Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[simonthedwarf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard

Some goodies:

Early Christian attitudes

"The hair of the chin showed him to be a man." St Clement of Alexandria (c.195, E), 2.271

"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." St. Clement of Alexandria, 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." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.276

"It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man's natural and noble adornment." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.277

"In their manners, there was no discipline. In men, their beards were defaced." St Cyprian (c. 250, W), 5.438

"The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'." (Leviticus 19:27) St. Cyprian, 5.553
Lactantius

"The nature of the beard contributes in an incredible degree to distinguish the maturity of bodies, or to distinguish the sex, or to contribute to the beauty of manliness and strength." Lactantius (c. 304–314, W), 7.288
Apostolic Constitutions

"Men may not destroy the hair of their beards and unnaturally change the form of a man. For the Law says, "You will not deface your beards." For God the Creator has made this decent for women, but has determined that it is unsuitable for men." Apostolic Constitutions (compiled c.390, E) 7.392. (1)
Augustine of Hippo

Best part?

"There are some details of the body which are there for simply aesthetic reasons, and for no practical purpose—for instance, the nipples on a man's chest, and the beard on his face, the latter being clearly for a masculine ornament, not for protection. This is shown by the fact that women's faces are hairless, and since women are the weaker sex, it would surely be more appropriate for them to be given such a protection." City of God (c. 410) book 22, chapter 24

[Loud Whispers]

They sure did love beards.

[GhostDwemer]

Those early Christians seem to have spent a lot of time meditating on how manly and sexy beards were...

[Loud Whispers]

Don't forget chest hair. And manly hair-super strength.

[SRD]

And hairy knuckles for blood-stained hair.

[Urist McManiac]

"The hair of the chin showed him to be a man." St Clement of Alexandria (c.195, E), 2.271

"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." St. Clement of Alexandria, 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." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.276

"It is not lawful to pluck out the beard, man's natural and noble adornment." St. Clement of Alexandria, 2.277

This guy was so obsessed with beards, he could have been a dwarf.

[Shinotsa]

I was waiting for the part where he talks about the uses of a beard. Like for smoothing and crafting stone, or telepathic communication.

[Vanaheimer]

*strokes beard and nods*

[khearn]

Why is this in the Dwarf mode discussion forum?

[Doro]

"There are some details of the body which are there for simply aesthetic reasons, and for no practical purpose—for instance, the nipples on a man's chest, and the beard on his face, the latter being clearly for a masculine ornament, not for protection. This is shown by the fact that women's faces are hairless, and since women are the weaker sex, it would surely be more appropriate for them to be given such a protection." City of God (c. 410) book 22, chapter 24

Ofcourse beard is for protection! Women didnt do any fighting in those times, so they wouldnt need beard for protection.
Men did all the fighting, so God Armok evolution gave them beards, to protect man's neck!

Why is this in the Dwarf mode discussion forum?

You're new here?

[khearn]

Why is this in the Dwarf mode discussion forum?

You're new here?

No, I'm just used to seeing threads start on topic and then go off topic. If you want to start a thread that's off topic, there's a separate board for that.

[Vanaheimer]

Why is this in the Dwarf mode discussion forum?

It's about beards. Every dwarf has a beard. Therefore it's related to dwarves.

[wierd]

Starting off topic is a brilliant stratagem! It requires the topic be RERAILED, before we can DERAIL it!

Besides, you don't really want to know how hairy males of semetic origin can be.... my uncle? Looks like he was soaked for months in a vat of rogaine.

*thankful for the hair supressing virtues of dad's native american pedigree

When I imagine male dwarves without a shirt on, I imagine a seamless transition of beard to body hair, with no thinning between.  Just a difference in length. Basically, something awful, like this guy:

*warning: excessive body hair

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I can clearly see why they would be embarassed when their shirt falls off.

[Blizzlord]

*attempts to scratch beard, but later realizes than humans are not born with them*

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[rtg593]

@weird wow.

I feel bad for Greeks, then. I have a Greek friend, no body or facial hair. He said its a Greek thing, genetics and all.

On the bright side, no need to shave or trim:p