Submission? Or Power and Control?

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Originally Posted by Esaias

So you were in fear all those years because you didn't cut your hair? It was a major fear, terror, that required divine intervention to help you overcome the terror, the fear, of having long hair?

I mean no disrespect, but doesn't this all sound... waaaay too dramatic?

I can't comprehend people living in fear because they have long hair. What about the brothers? Are there brothers out there, right now, with night sweats, high blood pressure, stressing out, bound by fear and doctrine, because they believe they ought to keep their hair short?

Really?

I was in fear because I was taught things like I mention in this book and others. Things like Joy Haney mentions about Jezebel's blood being licked up, things like Ruth Reider mentions like when a woman cut her hair and her home was invaded by spirits. Things like Gary and Linda Reed write about how a girl cut her hair cut and went stark raving mad.

Uncut hair is neither here nor there until you tie in all these crazy fearmongering stories into it.