Green hair and Jesus lovers...

[Kiwi]

I remember dying my blond hair blue for a concert once, and as it faded out it turned green.

The wife of the Bishop at my (then) churches youth group cornered me one day and told me "whats wrong with you? your hair looks like snot" (it did, I was getting the rest taken out the next day by at a hairsalon)

I counted with, "yeah but my nastiness will wash out" and walked off.

That woman was a nasty piece of work, mean and nasty as a snake. She disowned her son for being homosexual and ignores her other children, and with her it has nothing to do with being a christian (I only mentioned it because thats who she was as where the incident took place), shes plain evil all the time.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I always figured Hell was what me make for ourselves here on earth. This woman certainly adds to that idea. Can you imagine what it must be like to be so bitter, nasy, and self-righteous that you ignore/disown your own children?

Gaaaah.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Gee, everyone worries about the people with wild hair and tattoos, when something that looks like this...



...would probably just as soon break their neck as look at them. Seriously, you can't judge this stuff on appearences!

(Actually, my hair is down past my shoulder blades and bright bright red now, but the rest is essentially the same.)

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Mysty! You look so sweet and innocent...I had no idea. I pictured you as a short-haired tomboy type of girl.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Mysty! You look so sweet and innocent...I had no idea. I pictured you as a short-haired tomboy type of girl.

I play up my feminine side for exactly the reason this thread suggests...I love to shock people. No one sees this cute little girl and realizes the dark, twisted, manic soul that knows how to kill someone with a drinking straw and will rip them either physically or verbally in half at a second's notice.

Seriously. Book. Cover. No good. Very bad, in fact.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Yeah, totally not how I pictured Mysty...

And wasn't Jesus a long-haired freak in his day, anyway?

[protege]

And wasn't Jesus a long-haired freak in his day, anyway?

Apparently, he's allowed to have long hair. Gotta love those double standards

[ArenaBoy]

How did I miss this thread? This happened at work, religious conference, cashier at the drives. I had just left school and had blue hair but it was for a good reason. I was taking a Greek mythology class and we had a toga party, we got to dress up like gods and goddesses and I was Hades. I decided to get the Disney character effect by spiking my hair up, and spraying my hair blue for the blue flame effect. While I will admit that I got some strange looks, that conference had some of the most hilarious things I've ever heard. Some got the joke instantly and complimented me on it, while others just clicked their tongue. This woman though, called me a Baby Devil to which I told her the parking fee in demon voice.

*Looks at Mysty's pic*

Holy crap, I will say that you hide your mean side quite well, a little too well. Cute pic and everything.

[draftermatt]

Jesus was a hippy then... No can't have that. Have a whole religion based on a peaceful man who preached love and understanding, and not judging others.

Somehow that turns into you can't be a Christian if you are odd in any way. Jesus would have been looked down upon by these people, and I'd be happy to tell anyone of these idiots that. Too many people hide behind the Cross to spout off whatever they want because "Jesus would have wanted it that way" Personally, I think Jesus would want everyone to shut up and stop looking down on others.

[protege]

I forgot to mention that one of the guys in the railroad club has a green mohawk. Or, at least it *was* green the last time I saw him. It's been bright orange, blue, purple, and several other colors. He says he just loves to freak people out with it

[Arachne]

I was taking a Greek mythology class and we had a toga party, we got to dress up like gods and goddesses and I was Hades.

Slightly (okay, really) OT, but when I was reading an old mythology book -- Bullfinch's Mythology, which I highly, HIGHLY recommend -- I learned something really cool about Pluto's Greek name. It wasn't 'Hades'. (That was, if you'll recall, the name of his domain.)

It was 'Dis'.

As in.... 'dislike', 'dislocate', 'distaste'.

I can't get over how cool it is for the god of the underworld's name to be used in English every day to basically mean 'anti', like he's the ruler of some kind of upsidown bizarro world.

[derangedperson]

Originally posted by ThePhoneGoddess
She says this woman looked over at her, scowled ferociously, grabbed the kid's arm and snarled "That's what happens when you don't love Jesus!"

If that was me she was referring to, I'd have shot back:

"No, you're what happens when you don't love Jesus, you self-righteous bitch."

[Geek King]

Slightly (okay, really) OT, but when I was reading an old mythology book -- Bullfinch's Mythology, which I highly, HIGHLY recommend -- I learned something really cool about Pluto's Greek name. It wasn't 'Hades'. (That was, if you'll recall, the name of his domain.)

Ditto's on the Bullfinch's Mythology recommendation. So good, I keep a version in hardback on the shelf, and used it to name my cat. I'd also recommend Edith Hamilton's Mythology as a good read. Less information than Bullfinch, but written to be much more enjoyable to read.

Aside to Mysty: Assuming that's really you in the picture (and no offense meant, I'm careful and just a bit jaded after years spent on the 'net), you have a good look. And you say you went redhead? Two geekly thumbs up!

[Rahmota]

Mysty: Thats you? Hmmm. Somehow not exactly what I was expecting. I was picturiing a younger ripley from aliens or something like that. Not the Little debbie's /dororthy from Oz look. Oh well. Very attractive in the least anyhow. And all the more surprising and embaressing for a jock to get his butt handed to him by.

You know I was told one time back when I was shopping for a religion that I wouldnt fit in since I had long hair and no long haired person was good. This was in the vestibule of the church standing under a picture of Jesus. IN long flowing robes, full hippie beard and hair. Some people just have no clue.

Bullfinch's mythology: One more vote for that book's value.

[Antisocial_Worker]

My family stopped attending a particular church after the preacher got to be a little (okay, a lot) too weird about the issue of long hair.

There was only one stained glass window in the place, behind the pulpit, and it depicted Jesus with a lamb. Shockingly, the window showed Jesus with long hair.

The horror.

The preacher had been going downhill for a long time. He pissed off my mother by giving a sermon on how evil it was to work on Sundays, while staring at her. She worked on Sundays when the department store demanded it. It wasn't as though she had a say.

But, back to the hair. The window offended him so much that he began to rail about how sinful it was for men to have long hair, and how the window showed something absolutely disgusting. An abomination. It wasn't right. It was so wrong, in fact, that he nailed a sheet of plywood over it and then caulked the edges.

Not surprisingly, the congregation threw him out not long afterward, and as far as I know, the board came down off the window not long after that.