Photograph: an alt priest did a conceptual doodle on my forehead

Lent is a time where ur supposed to give something up because God died or something, or Jesus, or la Virgin De Guadalupe peaced into heaven or something. Anyways, you are supposed to give up a luxury item, or something that makes ur life better. It never really made sense 2 me bc why would God invent stuff and then want u 2 stop using it? Anyways, don't want 2 get in2 the story of when I told my congregation that they were 'full of shit' and got my parents banned from their church...

But I just wanted to ask YALL the question.
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Which alternative luxuries do u take for granted?
If there was some sort of 'Alt Lent', what would u give up?
Would u use Lent to make your personal brand 'more alt' or give up altness 2 'go mainstream'?

Here are some alternative luxuries that I am considering giving up/changes I can make to improve my life and the lives' of the ppl around me:

• Stop Living at my parents' house rent-free
• Help my mom take out the trash and do the dishes
• Giving up meaningful Buzzbands
• Stop DLing free, leaked illegal albums
• No more Twitter
• Deactivating Facebook
• Activating Myspace/Friendster
• No more Blow
• No more Four Loko
• Stop 'Partying'
• Set free my sex slaves
• No more Watching buzzbands Jimmy Fallon
• No more JOing to Vicki LeGrand
• No more impure thoughts of Alice Glass
• stop 'cyberbullying' buzzbands
• Stop Pretending that my dog is an alt celeb pet
• Give up eating at Subway
• Stop eating at Chili's just to hit on 'trapped in their lives' waitresses
• Delete all of the 'browser button shortcuts' at the top of my browser
• Refrain from visiting my favourite websites and blogs
• Will use a Windows computer instead of a Mac
• Will delete my entire music library
• Will delete this blog
• Will stop ordering garbage products from Etsy
• Will stop being unemployed
• Will stop yelling at my parents for living in suburbia
• Overtweeting abt how sweet SXSW is gonna be
• Overtweeting abt my 'coachella countdown'
• Overtweeting abt how hard I am partying and how meaningful my bros are
• Being more buzzband tolerant
• Accepting the Lord Savior Jesus Christ in2 my life
• Apologizing 2 my ex 4 that time that I ruined her life
• Stop being alt
• Go mainstream
• Finally accept that AnCo is 'overrated' and 'will never outperform MPP'
• Unvote for Barry Obama
• Get a divorce from my wife so I won't have to be a cool dad any more
• Start listening to NPR so I can try to understand lamestream overgrounders
• Start shopping at Am Appy and Urby Outty again
• Apply for a job filtering search results at Google
• Crash my gas guzzler, claim it was totaled, purchase a hybrid
• Open a Subway franchise
• stop using wifi and use a long ass ethernet cord
• stop going 2 coffee shops and just drinking from a water hose
• getting to know my drug dealer 'as a person' instead of just using him 4 drugs
• stop human trafficking foreigners promising them that I will marry them in 2 years to give them Green Card Status
• Pull a 'Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan' on LeBron James while wearing a vintage Cleveland Cavaliers jersey
• Become vegetarian
• Become a vegan
• Become a freegan
• Shop at Whole Foods but eat unhealthily
• Give up pastries at Panera Bread
• Learn how 2 <3 again
• Stop using the '<3' symbol
• Stop chatting with ppl on the internet, use the phone 2 call them
• no more txt mssgs
• no more sext mssgs
• no more JOing to Miley sexts
• Stop eating ice cream
• Stop eating 'froyo'
• Stop going to all-you-can-eat froyo buffets
• Stop being a lamestreamer
• Become a streamer
• Become a mainstreamer
• Sacrifice altdom
• Finally 'let go' of chillwave
• End my crappy blog where I just make 'snarky' listicles bc I am a subpar writer who can't piece 2gthr real ideas + thoughts
• Learn more abt ur mainstream sibling's way of life
• Study abroad in suburbia
• Stop ruining your current relationship by making ur exGF pretend she is Regine, and engage in a complex roleplaying scenario where you play Win Butler.

Is Christianity full of chill, alt ideas? Do yall miss Jesus when he is metaphorically executed bc of his irrelevancy, then comes back on Easter with a KILLER album that gets every1 buzzing again?

Are yall gonna use Lent 2 become a better person?
What alt stuff r u giving up 4 lent?
Is 'Lent' authentic? Do yall miss Alt Jesus when he disappears?
Do we take many alt day-to-day luxuries 4 granted?
What alt luxury/resource/lifestyle choice could u NOT do without?