A topic about tattoos on another forum got me thinking - how many members still get tattoos and piercings, even after Pres. Hinckley recommended against them? Obviously anyone who had a tattoo beforehand probably still has it. But don't most piercings heal over, at least mostly? My hometeacher's wife used to have multiple ear piercings, but she only wears one pair of earrings now and has let the others mostly close up. I knew a member in California ten years ago that got his tongue pierced. I must admit, that's one piercing that always seemed particularly stupid to me, but this was a fairly intelligent individual. Obviously Pres. Hinckley didn't make it a commandment (as in, if you have two pairs of earrings, you can't go to the temple. Or, if you get a tattoo, you can never again get a recommend). But if the prophet thinks it's important enough to advise against, we should all sit up and listen. Knowing, though, that by human nature we seek for excuses to do things, how many saints have used the gentle nature of the admonition to justify getting a tattoo or piercing? In professional jobs, I've almost never seen piercings, except at Apple where they were very lax about appearance. That doesn't mean that people don't have them, though. You can still get things under the clothes pierced and nobody will notice. Do you think that perhaps members who are inclined to get something pierced, but don't want to hear about it from their friends at church, get something pierced under where the garments would normally cover?
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
I had a dream the other night where I got a tattoo on the bottom of my foot... does that count?
(Don't ask why I dreamt it... I didn't understand the dream myself or the thought in the dream that it would be so cool and wouldn't really be too bad to do, as I have no desire or compunction to even consider defacing my temple... )
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Cat Herder wrote: I had a dream the other night where I got a tattoo on the bottom of my foot... does that count?
(Don't ask why I dreamt it... I didn't understand the dream myself or the thought in the dream that it would be so cool and wouldn't really be too bad to do, as I have no desire or compunction to even consider defacing my temple... )
Like Ray posted once, I've done stuff in dreams that, when I wake up, I was really glad that it was only a dream. I can't imagine doing stuff like that in real life.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
There are members of our ward who are getting tattoos and piercings including my own sister in law who got something on her back. Of course she also got a boob job too so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. It seems to me that the folks that are defacing themselves at church don't generally have temple recommends anyway and their activity levels and testimony seem to be lacking. Basically their testimony isn't strong enough for them to really care what the prophet says anyway. These same folks are watching rated R movies and wearing skimpy outfits. The facial piercings and visible tattoos are something I will never understand and some parents actually help their kids get these things. I want to whip them and tell them that their career choices just got fewer. But like I always say, "You can't fix stupid!"
BTW, may I nominate nose piercings as pretty much the ugliest piercing there is? I know people with strong testimonies who are very active who got tattoos in the past. But whether they've worked through their self worth issues or not, they tattoo remains with them. I've also heard that tattoo removal surgery is hideously expensive, and can leave you scarred for life. In that situation, even if I had been stupid enough to once get a tattoo, I don't think I'd get it removed.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
wish I could place images. Looks like my capability to do so has ended here.
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Ok, Mahonri, go ahead and place your image (as long as it's good enough to show in Sunday School). I had been playing around with the setting yesterday. I had wanted to post a photo on the beauty related thread to show how even "plain" women can be remade to look gorgeous by hollywood standards, but for some reason, on the "images only" setting, I couldn't upload a .bmp file, which is most definitely an image. So I changed it to all files(admin/moderator only), and then it complained that the photo was too large. At that point I had put much more time into it than it was worth, so I didn't post the photo. But I forgot to change the settings. You should be able to post a photo now.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
I would haved shown it in Sunday School, but... different strokes for different folks.
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no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
Hmmm, I didn't delete the post, and I just looked through the log of deleted files, and I don't see it. According to Activeboard, there was no post. I apologize for that. Like I said, I had problems posting a photo yesterday and just gave up, and I'm the administrator.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
BTW, Mahonri, if for whatever reason I had deleted it, I would have posted about the deletion in the Moderation area.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Sorry, I thought you had deleted it. I was certain that it had posted, but I guess I am wrong.
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no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
You could have written the post, hit the post button, and it could still have fallen through a digital hole. Activeboard does that sometimes, and it really annoys me.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
There are two ways; there is an Insert/Edit Image button at the top when you're posting, and there is an add file checkbox.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
so 3 years ago, one of my employees had 4 piercings in each ear and when I hired her I told her she could have 1 in each. It was hard for her... then behind my back she went and got her eyebrow pierced.. She took it out before coming to work and would put it back in as she walked out the door.
no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
Ugh. That's so grotesque. The guy that claimed to have those tattoos was once upon a time online... and I expressed my opinion of dislike... boy did I get an earful...
--Ray
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I have a tattoo. Like President Hinckley says, you will one day regret it.
Mostly I just regret having to explain to my kids why mommy has a picture on her body that won't rub off. I have explained to my older kids that I got it long before President Hinckley advised against it, and that I did it as a stupid sign of just how grown up I thought I was.
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Mahonri, that piercing photo gives me the shivering willies. I've seen it before. How can anyone do that to themselves?
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
I think it would be cool to invite the big guy to Primary, invite him to remove his shirt, then have all the kids walk behind him singing, "Follow the Prophet."
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I used to work in a 1-hour photolab in a drug store. One of my least favorite things there was developing the pics from the tatoo/piercing shop. People pretty much got tats or pierced anywhere and everywhere. I got to see it all.
(The only thing worse were bachelor party pics that came in one time. I couldn't print a bunch of them as they met the store's criteria for pornography. I did have to print all the nudes and sort through the rest. I should have gotten hazard pay. )
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
I used to work with a girl who during her off hours dressed gothic. She had piercings out the wazoo. But, since it represents a bad image to patients she took them all out, got rid of all the spiked body accesories and toned down the make-up before she came to work. The head pharmacist who hired her didn't know she dressed like that when she hired her, she represented herself quite well during the interview. So, when she came in one day to pick up some forms she needed before she officially started working she was in full gothic mode. We were all kind of shocked and we were looking at the pharmacist like, "What were you thinking?" And after the girl left the pharmacist was like, "WHAT HAVE I DONE? SHE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THAT IN THE INTERVIEW" But, she turned out to be a pretty good worker. It just goes to show that when people have body piercings and tattoos and all the like all over them it gives people the impression that you aren't a decent person.
Oh, and incidentally this girl's other part time job was working in a adult, toy and lingerie, and party shop. One day she was dispensing medication and another day she was dispensing edible underwear. Go figure.
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