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Post by Arlon10 on Dec 15, 2017 22:39:28 GMT
I believe that every single person should get a tattoo at some point in their life. IMO getting tattooed is a fundamental human experience, like having sex or taking a large dose of psychedelic mushrooms. If you don't do it before you die, then you have missed out on an interesting part of life. If you take your body seriously, you will suffer. When you get a tattoo, it forces you to mentally recalibrate your mental image of yourself much more quickly than you have to for normal body changes associated with aging. Your skin is broken. You feel endorphins. You are connected to your ancestors who did similar things thousands and thousands of years ago. You remember that day like you remember your wedding day, it becomes a milestone. In a strange way, the tattoo is more a part of you than your body. Your cells all change and all the biological material that makes up the body changes, like the water in a whirlpool, but the tattoo design remains. Interesting how everything the ink rests on can be replaced, how we are physically replaced without realizing it. Also, as I get tattoos that are more visible to strangers it helps me to quickly identify judgemental rigid-minded people. Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing an uptight person look at me with an obvious expression of negative judgement. Anyway.. thought I'd meditate on tattoos for a bit. Tattoos are for twins so we can tell them apart quickly and easily. Obviously this means they don't get the same tattoo. Otherwise it doesn't appear necessary or useful to make any image so difficult to change. It is usually best to put art in the living room, a large enough hall or atrium. |
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Post by Morgana on Dec 16, 2017 8:33:44 GMT
I believe that every single person should get a tattoo at some point in their life. IMO getting tattooed is a fundamental human experience, like having sex or taking a large dose of psychedelic mushrooms. If you don't do it before you die, then you have missed out on an interesting part of life. If you take your body seriously, you will suffer. When you get a tattoo, it forces you to mentally recalibrate your mental image of yourself much more quickly than you have to for normal body changes associated with aging. Your skin is broken. You feel endorphins. You are connected to your ancestors who did similar things thousands and thousands of years ago. You remember that day like you remember your wedding day, it becomes a milestone. In a strange way, the tattoo is more a part of you than your body. Your cells all change and all the biological material that makes up the body changes, like the water in a whirlpool, but the tattoo design remains. Interesting how everything the ink rests on can be replaced, how we are physically replaced without realizing it. Also, as I get tattoos that are more visible to strangers it helps me to quickly identify judgemental rigid-minded people. Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing an uptight person look at me with an obvious expression of negative judgement. Anyway.. thought I'd meditate on tattoos for a bit. Nearly all the older (Arab) women in my father's family have tattoes. Most of them got them as children so it wasn't really a choice. One of my elderly relatives has tattoes on her lips! (ouch!!!) She said they used a thorn from a thorn tree, but I'm not sure what they used to blacken the tattoe. Maybe charcoal? In general though, the tattoes are on the middle of the forehead (usually intersecting lines of some sort) or down the center of the nose. I think they were meant to show tribal identity but I can't be sure of that. |
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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 16, 2017 11:27:09 GMT
So someone who had never been tattooed is going to explain to everyone the 'actuality' of being tattooed. That's hilarious to me. So is the fact that you frame your opinion as a fact. Again, first hand experience trumps your opinion. *shrug* If you want to pretend that it becomes part of you, feel free. Once again, someone with no first hand experience pretends to know about something. ...maybe you read it in a book, lol. |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Dec 16, 2017 13:55:09 GMT
Not liking tattoos is not negative judgement. It's simply opinion.
It's like seeing someone with liver on their arm.
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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 16, 2017 13:59:01 GMT
Not liking tattoos is not negative judgement. It's simply opinion. It's like seeing someone with liver on their arm. You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may, I say. |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Dec 16, 2017 14:12:17 GMT
Not liking tattoos is not negative judgement. It's simply opinion. It's like seeing someone with liver on their arm. You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may, I say. If I find out I don't like them, then I would have to get another one to cover up the one I didn't like. Plus tattoos on black people tend to look gross. Pasty whites and golden skins make the best canvas. I will impress with impeccable fashion sense. |
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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 16, 2017 14:14:33 GMT
You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may. Try them and you may, I say. If I find out I don't like them, then I would have to get another one to cover up the one I didn't like. Plus tattoos on black people tend to look gross. Pasty whites and golden skins make the best canvas. I will impress with impeccable fashion sense. It's all good, fashion sense is kind of similar anyway. I've stopped wearing plaid since I grew a beard.. too lumberjack. Now it's nice solid colors or outlandish sports attire for me. |
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Post by cupcakes on Dec 16, 2017 14:18:47 GMT
tpfkar If they're good enough for the Kardashians, they're good enough for me.
Horshack |
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 16, 2017 16:46:39 GMT
....screwed, blewed and tattooed...been there, done that...
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Post by maya55555 on Dec 17, 2017 1:56:28 GMT
OSV
 ما رأيك في هذا النوع؟
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Post by maya55555 on Dec 17, 2017 19:45:31 GMT
OSV
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