Posted on 01/05/2012 4:57:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Well, it doesn't explain it perfectly because right after that he said College students even as young as 18 - are encouraged to resolve sexual confusion with the blade of a knife. This would seem to indicate transgender surgery. However, I'm not so sure that much of the genital mutilation discussed in my earlier post also doesn't have something to do with 'sexual confusion'.
thank her for her service to our country. If I had it to do all over again I would go CG instead of Army. Our Nephew came home for Christmas. He is stationed in Japan and is a Helicopter Maintance Mechanis. He walked in the door with Several Tats and I thought his mother was going to faint.
They asked my opinion, and seh almost fainted again when i told her about my plans to get one after my half Iron Man.
I think he is referring to sex change operations among the young. Just a guess, though.
My mother is still trying to pretend Anoreth’s tattoos are temporary ;-).
She spent the year before she turned 18 researching all the services, and the Coast Guard was the one that guaranteed she wouldn’t end up behind a desk in the Midwest. She was a general seaman, “Deck Force,” on the cutter in the Pacific for two years, and then was one of two women in the Gunner’s Mate class. More excitement by age 20 than I’ve seen at 45!
Just about every sailor I work with has at least one tatoo, and most of them have two or more. Sailorettes too.
Tattoo - The Who
Me and my brother were talking to each other
‘Bout what makes a man a man
Was it brain or brawn, or the month you were born,
We just couldn’t understand
Our old man didn’t like our appearance
He said that only women wear long hair
So me and my brother borrowed money from Mother
We knew what we had to do
We went downstairs, past the barber and gymnasium
And got our arms tattooed
Welcome to my life, tattoo
I’m a man now, thanks to you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo
My dad beat me ‘cause mine said “Mother”
But my mother naturally liked it and beat my brother
‘Cause his tattoo was of a lady in the nude
And my mother thought that was extremely rude
Welcome to my life, tattoo
We’ve a long time together, me and you
I expect I’ll regret you
But the skin graft man won’t get you
You’ll be there when I die
Tattoo
Now I’m older, I’m tattooed all over
My wife is tattooed too
A rooty-toot-toot, A rooty-tooty-toot-toot
Rooty-toot-toot tattoo too
To you
Just about every sailor I work with has at least one tatoo, and most of them have two or more. Sailorettes too.
Just about every sailor I work with has at least one tatoo, and most of them have two or more. Sailorettes too.
The “internetainers” Rhett & Link have an anti-tatoo vid where several grossly overtatted & overpierced humanoids warn against the folly of integument inking.
One of them observes, “After all, doesn’t your body already have enough holes?”
FWIW, the first body tatooing I ever heard of was an opera diva who had her name and SSN tatooed on her abdomen, declaring, “Nobody will see it except my husband and my doctor.” She had a fear of flying and an acute fear of transatlantic flight. Final ID, you know.
BINGO!
God bless her and keep her safe.
Thanks!
I heard you the first time.
Yeah, I get that way too when I OD on caffine [grin].
The human soul longs for union with God, but is bound by our corporeal nature and our fallen state and can't achieve it, at least not easily or for lengthy periods of time. We are destined for mortal death and the separation (albeit temporary) of our souls from our bodies - which is an unnatural state of being (again from an eternal and divine perspective).
This is where our carnal passions enter in. The soul seeks the joy of reunion with God and our fallen bodies seek to fill the void of longing in the soul. So what do we do? We do things...one thing after another...that offer us short-lived pleasure...
We eat too much. Eating's not bad in and of itself, in fact it's necessary to sustain our bodies. But WE do it for pleasure and to excess.
We drink too much. Alcohol in moderate doses is actually good for your digestion and your circulatory system. But you drink too much of it you get drunk. You get drunk too often and you become dependent, among other things.
We overindulge our sexuality. We have to have sex to procreate...I won't go too far here because I know young people probably read this.
We overindulge, PERIOD, on whatever it is that brings us fleeting pleasure. ALL OF THESE THINGS TAKE THE PLACE OF GOD. Not good. And we tell lies to hide it from others. And we lie to ourselves to say it's alright.
In short, we sin. The Greek word for sin, ἁμαρτία, means to miss the mark. What mark? God. Union with God. And we miss because so many of us don't even know what we're aiming for. Nearly all of us, I'd say. Very few have gotten a taste of the uncreated eternal. And most (if not all) of them are ascetics who have dedicated their lives to constant prayer.
Christ assumed humanity, was crucified, suffered, died, was buried, and arose to conquer death for us. By this he released us from mortality's hold on us and offered us the hope of eternal reunion with God and an alternative to our fleeting, sinful, mortal passions
I do understand the visual aspect of tattooing, which is why mine are hidden. Why people get visible, un-coverable tattoos is beyond me. Mine have private significance, and as such, I do not regret any of them.
I went the other road for an “audience” in college: piercing. I’ve since removed every last one, but at the time, I got more attention from metal than I did from ink.
A tramp-stamp means “this side up”
I understand what you’re sayin. Completely.
Sorry about that - slow computer and network response.
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