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jimlongley wrote:

canvasbck wrote:I have four tats, tribal art on my right leg, a cobra wrapped around my left leg with his hood spread on the calf, a leather arm band with feathers on my left arm, and a zipper on my right shoulder. The only one with a real "story" is my zipper tattoo. Following my third major shoulder surgery, I had a pretty ugly scar down the back of my shoulder. I got the artist to cover the scar with a zipper, hopefully that will make it easier for the next surgery.

For those of you asking about the cost of a tat.............NEVER budget shop for tattoos or a taxidermist, it's supposed to last forever.

I will admit to considering a zipper over my knee scar, or a choo choo train.

I don't recommend the zipper.......the artist did too good a job of covering the scar, now I have to explain it to anyone who looks close enough to recognize that it's a zipper.

Commander Cody wrote:Let me add at this time… I have nothing against tattoos on other folks. I was just stating why I would rather they not be on me.

I, along with most people who have tattoos, totally respect that. Your body is a temple......so is mine, I just added some stained glass

Many who don't have tattoos tend to judge those who do based on "the old laws".

Commander Cody wrote:Is this a personal attack? Just sayin’….

It was not meant to be that way, just poorly worded on my part..........my apologies for coming off that way. I have edited to avoid the appearance of a personal attack.

I do feel that 19:28 can not be taken the way it was in your post without the context of that entire chapter, especially since the verse just prior to it is the one about cutting your hair and trimming your beard.

Perhaps I am a bit sensitive to this one since one of my fellow church members pointed out that verse (out of context) when he learned that I had tats. This was done in a very judgemental way at the time and made me feel as if I had committed some great sin when I didn't even know this verse existed at the time that I got my first tattoo. Now that I have read the entire chapter, it provided some context for me.

Commander Cody wrote:Leviticus 19:28 'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD.
Nuff said.

If your going to throw out Leviticus 19, it does not really apply to this discussion unless you happen to believe we (believers) are still under the old laws. Other parts of that chapter also say that you are not to cut your hair or trim your beard, and to not eat the fruit off a tree you planted for three years.

Leviticus 19 also tells us to not wear clothes woven of two different types of material, so that would eliminate cotton/poly blend shirts.

I'm not trying to rekindle the biblical debate, but I think it doesn't tell the whole story when we cherry pick one verse and take it totally out of the context that it was written in.

I have four tats, tribal art on my right leg, a cobra wrapped around my left leg with his hood spread on the calf, a leather arm band with feathers on my left arm, and a zipper on my right shoulder. The only one with a real "story" is my zipper tattoo. Following my third major shoulder surgery, I had a pretty ugly scar down the back of my shoulder. I got the artist to cover the scar with a zipper, hopefully that will make it easier for the next surgery.

For those of you asking about the cost of a tat.............NEVER budget shop for tattoos or a taxidermist, it's supposed to last forever.