quietthinker
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you'll need to clarify that one for me Fluffy!so who will help me push my carriage into the sea ?!
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you'll need to clarify that one for me Fluffy!so who will help me push my carriage into the sea ?!
In response to hidden, had a visualization of panicking over the idea of a buggie coming between the possibility of hypothetical Mr. Swag McHottie becoming a thing and discarding the fictional buggie evidence by pushing it off into the sea, past midnight, mafia style. there by which, protecting future said relationship between myself and Captain senor hottie pants. I am slightly ADHD and my brain goes places without me sometimes. its okay to ignoreyou'll need to clarify that one for me Fluffy!
thanks lilygrace! i wouldn't worry about the pink thing. its just a clothing brand.i wear dresses and skirts a lot as well. ill wear sweat pants but the sweat pants im ashamed of say pink down the side. they are hand me downs. but i believe what we wear does make a statement about who we are sometimes.
i agree with the others encouragement to you.
yeah, so am I. First I blow my nose half a dozen time....that gets rid of most of it.very good point and i am EXTREMELY picky. so i like the automatic process of elimination.
lol, need to do that now myself!yeah, so am I. First I blow my nose half a dozen time....that gets rid of most of it.
I guess I don't really hate yoga pants. I just kinda wish they'd go away. lol. Did you ever think this thread would go on a "yoga pants" tangent? lolI don't like the yoga pants either. I have a pair for working out/winter. It's VERY hard to work out in a full length dress and I have to. I was sick for a long time and was wasting away, so building strength has to be part of my routine. (*Partly from being sick and mostly, but also from severe depression for years. Both were bad. Couldn't get out of bed some days.*)
That said, I got the worst pair on Amazon. (They were $4 and they were just for wearing under dresses during winter at the time. I didn't care.) They look like fabric fleece mom jeans. I sent a less flattering picture to my mother, complaining that the back was also on the front, and her and her friend had tears from laughing.
I did have an atheist gentleman say to me once something on the lines of, "Finally a good, clean (or something) woman in a sea of [REDACTED- bad language]." So, despite being shocked that someone would say that to me with that language, it does say something that if even the ungodly men notice something about it, I would be surprised if the Godly men didn't think about it.
I'm feeling pretty insecure today and sometimes I'm painfully aware that as an anabaptist that I look pretty Amish/Mennonite. (Prayer covering/long dresses/not super flashy/etc)
I am not looking to change that and don't want to get into the details about why some of us dress that way, but I do want to know what the outside perspective is. It's just something I'm wrestling with/feeling heavily insecure about as far as outside judgments, but also have to stick to my convictions.
I blame it as being a reason for some things in my life at times. What do you think? Would it bother a man/would it not? Curious.
Edit: I explained it anyway in #11.
lol, I get it. I lived on Guam for six years. During the rainy season, it gets down to near 70 degrees at night. And I think the humidity never gets below 100%. I also get what you say about the subjectivity of the subject. Which would almost kinda explain my reaction about the slavery/dress code thing, I'm hoping.The point I was making BF was that of the similitude or the principle of justification by using scripture. One justifies slavery from scripture, the other a dress code from a bygone era. It was not intended as making no moral difference between the two.
I favour modesty. Anything that advertises 'look at me, look at me' sends a message I find distasteful.....and that goes for anything that flaunts.
and I will add, because of the subjectivity of this subject it can be difficult to nail.
For me personally, living in the jungle alone means I can make my own dress code which for the most part is pretty scant particularly when the humidity levels rise.
An experience..... it's a hot steamy day.....a quarter of an acre of trees have been taken out to allow sunshine into the otherwise enclosed and thick forest....there is bare earth everywhere and the time has come to get septic disposal trenches in so I get to with pick and shovel....naked.
The sweat is dripping and combined with the dust from the diggings I looked like a moving mud ball. From time to time I'd need to rinse off in an improvised shower under a tree.... Sooo, you get the picture!
I'm engrossed in digging when surprisingly a 4x4 turns up full with people of both genders...Jehovah's Witnesses. They didn't know where to look....up or down or over my shoulder as I stood there shovel in hand. Folks turning up silently and unexpected has happened several times....I've learned to keep articles of clothing in different corners of the property....for their sake......can't offend unnecessarily!
I met some Mennonites in the markets in Belize. Their dress made them stand out like a sore thumb (not that they were sore thumbs) I was wearing red shorts which I had just acquired from a thrift shop....the only shorts I could find which reasonably fitted with velcro closable side pockets. It was considerably more comfortable than wearing my riding gear in the sweltering heat (I was travelling by motorcycle)
Anyway, I got chatting with the guys about their story...clothes and all. They told me they would never wear what I was wearing because it drew too much attention.....wow, I thought, I blend into the colourful crowd and they stand out.
I thought it was interesting that they were oblivious to or in denial of the the fact that they drew attention to themselves even while saying it's the last thing they'd do.
The reality as I saw it was they were stuck in the fashion of 150 yrs ago and justified it using scripture. Their dress code was more important than the claims they made.
Was it any different to the southern states justifying their ownership of slaves .....and getting that justification from scripture....blind to the obvious?
My maternal, maternal great-grandmother never cut her hair. It fell down to her ankles (when she let it down) even when she was in her eighties. She was a minister's wife.When we were first married my wife only owned pants. When she asked me what I liked, I told her the truth and she bought some skirts and dresses for me. When we both met the Lord about 4 years later she went to very long skirts/dresses and stopped cutting her hair short. To this day she always wears long skirts or dresses outside our home. She only trims the split ends of her hair. We are an old fashioned couple for certain. I have not worn short pants or short-sleeved shirts since I can remember. I don't own any and would feel uncomfortable with bare arms or legs in public. My wife wears tops with half or 3/4 length sleeves. I guess some people would call us conservative dressers.
I went to church last Sabbath for the first time in a few years. It was wonderful! Not going to make it today. Logistical problems.I must say for the other side that I was baptized with the Holy Ghost and given the incentive to buy a Bible and start reading it for the first time in my life in the UPC. Not all is bad. However, at the end of 11 years with the UPC and two other closely related groups, it was definitely the end. I had purposed to leave the UPC when I moved from California to Wyoming in 1985, but God gave me no alternatives. When I moved from Wyoming to Oklahoma in 1987 God still gave me no alternatives, but I knew that the UPC was out of the picture for me. We moved to Oklahoma blind to our future in churches. Not being a Trinitarian I really found myself trusting in God for His will. He led me to a place which I thought was better. It was better for the moment, but the best place is always exactly the place God puts us for that moment. In 2018 I found myself outside of all formally organized groups. The advent of Covid-19 and all of its results let me know that it is unlikely I will ever have what people name a 'home church' again. But my vision is improving.
On the woman thing, God granted a boon in that. My wife could and would never fit into the place you have described. As always she knew long before I did that the end in the UPC for us was coming. She did not push me but after so many years, I had finally learned that God always spoke with her first about a need for a change in our work for Him. I knew then from her foreknowledge that it was going to the happen... the final separation from each group, including the UPC and why. God always knows what He is doing but so often we get out ahead of Him as if we knew what we were doing all alone. We don't! My wife gave me the lead but He gave the direction to my wife if you can understand that. Alone we each would have been in trouble. Together? What a mighty God we serve!
That's pretty deep.In response to hidden, had a visualization of panicking over the idea of a buggie coming between the possibility of hypothetical Mr. Swag McHottie becoming a thing and discarding the fictional buggie evidence by pushing it off into the sea, past midnight, mafia style. there by which, protecting future said relationship between myself and Captain senor hottie pants. I am slightly ADHD and my brain goes places without me sometimes. its okay to ignore
Aye, my paternal grandmother was like that. She usually had her hair in some kind of a bun on top of her head but I remember seeing it after she washed it and was combing it out falling down way below her knees. When her own Pentecostal Holiness church [ @rockytopva ] started easing up on their standards, she having her own convictions never did. She had been a widow for 35 years when she finally died in 1985 just one day short of 96 years old. The long dresses and long hair were no empty show for her. She lived the life. I remember her talking to a stranger on a bus and telling him about Jesus as we traveled from Oklahoma to California. She was one beautiful woman [in the Spirit] who loved God and was never too ashamed to share her testimonies with anyone. [She also baked some tremendous pumpkin pies.] She married my grandfather in 1911 and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost at a camp meeting in Oklahoma in 1913. He was a vaudeville tap dancer when he met her. Quitting that when they came to the Lord, he literally wore out the wooden floors of their home in Oklahoma as he continued his dancing at home before the Lord. He died in 1950.My maternal, maternal great-grandmother never cut her hair. It fell down to her ankles (when she let it down) even when she was in her eighties. She was a minister's wife.
I would like to visit places of prayer and worship again but as things continue to appear all around us at the moment it cannot be. Perhaps it will never be again... but God knows. I will strive to follow His lead!I went to church last Sabbath for the first time in a few years. It was wonderful! Not going to make it today. Logistical problems.
I pray that what I am about to say is not taken in the wrong way, as I may use some words, which might offend some, though I do not directly intend for them to do so.I'm feeling pretty insecure today and sometimes I'm painfully aware that as an anabaptist that I look pretty Amish/Mennonite. (Prayer covering/long dresses/not super flashy/etc)
I am not looking to change that and don't want to get into the details about why some of us dress that way, but I do want to know what the outside perspective is. It's just something I'm wrestling with/feeling heavily insecure about as far as outside judgments, but also have to stick to my convictions.
I blame it as being a reason for some things in my life at times. What do you think? Would it bother a man/would it not? Curious.
Edit: I explained it anyway in #11.