Beauty Pageant Part 3

Beauty Pageant Part 3

Into the King's palace, particularly in Harem, she will be staying within twelve months time, in order to beautify her further. Esther undergoes purifying for six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet smell, and with other things for the purifying of the women. The other things for the purifying or cleaning of the women remain a secret that until now we have no idea, what it is. But the bottom line here, after a year of purifying or cleaning, Esther appear attractive before the King. Whoever saw her, pronounced her the ideal of beauty of his nation. The general exclamation was: "This one is worthy of being queen." The King loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins; so he set the royal crown her head and made her Queen instead of Vashti. Es 2:17.

At the final portion of the Miss Universe pageant, Shamcey Supsup was asked a now-famous hypothetical question about whether she would change her religion for the man she loves. And she gave a hypothetical or conditional answer. If I had to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God who created me. And I have my faith, my principles, and what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God, too.”


Many Filipinos are making the case that the Philippines’ own candidate, Shamcey was more deserving of the crown, or at least a better finish than her third runner-up spot. What made her away from the popular expectation? She appeared unattractive and wearing away her previous foremost quality performance at the last minute of question and answer portion which give weight on the principle of “inclusion.” Inclusion is a practice of ensuring that people in organizations feel they belong.


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Beauty Pageant Part 2

Beauty Pageant Part 2

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In the olden times we have an incomparable story to have reference with “Beauty Pageant.” It is the story of the beautiful Jewish woman Esther who is chosen as queen by the Persian King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) after he has refused to recognize his previous wife, Vashti. What is interesting on this beauty pageant competition, each woman underwent twelve months of beautification in his harem, after which she would go to the king. For the purpose of not putting color as to the attachment of harem to the Muslim culture, Harem generally refers to the mandatory seclusion of women from the outside world.  Originally implying 'women's quarters', literally 'something forbidden or kept safe. This is where Esther was being placed after she was chosen as one of the young and beautiful women of the Persian Empire to be the possible wife of the king.

When the Persian (Iran) king Ahasuerus search for a multitude of beautiful maidens and women from all parts of the kingdom, and among them he proposed to make choice, some women keep from being seen to avoid being taken into the harem of the king, when it was not certain that they would be found worthy of becoming his queen.

As for Esther, for four years Mordecai kept her from being seen in public, he hide her in a chamber, so that the king's agents or messengers could not discover her. But her beauty had long been known to fame, and verbal accounts about her are very hard to put out of people’s mind. The reason that the agents had to confess to the king, that the unusual high quality beauty of a woman in the land escaped from their search. Thereupon Ahasuerus issued a decree ordaining the death penalty for the woman who should hideaway herself before the king messenger or agent. There was nothing left for Mordecai to do but fetch Esther from her hiding-place, and immediately she was seen in public and carried to the palace of the king. 




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