I ' m hungry now . <| sep |> I SAID THEYRE SELLING CHOCOLATE <| sep |> This masterpiece of a fake article by deezedstroke 015 is hilarious but I think there are awesome points that can be made into serious items of discussionWell , consider most biblical references to shaving or plucking the beard illustrate calamity , mourning , grief , or shame . Ezra 93 Isaiah 720 152 Jeremiah 4837 Ezekiel 51 Men from Shechem , Shiloh , and Samaria expressed their distress over Jerusalem ' s destruction by shaving their beards . Jeremiah 415 Hanun humiliated David ' s men by forcibly shaving their beards , an insult that led to war . 2 Samuel 104 . Since the Roman custom was beardlessness , if Jesus had been shaven , he would have been challenged as being either a eunuch or a Roman . Significantly , a prophecy concerning Jesus ' suffering states My back I gave to the strikers , and my cheeks to those plucking off the hair . Isaiah 506 . Personally , I fucking love my facial hair . I wear it proudly among JW coworkers and will find it hilarious when it becomes acceptable and I ' ve been going ahead of jehovah ' s chariot or whatever this whole time .