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I had to laugh last Sunday, when I saw an old guy coming out of his car in a stripedshirt. This was the same guy who many years ago told me off for not wearing a white shirt. Is this progress or hypocrisy?
I’ll vote for progress. 🙂 Is your glass half-full or half-empty? :think: Someone didn’t do laundry. One small step for man, one large step for mankind. I call it progress. Last Sunday, I went to the Spoken Word at the Conference Center in spandex and a t-shirt and sneakers since no one knew I was an endowed member. Now that’s progress. Quote:Last Sunday, I went to the Spoken Word at the Conference Center in spandex . . .
I’ll be back tomorrow. I have to go scrub out my brain with soap.
😯 😆 SilentDawning wrote:One small step for man, one large step for mankind. I call it progress. Last Sunday, I went to the Spoken Word at the Conference Center in spandex and a t-shirt and sneakers since no one knew I was an endowed member. Now that’s progress.
Spandex makes me think of the Nutty Professor (Eddie Murphy version) and heavy metal.
😆 Quote:Someone didn’t do laundry.
That’s likely too. That’s why I can’t stand white clothing. Every little mark or stain shows up. On Sunday, one of the brethren had a big yellow stripe on his back which had come off the pew!
SamBee wrote:Is this progress or hypocrisy?
To claim it is progress would mean he was wrong in the past and has seen the light…and now wears striped shirts. I don’t think that is accurate or how this guy likely views it.
To claim it is hypocrisy would mean he still believes white shirts are more appropriate but is behaving in a way that shows he is not sincere in his belief.
You’d have to ask him to know. If you asked him, would that make you a hypocrite?
Maybe it is best to use Pascal’s Wager and just say:
Old-Timer wrote:I’ll vote for progress.
🙂 I probably should note that my vote for progress was a bit tongue-in-cheek, since I wear a white shirt, tie and suit coat almost every Sunday as part of my calling (at the request of my direct Priesthood “supervisor”) and have no real problem doing so. I don’t think wearing a white shirt every Sunday is a sign of spiritual immaturity or any other negative characterization. If it has meaningful significance for the person doing it, I am all for it – 100%. I also am on record as liking the symbolism of wearing white to officiate in a sacred ordinance that is seen as renewing baptismal covenants – that were made in a ceremony initially while wearing white. I actually do like the application to the administration of the sacrament, even as I don’t like the extrapolation to “the uniform of the Priesthood” that many people reach. If the person in question lost a former sense of sacredness, I would not vote for progress – unless it was replaced by something else that was meaningful for him. Without a replacement of some kind, it’s just loss – and that isn’t progress, imo.
There’s a lesson in that for all of us with regard to lots of things, I think.
If on any given Sunday, I, in a T-shirt and shorts, helped to bring clean water to an African village, or saved ten children by feeding them their first meal in a three days, then I would be participating in the sacred path my Savior calls me to. White shirt? It is nice, but oh, there is so much more to being a Christian. The list of burials in my mission journal is much longer than my list of baptisms. Somehow it never discouraged me. Indeed, I was in the perfect service of my Lord. Digging graves, washing & dressing bodies, given scriptural hope to heartbroken parents (if it was a child and mostly it was). Always I made sure we sang at graveside, “Jesus’ a’yoo’oosh’a’nii, ben’aa’shos’a shil’ha’nii” (Jesus love you this I know, for the Bible tells me so). Sorry for sliding down memory lane again, I am getting old, I find myself doing it a lot of late. I often pray in Navajo, to the Giver of Breath now… I agree, George. That is a wonderful example. Mr Shirt can be a bit smug sometimes, although I haven’t argued with him. I was looking at the front of my car on Sunday, and he asked me if I’d had a bump. I said that I hadn’t, but because my suspension is low, I occasionally get a bump on the bottom of the front going out of the church car park… and I asked him if he ever did, and he said “oh no”, in a very superior fashion. I suppose I have to laugh.
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