Posted on 07/28/2008 6:34:51 AM PDT by WilliamReading
Romantic!
Have you ever seen a wrinkled elderly person full of tattoos and piercings? Would you want to?
Yes, and next week it will still be true. Tattoos are an outward manifestation of one's internal state. For that reason, I'm rather glad some people wear them - the gaudier the tat, the more I avoid them.
Tell me more about these “Tribal” Jews who have tattoos. Never heard of them before. Do you have a link?
Yes. It was a WWII vet who was a member of my community pool when I was younger. It was NOT a pretty sight.
I saw a guy in line at CVS. Ewwwwww.
She gave me one but makes me keep it in my pocket for now. (She’s also cautious)
Is that a reason the Nazis made a point of tattooing numbers on the Jews during the Holocaust? Kind of like forcing a Muslim to eat Pork.
Badawi Jews from ‘Asir between Yemen & Saudi.
Berber Jews from the Atlas Mountains.
Jewish tribes from the mountains of Azerbaijan.
‘Amili Jews from Lebanon.
The tattoos mark your clan & tribe. The tribal Muslims have them on their faces, the Jewish ones like to put theirs on their arms.
Not the piercings, but I have seen old guys with lots of tattoos.
It doesn't really bother me, to tell you the truth. We're all going to age and wrinkle. A few tattoos aren't going to change that effect, one way or the other.
Remember riding on the Toronto subway back in the early 1960's. Two middle age ladies who looked European were sitting across from me ... both had numbered tattoos on their lower forearms.
Probably not. Germans have a compulsive need to organize, label and categorize. The numbering tattoos were just a grotesque symptom of that.
come on TR you’re not having any fun with this.
seriously, say you met someone like me. i’m quite tattooed, but most of the time, you can’t see any of them.
so say you meet me, end up liking me, then couple weeks down the road i’m wearing a shirt that shows one of them, or a pair of shorts and you can see my leg tatts. would your opinion immediately change? or is your pre-conception only a “he’s got tattoos so i’ll avoid him” reaction?
“Probably not. Germans have a compulsive need to organize, label and categorize. The numbering tattoos were just a grotesque symptom of that. “
When Hitler found out that the Jews were being tattooed against their religious beliefs, he was furious and wrote an angry letter to Goebbels. /sarc
Yep. Eating some ham is certainly analogous to renouncing Christ by anyone’s standards.
Wanna bet? If I can tell the truth, stir the pot, and provoke some serious second thoughts about mutilating the body with gaudy "art", then why not?
Seriously, speaking in generalities, how I might react is a matter of degree: 1) Suppose a sailor goes on shore leave, gets drunk with his buddies, stumbles into a parlor and gets a small anchor tattooed on his forearm -- I'm not too bothered by that. 2) Suppose you have tats all over your body, including ones that can't be hidden. Then I'd say you look like a freak and have mental issues. Maybe you don't, but I would always wonder.
who says its gaudy?
all a matter of perspective. personally i find 90% of power ties gaudy. same goes for any floral dress.
opinons and buttholes, right? :)
“If someone is starving, they should be damn glad to get it. Anyone who would rather starve than violate a dietary law is no more intelligent than a muzzie.”
Last I checked, some mitzvah trumped others, like preserving one’s life over keeping kosher.
The most observant of Jews would eat treif rather than starve to death; to refuse the food would be the “bigger” sin.
Who says you’re provoking second thoughts? Personally, I thrive off the priggish reactions my tats elicit from the Hank Hills of the world. I never cared much for that ilk, so why be bothered by their opinions?
Now lets back up and be honest here. Are the wrinkled and elderly pretty sights without tattoos? The detriment here is being old and wrinkled. It’s not the ink that looks horrible.
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