Hair and psychic ability

[Monica]

Fundamentalist religions? Fundamentalist jews grow their hair, fundamentalist christians of specific groups also grow their hair. And muslims too although they tend to focus on the hair hanging under the chin.

True. I was referring to ultra-conservative born-again Christians and Mormons, who insist on clean-cut, short hair and conservative clothing.

Reminds me.. The wizard stereotype, has the characteristic huge beard. Maybe that's involved too. Or maybe that's just a significator of age.

Wizards! Oh yes, that's got to be significant, most definitely! And the Chinese sages would have very long beards, which they would stroke when teaching their students.

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Hippies = peace & love
Skinheads= war & hate

Haha, that pretty much sums it up, Ashim!

Me...

Yes? Go on? What about you? hehe

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You simply cannot make those generalizations.

What Ashim said was no more of a generalization than what what we've been saying about the military, monasteries, wizards, etc. This subject lends itself to generalization.

Of course one cannot say that there are no wizards with short hair, or that every skinhead is a racist. Not sure how a skinhead is defined, anyway? I too thought it was a term referring to a certain look and attitude; ie. racist. Are you referring to 'skinhead' as a description of anyone who is bald? If that's the case, then I had never before heard the term used that way.

So it is a common stereotype, just like the hippie=long hair/peace/love is a stereotype. At the same time, it's reasonable to assume a connection between hippies growing their hair long in defiance of the establishment, while being revolutionaries in the name of peace. We all know that lots of men grew their hair long simply to be in style or sell rock records, but still, why were they attracted to a lifestyle associated with the peace movement?

They're all just generalizations, not absolutes.