How are you and your spouse similar / different?

[Neck]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Huh?

Are you on the right thread?

I just always wondered why we men when you draw us up with standards of holiness we look like 90% of the common men.

While our wives look like .0001% of the common women in the US.

Why is that?

It is a rhetorical question?

Without any judgement.

No one seems to have the answer...

[KarenJo]

Originally Posted by Monkeyman

Nope..no need to, she hears it from me ALL of the time, my pops passed on the romance gene so....

Yeah, It's in your blood, you know that R_______ blood (Your Last Name)
You've always been a cutie pie....(DON'T take offense..I've known MM and his wonderful wife for many, many years)

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

I just always wondered why we men when you draw us up with standards of holiness we look like 90% of the common men.

While our wives look like .0001% of the common women in the US.

Personally, I don't look around at all the other women in the U.S. and spend a lot of time trying to look like them.

Why is that?

Because many of our women don't dress according to current fashionista standards? Or because they choose the more feminine versions of fashion? There may be lots of women walking around in pants, but dresses and skirts are STILL very much in vogue.

It is a rhetorical question?

Is it?

Without any judgement.

No one seems to have the answer...

Really? It seems pretty simple to me. If I wear a skirt, and every other woman at the mall is wearing pants, I suppose I look different from them. (e.g., in the 1%) My goals are to look feminine, attractive, and modest. If my interpretation of that (and practical application) causes me to look different than others, then...so?

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Falla39

This reminds me of when one of our little granddaughters was around
four or five years old. She was asking her daddy (a pastor) why this and
why that. He carefully explained that was because Daddy was a male and
Mommy was a female. She told him that if he was a male and mommy
was a female then "Daddy, that would make me an e-mail".

Falla39

[tamor]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

This is Kristin and I at the 2006 Internationale Spazzacamino - the Festival of the Chimney Sweeps in Santa Maria Maggorie, Italy

What a very cute picture!

[Neck]

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Personally, I don't look around at all the other women in the U.S. and spend a lot of time trying to look like them.



Because many of our women don't dress according to current fashionista standards? Or because they choose the more feminine versions of fashion? There may be lots of women walking around in pants, but dresses and skirts are STILL very much in vogue.



Is it?



Really? It seems pretty simple to me. If I wear a skirt, and every other woman at the mall is wearing pants, I suppose I look different from them. (e.g., in the 1%) My goals are to look feminine, attractive, and modest. If my interpretation of that (and practical application) causes me to look different than others, then...so?

My question is not directed at the woman. Since I am a man.

Why do men have it so easy with their standard march in their walk with God?

I think it comes from the same mentality as the muslim countries that have not taken on modern life.

It was done in that time period to control and suppress woman.

If you took that time period in true literal sense.

Why are woman voting today who are christian woman?

They did not have that right in that time period.

They were banned from forms of Govn't.

It is amazing just how certain sectarian controling (standards) are put up as a measure for how close one is to God.

The Jews in many forms of their practice of religion also put adorning elements on the man.

To show their commitment to God.

Where are those elements in the UPCI church today?

[Digging4Truth]

Similarities.

We both love God & his people.
We both realized long ago that not all who claim to be His people are truly His people.
We have an equal paradigm as to what our call & vision is.
We share a passion for our family and are working to slow things down so we can major more on the majors.
Our favorite indulgence is to go out somewhere nice to eat with one another and visit like we used to have more time to do.
I could go on and on.... but this will suffice.


Differences
When I wake up I am UP... alive... ready to live, breathe, sing, crank up the music... YEAH!!!!!!!!!! another day.
My wife... not so much.

My wife can talk to anybody. She has never met a stranger and could sell an ice box to an eskimo. She has enough charisma for the both of us and several of our nearest friends.
Me... not so much.

I love to learn. INPUT!!!! MUST HAVE INPUT!!!... I stop when I see a documentary. All of my kids are the same way. To learn is an obsession.
My wife... she waits for the recap after we have soaked it all in. She finds the information interesting but not so much that she would want to learn it herself.

I believe that God made the sun to go down for a reason. I am of the opinion that the invention of the light bulb has skewed the mind of man away from Gods plan that we go to bed when the sun goes down.
My wife believes that the sun going down is a sign from God that the day should now begin in earnest. She also believes that the sun coming up is a sign from God to put the cover over her head and SLEEP LIKE THE WIND BULLSEYE!!!

One of lifes great pleasures is to get up early and sit on the front porch and take in the morning. Then go up to the local cafe and get a nice breakfast with my son (as all of the female folk are still holding tightly to their pillows). My son and I have been to several towns, bought stuff to work on the house, eaten a good breakfast... We have lived several hours before the lady folk even think about beginning the process of multiple moans that will eventually peel them from bed.
My wife is happy for me as long as I don't ask for her involvement.



Life is good is it not?

[Mrs. LPW]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

He looks like 90% of the men in the US.

You look like .0001% of the women in the us.

So that is the called out message?

Is it called out or surpressed?

Neckstadt,

You'd be suprised to know that the woman in our world today are looking to take back their homes. There are woman who are no where near Pentecostal in any way shape or form... but they want to stay home and raise their children because they've seen over the past few decades that it's a very healthy thing... and now they are pushing for their right to do so without being looked down on by society. It's come full circle.

Just a thought, maybe you should think before you speak. I know you borderline despise the old ways but you could have a little respect for ladies who choose to be home. I am one of them right now. I worked secular until my first son was born, two years later my second son has arrived and I plan to stay home as long as I can with them. No one told me to, No one made me feel it was the "biblical' thing to do.. I just feel it's the best thing for me to do. And I don't judge anyone who doesn't.

And I might add that SUPRESSED is the farthest thing from what I feel. BLESSED would be a better adjective.

[Mrs. LPW]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

I just always wondered why we men when you draw us up with standards of holiness we look like 90% of the common men.

While our wives look like .0001% of the common women in the US.

Why is that?

It is a rhetorical question?

Without any judgement.

No one seems to have the answer...

It's called hijacking a nice thread and turning it into another nasty one.
I personally can't understand it.
Go on Mark's new "holiness" thread and fight there.
The ladies on here who still do the outward things, don't feel the need to be liberated by you.

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Mrs. LPW

Neckstadt,

You'd be suprised to know that the woman in our world today are looking to take back their homes. There are woman who are no where near Pentecostal in any way shape or form... but they want to stay home and raise their children because they've seen over the past few decades that it's a very healthy thing... and now they are pushing for their right to do so without being looked down on by society. It's come full circle.

Just a thought, maybe you should think before you speak. I know you borderline despise the old ways but you could have a little respect for ladies who choose to be home. I am one of them right now. I worked secular until my first son was born, two years later my second son has arrived and I plan to stay home as long as I can with them. No one told me to, No one made me feel it was the "biblical' thing to do.. I just feel it's the best thing for me to do. And I don't judge anyone who doesn't.

My wife has been a stay at home mom for over 12 years.

She had such a hard time in the workforce with all the mocking...

You have no background on my experiences my walk with God.

Be careful also not to judge on why or how somone speaks up.

I know first hand the words spoke in front of me as a child by some of the highest of officials and pastors in the UPCI.

On why the standards are used as a test for the saint...

I am out on this subject.

You have the right and if your heart is in it your position on standards is your buisness.

I do not look down on you for it.

I also will speak a position.