When I lived in the woods, (logging; mining;) in the late fall, winter or early spring; or when working in the Orchards in the fall and winter, etc., I too wore magic underwear. It had nothing to do with an organized religion, but we all knew that it saved our lives!
It too has been ridiculed over the years in cartoons, movies and bad jokes.
It comes down to perspective. Young children have to learn what is permitted in life and what is not. But some people never grow up and they must ridicule everything and everyone, their whole lives, to make up for their own psychological short-comings.
Like the young child, we must tolerate them and try to teach them what is acceptable. Those that can not be taught, must be ignored. Either that or (excluding the children), we would have to hunt them down and kill them, like the dogs they are! :o)
Yeah, I've had that same thought. Recently, too -- what was I just reading? Oh, it was Philip Roth's short story "Eli, the Fanatic" in Goodbye Columbus, where there's a passage about a very Reform Jew encountering a tallit katan and reacting to it as "special BVDs".
I didn't know what you were talking about in particular, though I'd heard of the special garments, so I Googled "Mormon magic underwear". First hit (and many of the subsequent ones are on that site) was http://www.mormonmagicunderwear.com/ , which is NOT a mockery site but trying to explain it.
It comes in through the intention of the person using the term.
If ridicule is that intention, then it speaks for itself. This of course is a common ploy of those who have a lack of self confidence and a "need" to make sure that they, themselves, are not in the "lime light". A thing common among so-called, Practical Jokers for instance. Getting others to laugh at A, insures that no one is looking closely at B.
Just as in my post above, I try to illustrate the small-mindedness of the individual who uses the term with the intention of drawing derogatory attention to others, and I do so by an attempt at humor, trying to show just how silly a concept it is to try to indicate some lack of intelligence, based upon a belief that is stretched well beyond the truth.
The women of Nazare (Portugal), often wear 10 or 15 Petticoats, beautifully hand stitched with patterns and in may colors. Why, since no one can see them? Is this a "magical" thing? That is up to that individual's own meaning of the word.
Is it open to ridicule? NO! And anyone who ridicules something they do not understand, is only illustrating their own ignorance and lack of common respect for the belief of others.
The European never fully understood the American Indian's use of "Medicine" in the so-called medicine pouch. Yet they (the Immigrants) often carried a rabbits foot or four-leaf clover, or the Saint Christopher... or even that pretty rock they found in the road. A teacup brought from England. A silver coin given to them by the Grandfather, as they sailed. What you would you call those items? Now compare that, to what was in the Medicine Pouch.
Even if one does say "my underwear is magical", then we must take the context of the intention under consideration, before pointing fingers and rushing to judgement. Few words have a single definition and we need to understand the meaning, as it is used by the one making the claim, before we attempt to prove our own superiority in the knowledge of the universe!
I agree. The persisting "abuse" the Orthodox HERE get over it, can be boggling. Who cares about the truth when the put-down is SO much more amusing. You can just keep on telling this story to yet another generation of kids, and put down "those primitive religious" while you're at it.
The usual story is that the [Ultra]-Orthodox use these "sheets with a hole in them" to have "ultra-modest" sex with. There are "only" three major problems with this claim:
If so, why would ALL males over the age of 3-4 wear them all day long (rather much overkill of "Be Prepared" ??). I've actually taken mine off a few times to demonstrate this point, mostly before I was married (when I wasn't supposed to be having sex in any case).
One is actually required to be fully naked during sex.
Judging by the size of the "holes" in these "sheets" (you get your head through them), Orthodox men must be REALLY well endowed, otherwise a hole that big makes the "sheet" rather futile as a covering.
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Date: 2012-03-22 05:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-22 05:40 pm (UTC)When I lived in the woods, (logging; mining;) in the late fall, winter or early spring; or when working in the Orchards in the fall and winter, etc., I too wore magic underwear. It had nothing to do with an organized religion, but we all knew that it saved our lives!
Magic Underware
It too has been ridiculed over the years in cartoons, movies and bad jokes.
It comes down to perspective. Young children have to learn what is permitted in life and what is not. But some people never grow up and they must ridicule everything and everyone, their whole lives, to make up for their own psychological short-comings.
Like the young child, we must tolerate them and try to teach them what is acceptable. Those that can not be taught, must be ignored. Either that or (excluding the children), we would have to hunt them down and kill them, like the dogs they are! :o)
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Date: 2012-03-22 05:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-22 07:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-22 08:45 pm (UTC)Lower hits were... lower.
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Date: 2012-03-22 10:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-23 04:00 am (UTC)It comes in through the intention of the person using the term.
If ridicule is that intention, then it speaks for itself. This of course is a common ploy of those who have a lack of self confidence and a "need" to make sure that they, themselves, are not in the "lime light". A thing common among so-called, Practical Jokers for instance. Getting others to laugh at A, insures that no one is looking closely at B.
Just as in my post above, I try to illustrate the small-mindedness of the individual who uses the term with the intention of drawing derogatory attention to others, and I do so by an attempt at humor, trying to show just how silly a concept it is to try to indicate some lack of intelligence, based upon a belief that is stretched well beyond the truth.
The women of Nazare (Portugal), often wear 10 or 15 Petticoats, beautifully hand stitched with patterns and in may colors. Why, since no one can see them? Is this a "magical" thing? That is up to that individual's own meaning of the word.
Is it open to ridicule? NO! And anyone who ridicules something they do not understand, is only illustrating their own ignorance and lack of common respect for the belief of others.
The European never fully understood the American Indian's use of "Medicine" in the so-called medicine pouch. Yet they (the Immigrants) often carried a rabbits foot or four-leaf clover, or the Saint Christopher... or even that pretty rock they found in the road. A teacup brought from England. A silver coin given to them by the Grandfather, as they sailed. What
youwould you call those items? Now compare that, to what was in the Medicine Pouch.Even if one does say "my underwear is magical", then we must take the context of the intention under consideration, before pointing fingers and rushing to judgement. Few words have a single definition and we need to understand the meaning, as it is used by the one making the claim, before we attempt to prove our own superiority in the knowledge of the universe!
Ok, ok, I gotta stop lecturing now. :o)
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Date: 2012-03-25 10:39 am (UTC)The persisting "abuse" the Orthodox HERE get over it, can be boggling. Who cares about the truth when the put-down is SO much more amusing. You can just keep on telling this story to yet another generation of kids, and put down "those primitive religious" while you're at it.
The usual story is that the [Ultra]-Orthodox use these "sheets with a hole in them" to have "ultra-modest" sex with. There are "only" three major problems with this claim: