Comments on: Is A Removable Tattoo A True Tattoo? http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/2006/12/30/is-a-removable-tattoo-a-true-tattoo/ World's Number One Source For Custom Motorcycle News Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:29:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gary Wood http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/2006/12/30/is-a-removable-tattoo-a-true-tattoo/comment-page-1/#comment-91035 Gary Wood Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:25:59 +0000 http://www.cyrilhuzeblog.com/2006/12/30/is-a-removable-tattoo-a-true-tattoo/#comment-91035 I don't have any tattoos. Tattoos are permanent and I am not. I am not the same person I was fifteen years ago when I was thinking about getting a thunder bird (Native American image not the car) tattoo. I'm glad I didn't do it. A friend of mine who is heavily tattooed did not get her first until she was in her late twenties. She said that in general, people should wait until they are past 30. "Then", she said," you know who you are." I'm not so sure even then. The real challenge is deciding what image will always say something about you that is accurate. That should narrow the choices down I think. (For the record, I'm irritated by tattoos that mean absolutely nothing.) Let's get back to "Change". I have another good friend with many tattoos. He was a skinhead, the bad kind. His body is covered in Swastikas. He later had an experience with the resurrected Christ. Those images are still there but they no longer represent who he is. But, now they serve as a record and a testimony of God's grace and desire for redemption. Psalms 40:1 - 3 (KJV) 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. So, yes, I agree that in general a tattoo is/should be a commitment. Don't get tattoos that will embarrass you later. Get tattoos that will either always say something about you or get tattoos that even if one day they no longer represent who you are, you will be proud to tell the story of change. I don’t have any tattoos. Tattoos are permanent and I am not. I am not the same person I was fifteen years ago when I was thinking about getting a thunder bird (Native American image not the car) tattoo. I’m glad I didn’t do it. A friend of mine who is heavily tattooed did not get her first until she was in her late twenties. She said that in general, people should wait until they are past 30. “Then”, she said,” you know who you are.” I’m not so sure even then. The real challenge is deciding what image will always say something about you that is accurate. That should narrow the choices down I think.

(For the record, I’m irritated by tattoos that mean absolutely nothing.)

Let’s get back to “Change”.

I have another good friend with many tattoos. He was a skinhead, the bad kind. His body is covered in Swastikas. He later had an experience with the resurrected Christ. Those images are still there but they no longer represent who he is. But, now they serve as a record and a testimony of God’s grace and desire for redemption.

Psalms 40:1 – 3 (KJV)
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

So, yes, I agree that in general a tattoo is/should be a commitment. Don’t get tattoos that will embarrass you later. Get tattoos that will either always say something about you or get tattoos that even if one day they no longer represent who you are, you will be proud to tell the story of change.

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