Yes I have placed my vote, which is more than what I will be doing if the UK has to have an election for a EU member.
Poll: Best age for first tattoo?
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To get to the point, again; I think I can also guess how you voted in the poll... :)
@Waiting on him FYI...new poll...(I was informed an older one had expired).
Waiting on him
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I encountered a young man at work last night that had just received new ink on his forearm, an image of the grim reaper. A good conversation starter, wouldn’t you agree?
Certainly the tattoo would cause conversations, right? I guess for the believer the point of that particular conversation could be made to be, Are you ready yet for eternity?
I guess the traditional skull tattoo - which many men have received, but also now increasingly women - is some kind of allusion to mortality.
I'm not sure that on their own a Grim Reaper or skull tattoo would count as faith based tattoo designs, though.
The fact that he was a young man shows I guess that the most serious of subjects can be contemplated at a young age; and so I guess for Christian young people a lot of them would think that a witness-friendly tattoo is something to be pursued even in the 18-25 category (see poll), rather than to wait years for.
(If this makes sense?)
Waiting on him
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When asked he explained his father also had a grim reaper, said dad told him when he died the reaper was coming to take him to hell. We have a lot to talk about.
Odd thing to say; but yes, what a witness opportunity you have!
I guess the young man, as far as you can ascertain, does not have significant church connections?
More than once I have talked to young people with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on an arm. Must have taken a lot of motivation and dedication. One was a young man; the other was a young woman.
Well someone could send a letter to Theresa May asking her to have "TRAITOR" tattooed on her forehead.
Jacob Rees-Mogg wasn't wrong when last year he had rumbled her by saying that there is a gap between what she says and what she does.
Which begs the question, if the Referendum result said, Leave, and Mrs. May says she wants to implement leaving, then why doesn't the UK leave?
Tennyson said in the 19th century, about politicians: '....lies and lies and lies and lies...' (Churchill, using polite, Parliamentary language, would have said: '...terminological inexactitudes, terminological inexactitudes, terminological inexactitudes...')
Well, it could have remained a secret if you had wanted it to... :)
I think from what you have said in the past that you have a number of thoughts on the matter which maybe conflict with each other, but I can see that 'Never' is probably uppermost. (This is of course about general advice about the suitability of tattoos.)
They can become addictive and grossly overdone. When my son got his first one it upset me but I accepted it and now he has four. We used to drink in the local pub with a guy whose face, head and neck were covered with them but he was good company and it's not my place to judge the choices other people make.
Waiting on him
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Because it is permanent it is a very personal thing to do. Lots of people in and around the Manchester area had the Manchester bee tattoos after the Manchester Arena bombing to show support for the victims and also to make a statement that they were proud to be Mancunians. I wonder how many now regret getting drawn in to that.
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