Tattoos are Ridiculous, Dangerous, and Ungodly

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Hmmmmmmm!

I’m watching football now.

The way some people (including many of these footballers) mutilate and disfigure their bodies with tattoos is unbelievably ridiculous! 😃😃😃😃 What is beautiful in such body mutilation and disfiguration? None, of course.

The LORD God Almighty Forbids Tattoos

No wonder, Jehovah The God Almighty Who created the human body, in His eternal sovereignty and infinite wisdom, warned against tattoos in The Holy Bible.

Leviticus 19:28 (New Living Translation)
28 Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord.

The Source and Nature of True Wisdom

True wisdom is living according to the principles and commands of The LORD God Almighty Who created human beings, the whole universe, and everything in it. True wisdom helps people to do the right thing and avoid whatever The LORD hates or forbids, including tattoos.

Job 28:28 (New King James Version)
28 And to man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to depart from evil is understanding.

Psalm 111:10 (New King James Version)
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.

Proverbs 1:7 (New King James Version)
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 9:10 (New King James Version)
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Proverbs 15:33 (New King James Version)
33 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility.

The Meaning of “the Fear of God” in this Context

Living according to the principles and commands of The LORD is the meaning of the Biblical expression “the fear of God” in this context, as clearly stated in the following Scriptures.

Proverbs 8:13 (New King James Version)
13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate.

2 Corinthians 7:1 (New King James Version)
7 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

It is important to explain that the “fear of God” in the context of the above Scriptures is a positive reverential fear that helps one to adore, worship, honour, and glorify The LORD because of Who He is, His omnipotence, His omnipresence, His sovereignty, His mercy, His grace as well as His justice because He hates sin and sin separates people from Him:

Isaiah 59:1-3 (New King James Version)
59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.

Some Scientific Facts About the Danger of Tattoos

Body modifications in borderline personality disorder patients: prevalence rates, link with non-suicidal self-injury, and related psychopathology

Abstract

Background
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a potentially severe personality disorder, characterized by difficulties in emotion regulation and control of behaviors. It is often associated with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Borderline personality features have also been linked to body modifications (BMs). However, the prevalence of BMs, the link between BMs and NSSI, and between BMs and several psychopathology dimensions (e.g. borderline severity, emotion regulation, impulsivity …) remains understudied in patients with BPD. This study aims to fill this gap, and to provide further evidence on the link between NSSI and BMs.

Methods
We used data from a psychiatric outpatient center located in Switzerland (n = 116), specialized in the assessment and treatment of BPD patients. Patients underwent several semi-structured interviews and self-report psychometric scales at the arrival, and the data were retrospectively analyzed.

Results
We found that 70.69% of the patients had one piercing or more, and 69.83% were tattooed. The total score of body modifications and the total number of piercings score of piercings were significantly positively associated with NSSI and the SCID BPD total score. The association with the SCID score was mainly driven by the “suicide and self-damaging behaviors” item and the “chronic feeling of emptiness” item. A significant association was found between total number of piercings and emotion dysregulation. On the other hand, the self-reported percentage of body covered by tattoos score was specifically associated with the sensation seeking subscale of the UPPS-P.

Conclusion
This study provides evidence on the prevalence of BMs in BPD patients, and on the link between BMs and NSSI in this population, suggesting a role of emotion regulation in the link between both constructs. These results also suggests that tattoos and piercings may be differentially linked to specific underlying psychological mechanisms. This calls for further considerations of body modifications in the assessment and care of BPD patients.

Source: Body modifications in borderline personality disorder patients: prevalence rates, link with non-suicidal self-injury, and related psychopathology (Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation volume 10, Article number: 7 (2023)

Are Tattoos an Indicator of Severity of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behavior in Adolescents?

Recent studies show an association between tattooing and psychiatric disorders, such as depression [⁷] anxiety, eating disorders [⁵] and risky behaviors like substance use [⁵^,⁸^–¹²], promiscuity [¹¹^,¹³], suicidal thinking and attempted suicide [⁵^,⁷^,⁹^,¹⁴^,¹⁵].

Adult tattoo users report self-injury behavior more frequently [¹⁶^,¹⁷], sharing psychological precipitants such as negative thoughts of anxiety, tension, anger, distress or depression and interpersonal difficulties before the act [¹⁶^,¹⁸]. These association has been poorly studied in adolescents, although, research suggests those who acquire permanent tattoos during adolescence, specially at earlier ages (11–16 years), have more risk factors for psychopathology and other negative outcomes and engage more frequently in risky behaviors [⁴^,⁵^,⁹^,¹⁹^,²⁰].

Source: Are Tattoos an Indicator of Severity of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behavior in Adolescents? (Psychiatry Investig. 2019 Jul; 16(7): 504–512. Published online 2019 Jul 25. doi: 10.30773/pi.2019.03.06).

I Regret My Tattoos, They Are a Form of Self-Harm

Imagine you had to put a shirt on in your twenties and now you have to wear it for the rest of your life. That is what it feels like to get heavily tattooed before you turn into a fully developed adult human.

I’m covered in tattoos and I pretty much regret all of them. A lot of people think I got the tattoos for the aesthetic or to be cool. But the reason I got them was very important to me at the time. . . .

Now that I’m in a place in my life where I can be soft, where I can be gentle, I wish that I didn’t have these to make me hard or remind me of that time. But I do, and I kind of regret it.

I think if you asked almost anybody that’s over 30, if they have a better idea of who they are in their thirties than in their twenties, they will strongly relate to how I feel.

I have all these tattoos that don’t necessarily reflect who I am at 36. They reflected a moment of time in my twenties—a moment in time that I was not doing so well mentally—and they are here forever.

Source: I Regret My Tattoos, They Are a Form of Self-Harm (https://www.newsweek.com/tattoo-regret-tiktok-body-art-1802905)

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