Didn't realize (or had forgotten) that you have tattoos. So are the designs anti-faith or something?I looked into getting mine removed a few years ago, very expensive, more than what the tattoos cost.
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Didn't realize (or had forgotten) that you have tattoos. So are the designs anti-faith or something?I looked into getting mine removed a few years ago, very expensive, more than what the tattoos cost.
Didn't realize (or had forgotten) that you have tattoos. So are the designs anti-faith or something?
Oh yes, I remember now; thanks. (I had just that moment forgotten.)I've said what they are on one of your tattoo threads, one is the Head Of Christ with the Sacred Heart the other a Grim Reaper.
Yes that's why I didn't have them removed.Oh yes, I remember now; thanks. (I had just that moment forgotten.)
You must have really liked them once; and what with the likely expense of removing them, probably just worth keeping them, I guess, right?
And you never know; you might even one day grow to like them again; and even use them to talk to ppl about the Lord...Yes that's why I didn't have them removed.
source: mamapedia dot comM.B. said:My youngest son wanted a tattoo, the night of the day he turned 18 he went and got tattoo, one he designed and paid for. Now 3 of4 of my children have tatoos, the oldest daughter was the first, she now has four... My oldest son, her twin brother has a tattoo also that he designed as did the youngest design his own - both are crosses with three circles intertwined depicting the Trinity.
Well, actually a lot of ppl now think tattoos are classy, don't they?Trying to clean up his image a bit![]()
@Waiting on him : For a Christian artist, a joy to give as well as a joy for the Christian to receive, right?
@John Caldwell So do you at least at some level understand the young believer's desire to have the option of expressing himself or herself in a faith related tattoo design in witness? and so maybe by extension for Christian men and women also to participate in the service and skill of giving tattoos also?I have several tattoos, and while I do not regret getting them I do not know that I would get them were I able to go back in time.
^You are obsessed with tattoos.
there is a way that seems right to a man, that ends in deathSeems anyway that a lot of Christian men and women are tattooed without regrets.
Thanks for your comment.Quite a number of people engage in tattooing and other forms of body modification as a form of drug addiction.
It's the same as cutting, and other self-harming behaviors. Pain initiates the release of endorphins, the bodies own opiod. Tattooing and body mods trigger this process.
The act of choosing the behavior, and experiencing the result, chemically in the brain, initiates a reward circuit based on supplying opiods to the brain as the flesh is penetrated and cut as the direct result of their choice. Pain becomes pleasure. But more than that.
What I think happens more often is that people discover that the tattooing, and it's aftermath, meet a very different sort of need within themselves.
Someone who may have depressed levels of some brain chemicals, such as endorphins, or dopamine, serotonin, these sorts, may find that this chemical release lets them feel better about their lives, and more in control of themselves.
Endogenous opiods do that. The body uses this class of chemicals not only for pain regulation but also to regulate mood and behavior.
A person cuts during times of disregulation to get control of their runaway mind and emotions. Tattooing and piercing can work the same way. So when you know someone who is going back again and again, it's just like the alcholic.
And the one who encourages the unmarked person to "get inked", are you certain you aren't offering the alcoholic their first drink?
Just some food for thought as we work so hard at promoting this whole tattooing idea.
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Hi farouk,So basically you're saying that those who get tattooed are basically drug addicts?
Quite a number of people engage in tattooing and other forms of body modification as a form of drug addiction.
Apples and oranges, I guess...Just to be clear, I for whatever reason felt like speaking my mind, but I believe this to be a personal matter of conscience.
Curious @ farouk , what is your opinion on other body mods?
Forked tongue, implants, such as knobs or horns, rings under the skin, things like that? Just wondering . . .
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