Your experience when you dropped "dress standards"

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Kae

If you are raised from a child that it is wrong to wear pants is it a conviction or a learned behavior or any standard?

Kae,

This is the point I always make and immediately get slammed as suggesting there are no true convictions about those things.

This is only my opinion but I believe the vast majority of "conviction" about dress codes, hair cutting, etc are psychological conditioning.

For most to violate what has been pounded in your head as things that determine your godliness and worth to God naturally brings feelings of guilt. That is not conviction.

I am always amused when some conservative backslides and starts doing things they didn't before then feel guilty, get back in church, then try to claim that they "went lib" and then saw the error of their ways and came back home to clothesline Oneness Pentecostalsim.

The first thing I ask those folks is were you connected to a church during your "lib" time? Were you praying and studying God's word the same as before? Most times the answer is no and that lets me know they were just backslid during that time and had not "gone liberal".

[StMark]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

In my observation they are held onto due to intimidation. And that intimidation is much worse because it says if you don't do this you are viewed as saved, and we will treat you as such.

I've seen several Xpentecostal come back to General conferences showing off thier "new look", flipping their feathered hair around, chomping on bubble gum with bright lip stick on, as a way of announcing to everyone that they are above the "commoners".
Then, I've watched the traditional UPC ladies walk by with their noses culred up in disgust, whispering to the others how disgusted they are.

So the attitudes can work both ways

[StMark]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Sainthood,

You are so far off base on this entire post.

First off, you haven't left standards so you don't even know why.

Secondly, I doubt anyone felt "ugly" or older than their husbands and dropped standards - - lol!

Sainthood??? what did you mean by that

[CC1]

Originally Posted by StMark

I've seen several Xpentecostal come back to General conferences showing off thier "new look", flipping their feathered hair around, chomping on bubble gum with bright lip stick on, as a way of announcing to everyone that they are above the "commoners".
Then, I've watched the traditional UPC ladies walk by with their noses culred up in disgust, whispering to the others how disgusted they are.

So the attitudes can work both ways

Yup. However I have seen UPC folks take just the mere presence of an exUPC woman with cut hair, makeup, etc as "showing off". In other words an innocent toss of the hair can be made into something it was not by people looking for a reason to criticize and be judgmental.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by StMark

Sainthood??? what did you mean by that

Some days you are just s l o w!

Isn't your name StMark? I believe the St stands for saint - or is it stain?

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by CC1

Yup. However I have seen UPC folks take just the mere presence of an exUPC woman with cut hair, makeup, etc as "showing off". In other words an innocent toss of the hair can be made into something it was not by people looking for a reason to criticize and be judgmental.

Very true and the upturned nose could be a nose bleed if they aren't sitting on the ground floor at GC -

[StMark]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

Some days you are just s l o w!

Isn't your name StMark? I believe the St stands for saint - or is it stain?

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by StMark

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by StMark

MARK! This is a perfect picture for you!!!!

[Ron]

Originally Posted by StMark

I've seen several Xpentecostal come back to General conferences showing off thier "new look", flipping their feathered hair around, chomping on bubble gum with bright lip stick on, as a way of announcing to everyone that they are above the "commoners".
Then, I've watched the traditional UPC ladies walk by with their noses culred up in disgust, whispering to the others how disgusted they are.

So the attitudes can work both ways

True.