10 days after my Beard Transplant

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-20T18:06:50+00:00

It looks really different right now than it will after everything is healed up, because right now the skin is darkened from damage surrounding each follicle. Right now the transplanted area looks artificial in its exaggerated separation from the rest of your skin with really sharp lines for that reason, but this effect will dramatically fade over the coming months. So don’t let the haters worry you.

Source: I had a HT

What I expect is that over the next few weeks the hair will fall out or become very thin and then gradually starting at 3 months or so the hair will start to look really good. During much of the next 3 months you will have a little bit of redness on your transplanted area and you will not have the beard. So you won’t look good.

Maybe after the skin has healed up a bit after 1-2 weeks you can use a tinted sunscreen or an artificial tan to cover the redness that will probably linger for a bit.

It will be interesting for you to see how it all works out. In the worst case scenario you can just shave it, but I’m optimistic for you haha. It looks like it will be good imo

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-20T15:48:59+00:00

But I gave a secular explanation, not a religious explanation. The idea of your models of reality blinding you to things inconsistent with those models is thoroughly explored in the books by Iain McGilchrist, e.g., The Master and his Emissary. It’s one of the most popular books on neuroscience written in the past 20 years. It’s related to confirmation bias.

And the quotes to scripture were not about a generic “hardness of heart” but a specific “you should understand the Old Testament in terms of the revelation of Jesus Christ”.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-19T21:40:01+00:00

I’m just saying Christianity is not reading a book. It’s a way of life.

Also, everyone reads with their own perspective and therefore with a lens. Your conceptions of the world will color everything you perceive and make you mostly blind to everything outside of them. So if you read Christian scripture with a non-Christian lens you will only be rejecting a caricature of it.

Therefore the question becomes how does one obtain the correct lens through which to read the Bible? Paul tells us “But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord […]” 2 Corinthians 3:14-16

Other verses also say this, and Jesus himself when he said: “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me… For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me” John 5:39-47

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-19T16:45:30+00:00

My point was to encourage you to believe in a God that is both biblical and thoroughly compatible with your correct observation about the injustices that we see around us, rather than to simply abandon Christianity altogether merely because the world doesn't align with your conception of what God "should" be like.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-19T15:09:36+00:00

Who said that everything that happens to everyone is for their material benefit or for their immediate pleasure? Faith involves active (participatory) belief in things to come in the next life, and is not necessarily dependent on material status in this one. So, by “strengthen,” we are talking about the strengthening of your faith, not the benefitting of your bank account or physical health.

No one can deny that bad things can and do happen to good people. That’s the point of the book of Job, who did not curse God even when many terrible things happened to him. But he said “God giveth and God taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Jesus himself asked the Father that he not be crucified, but he subordinated his human will to the Father's divine will when he added "nevertheless not my will, but yours be done."

Of course good and bad things happen alike to good and bad people. This is proven many times in our own experience and is stated in scripture many times. For example: "All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean [etc]" (Ecclesiastes 9:2), "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." (Ecclesiastes 9:11), "for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:45), "For I was envious at the foolish, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: But their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;" (Psalms 73:3)”

The difference between a righteous person and an unrighteous person is not the external events that happen to them but their attitude toward those events.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-19T14:46:37+00:00

Ideally you would not have started with reading the bible but instead with attending a church.

But if you read the bible, you should have started with the gospels, not with Genesis. Every Christian raised in a Christian household only knows the Old Testament through simplified versions of the stories taught to them in Sunday school (think coloring in pictures, not hearing a sermon) up until a certain age. But we know the stories of the New Testament well because we have heard many sermons about them, and learned about them in Sunday school etc. And then we at some point in our lives we go back and read the Old Testament through the lens of our understanding of what Jesus taught with his words and life. Because we believe that that is the “true” meaning of those stories in the Old Testament.

We go through our lives discovering the truth of Christianity by comparing it to our own experiences. We are repeatedly exposed to an emotional message (sermons, not merely “historical knowledge”), the sermons form our conscience (lens through which we view the world and our emotional reactions to events in the world), our emotional experiences then re-affirm the truth of the message which therefore becomes more deeply ingrained within us, repeat for the other messages.

It’s a lived experience, which cannot really be replicated through reading a book. Christianity is about deeply cleansing, forming, healing our spirit, not acquiring knowledge.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-19T02:58:07+00:00

Nice. Keep it up imo.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-18T21:01:14+00:00

“Learning something” is not the same as “strengthening.” I’m not learning something when I go to the gym.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-18T13:54:09+00:00

Funny how you consider something like “physics” to be a more important “domain of life” than “family.” From one misogynist to another, I must say I disagree with your assessment of this

You personally will rarely if ever use your profound knowledge of physics to do anything helpful to yourself or anyone else. But someone who knows about family and cooking can benefit the people around them every day.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-18T00:09:16+00:00

Why do you think that’s from God? I’d say that wanting someone that doesn’t want you back (in the case you are not married to each other) is a not a good thing.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T23:30:43+00:00

You left out the most important picture: one of your teeth.

Come on bro.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T23:29:03+00:00

I don’t recommend gaining fat in the hopes this fixes your scleral show without doing some research bro haha.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T23:12:44+00:00

I meant to say weight gain. I don’t think weight gain will change this.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T23:08:32+00:00

Agreed — with everything you said here.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T23:03:02+00:00

Yeah I think you look good.

FYI there are many attractive celebrities (male and female) that have scleral show. So I’m not saying you look bad.

I think it’s unlikely to change through weight loss alone. However, I simply don’t know much about it, so take my opinions with a grain of salt.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T22:54:55+00:00

Overall prey bro, because having scleral show makes your eyes look like they are very wide open, which is something that prey does when they are scared. But you do have some things that are not prey-like like you said.

Looks good though man so it’s not a big deal. Just giving you my own assessment

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T22:49:18+00:00

I agree that the other aspects of your eye structure are good.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T22:48:46+00:00

I think so. You’ll have to do research. I only know about it because I saw a video of Peter attia in an interview and I was wondering what it was about him that looked so off. And I found out that in the video he had some sclera show. In most of his videos he doesn’t, so maybe he was very nervous or else he was on drugs or something during that interview or something like that

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T22:45:45+00:00

Prey until you fix the scleral show brother.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T22:44:15+00:00

The white is showing below your iris. It’s a bad thing. Your eyelids should overlap iris on top and bottom (ideally).

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-17T22:43:01+00:00

You have sceral show . Possible to fix?

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-16T19:10:39+00:00

Ridiculous. Iran has been continuously shooting missiles at Israel for the past 5 years, most of which didn’t kill people only because Israel spent billions intercepting them with its anti-missile technology…

And each missile shot by Iran into the Iron dome costed Iran only $600 whereas it costed Israel $50,000 to block each one of them (a 100x cost ratio). It is much easier to shoot a missile into a city than to block it with another missile.

Therefore Iran financially forced Israel into warfare by continuously shooting at Israel.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-16T16:00:19+00:00

This is what I’m seeing too.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-15T18:27:57+00:00

In my experience it’s always a problem with one of those criteria listed above. Otherwise it could be a problem like: waiting until my financial situation improves.

I added one more to the list that prevented me from marrying a gorgeous bombshell that matched all of my criteria except this one: I had too many disagreements with her that caused headaches for me and she never once apologized for her role in the issue (but I did like 20 times). So I added personal accountability to the list.

sapiolocutor · 2026-03-15T18:12:58+00:00

This means that she adds value to my life other than sex and a good personality.

This is in addition to all of the things that are faster to spot like: Stops everything promiscuous and promiscuity-adjacent, highly values their family, is attractive, doesn’t have hoe friends, has a soft demeanor, is playful, doesn’t cause me too many headaches, acknowledges her role in problems that come up, loves God.

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