Posted on 05/18/2025 5:27:26 PM PDT by george76
I have never seen any tattoo that is attractive; I find most by far deplorable.
Agreed.
Exactly.
Hep C can be easily transmitted to idiots getting “inked” - and you won’t know you have liver cancer until its too late
None of us are getting out of this alive.
It is difficult to find a female white human without a tattoo. I think it is the desire to conform and be “fashionable”.I note many older women have a tattoo.
I suppose if millions think breathing smoke is good then tattoos are just another.
Personally I find almost all smokers stink like an ashtray and almost all tattoos are ugly.
By the way.I,too, trim my hair and shave my beard. I really don’t get why hair and beard down to my waist is “godly “.
Classic narcissist, not my fault I paid someone hundreds of dollars for a bad paint job.
Sadly...people have a decided penchant for being an idiot.
Always thought it was a stupid habit...
Too bad I have to see more people “dye” from being tattooed.
Should be exhibit A for not following the crowd
Millennial woman here in PA, and in the minority among my peers. Most have tramp stamps. Mostly on their legs. There’s a tattoo parlor in almost every town. :(
And Pete Hegseth. had plenty, got another when became Trump appointee.
Tattoos can be a sign of (not great) impulsive behavior. I take them as warning signs. Makes it easier to avoid.
Same with colored hair
Same with piercings
Same with a p1ssed off look on a face
Same with nose rings or earlobe rings
Same with any obvious clear attention whoring look
No tats and no piercings.
Maybe because we are body-spirit creatures rather than being what gnostics believe: pure souls trapped in nasty old flesh. 🙄
I mean, it is clear that certain actions we undertake with our bodies cause spiritual harm.
It’s no longer a sin to be tattooed. The ban on tattoos was because pagans did it. The ban was to encourage separation from pagans and their idols.
But tattoos do remain disgusting.
“The problem is, the verse before that says (Leviticus 19:27 AMP):
You shall not trim and round off the side-growth of [the hair on] your heads, nor mar the edges of your beard.
LOL”
Exactly
And “Arise, Peter, kill and eat.”
The ceremonial portion of the Mosaic law has been set aside
When I was young, the only ones with tattoos were sailors, bikers, and carnival workers. Women did not have them, or if they did, weren’t considered proper ladies. For me, I’m not in any of those categories, and would never consider getting one. But that’s just me.
Maybe we should be concerned with heroic actions that have great spiritual importance, rather than with something as small and inconsequential as tattoos.
I’m tired of seeing these trite insults toward people simply because they have tattoos, when the lives of the ‘tattooed’ are often far more valiant than a lot of the lives of those insulting them.
https://wikibiography.in/johnny-joey-jones-wiki-bio-family-marine-zodiac-height-fox-news/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-54i-V3GJOM
The command in Leviticus is the reason people should forgo tattoos. Noncarcinogenic inks might be developed, to negate using this as an excuse.
The reason not to get them is found, as you referrenced, is Leviticus 19:28.
As a Sailor 71 years ago, I could not understand why anyone would get a tattoo. I visited the tattoo center of the world, Hong Kong, thee times and never even considered one.
To this day if I see an attractive woman with a tattoo, I immediately look away. I find them repulsive to the Nth degree...
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