LDSToronto wrote: This legacy of peculiarity has posterity in today's practices. Superficial displays, such as one set of earrings, white shirts, no beards, no flip flops, those are today's markers of peculiarity.
No flip flops? Seriously? I'm going to lose my TR, for sure!
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
LDSToronto wrote: This legacy of peculiarity has posterity in today's practices. Superficial displays, such as one set of earrings, white shirts, no beards, no flip flops, those are today's markers of peculiarity.
No flip flops? Seriously? I'm going to lose my TR, for sure!
Was the flip flop thing a prophet edict? I had never heard that one.
Runtu wrote:Multiple earrings and flip-flops, like beards and colored shirts, don't present the "normal" image.
I think the fact that these items were not seen as part of the 1960s IBM corporate standard of acceptability has more to do with the dress code than any quest for normalcy.
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Runtu wrote: Multiple earrings and flip-flops, like beards and colored shirts, don't present the "normal" image.
Eureka! I have found I am innocent!
My beard did it.
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