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For Jews, tattoo yearning pits pride against faith
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Posted on 07/28/2008 6:34:51 AM PDT by WilliamReading

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To: cripplecreek
Just a Claddagh ring on her finger.

Romantic!

161 posted on 07/28/2008 11:41:48 AM PDT by donna (The Latino community holds the election in its hands. -Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Citizen Blade

Have you ever seen a wrinkled elderly person full of tattoos and piercings? Would you want to?


162 posted on 07/28/2008 11:42:10 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: absolootezer0
oh come on, that comment is so last week.

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.

163 posted on 07/28/2008 11:43:30 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: forkinsocket

Tell me more about these “Tribal” Jews who have tattoos. Never heard of them before. Do you have a link?


164 posted on 07/28/2008 11:44:06 AM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: Alouette
Have you ever seen a wrinkled elderly person full of tattoos and piercings? Would you want to?

Yes. It was a WWII vet who was a member of my community pool when I was younger. It was NOT a pretty sight.

165 posted on 07/28/2008 11:45:25 AM PDT by Clemenza (No Comment)
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To: Clemenza

I saw a guy in line at CVS. Ewwwwww.


166 posted on 07/28/2008 11:46:59 AM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: donna

She gave me one but makes me keep it in my pocket for now. (She’s also cautious)


167 posted on 07/28/2008 11:48:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: dennisw
Leviticus says no tattoos

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.

168 posted on 07/28/2008 11:51:40 AM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: WilliamReading

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.


169 posted on 07/28/2008 11:54:03 AM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: Alouette
Have you ever seen a wrinkled elderly person full of tattoos and piercings? Would you want to?

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.

170 posted on 07/28/2008 11:55:26 AM PDT by Citizen Blade ("Please... I go through everyone's trash." The Question)
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To: WilliamReading
Perhaps even more stinging, millions of Jews were forcibly tattooed during the Holocaust.

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.

171 posted on 07/28/2008 11:57:18 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: dfwgator
Is that a reason the Nazis made a point of tattooing numbers on the Jews during the Holocaust?

Probably not. Germans have a compulsive need to organize, label and categorize. The numbering tattoos were just a grotesque symptom of that.

172 posted on 07/28/2008 11:57:37 AM PDT by Citizen Blade ("Please... I go through everyone's trash." The Question)
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To: TexasRepublic

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?


173 posted on 07/28/2008 12:05:08 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ( Detroit: we're so bad, even our mayor is a criminal)
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To: Citizen Blade

“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


174 posted on 07/28/2008 12:06:02 PM PDT by WilliamReading
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To: Enosh

Yep. Eating some ham is certainly analogous to renouncing Christ by anyone’s standards.


175 posted on 07/28/2008 12:10:01 PM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: absolootezer0
come on TR you’re not having any fun with this.

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.

176 posted on 07/28/2008 12:31:45 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: TexasRepublic

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? :)


177 posted on 07/28/2008 12:52:25 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ( Detroit: we're so bad, even our mayor is a criminal)
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To: isrul

“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.


178 posted on 07/28/2008 1:52:24 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan ("Jesse Jackson was an important figure; paving the way for Osama bin Laden to appear" -- Dan Rather)
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To: TexasRepublic

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?


179 posted on 07/28/2008 1:57:02 PM PDT by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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To: Alouette

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.


180 posted on 07/28/2008 1:59:43 PM PDT by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963)
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