop it right in the boiling water alive. Is there anything more cruel? No? Well, that should take care of it. Oh, but look at the cow.... look at his eyes... how can you want to kill that? Ew, what is that a mouse? Yeah, set a trap for that and make it chew it's own leg off to survive. That is an ugly, ugly animal."

[GrantDawg]

Originally posted by wbonnell
I'm not Christian, but I'm curious, does Jesus/God tell his followers to not eat meat today?

Nope. Certain churches do, though. We are not one of them.