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.
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)
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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: