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04-11-2008, 12:58 AM
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| | | Growing a Beard
I've been thinking about growing my Amish style beard back, what do ya'll think? 
Soul patch on the chin or... 
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04-11-2008, 01:02 AM
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| | | Grow it back Jason. Grow it back. Rock on. | | The Following User Says Thank You to PuritanCovenanter For This Useful Post: | |
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| | | Is that because you want me to cover my face by any means necessary? lol |
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| | | You need to grow the whole thing. |
04-11-2008, 01:13 AM
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| | | JM,
I actually like the soul patch better. You look like you should be reading poetry at a coffee house in the bottom picture.
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04-11-2008, 01:55 AM
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| | | Let it grow, man. Let it grow.
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| | | It's not a beard unless birds can nest. |
04-11-2008, 02:41 AM
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| | | I'm in the same place...grow it out...there's something about having a beard in my estimation...
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04-11-2008, 04:51 AM
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| | | Well the mark of the medieval priest was that he was clean-shaven. That's why when Henry VIII died, Thomas Cranmer grew a beard, and was burnt at the stake with a nice long grey-beard. The Reformers (like Calvin, Bullinger, and Laski) had ripper beards. Go for it dude!
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| | | Soul Patch. But both look good.
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04-11-2008, 07:24 AM
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| | Go for it! Follow the advice of Clement of Alexandria: Quote:
“How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them!…For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest–a sign of strength and rule.” 2.275
“This, then, is the mark of the man, the beard. By this, he is seen to be a man. It is older than Eve. It is the token of the superior nature….It is therefore unholy to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness.” 2.276
“It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man’s natural and noble adornment.” 2.277
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04-11-2008, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by JM  I've been thinking about growing my Amish style beard back, what do ya'll think?
Soul patch on the chin or... | I suggest growing a moustache as well, otherwise the CSA supporters will think that you are trying to look like Abraham Lincoln.  |
04-11-2008, 07:39 AM
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| | | Here is hoping the "Bearded Pastor" comes back into vogue in the next year.
Seriously are congregation still "weary" of Bearded-Pastors? |
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| | Sometimes soul patch sometimes the other one... 
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Originally Posted by joshua You need to grow the whole thing. | yep, he has to grow the whole thing, he looks evil with the soul patch and the amish look.
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| | | Amish style looks great!
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04-11-2008, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Barnpreacher JM,
I actually like the soul patch better. You look like you should be reading poetry at a coffee house in the bottom picture. | Groovy! I agree! Dig it.
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04-11-2008, 08:43 AM
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| | | Beard all the way!
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| | I have seen these remarks before from Celement of Alexandria.. Very interesting... I wonder if another thread should be made to talk about these merits...... Quote:
Originally Posted by joeholland Go for it! Follow the advice of Clement of Alexandria: Quote:
“How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them!…For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest–a sign of strength and rule.” 2.275
“This, then, is the mark of the man, the beard. By this, he is seen to be a man. It is older than Eve. It is the token of the superior nature….It is therefore unholy to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness.” 2.276
“It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man’s natural and noble adornment.” 2.277
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04-11-2008, 12:13 PM
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| | | There is one (dis-)advantage to having a beard: People will see less of you!
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04-11-2008, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Backwoods Presbyterian Here is hoping the "Bearded Pastor" comes back into vogue in the next year.
Seriously are congregation still "weary" of Bearded-Pastors? | I'm the first one in a long time for my two congregations. |
04-11-2008, 12:37 PM
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| | | Go for the chinstrap beard. |
04-11-2008, 12:56 PM
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:ed wards:
:m urray:
Let it grow,
Let it grow!!
