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02-14-2008, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
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Farewell for a while :(
I am told that I cannot go on here for a little while.
As ridiculous as this may sound, I have to do this since a friends agreed that for Lent I should give up going on here... as well as swearing.
Now I'm not Catholic, but still.
So goodbye everyone and see you again after Easter! I will miss spending countless minutes browsing around and randomly posting here. G.net was here when I needed it most to waste my time.
This seriously sucks. 
I will miss you guys!!!
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02-14-2008, 11:50 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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Lent sucks, it's pointless deprivation.
Come back to us! We have cookies of the uber-goffix variety.
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02-14-2008, 11:51 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: A whales Virgina
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Your going to miss us! Well miss you! Ill send you an ecard if you can make it all 40 days. I left forums for like 6 months when I lived in the Hindu temple as a student, blah, it was cool but glad to be back!
Dont do it if you dont want to though. GNET IS THE MOFO SHIT
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Must have been a dream from a thousand years ago...swear I didnt meant it....swear it wasnt meant to be.
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Oh shit!!!*tries to run away, but trips, he breaks his neck on a stool*No I know how Hilary Swank feels like.
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02-14-2008, 12:24 PM
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#4
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
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Well, if you feel that this is the right path, then I encourage you and will welcome your return after Easter! 
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"Follow your bliss..."
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02-14-2008, 04:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: In a place covered in darkness but filled with only good people
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I don't really get it, but bye ††BlackRose††.
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Cheesy joke of the day:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side.
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02-14-2008, 04:50 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
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Originally Posted by DarkPrayer
I don't really get it, but bye ††BlackRose††.
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During Lint, one observing the holiday is supposed to give up something they consider fun and enjoyable in order to sympathize with those who don't have quite as much.
I assume she is doing this in order to explore other religions, or perhaps as a favor to her friend.
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02-14-2008, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
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If you aren't even Catholic, then why are you doing this?
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02-14-2008, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
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I'm not Catholic, or Christian at all for that matter, but I sometimes participate in lent just to see if I have the will power. Last year I gave up my television, and I haven't watched it since. I finally removed it from my room a few weeks ago.
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02-14-2008, 05:34 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Lent is still a great idea, no matter what religion. I'd do it but I don't know what to give out and I doubt I'd have the willpower to do so.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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02-14-2008, 06:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
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I've tried fasting before, but I always cave after about the 6th hour of water-only. x_x;;;
Plus, if I don't eat my three squares, I'm not exactly the epitome of love and kindness. :/
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"Follow your bliss..."
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02-14-2008, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
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I agree. Lent is a GREAT idea. It's a challenge, and a healthy one at that.
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02-15-2008, 10:03 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
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Agreed, I also like the fact that it forces people to add a bit of variety to their diets. Personaly I'm tired of the three main meal meats chicken, pork, and beef (unless they're made into sausages(except chicken)), if I could I would eat fish more often. Unfortunately for me here in the midwest there isn't much in terms of a history of fishing (except for recreation) so it's not hardwired into the diet as much as chicken, pork, and beef. Eh that's what I get I suppose for being the only one in my family born by the sea.
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"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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02-15-2008, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: In a place covered in darkness but filled with only good people
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Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua
During Lint, one observing the holiday is supposed to give up something they consider fun and enjoyable in order to sympathize with those who don't have quite as much.
I assume she is doing this in order to explore other religions, or perhaps as a favor to her friend.
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That's unusual. I've never heard of it. If I had to give something up that I consider fun and enjoyable, it would be all of my manga and books. Lint sounds like a really good holiday. Everyone should celebrate it to sympathize with those who don't have as much.
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Cheesy joke of the day:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side.
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02-15-2008, 10:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: A whales Virgina
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I gave up cooked food last year for lent. This year I am thinking about adding something :~) Instead of doing less I am going to do more to celebrate myself.
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Must have been a dream from a thousand years ago...swear I didnt meant it....swear it wasnt meant to be.
Aim: K143rsjrp
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Originally Posted by Duane
Oh shit!!!*tries to run away, but trips, he breaks his neck on a stool*No I know how Hilary Swank feels like.
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02-18-2008, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canada
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Black Rose, you will be missed. Hope you survive lent without GNET and actually gain something positive from this self-sacrifice you are giving.
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02-18-2008, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 951
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This is the introduction thread.
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03-24-2008, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
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I actually went through with this Lent thing since it teaches you that you can live without something or that you can do something really good. That's a good explanation Tam Li Hua.
And I do appologize, dark_dragon_of_ice, I didn't know where to put this.
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03-24-2008, 06:13 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Welcome back! 
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03-24-2008, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Georgia
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I never saw the point in Lent. If something is worth doing at all then it isn't worth giving up. And why give up something temporarily. Sacrifice it like Isaac gd!
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03-24-2008, 06:33 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Originally Posted by blindNsect
Sacrifice it like Isaac gd!
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Sacrifice! Mmmmm sacrifice. Come here, Ritual Sacrifice, here boy! (whistles)
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03-24-2008, 07:03 PM
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#21
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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I hate Lent.. argh. My mom always made me give up something of HER choice, not mine.
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03-24-2008, 07:26 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Georgia
Posts: 497
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Next year for Lent, I'm giving up you mom!
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03-24-2008, 07:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Sacrifice! Mmmmm sacrifice. Come here, Ritual Sacrifice, here boy! (whistles)
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LOL!!!!!
That was too funny.
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"Man, know thyself, and thou wilst know the universe and the gods."
~ inscription at the Temple of Delphi
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03-25-2008, 06:50 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Ukraine, Russia and Jordan
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Sacrifice! Mmmmm sacrifice. Come here, Ritual Sacrifice, here boy! (whistles)
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Hilarious.
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03-30-2008, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,000
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Oh don't go. Well come back soon.
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