Posted on 11/01/2013 8:21:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
Derbyshire wrote about this too, and sees the proliferation of tatoos as a symptom of deep society illness. I agree.
Jesus has His name written on His thigh.
Yeah cool, but my reasons for being anti-tatted are simple. They don’t improve with age. Tastes change. They reduce earning potential over a lifetime. They reduce the pool of available mates. People change. They are addictive. And, of course, they scream out~ Look at me! Isn’t it strange to think that a person looks at a part of their body, and the notion comes over them... Wow, look at that arm! That thing needs some dressing up!
Many are memorials. Women dye their hair every six weeks. Any tattoo owners over 70?
Nothing transforms a pretty girl into an ugly one faster than a tattoo and a foul mouth. They seem to often pair up.
And vote
Pagans have been known to vote
*shrug*
Just don’t drink too much dihydrogen monoxide.
I have a relative who is covered with them. She also has autoimmune problems. Of course she thinks one has nothing to do with the other.
Now.
I really do believe this bizarre tattoo trend is indicative of the state of mental health of our society.
What a stupid article. We don’t judge people by their outside, but by their inside.
Tattooes do not age very well. Ever seen one on an older person? They fade. They stretch. They sag....can only imagine one on a sagging boob. All of these young people running out ang getting tattooes are going to be in for a rude awakening when they discover that these things don’t age very well. In fact they age the skin. And they look horrible on wrinkled and dry skin.
I think the real argument is that we are to be “separate from the world.”
The forbidding of those practices (tattoos, drinking blood, etc) were pagan or worldly rituals for which Israel was to be set apart.
Deuteronomy 14:1-2: “You are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor 1shave the front of your head for the dead. For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”
It is a fairly safe assumption that tattooing is still considering a worldly activity. While the Old Testament may be the law and the New Testament grace, the NT clearly states that Christians are to be in the world but not of it.
James 4:1-5: Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
As Freud once said, “Sometimes a good cigar is only a cigar.” A lot of tattoos are, or used to be, only the remnant of an out of control night in Tijuana. A reminder of something you can’t remember.
I’m still not sure how smoking went from being a thing that some people do to being morally wrong. Whatever.
93 octane will be a sin too, soon.
It sounds like you want to avoid getting a tattoo. I don’t have any, myself.
However, as a very conventional frumpy sort of person, I think it’s better for a man to look at a girl’s arm and think, “Hey, a P.J. O’Rourke fan!” than to look at her breasts and think, “I want to **** that!”
I certainly do. I'm alive because of it.
When I was a child only men who had been in prison had tats. Then it was only criminals, whores and seamen or military. Now my prim and proper sister in law has one as does my daughter. yuck!
Plus I see these giant, young fat chicks covering themselves with them.
Have they just given up? Accepted that obesity is their destiny? Never plan to try to be healthier or more attractive?
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