Opuscula Beards

THERE ARE BEARDS AND THERE ARE “BEARDS.”

There are beards that would make the Smith Bros. Happy.

 

Image of a Smith Brothers’ cough drops

THEN THERE ARE “Arafat beards” that really are little more than stubble. Hardly a “real” beard. In his old age, when the beard turned white, it hardly was noticeable.

ON THE OTHER HAND, some folks “go for broke.”

 

Above: Egyptian Yasser Arafat, World Champion beard, GEICO’s caveman
Center image by Greg Anderson

 

Many Eastern Orthodox priests have respectable beards, as do many rabbis, not all of who are “orthodox.” Some “orthodox” rabbis are clean shaven while others, including Reform leaders are hirsute. (There are number of Reform and Conservative rabbis that simply (hopefully for them) cannot grow beards; they are women.)

 

 

Beards of all religious points of view

 

The “bottom lines” is that while beard can “make the man,” they often cannot tell much about the person behind the beard.

PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.

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