Tonsure Puns

I think Ken shaving his head is an allegorical reference to the act of tonsure, performed as part of the Catholic religion throughout history and is still in practice by certain orders of the Buddhist faith. It is designed as a show of humility and devotion, as well as the abandonment of vanity.

I think we saw Ken come crashing to earth and reality hit him hard in this last episode. The fact that he was offered $2B and it didn't mean anything to him because he couldn't find a single gift from anyone that mattered to him. He realized that despite wanting it to not "feel like an asshole's birthday party" it couldn't possibly not feel like that because he is an asshole. He realized how fucking stupid his performance was. He realized the depths his family will stoop to in order to "defeat" him. That he's been abandoned by everyone he cared about.

I think shaving his head will signal a "rebirth" where he gives up his delusions of martyrdom and his insatiable desire to "win"

I think a lot of people see the shaved head as a sign that he's slipping further into delusion, but I see it as the opposite, where he's trying to rid himself of the excesses that have weighed him down for so long.

Why do Hindus shave their hair?

A few years back in Israel, a number of rabbis claimed that in Tirumala Temple hair was offered as a sacrifice to the idol in the temple.

Is that true?

So, I was explaining major and minor orders and related things to my sons and the topic of tonsuring came up. My wife asked an interesting question. I only have about half the hair I once did and I've been shaving my head for 20 years. If someone in my smooth situation was to be tonsured a reader, what would be the protocol? Would the Bishop "mime" the action? You can see theogical implications there, or would the candidate be asked to grow out what little they have at least enough the Bishop can get scissors on it? Would you exchange his scissors for a razor? Lol Fun thought experiment, but there has to be a practical answer.

A tree means more to me than wood and air

And ye who tore the tree from blood and hair

Would see the shore be free to flood unfair

Found aryan sangha love

Bound to blood and lord above

Bridges burnt and lovers scorned

Bitches beckoning, forlorned

My phallic lacking

And fortress of solitude

Backing attitude

Can we before we see the muddied heir

Concede the lore and genes and food we share

Indeed is more than greed and brood laid bare

Chasing god and falling red

Words of mine in mouths of dead

Pining after someone else

Blaming them, can't blame myself

Self medication

Rather taser and mace than

Face flagellation

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Dear askhistorians,

I wondered for some time how did the clergy usually dress from the late medieval period/ renaissance?

Movies and series often have them wear their robes of office only, but is that appropriate? I know for traveling that it was not unusual for a bishop to wear something appropriate, and certainly they wore armor in battle.

And also did they keep the tonsure throughout their lives or was that something that was "added" on paintings?

Hello,

I saw the documentary Good Hair ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hair ) and it explains tonsure to the audience and how it fuels the global hair economy.

The documentary is over 10 years old now and may have changed

How is this viewed in India, that this hair is sacrificed at a temple and then processed and sold without any of the story or personhood attached to it?

I feel that the energies the Indian and Hindu people put into this ritual are being underscored by the banality of the commerce under it.

Now, I’m not against ANY aspect of this except for the following two reasons: that the very special human stories are removed from the process, and the individuals profiting from the trade did not seem to be the people providing the resource.

I suppose it seems exploitative from an outside perspective but I could be misunderstanding the complexities of y’all’s society, I am only from Texas, after all.

When adults are baptized, do they have to receive a tonsure (Cutting four locks of hair)?

Hi all,

I was able to get SIL Fantasy's medieval robes CC but I also wanted a Monk hair style to go with it. Would anyone know if there was a download for this? I only saw one for Sims 2.

Thanks.

I've asked this also over r/AskHistorians and r/AskHistory as well for a historical account, but I hope over here I can get a more contemporary discussion on current practices.

Lately, I've been fascinated with the practice of tonsure (shaving the head completely or partially). From what i've gathered, it was abolished among Roman Catholicism by pope Paul VI via motu propio as recently as 1972! What were the causes and implications on such a decision? Was it in line with a certain modernization of the church or are there any more aspects to it?

Eastern and Western christianity have had their similarities and differences on the matter. What rationale do we have on those differences?

Among buddhists, for instance, it's evidently a current practice. Are there any disagreements among factions, as happens within christianity? Does it involve a certain rite or way to do it? How often do they need to shave it? Do they use "modern" products or must they keep a particular/traditional way of doing it?

Also, apparently (and to my surprise) partial tonsure is forbidden in Sunni Islam (acc to wiki given the Hadith Bukhori V/2214 no.5577 about Al-Qoza‘, and Hadith Muslim III/1675 no.2120). Any thoughts as to why?

I've read the Britanica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/tonsure) and Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure) articles, and peeked over the references but are quite limited tbh.

Also, found one article that was a bit interesting but not too rigourous over here: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/04/29/monks-tonsure/ It left me with more doubts, though. Are the origins and development of such striking practice really that unknown?

Looking to create a kitbashed monk mini, but for the life of me cannot find a normal male human head with a tonsure haircut.

I did find the Cawdor Gang head w/ tonsure but for some reason his entire face is 1, detached, and 2, wearing a mask.

Anyone know of a good head for a human monk before I try and carve some poor guy's face to match this horrific faceless head?

Given how quickly stubble grows after shaving - did they shave regularly, like every few days? If not, did they have the ‘crown’ of hair with shorter hair growing back around it? Did they only re-tonsure their hair once a year or so?

Additionally, what method did they use to shave the hair? Did they have razors anything like modern ones? Did they use knives?

If the question needs to be more specific, let’s say I’m asking about English monks in monasteries, around the time of the Black Death - the 14th century.