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Anti-Lent: The RevivalLong ago, a very brave and intelligent man was taking a dump. This man proposed a new season of celebration. This glorious annual event was to be known as Anti-Lent. The premise was that Anti-Lent was a mockery of the real Lent, which asks man to go against his natural desires. If Lent called for you to give up something you enjoy, then Anti-Lent would ask you to take something up, and do it excessively. And thus a new tradition was born. To the best of my knowledge, Anti-Lent had a home on the internet in the form of the brave man's friend's website for about three years. Then, sadly, it vanished. However, some humans are very intelligent beasts, and a few of us even came up with the idea of an Internet Archive! Having taken a screenshot of this website, I was able to use the Wayback Machine to find the old Anti-Lent page, which can be reached here. For those of you too slothful to click on the above link, congratulations on embracing sweet sin. I will explain Anti-Lent to you. As I have already mentioned, Anti-Lent is a celebration during which you take something up and do it in excess rather than giving it up. Originally, Anti-Lent was a fourty-day celebration that began six months after the begining of Lent. But you know what? The original website is no longer up, and I have a website and a system of ideals that stresses aesthetics and convenience! Therefore, I have chosen to tweak and expand upon the "unholiday". In my version of Anti-Lent, the celebration begins six months after the end of Lent, which puts a full, unabridged six-month period between the two seasons. This is more aesthetically pleasing numerically, six being the "unholy number" and an even number at that. Also, six is two times the magic number three, which is just sweet icing on the cake. Also, this is more convenient, as this gives it a chance to spread via this website. Anti-Lent would have already begun if we were going by the original start date. Also, to better reflect the original Lent, Saturdays don't count toward the fourty days of Anti-Lent. In original Lenten tradition, it was considered inappropriate to fast on Sunday, the day celebrating the resurection of Christ. The way I see it, it would be inapproprate to ask yourself to overindulge in your chosen habit on Saturday, the general day of partying. Feel free on the Saturdays of Anti-Lent to spend the night out with friends rather than at home masturbating or eating chocolate. (Or maybe you're out with friends masturbating while eating chocolate? That's fine too.) This doesn't mean that you must abstain from your Anti-Lenten habit on Saturdays, but that you may, if it would clash with any plans you may or may not have. Lent has always been a season of sorrow and somber reflection. I think it's pretty fucked up that a religious custom would dictate that you be sad during a holy season, so during the unholy season of the new Anti-Lent, let the feeling be one of joy and bliss! Yes, let Anti-Lent be reflective as well, but take this time to reflect on the glorious gifts given by god or science that allow you to feel the pleasure of kinky sex, taste the culinary bliss of chocolate, experience the inebriating effects of alcohol, and hear the creative orgasm of beautiful music! As did my predecessor, I will post here each year the start and end dates of the next Anti-Lent for those of you who don't know when Lent ends or just don't want to do the math. Anti-Lent 2007 begins Saturday, October 6th and ends Wednesday, November 21th. Free Advertising
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