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>>>>> "Suzette" == Suzette Vermillion <vermilli@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

    Suzette> If a woman takes care of her hair it will be neet, with
    Suzette> no need to cut it.  That is not a very good excuse.

    >>  Are you saying that women shouldn't cut off split ends?  I
    >> honestly don't see how there is anything wrong with that.  The
    >> hair is the women's covering.  Coverings help the appearance of
    >> things.  So, not only should women's hair be able to be
    >> distinguished from men's hair, but it should be neat.  Cutting
    >> split ends keeps it neat.  If hair gets too long, then it
    >> becomes unmanageable and messy.  We need to remember that all
    >> things are to be done in decency and in order.

Split ends are actually the direct result of cutting hair.  Hair that
grows naturally from the formation of the hair follicle and remains
uncut until that follicle dies and the hair falls out will have a
tapered shape.  The young hair is extremely fine and flexible at the
tip, like the tip of a branch of a tree.  As the hair grows, the
follicle enlarges, and the diameter of the hair increases, like the
trunk of a tree.

When the wind blows on a tree, it flexes, and remains intact, because
it was designed to bend, with the most flexibility at the small
diameter tip, and increasing rigidity towards the trunk.  Hair is the
same way.  God designed your hair to be flexible without breaking by
making it finer at the tip.

What happens when you cut the hair?  You cut off this flexible tip and
then you loose the flexibility.  If you cut a tree part way down from
the top, you leave a squared off stump that is prone to splitting when
the wind blows and bends the tree.  

The same thing happens with your hair.  Cutting off split ends only
perpetuates the problem.  If you will be patient and let your hair
grow naturally, then eventually all the cut off strands will have
their follicles die a natural death of old age and be replaced by new
follicles that will grow naturally shaped tapered flexible hair
strands that will not split.  When you cut it, you cut off not only
the split ends of the hair that had been previously cut, but also the
newer strands that had a natural flexible tapered tip, thereby ruining
them like the others.

Most people's hair grows at about 6 inches per year, although this
varies quite a bit from person to person.  If your hair grows 3 feet
long, then it would take about 6 years for all the cut off, split
ended hair strands to be replaced with naturally shapped hair strands.

This is why a woman's hair is her glory.  It is a testimony to her
*MANY YEARS* of faithfulness!  You do not get beautiful long hair with
no split ends the moment you get the Holy Ghost, and you will never
get it by cutting.  It takes years of faithfulness to holiness
standards to get that Pentecostal "look" that makes our women the most
beautiful in the world.

Of course, women that have been raised in church all their lives and
have *NEVER* cut their hair have never had to deal with the problem in
the first place, but that is as much a testimony to their parents as
it is to themselves.

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