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By the time the kids old enough to be able to have this done, it will be SO out of fashion it won't be funny. You can stop worrying about the children....
By the way -- no tattoos on me -- I hate them too. But I don't have the right to tell everyone else what to do with their bodies.
I can't imagine tattoos ever going out of fashion again. That seems too good to be true. Although when the young people in the future see how hideous the old folks look covered in old tattoos with their sagging skin they may think twice. Young women may want to avoid tattoos to maximize their beauty advantage over the older women.
If they lived in a culture where nobody was tattooed it wouldn't enter their mind and they would have a negative opinion of the concept. You undervalue how much influence peers have even if it's on a subconcious level.
Really? Then how did tattooing get started if nobody had ever seen it before? Many different cultures have marked the skin without ever making contact with each other. Like I said, I was the first person in my group of friends to get a tattoo and since then maybe 3 others have made the leap. The vast majority of my friends do not have tattoos.
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I can't imagine tattoos ever going out of fashion again. That seems too good to be true. Although when the young people in the future see how hideous the old folks look covered in old tattoos with their sagging skin they may think twice. Young women may want to avoid tattoos to maximize their beauty advantage over the older women.
I've met and seen a ton of pictures of older folks with tattoos, and *gasp* I still got them!!
When I'm 70, the last thing on my mind will be 'wow, I'd be soooo hot if only I hadn't received these tattoos!'
As for the 'beauty' thing, I'm worth more than what I look like. You may treat others differently based on how attractive they are, but I don't.
If they lived in a culture where nobody was tattooed it wouldn't enter their mind and they would have a negative opinion of the concept. You undervalue how much influence peers have even if it's on a subconcious level.
Again, this is no different from any subconscious peer influence that leads you to form YOUR opinions on the topic.
First of all, ELCA is a liberal Lutheran branch. They ordain homosexuals, for crying out loud.
Secondly, it's not always a good thing to be attracting people into church by being crazy-different like that. Many pastors do that themselves or with their churches and all that happens is that the Word of God gets diluted and convoluted.
I wouldn't listen to one word spoken by a pastor who was covered in tattoos. I once played for a pastor who had old tattoos from his Vietnam War era days in the military, and he had plenty of issues which ultimately doomed his ministry and his pastorship.
First of all, ELCA is a liberal Lutheran branch. They ordain homosexuals, for crying out loud.
Yes, I'm aware of essentially all the finer points of the denomination. Your point? Hmmm, possibly that it's not possible to be both liberal and a person of faith? Your credibility has issues. Similarly, tattoos have no bearing on one's personal faith.
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Your credibility has issues. Similarly, tattoos have no bearing on one's personal faith.