@devin553344 So with all that you went through, does your tattoo now bring you indeed good memories?
Faith-based tattoo: as a result of one, did you ever talk with someone? (Poll included)
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@Ronald Nolette Well, it seems like the Christian young ppl at around 18 do seem to have the resilience to undergo the inking for witness tool purposes, anyway...
All the young ppl with Bible verses tattooed that I have talked to seem to have had them done for witness purposes, anyway. Kind of a definite endurance decision of their part that they believed would pay dividends, don't you think?
@Rita Further to your post on the other thread, I thought I would draw your attention to something that is related.
Megan Ybarra has done a study of factors that seem to her to influence US officials in selecting immigrants for deportation; she describes it as
"a crude mapping of people onto nationalities for deportation based on hair, language, and tattoos".
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263775818819006?journalCode=epda
A while ago you said:
But according to the study of immigration, the implication is that the US officials somehow supposedly own the skin of people seeking to settle in the US.
You felt good about yours.
But according to the study, to officials of a certain mentality, there are circumstances when tattoos can supposedly indicate that the skin of people — which the officials supposedly own — can show them to be supposedly undesirable Mexicans.
According to the study, it partly relates to sweeping assumptions about ppl's socio-economic status.
Imagine before going into your tattoo parlor thinking, What will be the immigration implications of my tattoo?
Megan Ybarra has done a study of factors that seem to her to influence US officials in selecting immigrants for deportation; she describes it as
"a crude mapping of people onto nationalities for deportation based on hair, language, and tattoos".
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263775818819006?journalCode=epda
A while ago you said:
But according to the study of immigration, the implication is that the US officials somehow supposedly own the skin of people seeking to settle in the US.
You felt good about yours.
But according to the study, to officials of a certain mentality, there are circumstances when tattoos can supposedly indicate that the skin of people — which the officials supposedly own — can show them to be supposedly undesirable Mexicans.
According to the study, it partly relates to sweeping assumptions about ppl's socio-economic status.
Imagine before going into your tattoo parlor thinking, What will be the immigration implications of my tattoo?
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no brother. Don't want to get into this again. Just saying: if this thread were your girlfriend, you'd be an old married couple by now! lolol!@Angelina I think though you are more lukewarm now about your tattoos than you used to be, right?
@Angelina Not sure if you mean simply, No comment; or whether you are denying that you are actually more lukewarm now about them that it seemed you used to be.
But no need to say more if you don't want to...
Fine; and I really appreciate the humour.Don't want to get into this again. Just saying: if this thread were your girlfriend, you'd be an old married couple by now! lolol!
@LadyofFireandLace Oh I think I know what your previous user name was....
Good to see your continuing participation....
Just having some fun with you brother @farouk. Just finished work and haven't slept yet which can become a little dangerous sommetimes but doing my best
@Angelina Well, I hope your insomnia can indeed be cured. For some ppl, lack of sleep can be a real problem in the long term......(Some of us get so tired that it's not really a problem at alll.....)Just having some fun with you brother @farouk. Just finished work and haven't slept yet which can become a little dangerous sommetimes but doing my best
I guess, really, while some ppl do take the subject of tattoos in oh, so serious a way, others (maybe you too, once) do actually regard getting a little bit of inking as rather fun!
@Taken This is very well phrased!
Tattooing may indeed for some of your friends define what makes them feel good and how they may wish to express a Christian witness, etc.
But it doesn't define your thoughts of them....
I have friends that “thought” their friends should be expressed on their skin, until they stopped being friends...oops De-inking or trying an ink over ink.
@Johann Ppl can also reply to the poll questions in a post instead of in the expired poll, anyway...
@Taken Yes; and to apply the analogy also, this is why true faith is such a permanent thing, properly understood, and a faith based witness tattoo speaks of something that it truly permanent (the parable of the sower also comes to mind), as the ink pumps into the skin something that permanently testifies. (I'm sure you would agree about the analogy...right?)
Well, yes ink is intended as permanent, as well as testifying YES to God is permanent....
I get Scripture on the Inside...
... through my eyes, magically goes straight to my heart. I like “signs”...printed on tin, wood, etc...rather than on my skin...but you already my skin is tatless.
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I think your analogy is flawed to an extreme.
Does God live by faith rather than by knowledge?
Did Jesus not know many answers rather simply having faith that they were correct?
When we move from "through a glass darkly" to "face to face", is that not like moving from faith to knowledge?
Are we not going to be like Him at the face to face?
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Heb 11:1
And then what will there be when faith is finished, but knowledge?
"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb 12:2
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." I Cor 13:12
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John 3:2
@amadeus Good verses there, indeed.
I was thinking more of the Parable of the Sower, Matthew 13.30, where the fruit born of the seed sown in good ground is permanent: "But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."
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