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Edited Title: The war of modernity vs paradosis

Edited Title: The war of modernity vs paradosis

Postby rusmeister » June 13th, 2009, 4:32 am

Last edited by rusmeister on June 27th, 2009, 2:47 am, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby Sven » June 13th, 2009, 12:09 pm

Split and moved here.
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby Bluegoat » June 13th, 2009, 1:53 pm

Beards are an interesting topic; we think a lot about women wearing headcoverings, but in some religions and cultures, men are equally expected to grow a beard.

Of course this brings up a number of possible difficulties. Some ethnic groups have no facial hair, and there are lots of men, my husband being one, who would look like a leper if he tried to grow out his beard. A Muslim acquaintance of mine, who lives in a place where beards are expected, has a husband who is unable to grow a full beard due to facial scarring, and he gets comments from those who suppose that he is a "liberal" or not pious, or simply not manly.

I always enjoy Roald Dahls description of beards at the beginning of the book The Twits, though. It's clearly anti-beard, but very amusing.
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby Stanley Anderson » June 13th, 2009, 5:51 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

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Re: Edited Title: Beards

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Re: Edited Title: Beards

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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby alecto » June 16th, 2009, 12:41 pm

My word. I come back after months and we're talking about beards. Facial hair!

And it has caused Rus to:

1 - Call "rough" and "messy" relative terms.
2 - Get vague about common definitions of hiegiene (A sour beard is one from which food has not been cleaned.)
3 - Attack modern women's movements (and at the same time refusing to understand modern times in favor of older ones, perhaps?)
4 - Assume that redefining cultural adjuncts to sexuality equals redefining sexuality
5 - Ignore that some aspects of "sex differences" are unjust imposition of power
6 - Invoke sex change operations
7 - Attack homosexuality as evil
8 - Raise clothing to the level of body parts in determining sex
9 - Infer that sexual equality equals sexual separation
10 - Infer that women's rights (or at least Womens Studies) necessitates divorce
11 - Suggest that civil rights are opposed to Divine right, or perhaps that the Orthodox have already figured out what God thinks is right, while the rest of us have not
12 - Extend opinions about hair and college courses to the level of being anti-God
13 - Assume the motivating desires of Women's movements are perverted
14 - Invoke the issue of hair covering
15 - Assume that issues about hair covering are based on issues with male dominance
16 - Bring up same-sex unions

You would think that concern about hair is a very pillar of Orthodoxy.
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby Stanley Anderson » June 16th, 2009, 2:05 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby cyranorox » June 16th, 2009, 6:32 pm

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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby rusmeister » June 17th, 2009, 2:37 am

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby cyranorox » June 17th, 2009, 6:43 pm

Alecto, Rus and I share human nature, interest in CSL, reasoning, and examining ideas. I don't know your faith or membership, Alecto, and don't want to conclude to much from the Fury name. But if we want to be ecumenical, and you represent the eumenides, together we can form
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby rusmeister » June 18th, 2009, 2:48 am

"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
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Re: Edited Title: Beards

Postby Bluegoat » June 18th, 2009, 10:53 am

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Postby rusmeister » June 19th, 2009, 3:12 am

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