UPC Culture

RandyWayne · #1 07-23-2008, 06:32 PM

"Mixed bathing"

"Movie houses"

Two terms that I have only ever heard whilst in the UPC. The first obviously means, to go swimming with members of the opposite sex present (and make the local water park sound more like a Roman orgie) and the latter stands for the "Thee-aye-tore" -said with my best old British accent.

jaxfam6 · #2 07-23-2008, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

"Mixed bathing"

"Movie houses"

Two terms that I have only ever heard whilst in the UPC. The first obviously means, to go swimming with members of the opposite sex present (and make the local water park sound more like a Roman orgie) and the latter stands for the "Thee-aye-tore" -said with my best old British accent.

I am fairly open minded about things and so I took my family to the local water park and let me tell you it may as well have been one.
Not a place I will go back to and not a place I recommend. Make your pool in the back yard a fun place to play and have friends over but avoid the water parks. I was surprised, shocked, amazed, dumbfounded, appaled, you name it and that was me.

RandyWayne · #3 07-23-2008, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jaxfam6

I am fairly open minded about things and so I took my family to the local water park and let me tell you it may as well have been one.
Not a place I will go back to and not a place I recommend. Make your pool in the back yard a fun place to play and have friends over but avoid the water parks. I was surprised, shocked, amazed, dumbfounded, appaled, you name it and that was me.

It has been a few years but there are people who should not legally be allowed to wear swim wear. LOL

But..... I didn't see sex behind every bush either.

jaxfam6 · #4 07-23-2008, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

It has been a few years but there are people who should not legally be allowed to wear swim wear. LOL

But..... I didn't see sex behind every bush either.

Then I need to go to the one you went to. The things these people were doing they may as well have been having sex. It was very suggestive. And you are right many people should never be seen in swim wear. There are also many that can wear it but need to wear a lot more of it than they do.

LadyRev · #5 07-24-2008, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by jaxfam6

I am fairly open minded about things and so I took my family to the local water park and let me tell you it may as well have been one.
Not a place I will go back to and not a place I recommend. Make your pool in the back yard a fun place to play and have friends over but avoid the water parks. I was surprised, shocked, amazed, dumbfounded, appaled, you name it and that was me.

My husband and I went to our first ever water park last summer with our church youth group at WI Dells. We loved it! There wasn't anything "sexual" going on. There were indeed people there that should have thought twice about wearing a swimsuit, however, I see the same stuff on the streets, in the local stores, and in my neighbors yard!

Believe it or not, my husband and I were NOT the only ones wearing CLOTHES on the various water rides. Perhaps this is because an amusement park was also part of the water park and alot of people came for the amusement side of it but then got hot and decided to get wet.

Whatever the reason, we definitely didn't look "weird" because we lacked swimming suits.

We particularly enjoyed a water attraction called Posiedon's(sp) Rage. Its a HUGE tidal wave pool where people stand and wait for the big wave to hit them. It was awesome!

Margies3 · #6 07-24-2008, 02:08 PM

Ahhh yes! the evils of mixed bathing...............

We were in revival one time when I was in high school. It was summer, our church was not air conditioned and it was VERY hot.

After service one night, all of us young people decided that instead of our nightly trip to McDonald's, we wanted to cool off. One of the new girls had a nice built in pool in their backyard. Her parents had gone with the other adults to Bob Evans. So................

The only problem was that, because we weren't allowed to Mixed Bath, we didn't have swimming suits to wear. And heaven knows it would have been baaaaaadddd if we had gotten our clothes wet swimming and then had to explain that to the adults afterwards.

So what else could we do? We took our clothes off and went skinny dipping!

We didn't turn any lights on, so it was all pretty innocent.

A couple weeks later, one of the girls got a case of "the guilts" and went to the pastor and confessed. Imagine that the stink that that stirred up!!

Oh the joys of being an Apostolic youth! LOL!!

LadyRev · #7 07-24-2008, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

Ahhh yes! the evils of mixed bathing...............

We were in revival one time when I was in high school. It was summer, our church was not air conditioned and it was VERY hot.

After service one night, all of us young people decided that instead of our nightly trip to McDonald's, we wanted to cool off. One of the new girls had a nice built in pool in their backyard. Her parents had gone with the other adults to Bob Evans. So................

The only problem was that, because we weren't allowed to Mixed Bath, we didn't have swimming suits to wear. And heaven knows it would have been baaaaaadddd if we had gotten our clothes wet swimming and then had to explain that to the adults afterwards.

So what else could we do? We took our clothes off and went skinny dipping!

We didn't turn any lights on, so it was all pretty innocent.

A couple weeks later, one of the girls got a case of "the guilts" and went to the pastor and confessed. Imagine that the stink that that stirred up!!

Oh the joys of being an Apostolic youth! LOL!!

I did alot of things as an Apostolic teen and beyond...but I must say that this is something I NEVER would have considered. LOL!

RandyWayne · #8 07-24-2008, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

Ahhh yes! the evils of mixed bathing...............

So what else could we do? We took our clothes off and went skinny dipping!

A couple weeks later, one of the girls got a case of "the guilts" and went to the pastor and confessed. Imagine that the stink that that stirred up!!

Oh the joys of being an Apostolic youth! LOL!!

I'll bet it really hit the fan with all the unplanned pregnancies that no doubt occurred as a result of this stunt!
I sure hope that more than one person was banned from bible quizzing!

Margies3 · #9 07-24-2008, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I'll bet it really hit the fan with all the unplanned pregnancies that no doubt occurred as a result of this stunt!
I sure hope that more than one person was banned from bible quizzing!

LOL!! No quizzing at our little church at that time. But we were definately short in helpers in the Sunday School department for a while. And a few of us were banned from playing our musical instruments for several weeks. The choir was sure short singers for the next month or so. And it seems to me that quite a few kids spent the next several weeks sitting with their parents during every service.

The funny thing is that, except for the girl who got the guilts, most of our parents never knew what had gone on. I talked to someone about a year ago who had never heard about this happening! And these people had TWO kids in the crowd! LOL!!

Rhoni · #10 07-24-2008, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

LOL!! No quizzing at our little church at that time. But we were definately short in helpers in the Sunday School department for a while. And a few of us were banned from playing our musical instruments for several weeks. The choir was sure short singers for the next month or so. And it seems to me that quite a few kids spent the next several weeks sitting with their parents during every service.

The funny thing is that, except for the girl who got the guilts, most of our parents never knew what had gone on. I talked to someone about a year ago who had never heard about this happening! And these people had TWO kids in the crowd! LOL!!

Bible quizzing...reminds me of the year I was 12 almost 13...I was on the Luke team in Ohio. I was the youngest of the 5 other quizzers on our team. Toledo was the team to beat that year. I was known for my 'contesting' and getting decisions overturned. It was down to the last 30 point question and the other team got it wrong. It was a question I had worked on the night before...I never told anyone that I knew it...but I froze. Everyone was looking at me and crying. It was so much pressure. I just sat there until they called 'time'. I cried the rest of the day.