Good Friday-who eats meat on this day?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 10 Apr 2009, 15:18

I Observe this holiday and refrain from eating meat on this day,anyone else?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 10 Apr 2009, 15:22

Just ate loads of meat for dinner

very tasty as well.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 10 Apr 2009, 15:30

What do you mean with 'I obeserve this holiday'?

It's Good Friday, right!? What do we celebrate on this day again!?

Anyway, I'm not religious in any way, and I eat what I want, when I want it, so no, I didn't refrain from eating meat today. I just had dinner with cheap steak.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 10 Apr 2009, 15:33

i've been brought up to not eat meat on this day,a tradition i have no problem in "observing"

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 10 Apr 2009, 15:34

I didn't even know you're not supposed to eat meat today.

I'm not eating much meat today, mostly because my fridge is empty... I was supposed to go visit my parents today, but I missed the train, and shops are all closed, so I'm left with fish, french fries, and noodles. Just cooked some (poor man's) ramen for myself. There's a tiny bit of meat there.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 10 Apr 2009, 15:54

I didnt know you're not "supposed" to eat meat today (this Friday) either - sometimes we have fish on Fridays which is traditional I guess

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:02

I've never heard of this tradition before but then my family have never been big meat eaters and being vegetarian for 16 years has meant I observe this tradition 24/7 anyway

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It seems you're alone Salty

. Where does it come from? I've just asked some friends and they've never heard of it too.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:10

i thought it was a pretty well known tradition

it's a Roman Catholic tradition,clearly no catholics here

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/22/26 ... -meat.html

http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question103464.html

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:14

Maybe that's why. I didn't know you were Roman Catholic. I would guess most on this forum are either atheist or agnostic (like me).

Interesting links, thanks. So you give up meat as back when the tradition started meat was a luxury. Wouldn't wine be more appropriate? Not wanting to dis. the tradition.

I adhere to being with my family over Christmas but I think that's the only tradition I follow.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:20

Well it's a tradition i was brought up to observe so i see no issue in sticking with it.i like fish as well anyway.But seeing the butcher shops doing a roaring trade in the city centre today i can see it's not a well known tradition these days. i'm getting old

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:22

saltysam wrote:Well it's a tradition i was brought up to observe so i see no issue in sticking with it.i like fish as well anyway.

Of course, as you should.

saltysam wrote:i'm getting old

More likely religion is on the decrease in Europe. I bet it's well known in The States.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:27

bradavon wrote:

More likely religion is on the decrease in Europe. I bet it's well known in The States.

i'm a catholic but i must admit i've lapsed in that i don't go to church much at all.i was married in one as well. however i still believe and i do pray regularly in my own way.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:45

I was baptized and all that crap, so technically I'm roman-catholic, but obviously that was done TO me, and not with my concent or whatever...

I don't consider myself catholic, or christian, or religious in any other way, shape or form.

How other people deal with their religion and those beliefs and traditions, that's obviously completely up to them.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 10 Apr 2009, 16:48

Yi-Long wrote:I was baptized and all that crap, so technically I'm roman-catholic, but obviously that was done TO me, and not with my concent or whatever...

I don't consider myself catholic, or christian, or religious in any other way, shape or form.

How other people deal with their religion and those beliefs and traditions, that's obviously completely up to them.

What about your out of the body experince the other week? didn't that make you think there might be something out there

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Apr 2009, 17:19

HungFist wrote:I was supposed to go visit my parents today, but I missed the train, and shops are all closed

Mental, the shop I work at was open till 6pm today (I was working till 5:30).

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 10 Apr 2009, 17:29

saltysam wrote:
Yi-Long wrote:I was baptized and all that crap, so technically I'm roman-catholic, but obviously that was done TO me, and not with my concent or whatever...

I don't consider myself catholic, or christian, or religious in any other way, shape or form.

How other people deal with their religion and those beliefs and traditions, that's obviously completely up to them.
What about your out of the body experince the other week? didn't that make you think there might be something out there

It means, or better said, it CAN mean, that the body and soul can be seperated at times, in cases of stress or pain or whatever. Nowhere does it in any way insinuate there might be a 'God', or a 'heaven', or 'hell', or whatever.

It MIGHT... but I personally don't believe there is (or ever was) a God.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Apr 2009, 17:47

Yi-Long wrote:I was baptized and all that crap, so technically I'm roman-catholic, but obviously that was done TO me, and not with my concent or whatever...

I wouldn't say it technically makes you anything. My parents baptised me too but they were more religous back then. They're not anymore.

I don't believe in a god in the usual sense of the word but cannot believe "we're it" either. The universe is just too big for that. I also don't believe we're intelligent enough to be able to say for certain that there is a god either way. It's just that I don't believe in a formalised one.

HungFist wrote:I was supposed to go visit my parents today, but I missed the train, and shops are all closed

Do shops in Finland shut on bank holidays/sundays? They've not here for years, thankfully.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Apr 2009, 17:49

Yi-Long wrote:It MIGHT... but I personally don't believe there is (or ever was) a God.

My personal belief is that God is the infinite consciousness/creativity/awareness/energy from which everything has come from, and that the big game of life is for us all to return to the source. So basically, a 'game' was created in order to experience as much as possible from as many different angles as possible.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Apr 2009, 17:52

bradavon wrote:I wouldn't say it technically makes you anything. My parents baptised me too

Yeah, I was christened but only as a tradition, neither of my parents are remotely religious. You choose your own religion, being baptised doesn't make you part of any.

bradavon wrote:Do shops in Finland shut on bank holidays/sundays? They've not here for years, thankfully.

Haha, good for you maybe! Bad for us lot who work in retail!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Apr 2009, 17:54

Retail doing what?

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 10 Apr 2009, 17:56

bradavon wrote:
Yi-Long wrote:I was baptized and all that crap, so technically I'm roman-catholic, but obviously that was done TO me, and not with my concent or whatever...
I wouldn't say it technically makes you anything. My parents baptised me too but they were more religous back then. They're not anymore.

I don't believe in a god in the usual sense of the word but cannot believe "we're it" either. The universe is just too big for that. I also don't believe we're intelligent enough to be able to say for certain that there is a god either way. It's just that I don't believe in a formalised one.

HungFist wrote:I was supposed to go visit my parents today, but I missed the train, and shops are all closed
Do shops in Finland shut on bank holidays/sundays? They've not here for years, thankfully.

I never said that we are all there is.
I do believe intelligent life exists on other planets, simply because there are millions of planets that have all the elements needed for 'life'.

I just don't believe that there is a 'God' that 'created' any of this.

There are many MANY things we don't know. Some people choose to make stuff up and believe that they do know, and other people will just admit:' I don't know and we might never know... (and that's OK)'.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Apr 2009, 18:02

I work at Next.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 10 Apr 2009, 18:04

Yi-Long wrote:I do believe intelligent life exists on other planets, simply because there are millions of planets that have all the elements needed for 'life'.

#

And the majority of the universe is 'dark matter' which cannot currently be accounted for.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 10 Apr 2009, 19:04

Yi-Long wrote:I never said that we are all there is.

I know. I was just taking the conversation forward.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 10 Apr 2009, 19:24

bradavon wrote:
HungFist wrote:I was supposed to go visit my parents today, but I missed the train, and shops are all closed
Do shops in Finland shut on bank holidays/sundays? They've not here for years, thankfully.

Yes, it's in the legislation. Only small grocery stores are allowed operate on sundays. But today everything is closed.

There's some exceptions though. For example before christmas all stores are open on sundays.