I want to make a disclaimer for my last post.
It's probably not a good idea to put any celebrity person on a pedestal nowadays as being modest, even for a moment. Celebrities tend to be fickle. I'm not sure if it's narcissism that brings them to their fame, or if it's the fame that gets to their head in the end. Either way, morality ends up always as a relative concept to them.
There is only one woman I know that has been steadfastly modest but can also be used as a role model. I've never seen her myself, but I know she's a role model for modesty because of what I do know about her. She's the woman that gave her "fiat" about 2000 years ago to God. And when you think about it, 2000 years ago wasn't really that long ago, in the big scheme of things. We should figure ourselves lucky to know such a figure in history.
See what I did? I let the cat out of the bag. I wasn't planning on making this blog about me on a personal level, or about religion, but something happened. I was supposed to give a talk to a bunch of different schools, where parents would be there as well as the young students. I was asked to only talk about modesty and not bring up religion. But see, that's the problem. No one thinks modesty is something that is determined by objective standards unless they have a sense within them that they have accountability to God, and to their neighbor for the sake of their accountability to God. People don't think that they are their brother's keeper anymore, unless you're talking about socialism* (*for some reason socialism is cool in this country all of the sudden).
Our society has gone too far in licensiousness, that it won't return to civility and the values that protect true freedom. Sex sells, violence sells, and shock-value sells. All one has to do is look at the clothes that are consider high fashion today, especially the women's clothes, and they aren't beautiful at all. They distort and degrade, and shock. They aim to seduce and do so by novelty, with the underlining premise that what is really beautiful is inevitably dull. It's all a lie, but no one stops to think about it, they just keep going on from one tv show to the next, from one shocking celebrity tabloid scandal to the next. Ugly is "in" so much that beauty is obscured and forgotten.
In the final analysis, fashion trends are not the way to go. We who are interested in modesty must create our own image, and our own way of expression. There's nothing that the major designers or celebrities can really offer us. They've drawn the line, and we will remain true to ourselves and move on. What's really boring is the same old cheapening of the feminine person by the trends, manifesting itself in a paganistic culture. It is nothing new and it has nothing to offer, and it is boring. The new, modest woman sees through it all and stands apart from this in her dignified dress. She represents her own future, apart from the predictable consequences of immorality, licensiousness and disorder. She demonstrates true strenght, and in this day and age, true courage and beauty.
It's probably not a good idea to put any celebrity person on a pedestal nowadays as being modest, even for a moment. Celebrities tend to be fickle. I'm not sure if it's narcissism that brings them to their fame, or if it's the fame that gets to their head in the end. Either way, morality ends up always as a relative concept to them.
There is only one woman I know that has been steadfastly modest but can also be used as a role model. I've never seen her myself, but I know she's a role model for modesty because of what I do know about her. She's the woman that gave her "fiat" about 2000 years ago to God. And when you think about it, 2000 years ago wasn't really that long ago, in the big scheme of things. We should figure ourselves lucky to know such a figure in history.
See what I did? I let the cat out of the bag. I wasn't planning on making this blog about me on a personal level, or about religion, but something happened. I was supposed to give a talk to a bunch of different schools, where parents would be there as well as the young students. I was asked to only talk about modesty and not bring up religion. But see, that's the problem. No one thinks modesty is something that is determined by objective standards unless they have a sense within them that they have accountability to God, and to their neighbor for the sake of their accountability to God. People don't think that they are their brother's keeper anymore, unless you're talking about socialism* (*for some reason socialism is cool in this country all of the sudden).
Our society has gone too far in licensiousness, that it won't return to civility and the values that protect true freedom. Sex sells, violence sells, and shock-value sells. All one has to do is look at the clothes that are consider high fashion today, especially the women's clothes, and they aren't beautiful at all. They distort and degrade, and shock. They aim to seduce and do so by novelty, with the underlining premise that what is really beautiful is inevitably dull. It's all a lie, but no one stops to think about it, they just keep going on from one tv show to the next, from one shocking celebrity tabloid scandal to the next. Ugly is "in" so much that beauty is obscured and forgotten.
In the final analysis, fashion trends are not the way to go. We who are interested in modesty must create our own image, and our own way of expression. There's nothing that the major designers or celebrities can really offer us. They've drawn the line, and we will remain true to ourselves and move on. What's really boring is the same old cheapening of the feminine person by the trends, manifesting itself in a paganistic culture. It is nothing new and it has nothing to offer, and it is boring. The new, modest woman sees through it all and stands apart from this in her dignified dress. She represents her own future, apart from the predictable consequences of immorality, licensiousness and disorder. She demonstrates true strenght, and in this day and age, true courage and beauty.
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