hair dos and don'ts
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All hair is evil! Why do you think it's called HAIResy?! Personally I think any woman who has the unholy mass that is body hair should be clean shaven in public humiliation. Hair after all, grows when a woman has bad thoughts! Why do you think it grows faster in the summer months when all those shirtless men walk around the pool?
Jesus was a bald man.
Jesus was a bald man.
"Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content." --Richard Dawkins (atheist)
Jesus was Jewish and kept Mosaic Law.
Lev 19:27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. (ESV)
Jesus was Jewish and kept Mosaic Law.
Lev 19:27 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard. (ESV)
Leviticus 19:27
Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
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this commandment is included in instructions against idolatry.
every commentator, christian and jewish say this was because the pagans (esp: egyptians, from among whom the israelites had just come) cut their hair in particular ways for religious (idolatrous) reasons...honoring their idol-gods (and worse).
Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
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this commandment is included in instructions against idolatry.
every commentator, christian and jewish say this was because the pagans (esp: egyptians, from among whom the israelites had just come) cut their hair in particular ways for religious (idolatrous) reasons...honoring their idol-gods (and worse).
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Now, being in the long hair crowd, I do understand that there are some annoyances that sometimes come with it... I've hit people in the face with, both intentionally and accidentally (braids, by the way, are lethal in this respect), gotten it caught in car doors, that sort of thing. But for those disadvantages...
1. I for one believe it to be Biblical. You may proceed to argue this to the cattle return to the homestead, but no matter how you argue it about it being about prostitutes or whatnot, it does not change the fact that the Bible says it is shameful for a woman to cut her hair.
2. It is, in my opinion, separate from what the Bible says about it, prettier (My hair is as brassy as can be and is certainly nothing special - mostly just a muddish shade of brown, really -, but just an hour ago a girl I didn't know approached me in a Dairy Queen and tell me how beautiful she though it was. Other than being long, my hair has no unique qualities at all. This, by the way is not to say that I haven't seen some cute short and medium styles. I just think that long is, by and large, better looking) and from what I've heard from others, they think so too.
3. You can do more with it. (Short hair styles can be replicated with false bobs on long hair. I do it myself, sometimes.)
4. You can argue it's inconvenient, and takes more time to deal with, but the fact is it's only a hassle if you make it a hassle. If you want to dye it, highlight it, put 40 different products in it, and go crazy on the styling, fine. Yeah, it's going to take time. But if you take care of it, and don't go bananas with the extras (which are bad for it anyway, by the way!), it'll look nice without you spending forever on it. I don't even trim mine for split ends; I just use anti-split-end conditioner and voila!
Maybe it's because I've always had long hair. Maybe. All I know is that most of the people I've run into, when they really think about it, seem to agree that long hair is more feminine and beautiful. Which is really what the Bible says about it, too.
1. I for one believe it to be Biblical. You may proceed to argue this to the cattle return to the homestead, but no matter how you argue it about it being about prostitutes or whatnot, it does not change the fact that the Bible says it is shameful for a woman to cut her hair.
2. It is, in my opinion, separate from what the Bible says about it, prettier (My hair is as brassy as can be and is certainly nothing special - mostly just a muddish shade of brown, really -, but just an hour ago a girl I didn't know approached me in a Dairy Queen and tell me how beautiful she though it was. Other than being long, my hair has no unique qualities at all. This, by the way is not to say that I haven't seen some cute short and medium styles. I just think that long is, by and large, better looking) and from what I've heard from others, they think so too.
3. You can do more with it. (Short hair styles can be replicated with false bobs on long hair. I do it myself, sometimes.)
4. You can argue it's inconvenient, and takes more time to deal with, but the fact is it's only a hassle if you make it a hassle. If you want to dye it, highlight it, put 40 different products in it, and go crazy on the styling, fine. Yeah, it's going to take time. But if you take care of it, and don't go bananas with the extras (which are bad for it anyway, by the way!), it'll look nice without you spending forever on it. I don't even trim mine for split ends; I just use anti-split-end conditioner and voila!
Maybe it's because I've always had long hair. Maybe. All I know is that most of the people I've run into, when they really think about it, seem to agree that long hair is more feminine and beautiful. Which is really what the Bible says about it, too.
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LOL no dyes involved. It looks that way because the sun was just rising and the filter used on the picture left it looking like that. 
And FYI, there's a woman who goes to my church who's hair is naturally that color.
And FYI, there's a woman who goes to my church who's hair is naturally that color.
It truly is a lovely pic