is elisha the saint of all bald men?

[randolf_faust]

Elisha and the Two Bears (2 Kings 2:23-25)​

23 Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!” 24 When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. 25 And he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Elisha-Eliseus.jpg

 

[BurningCoals]

And people cite Jason Statham, The Rock, Vin Diesel as bald heroes smh

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

I would say rather that Elisha demonstrates an antipathy for life in general. If teasing gets you executed by a prophet in Elisha's world then of course, that world has fucked up value. I do like these verses for all guys who claim that baldness is new or that it is food that causes baldness.

Elisha could work miracles but he couldn't heal his own frickin' scalp. Some prophet he was.

 

[randolf_faust]

I would say rather that Elisha demonstrates an antipathy for life in general. If teasing gets you executed by a prophet in Elisha's world then of course, that world has fucked up value. I do like these verses for all guys who claim that baldness is new or that it is food that causes baldness.

Elisha could work miracles but he couldn't heal his own frickin' scalp. Some prophet he was.

jesus brought people back from the dead but couldnt heal baldness aswell

 

[JaneyElizabeth]

jesus brought people back from the dead but couldnt heal baldness aswell

I don't recall Jesus even trying, much less flubbing any hair restoration miracles, lol. I am trying to think about whether Jesus ever killed anyone, directly or indirectly. Elisha's acts are clearly over the top and shocking to most modern readers while fundamentalist Jews and Christians tend to approve of Elisha's actions as they do the elimination of all children in Jericho, if not all life entirely.

But it could be that Jesus, like all XY's with his perfect long hair simply saw his status as being merited as a god/God. The Bible seems completely unconcerned about hair except with respect to using it, along with beards, as a coercive behavioral requirement among Jews/Christians. Paul mostly accounts for the New Testament hair allusions but it is always used by him as indicative that balding is meant for men and hair is meant for women. Well, duh but that doesn't mean both genders have to have their own hair styles or cuts or that uncovered hair means much of anything spiritually.

People tend to attempt to find meaning in their baldness or hair loss when it is all but inscrutable as to how and why it occurs but we see people on here every day proclaiming that they weren't getting enough sleep or weren't eating right or weren't brushing their teeth enough or exercising enough while having too many orgasms. It's all for the most part fruitless conjecture because historically virtually no one understands the permanency of baldness once it occurs. Even for cis-females, restoration can be difficult as opposed to maintenance plus there is the age factor that is somewhat random and independent that can wipe hair out at virtually any time and certainly during old age but others remain happily unaffected.

 

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