Quoting Myself
“At least within the Church, those who feel a need to be a bit shocking still have tattoos and piercing available. You have to feel a little sorry for the John Waters types of the world who have to keep reaching farther into the absurd as past deviances become normalized. Sometimes it can be unkind not to at least pretend something disturbs us. Forty years ago Mrs. Howell could present the Skipper with a gold earring and it was a funny little joke.” —September 7, 2005
In the eighteen years since, the tattoos have grown to Lydia proportions, requiring some to take up more grandiose abuses of the flesh, cheered on by an army desperate to embrace everything and appear shocked by nothing. And with reference to fasting from corporations, every corporation this month is celebrating this escapism from reality.
“Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death.”
Rozy
June 6, 2023
“. . . to Lydia proportions . . . ” I love that reference! My dad used to sing that silly song regularly. Two of our sons have tats, when I ask them why they respond that they just want some “artwork” on their bodies. I remind them that they are putting graffiti on a temple of God. (They are both totally inactive, but have not yet asked to have their records removed, so I still have hope.) A long time friend of mine is dealing with an adult son who has been sucked into the lie that he is really a female, encouraged by his girlfriend who pretends to be a male. It is such an incomprehensible situation. Please Jesus, come quickly!
The Only True and Living Nathan
June 8, 2023
I wear artwork on my body, too.
On T-shirts.
And guess what? I can wear a DIFFERENT T-shirt tomorrow.
E.C.
June 8, 2023
@ Nathan,
Yes. Exactly this. I have several friends who keep accumulating tats, and while I personally just find them aesthetically ugly, I also wonder – what’ll they do when they’re older and realize they hate that style of artwork or the sentiments they’re indelibly marked with? Meanwhile, I collect T-shirts, and if I don’t like them anymore, I use them as rags.