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09-23-2010, 11:05 PM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
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This is one of the biggest reason I quit going to conferences years before I ever left the UPC.
I thought I was going with people who were seeking God, only to find out it was an excuse for a fashion show.
The world looks for any holiday or excuse they can find to party and get wasted. Apostolics look for any any excuse they can find to play dress up.
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Maybe dress up isnt such a bad alternative to parying?
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09-24-2010, 12:26 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
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Maybe dress up isnt such a bad alternative to parying?
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I guess if that's what your options are 
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09-24-2010, 12:26 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
And partying isn't such a bad alternative to gang banging either...
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09-24-2010, 12:31 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
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... I was always surprised at conferences. People would spend the money and take off work to go, and then spend several hours getting ready for morning service. Not in prayer and Bible study, but getting dressed. Then they'd get back from service, crash in the room for an hour or hit the mall, come back several hours before service and start getting ready for that service. Whole new outfit, different hairstyle, a couple people doing a bunch of .. hair for what seemed to me to be hours on end... coming into church either right before service started or late for church, a couple more hours of church, and when altar call would start, hang out a few minutes and then sneak everyone out (before anyone was dismissed), rush to the restaurant before everyone else got there, eating and talking til all hours of the night, up the next morning early getting dressed again, and complaining that they were so tired and wondering why they couldn't have a few less services, young people begging to stay in the hotel room rather than making the more....
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and that was just the men
it was a lot harder for the women...
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09-24-2010, 01:30 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
This is one of the biggest reason I quit going to conferences years before I ever left the UPC.
I thought I was going with people who were seeking God, only to find out it was an excuse for a fashion show.
The world looks for any holiday or excuse they can find to party and get wasted. Apostolics look for any any excuse they can find to play dress up.
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And ironically they keep the same hours as the people who party until late into the night! The last time I went to an evening service, I was annoyed that I would have normally been in bed by 9pm, but instead was having to be awake and social afterwards (and frankly didn't do a very good job of it...). I can't believe I used to regularly go out to supper at 10 or 11pm, now I eat before 7pm the majority of the time.
btw - ignore my posting time as I'm in a different time zone at the moment, but rest assured, the sun is shining here...
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09-24-2010, 01:44 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
How people dress, dressed down or to the 9s isn't a thing God cares about IMO. That's more something we have hangups over. IF someone wants to wear jeans, more power to them. If someone likes to wear a suit, again more power to them. Im more concerned with attitudes
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- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
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09-24-2010, 01:54 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
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Originally Posted by Praxeas
How people dress, dressed down or to the 9s isn't a thing God cares about IMO. That's more something we have hangups over. IF someone wants to wear jeans, more power to them. If someone likes to wear a suit, again more power to them. Im more concerned with attitudes
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but if I have a bad attitude when I have to stay up late, then that means the right thing to do is not go to church. 
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09-24-2010, 05:05 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
I tell you....some of you people just crack me up! You go from talking about stringy-hair, bluejean skirt, tennis shoes and socks.....what's the phrase.....blue denim whales?..to dressed fit to kill!
When you have a group of several thousand, you're going to have the extreme on both sides. The vast majority of the people there will look nice, but will NOT spend a fortune on clothes.
But it wouldn't be AFF if we didn't get our digs in, now would it? lol
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09-24-2010, 08:35 AM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
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and that was just the men
it was a lot harder for the women...
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09-24-2010, 06:46 PM
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Re: Shopping for General Conference
not with costly array....
where did I read that????
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