Is your tattoo faith based?

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Is your tattoo faith based in its design?

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • I have a tattoo(s), but it/they are not faith based

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No, I have no tattoo

    Votes: 17 85.0%
  • No, but I would consider receiving a faith based tattoo design

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • No, but I'm surrently not sure what to think, whether I would get one

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    20
  • Poll closed .

Mjh29

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I guess a lot of ppl would consider the artwork - as in #354, above - effective in witness, anyway.

(Did you vote in the poll? there is a 'no' option also...)

Thanks for your brief comment, anyway. :)
I did indeed vote! I personally just don't feel I need any tattoo... That money wouldn't even make it to the tattoo parlor... It would already be gone and used on books lol.
 
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farouk

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A group of 7 went.
PS: I guess afterwards in the longer term all of you reacted differently to the experience.

I guess some of them continued to relish the experience and maybe even got more ink afterwards.

So were all your fellow-tattooees Christians, maybe?
 

farouk

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Nope, sorry...I'm quite boring!
PS: It's actually now become rather mainstream and even genteel - if it's tastefully done - to a lot of ppl, to get tattooed.

(You may even have friends who are definitely conservative, unradical ppl who have had it done.)

You're not boring, though! :)
 

farouk

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As to her tattoo she makes her own decisions! Trust me on this. Hahahaha
Frank Lee:

Actually these days when young women get tattoos - as so many do, right? - it's often for them simply a benign and mainstream way of expressing themselves, and the fact that your daughter wanted to get tattooed with a cross maybe kind of expresses where her priorities lie...

(Great photo, btw! :) )

Hope you are sleeping better now...
 

Naomi25

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PS: It's actually now become rather mainstream and even genteel - if it's tastefully done - to a lot of ppl, to get tattooed.

(You may even have friends who are definitely conservative, unradical ppl who have had it done.)

You're not boring, though! :)

Oh, totally, I don't think it's a big thing. My sister wanted to get a nice, small Christian tattoo, but her husband wasn't keen on the idea. I didn't mind so much, though! And I wouldn't be shocked if my daughter went there eventually. At the moment she's still trying to convince me to let her get a nose piercing. I don't have anything against them either, I just want her to wait til she's a little older.
Honestly, these things don't do any physical harm, and it's the state of the heart that's the real point.
 
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Oh, totally, I don't think it's a big thing. My sister wanted to get a nice, small Christian tattoo, but her husband wasn't keen on the idea. I didn't mind so much, though! And I wouldn't be shocked if my daughter went there eventually. At the moment she's still trying to convince me to let her get a nose piercing. I don't have anything against them either, I just want her to wait til she's a little older.
Honestly, these things don't do any physical harm, and it's the state of the heart that's the real point.
Sounds like when your daughter - seems like she's in her teens now - is finally "ready" for her long wished for nose studding, you might even find your're prepared to go with her and hold her hand while she does it.

(Maybe even when she's finally "ready" for the tattoo, you'd go with her also to give moral support, not least if the design were faith based?)

To Christian girls of your daughter's generation, anyway, it would widely seem to be a wholesome and mainstream thing to do (whatever their relatives of the older generation might have thought in the past).
 

farouk

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my grand dad had two tattoos and he hated them, they looked good to me but he said never get one because everyone who gets tattoos hate them later on
These days ppl often go back to the tattoo artist after a while and have the colours fixed; I guess this might take care of the problems that some ppl have with them afterwards, especially if they are really worthwhile faith based ones, right?
 

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A little as I know the cost and they struggle with finances.

The one I shared with you on the back of a Christian Fijian rugby league player took the tatooist 40 hours to complete.
Seems like your son and daughter-in-law — like a lot of young ppl today — must have been so thrilled to do it that they economized and prioritized in order to get that ink injected, right?

I guess in order not to be surprised one must really understand just how strongly they wanted to do it.

Yes, he must have been sore after 40 hours of it.