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lol, dude you need to get out of Iowa--at least take a roadtrip, and hang around a greater variety of people. ha ha
I probably do. I mean, I was born in Iowa and would prefer to live in Iowa for the rest of my life, but I would like to. I've taken road trips before -- I want to again.
Eh??? By all accounts, JC was a long-haired maverick rebel. What's in a mane? Hair/dress/appearance is so superficial. Shame most of us pay so much attention to it... like it even matters in the grand scheme of things. 
Please excuse, nothing against the midwest, and hey, Iowa's a great place. I might like a little rural acreage there. Nothing against Iowa. Still, you might want to consider that you're christian acquaintances are influenced by the farm culture from whence their churches came.
Very true, contragrain. I'm lucky enough to get the best of both worlds living just outside Council Bluffs, as I border a decent-sized metropolitan area (Council Bluffs-Omaha) but grew up in a rural area next to a farm. I took no offense at all to what you said.
I was just simply pointing out that the majority of people whom I've heard speak up against long hair on guys happen to be Christians -- people who worship a dude who had long hair.
Actually, it isn't certain what his hairstyle was...but, Nazarenes were known for long hair...I think Samson was one, too.
probably none of the Nazarenes from Council Bluffs though, huh? lol
Actually I haven't noticed that, but I'm out here in California.
I think you should take contragrain's advice. Do a little travelling.
Merry Christmas!
I wouldn't say that most people who are against long hair are hardcore christians, but most hardcore christians are against long hair. And yes, I see the hypocrisy.
The fact is times have changed and peoples attitudes toward long hair on guys have also changed. Thats all it is.
I don't find this true. When I was growing up it seemed to me older people didn't care for it too much, but I've never noticed religious implications. They would just say it looks sloppy.
i keep trying to tell ya - Jesus was a hippie!
I got fired for my pubes being so long
I agree with ceejjj.
"As Benjamin Franklin put it, "No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies."
Europeans were always trying to stop the outflow. Hernando De Soto had to post guards to keep his men and women from defecting to Native societies. The Pilgrims so feared Indianization that they made it a crime for men to wear long hair. "People who did run away to the Indians might expect very extreme punishments, even up to the death penalty," if caught by whites. Nonetheless, right up to the end of independent Indian nationhood in 1890, whites continued to defect, and whites who lived an Indian lifestyle, such as Daniel Boone, became cultural heroes in white society.
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After Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Ohio Indians at Bushy Run in 1763, he demanded the release of all white captives. Most of them, especially the children, had to be "bound hand and foot" and forcibly returned to white society. Meanwhile the Native prisoners "went back to their defeated relations with great signs of joy, " in the words of the anthropologist Frederick Turner in Beyond Geography, 245. Turner rightly calls these scenes "infamous and embarrassing
As a symbol of the new United States, Americans chose the eagle clutching a bundle of arrows. They knew that both the eagle and the arrows were symbols of the Iroquois League. Although one arrow is easily broken, no one can break six or thirteen) at once.
Yes, ceejjj nailed that one.
Merry Christmas!
I've never heard anything about long hair being bad in all my years of church services
by Kiki on Sat Dec 24, 05 6:37pm
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If you can supply a picture of Christ with long hair I`ll start laughing.
Voted : No it isn't.
It's not ironic to me at all, because what our oppressive capitalist, military-based society considers acceptable on men today is short hair and there is a pretty strong correlation socially between the religious right and the political right in the USA. The other thing, even though Leonardo Divinci portrayed Jesus with long hair, it is not certain just how long Jesus' hair was or if it was even long at all.
Long hair now adays is so outdated!
Really? In my church I always see guys with long hair.
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