Posted on 08/28/2007 9:06:17 PM PDT by ozaukeemom
Over the years, I have thought about getting a tattoo. Surprising considering my fear of needles! lol I see them everywhere on every classs of person, I see the artwork vary from onr body to another.What causes someone to decide to have a tattoo. Is it cultural? Is it a fad? I am seriously thinking about it now. Any stories, suggestions? Thank you!
LOL.
You are really stretching if you believe that passage says “don’t get a tattoo, and if you do, you aren’t very Christian.”
Somebody else could suggest that a tattoo honors the body. You see, it is all in the interpretation. You’ve chosen to interpret it the way you please.
The Old Testament does say something specific about cutting the body and perhaps even Tattoos (if I recall correctly). The New Testament doesn’t. Christianity is not about following Old Testament laws.
Do you shave? Do you cut your hair? Do you have earrings? All of them could be considered “cutting the flesh.”
I’m sure somebody can come along and cite some radom passage in the Bible, and interpret that to mean that you aren’t very Christian if you do.
BTW, I was guessing, not assuming. Same thing you say? You were merely guessing that tattoos are not very Christian.
To suggest that people getting tattoos is not very Christian, is rather hypocritical, if you really think hard about it. Best not to judge on the basis of your interpretation alone. Think about it.
Ahh.. thank-you for that. I was suggesting things along these lines, without bothering to look them up, in my prior reply to Kawaii.
I say that if you want a tattoo, get one. My lovely wife and I gave each other a tattoo for our 17th anniversary. She got a nice rose heart on her ankle and I got the chinese symbol for dream on my right bicep.
As long as you know what you’re getting into (a lifetime work of art on your body) and you check out the establishments before hand (check the cleanliness of the shop), then I see no reason that you cannot do what you want to do.
Just wow! I am sorry that you consider me “dumb” to ask people I respect for their opinions.
I think that tattoos are dumb.
I also think that smoking cigarettes is dumb.
I think that leasing a car rather than buying one is really dumb.
I think that voting for Democrats is dumb.
I could go on all night about what I think is dumb.
Please let me know if you want more of my opinions.
No charges will be assessed.
I think you need to have a good reason to make it worth getting. For instance, I’ve been told of a bond trader in NYC who gets a tattoo with a $ every time he makes another $10 million. Kind of like a football player who gets a sticker for his helmet after a good play.
This reply is the one you should pay attention to.
Just wanted to ping you to is, since it got lost in the rush of folks who couldn’t wait to preach self-righteously from their pulpits.
I agree. Thank you. I have not decided and the great thing is that I do not have to! lol I really appreciate all of the responses, yes, all of them!
The petty bourgeoios, "driven to frenzy" by the horrors of capitalism, is a social
phenomenon which, like anarchism, is characteristic of all capitalist countries. The
instability of such revolutionariness, its barrenness, its liability to become swiftly
transformed into submission, apathy, fantasy and even "frenzied" infatuation with
one or another bourgeois "fad" —all this is a matter of common knowledge.—V. I. Lenin, "Left Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder
MODERN PRIMITIVES: An anthropological inquiry into a contemporary social
enigma—the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decoration practices
such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ritual scarifi-
cation. "Primitive" actions which ruptureconventional confines of behavior and
aesthetics are objectively scrutinized. In the context of the death of global frontiers
this volume charts the territory of the last remaining underdeveloped source of
first-hand experience: the human body.—Back cover copy, Re/Search #12: Modern Primitives [emphasis in original]
The second epigraph above is drawn from a book of photographs and interviews that came out in San Francisco in 1989. The book presents the practices and opinions of people engaged in the decoration or modificatio0n of the body. The practices discusssed include large-scale, often abstract ("primitive") tattooing, piercing and wearing jewelry in various parts of the body , and ritual or decora- tive scarification.¹ Many of the people photographed or interviewed in the book are involved in one or more of the "alternative communities" that flourish in San Francisco (e.g., gay, lesbian, punk, S/M,² or New Age), although some deny any such assiciations with a larger collectivity, asserting instead that they do these things as an expression of their "individuality" (Vale and Juno 1989).
As an anthropologist whiose more canonical work deals with the politics of "cultural revival" in the contemporary Pacific, I find thisd book and the practices it describes intriguing. Looking at the book, it seems as though the whole history of Western speculation about other cultures has beden tosdsed into a blender with
Cultural Anthropology 12(3):287-334. Copyright © 1997, American Anthropological Assiciation.
I think it is a really bad idea. Link to purchase paper:
http://www.innocentenglish.com/best-funny-jokes/laser-tattoo-removal-options.html
if its going to cause you to stumble...then dont
Remember Romans 14
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