Is your tattoo faith based?

[farouk]

I do not have any tatoos lol.

PS: Here's a really good subject for a book! (You were looking for ideas...)

 

[Mjh29]

I guess a lot of ppl would consider the artwork - as in #354, above - effective in witness, anyway.

(Did you vote in the poll? there is a 'no' option also...)

Thanks for your brief comment, anyway. :)

I did indeed vote! I personally just don't feel I need any tattoo... That money wouldn't even make it to the tattoo parlor... It would already be gone and used on books lol.

 

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now! :)

 

[farouk]

I did indeed vote! I personally just don't feel I need any tattoo... That money wouldn't even make it to the tattoo parlor... It would already be gone and used on books lol.

Well, thanks! (I think I can guess how you voted...)

 

[farouk]

A group of 7 went.

PS: I guess afterwards in the longer term all of you reacted differently to the experience.

I guess some of them continued to relish the experience and maybe even got more ink afterwards.

So were all your fellow-tattooees Christians, maybe?

 

[farouk]

My son and daughter-in-law who are not Christians have small tattoos on arms and legs.

I guess neither of them seem to regret them, and maybe might even be open to getting more ink?

(It's often how it goes...)

 

[farouk]

Nope, sorry...I'm quite boring!

PS: It's actually now become rather mainstream and even genteel - if it's tastefully done - to a lot of ppl, to get tattooed.

(You may even have friends who are definitely conservative, unradical ppl who have had it done.)

You're not boring, though! :)

 

[farouk]

As to her tattoo she makes her own decisions! Trust me on this. Hahahaha

Frank Lee:

Actually these days when young women get tattoos - as so many do, right? - it's often for them simply a benign and mainstream way of expressing themselves, and the fact that your daughter wanted to get tattooed with a cross maybe kind of expresses where her priorities lie...

(Great photo, btw! :) )

Hope you are sleeping better now...

 

[Naomi25]

PS: It's actually now become rather mainstream and even genteel - if it's tastefully done - to a lot of ppl, to get tattooed.

(You may even have friends who are definitely conservative, unradical ppl who have had it done.)

You're not boring, though! :)

Oh, totally, I don't think it's a big thing. My sister wanted to get a nice, small Christian tattoo, but her husband wasn't keen on the idea. I didn't mind so much, though! And I wouldn't be shocked if my daughter went there eventually. At the moment she's still trying to convince me to let her get a nose piercing. I don't have anything against them either, I just want her to wait til she's a little older.
Honestly, these things don't do any physical harm, and it's the state of the heart that's the real point.

 

[farouk]

Oh, totally, I don't think it's a big thing. My sister wanted to get a nice, small Christian tattoo, but her husband wasn't keen on the idea. I didn't mind so much, though! And I wouldn't be shocked if my daughter went there eventually. At the moment she's still trying to convince me to let her get a nose piercing. I don't have anything against them either, I just want her to wait til she's a little older.
Honestly, these things don't do any physical harm, and it's the state of the heart that's the real point.

Sounds like when your daughter - seems like she's in her teens now - is finally "ready" for her long wished for nose studding, you might even find your're prepared to go with her and hold her hand while she does it.

(Maybe even when she's finally "ready" for the tattoo, you'd go with her also to give moral support, not least if the design were faith based?)

To Christian girls of your daughter's generation, anyway, it would widely seem to be a wholesome and mainstream thing to do (whatever their relatives of the older generation might have thought in the past).

 

[farouk]

@soul man : Did you vote in the poll?

 

[soul man]

@soul man : Did you vote in the poll?

Yes just voted

 

[farouk]

Yes just voted

Thanks for your poll vote!

 

[farouk]

I didn't take note of who was first.

@OzSpen Were you surprised when they both had it done?

 

[farouk]

I think anything can be used for God's glory. Even tattoos.

So did yours hurt?

(I guess ppl would say, even if it does hurt, then if it's for God's glory then it must be worth it...)

 

[farouk]

my grand dad had two tattoos and he hated them, they looked good to me but he said never get one because everyone who gets tattoos hate them later on

These days ppl often go back to the tattoo artist after a while and have the colours fixed; I guess this might take care of the problems that some ppl have with them afterwards, especially if they are really worthwhile faith based ones, right?

 

[OzSpen]

@OzSpen Were you surprised when they both had it done?

A little as I know the cost and they struggle with finances.

The one I shared with you on the back of a Christian Fijian rugby league player took the tatooist 40 hours to complete.

 

[farouk]

A little as I know the cost and they struggle with finances.

The one I shared with you on the back of a Christian Fijian rugby league player took the tatooist 40 hours to complete.

Seems like your son and daughter-in-law — like a lot of young ppl today — must have been so thrilled to do it that they economized and prioritized in order to get that ink injected, right?

I guess in order not to be surprised one must really understand just how strongly they wanted to do it.

Yes, he must have been sore after 40 hours of it.

 

[farouk]

I think I would get something a little bit bigger...

PS:

Butterfly: Do you think that you probably 'played safe' and got a small tattoo for your first one? and maybe you think this is advisable for the first time you do it?

 

[farouk]

@Nancy @charity So any of your friends/family have tattoos, faith based or otherwise?