There is a person in my ward who doesn't like i when I grow a beard. Last winter, when all my rehearsals were done for Papers, this person gave me a ride home from a meeting. On the way home, he asked me if I was going to shave my beard now that the performance was done. There were other such comments.
One of my counsellors works for him, and he asked my counsellor to stay late Thursday night, the night we have our presidency meetings. Even after my counsellor explained about our presidency meeting, he still insisted he needed him to stay late.
Does it seem odd to anyone else that he would make a big deal about facial hair, but then have no problems expecting someone to miss a presidency meeting?
8 comments:
People find fault with others to mask their own insecurities over their own faults, hence Jesus' admonition to not pick at motes at in other's eyes. Ignore him, and grow a goatee and nice set of lambchops.
confront him and ask him what the problem is!! There will always be people in every ward that think that facial hair is a no no and unless you shave it you will go straight to hell and it is their mission in life to keep all male members on the straight and narrow path.
This subject always makes me laugh since avery artistic depiction of God or Jesus, even in the LDS temple, is with long hair and a beard. Don't forget Brigham Young, Wilfred Woodruff etc. People nowadays who get uptight about such fashion choices are basing it on a very outdated fear of the hippie/drug culture of the 1960s. A well groomed beard no longer depicts the same social statement. I agree with Kurt that this sort of obnoxious nit-picking behaviour is all about covering up one's own insecurities
Could he maybe think your beard is not grown well? Some people, like my own dear dad can not for the life of him grow a nice beard! It tends to look more like pubic hair!
Maybe he is just nicely trying to tell you that, thinking you might not realize it!
Definitely not.
I had a nice Ward Mission Leader on my mission that gave me some advice. It was the English equivilent of, "Non illigitamus carborundum".
I'll let you look it up.
Nice.
For what it's worth, I'm not letting it get me down. I just thought the stances on the two issues seemed odd.
The difference is that one requires you to make an effort to please him, and the other requires him to make an effort to please you.
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