Poll: Tattoo art - Christian perspectives: Fight it? Ignore it? appreciate/embrace it?
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IMHO these Ephesians tattoos are really effective...
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@FluffyYellowDuck I added some photos of designs from Ephesians just now, above...
@FluffyYellowDuck Thanks for the 'likes'; I do think that the second of the two Ephesians designs, above, is probably the more effective of them (you would probably agree; I'm guessing you have quite an aesthetic sense).
Funny how things change over the year,take tattoos. Years ago it tended to be only men who had been in one of the services that had one and then many of them said they had been drunk when they had it done or they had it done for a bet. Also you got teenagers doing there own by scratching usually a name on their arm with a pin and then rubbing writing ink in it.
If you had a tattoo it tended to be where it couldn’t be seen by all and sundry . If you went for a job you would be very lucky to get it if the person interviewing you could see it.
Now a days it is excepted as normal for both sexes to have them and they are now classed as pieces of art. It would also be usual to be turned down for a job and you could probably sue them if you were. These works of art you may think look beautiful now on youthful smooth skins but l wonder what they will look like when you grow old and wrinkled and the design becomes-distorted.
Years gone by it would be unusual to see a women with even a small tattoo.The only place you would see a lady with lots of tattoos was at the fair and to do that you would have to pay your money and go into a small tent where she and other people would be classed as freaks which they weren’t,thank goodness that doesn’t happen these days
A lady proudly showing her work of art
Posted on my Facebook page this morning.
If you had a tattoo it tended to be where it couldn’t be seen by all and sundry . If you went for a job you would be very lucky to get it if the person interviewing you could see it.
Now a days it is excepted as normal for both sexes to have them and they are now classed as pieces of art. It would also be usual to be turned down for a job and you could probably sue them if you were. These works of art you may think look beautiful now on youthful smooth skins but l wonder what they will look like when you grow old and wrinkled and the design becomes-distorted.
Years gone by it would be unusual to see a women with even a small tattoo.The only place you would see a lady with lots of tattoos was at the fair and to do that you would have to pay your money and go into a small tent where she and other people would be classed as freaks which they weren’t,thank goodness that doesn’t happen these days
A lady proudly showing her work of art
Posted on my Facebook page this morning.
@Pearl Thanks. Yes, for your daughter now she was able to get something nice done confidently without it being remotely controversial, wasn't she?Funny how things change over the year,take tattoos. Years ago it tended to be only men who had been in one of the services that had one and then many of them said they had been drunk when they had it done or they had it done for a bet. Also you got teenagers doing there own by scratching usually a name on their arm with a pin and then rubbing writing ink in it.
If you had a tattoo it tended to be where it couldn’t be seen by all and sundry . If you went for a job you would be very lucky to get it if the person interviewing you could see it.
Now a days it is excepted as normal for both sexes to have them and they are now classed as pieces of art. It would also be usual to be turned down for a job and you could probably sue them if you were. These works of art you may think look beautiful now on youthful smooth skins but l wonder what they will look like when you grow old and wrinkled and the design becomes-distorted.
Years gone by it would be unusual to see a women with even a small tattoo.The only place you would see a lady with lots of tattoos was at the fair and to do that you would have to pay your money and go into a small tent where she and other people would be classed as freaks which they weren’t,thank goodness that doesn’t happen these days
A lady proudly showing her work of art
Posted on my Facebook page this morning.
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@Pearl The photo seems to be like for an exhibition...nowadays if such lady had tattoo sleeves, ppl might say, Oh, nice... but it wouldn't be thought of as a circus exhibit or whatever. Maybe more for a parlor portfolio. Like you said, even though they wouldn't necessarily all be as big,
@FluffyYellowDuck
Depends where you live, really.
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forums dot thewelltrainedmind dot comQueenCat said:
@FluffyYellowDuck PS: I suppose - given the discussion of addictiveness on the other thread - some ppl would even call getting tattooed addictive, but it's not necessarily so, if ppl don't get 'carried away'.
Among the OP quotes: FHII said: ↑
Rita said: ↑
Among the OP quotes: FHII said: ↑
Rita said: ↑
@Adoration So did you talk to her lately about tattoos?
This auntie and I did not talk for more than 5 years... I have just recently decided to return to the family and her and I are on speaking terms... However... we do NOT talk about Christianity. She is a legalistic believer... in her eyes... tattoos are satanic... I have no desire to engage her in a debate... LOL
@Adoration
I see! I hope she will one day somehow be blessed by the Scriptures, anyway.
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 other conversations have arisen as a result of her willingness to use the tattoo parlor for this purpose.
(I wonder if your dear aunt, if she met the young lady, would at least be willing to commend the young lady's appreciation of this wonderful Scripture?
)PS: @Adoration
I would have thought that something like this would be regarded as quite tasteful, anyway:
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"20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Ephesians 3.21-22)
I would have thought that something like this would be regarded as quite tasteful, anyway:
"20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." (Ephesians 3.21-22)
To me that is indeed tasteful and beautiful.... Sadly... to many legalistic Christians... there is only judgement and condemnation.
@Adoration I would think anyway that the lady who received it must likely have found it a rather wholesome experience to receive such a design injected that might prompt Godly testimony and discussion. (A bit like Rita's comment quoted in the OP of this thread, really, I suppose.)
@Pearl
Now, military spouses are a demographic that is especially represented among the tattooed (often in faith, patriotic and family themes).
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