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@Josho So any more hard rock thoughts? :)

I well understand... :)

"The storm that bowed Thy blessed head Is hushed for ever now, And rest divine is ours instead, While glory crowns Thy brow." For the believer, the claims of judgment are now silent for ever. :) "It is finished."

@Josho So do you play an instrument? :)

@Josho PS: I guess it's something you would need to have been motivated about for a long while, first of all, right?

For beards, etc., there's also the practical side of not having to shave every day; this is the clincher (for me), rather than looks...

Yes, you need to find honest ones; they do exist in the tattoo industry, anyway... :)

We need always to keep digging into the Scriptures... :)

The word justification is similar, also; a judicial reckoning.

Yes, there needs to be personal respect and Godly boundaries.

@A_Man PS: Yes, it used to be very much a military thing and a man thing, and it still is. Now military wives are apparently also a hugely represented tattooed demographic, often in family, patriotic and faith themes. christianforums dot com

@shnarkle I take your point to some extent, although ear piercings have been around from time immemorial... (Even a majority of the young men and boys who attend the very conservative local church that my wife and I go to, have earrings; and it's not regarded as a big deal at all...)

(I guess this thread is like a stream of consciousness theme...ought not to derail...)

Well, there's an area that science and technology needs to keep working on to enhance and broaden what parlors can realistically and successfully do, right? I guess anyway the moral would be, among young women who might eventually want that particular procedure: go to the parlor to have it done...

We still have a lot of snow on the ground; we're amazingly even beating Alberta on snow, then...

I guess I was just referring to the word concubines...

Yes, I can understand that the perception that eyebrows need to be darkened can be widespread and can be felt in a deep-seated way. Maybe the granddaughter whom you mentioned who knows about tattoo parlors could accompany you to talk to them about the possibility of having the pigment put in...

Don't think this is fully a Scripture quote...

Romans 2 is a strong and helpful passage on repentance.....