Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Less of a Man
Yesterday, I felt like I needed a change....felt like I needed to mix things up, so I shaved my beard completely off for the first time in about three years. I'm afraid this might hurt my image as the scraggly young pastor. As a clean shaven man, I feel somewhat like I'm less of a man. I wonder if Jesus would agree with me on that.
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Sad day. Here's a quote from Nietzsche to pull you back when you're ready...
"The most placid, most reasonable man, so long as he has a big moustache, can sit quietly in its shade -- as the accessory of a big moustache he will give most people the impression of being military, irascible and sometimes violent, so they will behave accordingly." -- The Dawn
Duns,
So does this analogy true:
“A moustache is to a nihilist as a beard is to a Christian?”
That's a good question. I'll have to think on it.
But I don't think you should worry that you're less manly for not having a beard. A beard is an expression of manliness, but the lack of one doesn't mean that you're necessarily less manly. However it is certainly inappropriate, perhaps even immoral for you not to have one. As St. Anselm says,
‘[T]he absence of justice is dishonorable only where there ought to be justice. For example, not having a beard is not dishonorable for a man who is not yet supposed to have a beard, but once he ought to have a beard, it is unbecoming for him not to have one. In the same way, not having justice is not a defect in a nature that is not obligated to have justice, but it is disgraceful for a nature that ought to have it. And to whatever degree his being supposed to have a beard shows his manly nature, to that degree his not having it disfigures his manly appearance.’
So you're not unmanly, but you're seriously disfigured at best.
Yes, you are less of a man, and yes, Jesus feels the same way.
Hey, where's the pic?
I know, that it is necessary to make)))
I'm pretty sure Jesus has a handle bar mustache, and he wants you to grow one.
I know that it is necessary to make babies. I know that it is necessary to make pancakes. I know that it is necessary to publically flog illegal hackers, spammers, and virus-creating-pricks. I know that it is necessary to smile :))))
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