JUST PREACHERS MAJOR Crackdown! turning WPF???????

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Maple Leaf

I'm sorry to be the one to burst your bubble, but only men are allowed access to this kind of Christianity.

Bwwwaahhhhaaa!

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Or just dress normal and let your spirit be what separates you!

Novel idea.

[tamor]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I think some men look sexy with a beard.

I love my hubby's beard. He mentioned shaving a few days ago and I talked him out of it!

[ManOfWord]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

I also don't wear medieval armor.



You don't think I'm telling the truth about old Jewish guys wearing shorts that look like the ones you're wearing in your avatar? That doesn't bother me. I'm comfortable in who I am and what I wear. I don't do it to please others. I do it to be comfortable.



Next time you are preaching down here in South Beach Florida. Look around at the old men and how they're attired. They look just like your picture.

I've seen those guys while in South Florida. I go at least once a year and will be there again in February for a Marriage Enrichment cruise. They're the ones who spend WAY to much for clothes. I always by bargains and sometimes even used.


Well, Bro. Benny, I ALWAYS a T-shirt and shorts when I preach whether it's on Sunday or whatever. But....I am not telling whether it's boxers or briefs. You must be one o' them hippie types if you don't!

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by Michael Phelps

Baloney.

No difference in those women and many of our UPC women, or Conservative Apostolic women.

Hey now, I am a UPC conservative apostolic woman and I look and dress nothing like those women. I am unique, thank you very much, Mr. Broad Brush.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by Charnock

Benny Shapiro worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He used to tell his friends that he was the curator, although his primary job was to keep the exhibits clean and polished. One day he happened to be dusting around the Arabian exhibit, and he noticed an ancient urn that needed some cleaning. He got out his dust rag and began polishing. Low and behold, an enormous Genie appeared before him.

"Master," the Genie began, "I am the Genie of the urn. I can grant you three wishes, but there is one condition I will put on you: You must never shave or cut your beard for the rest of your life, or you will be forced to take my place inside the urn forever."

Benny thought about it for a bit, and decided it was a fair condition for three wishes. So Benny wished for 49% of the total Microsoft stock which was promptly granted. Then he wished for the most beautiful woman in the world as his wife, and low and behold, she was. Finally, he wished for fame and fortune and he instantly became a worldwide celebrity.

Over the years, Benny's beard became longer and longer until it almost reached the floor. As it grew longer, it began to itch. He tried to ignore it, but the itch became more and more irritating, while the memory of the Genie's warning faded.

Finally he decided he had to get rid of the beard and he shaved it off. Instantly he was trapped in the urn, to stay there forever.

The moral of the story: A Benny shaved is a Benny urned.

[tstew]

Originally Posted by tstew

So what happens if some evil group arises who are almost universally clean-shaven. Do we reverse our "standard" on this issue and mandate that everyone must have a full beard in order to distinguish themselves?

There is a pretty sizable global group of people who are so overwhelmingly bald that they are referred to on almost every continent as "skinheads". I would wager that their baldness is a much more universal symbol than facial hair was for hippies. Their baldness is a much more significant break from the norm than facial hair is (in that a greater percentage of men all through history had facial hair than are completely bald). Do we need to make a similar stand on people being completely bald so people can distinguish them.

In my opinion, the issue of facial hair did not even apply to every subset of society in America. There are communities where facial hair was never anything more than a dignified thing. It honestly makes as much sense to me as going to rural America and saying that there should be a standard against wearing blue or red because at a certain place and time it symbolized allegiance to a street gang. Once again as ridiculous as that sounds, much more importance was placed by the street gang in their color than by the hippies in their facial hair.

Bump:

Because I would sincerely like a response from someone who would hold my facial hair against me.


...and because I thought it was a pretty good post

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by tstew

Bump:

Because I would sincerely like a response from someone who would hold my facial hair against me.


...and because I thought it was a pretty good post

Do you pluck your eyebrows?

[tstew]

Originally Posted by cneasttx

Do you pluck your eyebrows?

No, but heaven forbid some group decides to use full, natural eyebrows as their own special expression of rebellion...I may have to learn.


TIC...settle down, settle down.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by tstew

No, but heaven forbid some group decides to use full, natural eyebrows as their own special expression of rebellion...I may have to learn.


TIC...settle down, settle down.

Mine are so blond they are hard to see. So sometimes I use (gasp) make-up.