Faith-based tattoo: as a result of one, did you ever talk with someone? (Poll included)
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@Ronald Nolette I think it's a matter of balance and perspective.
The fact is that when so many ppl get tattooed today, it's hardly a case of them somehow supposedly rejected conservative values or whatever.
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juliannenw said:
The fact is that when so many ppl get tattooed today, it's hardly a case of them somehow supposedly rejected conservative values or whatever.
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juliannenw said:
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dhh712
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That's a great point. I'm not familiar with this culture (? Is that the right word? having trouble coming up with the right one--could be that I just woke up after a very grueling day yesterday)--are there not many options for faith-based tattoos? I imagine it would depend on the geographical area too. I imagine also that the faith-based designs would be way less plentiful than the secular designs.
@Heart2Soul Some Christians prefer not to have a little faith based tattoo, while others do.
There are always likely to be various personal preferences.
But I don't at all buy the supposed "it's not ladylike to have one" idea.
pinterest@dhh712 Well...I guess that tattoo and tattoo parlor demographics might vary from area to area.
You mentioned recently that you used to live in Las Vegas. While you might not have liked some aspects of the city, ppl in Vegas are indeed spoiled for choice as regards tattoo parlors. (As you would know.)
HeatherA from Nevada recently said:
This quote from Texas does at any rate ring true also:
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You also used the word 'culture'. I'm not quite sure whether the idea of a specific "tattoo culture" applies any more. It used to be a man thing years ago but now it has become also such a woman thing to do. If we have indeed seen a striking reduction in the idea of a specific "tattoo culture", then maybe in no small measure this has slowly but surely come about because - so profusely, so confidently and so naturally now - tattooing is received by women. What we are maybe instead seeing is that it's not because ppl are radicals or typical rebels that they do it, it's because they are adults (seen also in the fact that for so many ppl the first tattoo parlor appointment is simply part of the reaching the Big 18 transition to adulthood).
For many Christian young ppl, however, the first tattoo parlor appointment at 18 seems to combine commemorating the transition to adulthood with wishing to affirm a Christian testimony: all the young ppl with Bible verses tattooed with whom I have talked seem to have undergone their injecting experiences for witness tool purposes, at any rate. For them it might represent from their earliest days of adulthood wanting really earnestly to 'nail their colors to the mast', so to speak.
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@dhh712 The trick is to put enough thought into it in the first place so that they won't be regretted.
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@Christophany Well.....I can just imagine your sons and daughters suddenly showing with new inkings; I hope Mrs. Christophany also took it all in her stride.....
@Mink57 So did you ever go into any parlors and without obligation admire some of the portfolio artwork?
You guys in Vegas are spoiled for tattoo parlors, anyway.....
@Ronald Nolette I can in any case well imagine the young ppl - all of whom I talked with - who have gotten Bible verses inked having gone quietly into the tattoo parlor with glowing hearts if they wanted thereby to use them as testimony tools among their peers especially.
@L3astAm0ngManyB13ss3d So anyway did you go back to him yet and discuss your next ink plans?
I think you said you were planning to.
@SERVANTedu So despite your own backing off from tattoos, do you see how some Christians seem actually quite comfortable with faith based tattoos such as Bible verses?
@Mantis From your comment about Mrs. Mantis, it used to be such a man thing (and still is) but I read someplace that now in North America 55%-70% or more of tattoo artists' clients are women.
You as a former (and future?) tattoo artist might recall a similar proportion among your clients. Seems like it's become such a natural, spontaneous wish for so many women to express themselves in ink about faith, family, etc.
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Thanks for the interesting video, @SERVANTedu .
I do take the guy's point that although there may not really be any objective theological issues against them now, ppl might usefully hesitate in case conservative ppl might somehow be offended even by a faith based tattoo.
Well, I can see that, just about....if in fact conservative ppl out there were so overwhelmingly against even faith based tattoos.
What I would also say is that if one looks at the sheer evidence that is out there, tattoos are not unusually precisely what people of rather conservative values do indeed have. (Actually I thick this evidence is now pretty well overwhelming.)
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greenvneck said:
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LadyCrosstalk said:
I find this quote really funny:
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Whether or not you yourself @SERVANTedu do go ahead and get the faith based one that you were thinking about is naturally what only you yourself can really know your thoughts about.
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