While hearing about the people that a poster personally knows or hangs around with can be interesting, it doesn't really count as statistical fact for most discussions.
Posted on 11/01/2013 8:21:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
The Truth about Tattoos
I had written a hub earlier on 'The Dangers of Tattoos' - which was from purely a medical point of view. The present article is more comprehensive, and should enlighten the open-minded reader about the 'dark truths' behind tattoos.
Historical Aspect
History shows that tattoos have always been associated with paganism, shamanism, heathen (Baal worship), occult mysticism and demonism. The tattoo has never been associated with Christians, until the present decadent religious times. Wherever the Christian faith made its entrance, the tattoo made its exit.
Tattoos where associated with shamans or magic-men (witch-doctors). A shaman is an intermediary between the natural and the supernatural worlds, who is in direct contact with spirits who are invariably evil. Tattooing was often a magical rite, linked to scarification and blood-letting, and the tattooing process involved complex rituals and taboos, known only to the shaman and his tribe. In tattooing the skin is punctured and the blood is drawn. Licking the blood during tattoo operations is not unknown. The puncturing was considered the ‘opening of inlets for evil to enter’. Tattoos were therefore channels for demonic possession. Even today, certain tattoo artists burn incense and light candles during tattoo operations, while others allow ‘demons to guide the tattoo needle over the client’s body’.
Tattoos have always reflected a note of unabashed rebellion and marked deviancy. Hence tattoos were used to mark criminals, adulterers, traitors, deserters, the deviant and the outcast. Even the ancient Greeks and Romans did not tattoo themselves, but they branded slaves and criminals with tattoos. The Latin word for ‘tattoo’ is ‘stigma’ – which is a distinguishing mark cut into the flesh of a slave or a criminal, and was considered a mark of disgrace or reproach. By the early 1900s public opinion against tattoos was so strong that tattooed persons were considered freaks and found mostly in sideshows and circuses.
The Psychological Aspect
It has been observed that criminals, drug addicts, sex perverts and social outlaws are the overwhelming majority of the tattooed. Hard rock bands sport sick and lewd tattoos. Gangs encourage tattoos to instill a sense of ‘belonging’. Tattoos carry a streak of aggression and anti-establishmentarianism and are subversive of morality. Death (inclusive of skulls, snakes, demons, flames) and pornography (lewd pictures, nude figures) are popular themes of tattoos. Psychologists have considered tattoos to be marks of personality disorder which is manifested later in criminal behavior. Low self-esteem, lack of self-control, sadomasochism, bondage, fetishism, bisexuality, antisocial personality, mania and bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia – are reflected in self-inflicted multiple tattoos. Studies have linked tattoos to homosexuality, lesbianism and gross sexual perversion.
Tattooed youth are more likely to engage in sexual intercourse, take to alcohol and drugs, and exhibit violent behavior, and drop out of high school – by as much as 4 times compared to non-tattooed youth.
The Christian Aspect
Carnal Christians side-step the injuction in Leviticus 19;28 by arguing that the commandment is for Old Testament Israel and not for New Testament Christians. Does that mean that bestiality and child sacrifice which are forbidden in Leviticus are for Old Testament Israel and not for New Testament Christians? The New Testament does not have to spell out all sins. Smoking, for instance, is not mentioned in the Bible anywhere; but does it mean that smoking is not a vice or sin?
Reputed Bible scholars and commentators have made in clear that the moral commandments in Leviticus are for all time and not just for Israel in the Old Testament age. Leviticus 19:28 says, ‘You shall not make any cutting in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you. I am the LORD.’ On this Matthew Henry, Merrill Unger and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown have made it amply clear that tattoos are forbidden by God. It is to be noted that while ‘cuttings’ are qualified by the phrase ‘for the dead’, ‘marks’ (or tattoos) have no such qualification. Which means that all tattoos (Christian and otherwise) are evil in God’s eyes.
One of the arguments made by carnal Christians is that Lev 19.27 forbids haircuts. What Leviticus 19.27 is talking about is ‘rounding the corners of your head’ and ‘marring the corners of your beard’. These were heathen practices. One such practice was to cut the hair so that the head resembled a celestial globe. It is called a ‘tonsure’, a practice of heathens to honor their gods. The cutting of the flesh was demonstrated by the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. It is not to be forgotten that the demon-possessed man in Mark 5 was in the habit of cutting himself with stones. Cutting and masochistic self-flagellation is also practiced by Muslims during their festival of Muharram. In short, the injunctions in Lev 19:26-28 are a strong condemnation of heathen practices – witchcraft, astrology, cutting, tattooing, tonsures, etc.
In 1 Samuel 15:23 we are told that ‘rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft’. Tattoos sported by today’s youth have been the mark of rebellion and hatred of authority (besides, rejection of all moral values). In God’s eyes, the sin of tattooing is like witch-craft. We have already seen the origins of tattoos in witch-craft and shamanism. It remains to be researched whether this ‘witch-craft’ has also led to widespread demon-possession. No, tattoos are not ‘body decoration’; they have nothing to do with fashion and beauty; but rather they are sinister signs of moral decay and infiltration by evil spirits into modern society.
I did. It went very well.
Must be diabetic.
He told me it was his SSN. I was in no position to dispute it. Just because he was in the Navy he still has a SSN and regardless of when it occurred being young, dumb and drunk is more pertinent.
While hearing about the people that a poster personally knows or hangs around with can be interesting, it doesn't really count as statistical fact for most discussions.
Your courageous insight into what losers smokers are makes you my hero.
Explain that middle part again.
LOL, was that post intended for me?
You claimed that only 6% of republicans voted in your precinct, and connected that to conservatives disliking tattooing.
Now you are angrily raving nonsense, you made up the part about your precinct didn’t you, you don’t seem like the kind of guy who keeps up with turnout.
Your anger at conservatism and calling it “mindless hate” and a “freak club” is interesting, why are you a member of a conservative site then?
Wow, nothing but childishness in two posts, what is going on in your head?
“Poor and uneducated” is code for “active-duty military.” Just ask John Kerry.
As an Army vet I don’t need to hear your misguided claim about what “poor and uneducated” means.
More than double what it is for fat people.
That is pretty amazing, even when first confronted with the question out of the blue, about a quarter of people agreed, I think more would if brought up in a quiet discussion, take out the 22% of people who smoke in that poll, and that 25% grows even more.
Only 12% of people have less respect for the fat.
33% of those who never smoked have less respect for smokers.
24% of ex-smokers have less respect for smokers.
5% of smokers have less respect for smokers.
Also from that poll.
*""Older Americans (aged 65 and older), those with at least a college degree, and upper-income Americans (those earning $75,000 or more annually) are among the least likely U.S. adults to smoke and, correspondingly, are among the most likely to report having less respect for smokers.""*
Tatoos are ugly and trashy
When I joined the Naval Reserve back in 1949, an old Chief advised me, "If you have to get a tattoo, get one that reads 'Mother'." I never got one.
. . . but enough about the Democrat National Committee.
This is the reason to not get a tattoo in a language you don’t understand: http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com
Jus' so we all clear, GeraldL was not a one man show last night.
I am just happy that the ones with obvious poor judgement have marked themselves as such... Good to know who is who when the collapse happens.
An interesting aspect of a great crisis is that it tends to overturn expectations and preconceptions.
Rational expectation, based upon the actual nature of human behavior, tends toward minimizing disappointment or surprise by how humans actually act when facing fight, flight, or freeze situations.
I think there’s something of a positive correlation between “people with tattoos” and “people who will help defend your perimeter.”
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