'Christian tattoos to start a conversation as the Lord leads.'

[farouk]

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[farouk]

@Anne2 and @ChristB4us : Thanks for the recent 'likes' on the thread; and we can well imagine - as per @ApplePi's recent post about having gone for an inking with the date of her conversion to Christ - the Christian nurses, when in training or qualifying, pursuing the almost 'required' tattooing session as an ideal opportunity to be relished for future conversations with nursing coworkers and others about the meaning behind their own tattoos.

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"Corgiverse RN

At this point- honestly it’s almost a requirement. Every single one of my coworkers is tattooed." reddit dot com

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juliannenw said:

I am a nurse in a cardiac ICU. I am also pretty heavily tattooed. I am a well educated, well rounded nurse, and was raised with strong morals and manners. .. I am an extremely traditional person.

allnurses dot com

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[farouk]

@LiveWire FYI...........did you see the poll, above?

[farouk]

@Jayne I think it was you who back a bit were saying about it being hard to pick and choose from OT passages about things which clearly are to do with Jews in the land under the law, if some ppl want to give ppl a hard time about even benignly designed tattoos.

FYI:

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godlywoman413 said:

"I have some tattoos that I had gotten as a younger person. Mine are not anything questionable."

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Presumably one can credit other Christians with having such read passages and come to their own conclusions, as presumably godlywoman413 had done in relation to her own tattoo parlor experiences.

 

[farouk]

On 5/31/2023 at 3:17 AM, NConly said:

later I decided to add.

@NConly Ppl don't like to be rushed into it.

Ppl will often wait - sometimes a long time - before the moment to have it done arrives.

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MetalMike said: ↑

My oldest daughter has multiple tattoos. My wife has a butterfly on the top of her foot...They had their tattoos for a few years before I got mine. I wasn't that interested in one at the time, and I wanted to do one that was meaningful and not one I would regret later...I got a tattoo back in '08. It's a cross on my forearm with a banner

 

christianityboard dot com

[LiveWire]

1 hour ago, farouk said:

@LiveWire FYI...........did you see the poll, above?

I will need to think about this one before answering, lol

[farouk]

12 minutes ago, LiveWire said:

I will need to think about this one before answering, lol

@LiveWire There is actually quite a varied range of possible responses in the poll, including

• "Don't know"
• and
• "I have my thoughts but would prefer not to express them".

[farouk]

Hi @Hopefully : FYI.......did you see this poll, above? (As a fairly thoroughly experienced tattooed Christian woman, you would maybe have some insights into the poll response options?)

[farouk]

On 5/26/2023 at 9:59 AM, ChristB4us said:

let their examples lead them to want to get a Christian tattoo

@ChristB4us I also saw these comments:

it is becoming a norm with health professionals...It is becoming a tool people are using to let others identify their faith. ..I do like the idea of Christian based tattoos

Heart2Soul christianityboard dot com

It's not so much that nurses are expected to go to the tattoo parlor.

More likely to be stated the other way round: nurses themselves likely expect to go to the tattoo parlor.

Since nursing training often begins at age 18, it's probably often a bit of a moot point whether the comment, above - it is becoming a norm with health professionals - really refers to pursuing the tattoo parlor appointment as a norm for health professionals or simply to pursuing it as a coming of age thing; i.e., "I'm going to the tattoo parlor because I'm a health professional now" or "I'm going to the tattoo parlor now at my age to express my adulthood".

Someone posted that she wouldn't get tattooed because it isn't lady-like.

(Although actually there is probably overwhelming evidence that it's very widely pursued to assert being womanly. In this connection, JasperWalls11 said: "I actually know more women than men with tattoos.  The tattoo parlors here are very well lit, very sanitary and don't have that dingy, "underground" or back alley image that most people think of.  They are rather reputable places." In other words, a tattoo parlor as a place where so widely - though not exclusively - the client goes to express being womanly.)

Anyway, all the young ppl with Bible verses tattooed with whom I have spoken seem to have received them as witness tools.

(If these observations make sense?)

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