@Mayflower PS: I was just thinking from a time management and resource investment perspective, a well planned hour or so session in a parlor for a faith based design inking can really pay dividends in terms of many subsequent opportunities for witness discussions; the time and effort put into such as session can later really prove to be time well spent, right?
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I think my one is fine.
if I get charms in the future on my anklet, probably more sentimental of my kids. But my cross has brought good discussion during the summer and is covered for work.I think my one is fine.
@Mayflower I guess part of the point is that it can be and is indeed done with confidence by Christians for relatively small amounts of time and resource investment, as @UnrulyBeauty, below, implies; she - I guess like you also in principle - is open to get more, whether or not directly faith based.
Tattoos have been "non-taboo" for a good 20 years or so. I think a lot of older people (and I'm not young to begin with lol) still think that tattoos are this grungy, rough, male trend. But that hasn't been the case for many, many years. .. The last one I got was many, many years ago. I would love to get a few more before I'm old and wrinkly
And like you have proved, setting aside an hour or so in the parlor and just doing it confidently leads to profitable witness conversations. (And as @UnrulyBeauty also implies, getting inked is simply a modest womanly - as well as manly - assertion.)
@David in NJ Well, exactly. Up to some decades ago, it was usually men, but now so many men and women up to at least their 40s have done it, and someone was saying that in her area ever so may women in their 60s seem to have had it done recently. I guess my thing, anyway, is to remember the potentials for faith based designs and witness conversations. (Even though it's not for every Christian...)
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Probably not. It’s not that I’m against it, I just don’t really want one that much…and If I don’t really want one, why would I stress about the pain…etc….
I’m pretty chicken when it comes to that sort of thing. I’m happy as is.
@Naomi25 Oh sorry, I wasn't referring to you yourself getting inked...my comment was in response to your 'Nope' when you said you hadn't seen your sister's yet, so I was just saying, maybe you will see it eventually....
In any case, getting inked up - faith based design or not - has to be a personal decision entirely on the tattooee's initiative....
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Well goodness, I hope so! Else I wouldn’t ever expect to see my sister again! I would have, by now, if not for this stupid pandemic. Ug! And Australia is fully locked down at the moment. I’m fully vaccinated, but can’t expect to go anywhere until at least the end of October. And you know what I think about pronouncements coming from Politicians? Weather forecasts are more reliable. So, I’ll believe we’re actually coming out of lockdown, when we’re actually out of lockdown.@Naomi25 Oh sorry, I wasn't referring to you yourself getting inked...my comment was in response to your 'Nope' when you said you hadn't seen your sister's yet, so I was just saying, maybe you will see it eventually....
In any case, getting inked up - faith based design or not - has to be a personal decision entirely on the tattooee's initiative....
@2ndRateMind Great verse there! Actually it's probably the case that rather than for simple adornment a lot of Christians - especially young Christians - who get Bible verses tattooed are doing so more for evangelism purposes: this seemed to be the case for the various young people with Bible verse tattoos that I have talked to.
@Heart2Soul Thank-you; yes; and it has been striking how all the young people that I have talked to with Bible verses tattooed seem to have done so for evangelistic reasons.
Could suggest only one tattoo is almost faith based and it’s a 3/4ths of a cross. There two skulls on my right shoulder, a sonic on my my back right shoulder blade, a triforce under my wrist. Those are my only four tattoos. Me personally see nothing wrong with tattoos they are just artistic expression. Some can get pretty far out their. When it comes down to being a Christian follower the heart is what matters and not the ink or whatever is there itself is. Cause everyone makes mistakes and gets some not so great tattoos, and they can cost a lot to get removed.
@MatthewG Thanks for the comment! Sounds like you've got a bit more in than what is seen in your recent video. From 18 onwards or thereabouts, males get tattooed because a boy has become a man; and at around the same age, females similarly get tattooed because a girl has become a woman; it's just what is done very widely. A lot of Christians at around that age when boys have become men and girls have become women will get some ink, often faith-based, and I have talked to various young people with Bible verses tattooed. Just a couple of weeks ago I talked with a young man with a Bible verse tattooed; he thanked me for encouraging him by saying it was a good verse from the Bible. My wife and I talked to a young woman with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite Bible verse and mine also; and I'm sure other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to use the tattoo parlor in this way. I also talked to a young man, similarly, with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on his arm. Me: a design I once got on my arm wasn't a success; you are right that not all designs are successful. But all the young people I have talked to with Bible verses tattooed seem to have gotten it done for evangelistic reasons.
There's a lot of scope for faith based, witness tattoos. (Maybe it would be good if more Christians worked in tattoo parlors?)
@jessiblue Thanks for the 'like'. PS: I see you said that you are in the Deep South; seems like, although in the 19th century it was high society women that got tattooed (there was a quote about it recently), now in your part of the world it's become thoroughly something that is done in the Bible Belt, it seems:
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@Mayflower I do wish in some ways that more Christians worked in tattoo parlors, don't you?I think my one is fine.
@MatthewG I saw a while ago an explanation of how skull tattoos - to a motivated wearer - be used to indicate a rugged toughness to face adversity.
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