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Poll: Does the mainstreaming of tattoos open up increasing opportunities for faith ink witness?
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@RainAndIceCream My wife and I talked to a young lady 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 that other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to endure some permanent inking pain at the parlor. She seemed quite shy, but there was also a quiet confidence there. You're right; it does take a lot of commitment first of all, doesn't it?
RainAndIceCream
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I feel it does indeed. And scripture written on someone's wrist or other exposed part of themselves, may get someone's attention who would otherwise be too shy or insecure to seek answers to their questions about Emmanuel Christ and Salvation.
@RainAndIceCream For 18 year olds - or thereabouts - receiving first ink has really become something about the passage to adulthood; and, while many decades back it was almost wholly a male thing to do, the improved quality of inks and of tattoo artistry skills has also clearly made it a very womanly thing now. While for young Christians it has also likely become in their minds a striking opportunity to assert in a faith based ink design a Christian testimony, it probably was not so widespread when you were 18, if I am guessing correctly. For more mature believers today, it was probably not such an obvious thing to do as it may seem now to young Christians to do.
It seems like it's now so mainstream to receive ink from age 18 onward that it's really rather comparable to what - for example - double ear piercing was to teen girls (and their moms) 40 years ago: maybe at the very start a bit edgy, but now so widespread that it can be done with complete confidence by all ages. (If this resonates at all?)
RainAndIceCream
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I respect your observations and experience in these matters.
God's will and message will find a way to peoples hearts when they are receptive. Whether the word is in the Bible, or on the flesh. And also I like to remember that old saying, a truism really, by William Toms that goes, "Be careful how you live. You may be the only Bible some person ever reads."
PS: @RainAndIceCream So would you welcome more Christians - especially women to whom the profession is opening up - pursuing this field in the light of increasing faith based design opportunities?
Hi @RainAndIceCream
FYI, do you in theory like the idea of discreet white ink for an angel wings tattoo?
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FYI, do you in theory like the idea of discreet white ink for an angel wings tattoo?
RainAndIceCream
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Had you not told me what I was looking at I would have thought it a brand of some sort. I think it is entirely up to the individual, as I said. I am not one for tattoo's. Not because I don't like them. I respect people who feel confident enough to put permanent art on their body. Myself, I am not one who holds to being a fan of any one thing in one place for the rest of my life.Hi @RainAndIceCream
FYI, do you in theory like the idea of discreet white ink for an angel wings tattoo?
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I , for instance, adore the Troll doll artwork. They're so cute and I collected a few of the dolls when I was a child. Having said that, I would not put a troll doll tattoo anywhere on my person via tattoo. Not because I don't like them that much but because I know me. After a while I would tire of that same doll being in that same place all the time. As I said, I switch the art in my home about the place from time to time. Not something I would be able to do with a tattoo.
Your response reminds me of a major change I made many years ago regarding my Bible and Bible notes. When I first began to read a Bible in 1976 [age 32 at the time] I was also taking detailed lengthy notes from the what the pastor was teaching/preaching. When I read the Bible at home I would underline and write notes in the margins all in ink.
The change occurred when I began to realize that what that man was teaching sometimes later was appearing incomplete or inconsistent or even incorrect. My Bible was already full of insertions and marks and notes which I could not erase without ruining the pages. The idea of a pencil to replace my ink pen came to mind. I bought a new Bible and replaced my ink pens with pencils, erasers and and a pencil sharpener. Now it is all in pencil.
Now I own quite a few Bibles mostly marked in pencil so as to allow changes when and if something new or different is given/revealed to me. I can add or subtract or correct without destroying the page and needing to start over again.
These days of course, people do a lot of reading and note taking on computers so maybe they don't need pencils, but we really do need to be ready for any adjustments God might make in us, don't we? We should be growing...
People can get their tattoos if they believe they should, but it is quite possible or even likely that is OK for them at age 20 or 40 will not be OK at 60 or 80 years of age. If they want a tattoo why not stick with the temporary removable types?
https://www.walmart.com/browse/beauty/temporary-tattoos/1085666_1007040_6077339_6709849
@RainAndIceCream Thanks for all those comments. Appreciated.
In any case, the white ink depicted in the angel design can be construed as faith related and is very discreet indeed, isn't it.
@Heart2Soul This is exactly so true! (although with some faith based wrist inkings the person's heart is literally on his or her sleeve....right?
)@Heart2Soul Do you at the time think they should have told you first?
At a certain age it's become quite the rite of passage, so often, to have it done, hasn't it?
Yes voted.
I can appreciate art "skills", whether or not I like the "result".
I am not a fan of ink on skin.
Glory to God,
Taken
They were both 18 which by law in Oklahoma you have to be to get one...so no I don't think they should have told, I just wish they would have talked with me about it so that I could determine why they were getting one...for example were they doing it because their friends did it, or just curious about getting one, or did they have a reason for one...as in a special message related to the tattoo......
and both of them admitted they had no message or reason...they just thought it was cool to have one...