Parents against sororities....

[Redraidergirl]

ok what i was going to say was my pentecostal [even tho not against pants and short hair] is still really strict.... it more of a cultural issue... with our parents Makeup is frowned upon, dating is wrong, no sleeveless shirts, no jewelry and the list goes on...
these standards tho are getting looser b.c the generation now doesn't see whats wrong with wearing makeup and jewelry and sleeveless shirts... so yeah i walk around campus with a tank top on holding hands with my boyfriend, all dolled up... i don't see whats wrong with it... and if you ask any parent they can't tell you why they think its wrong... they just think it is b.c thats what their parents said and blah blah blah. i am pretty sure in the bible it doesn't say "Thou shalt not have short hair, or date" yeah there are guidelines.... but nothing like "those who wear their shoulder bare shall be cursed" [hey that rhymes]
but its a brand for Church of God [not Church of Christ, its an American branch when it reached India, people went a little over board and they continue to do so today...]

hopefully this clears up something?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Redraidergirl

ok what i was going to say was my pentecostal [even tho not against pants and short hair] is still really strict.... it more of a cultural issue... with our parents Makeup is frowned upon, dating is wrong, no sleeveless shirts, no jewelry and the list goes on...
these standards tho are getting looser b.c the generation now doesn't see whats wrong with wearing makeup and jewelry and sleeveless shirts... so yeah i walk around campus with a tank top on holding hands with my boyfriend, all dolled up... i don't see whats wrong with it... and if you ask any parent they can't tell you why they think its wrong... they just think it is b.c thats what their parents said and blah blah blah. i am pretty sure in the bible it doesn't say "Thou shalt not have short hair, or date" yeah there are guidelines.... but nothing like "those who wear their shoulder bare shall be cursed" [hey that rhymes]
but its a brand for Church of God [not Church of Christ, its an American branch when it reached India, people went a little over board and they continue to do so today...]

hopefully this clears up something?

We didn't mean to hijack your thread with the whole religion thing. Your personal experience is one I've heard from many of my Indian friends, and even professors, no matter what religion they were raised.

[Ch2tf]

For some reason I'm getting a "everyone else is doing it, I wanna do it, and my parents are super strict and don't like it, so I should definitely do it" feeling.

With that being said, make sure it is something you really want to do and something that you are truely committed to doing. If you truely want it bad enough/can withstand the heat that will come with it from your parents, then you will. If you will cave under pressure from your parents, then I would say don't do it.

Based on a previous post it seems like you have already changed "gears" so to speak from your original intentions in greek life, so research, research, research, and rhoyal tempests suggestion about presentation is something to really keep in mind/implement.

[DGMarie]

Redraidergirl: i am pretty sure in the bible it doesn't say "Thou shalt not have short hair, or date" yeah there are guidelines.... but nothing like "those who wear their shoulder bare shall be cursed"


I know this is an old thread, but this website will explain where the not cutting hair interpretation comes from. See verse 6 in 1 Corinthians 11.

http://www.bible-researcher.com/headcoverings.html

and the part about not wearing pants is commonly cited from this passage:

Deuteronomy 22:5 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.