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    Gonna leave this one wide open.. just general discussion of Ink. Anyone got 'em? of what? do your parents know? how many of you don't get them because of parents? Is it right for good little armenian boys and girls to have tattoos? are meaningul tattoos beautiful?

    I for one don't have any but really hope one day to get the four or five I really have my heart set on... it's just that I'm dealing with the usual mama/bapa regime that is very anti-tattoo no matter what it's off.
    "All I know is I'm not a Marxist." -Karl Marx

  • #2
    I do not like tattoos. At one point I was eager to get one. I no longer feel that it is 'cool'.
    Achkerov kute.

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    • #3
      There are 2 kinds of people who get ink: People who think it's "cool" and people who believe that tattoos have a deeper meaning. I am of the second group. I have a half-sleeve, full color dragon on my right arm. I have a dragon, because a dragon symbolizes the inner world of the emotions and the unconscious, represents chaos, raw destructive power, the evil inherent in the world of matter. Sometimes it is shown as coming between ourselves and hidden treasure (spiritual wisdom) or carrying off a virgin (purity) to its underground lair. Now, if everytime somebody asked me why I have a dragon, and I gave that response, they wouldn't understand. So I usually say I bought it from the ice cream man, but it won't wash off.

      My first one was a small tattoo, my mom didn't care. But when I had the half-sleeve done she was mad for a day. But I don't care what others think, I did it for myself. If you care about what other people will think about what's on your body, then don't bother getting inked.

      Here's quote from a book called Tattoo Nation,pretty much explains everything: Tattoos cut deep. As fantasies, as dreams, as symbolic declarations, they breathe beneath our skin. They augment our private or public lives; hidden or exposed, they come to life as erotically intimate penetrations, signs of self-invention or self-scrutiny, self-denial or self-indulgence, self-love or self-obsession. Tattoos are the ultimate artistic statements about ourselves, turning bodies into canvases of extreme self-expression. Such statements require a ritual that, in turn, requires pain. The pain is the price we pay for a fresh vision-sometimes clear, sometimes confused-of how we choose to walk through the world.

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      • #4
        Has anyone ever tried to get rid of a tattoo? How did it go? Scar-wise etc.? I have two I want to get rid of..

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        • #5
          Dun Dun Dun, apparently Emil's quote doesn't apply to everyone. Why do you want to get rid of them?
          Achkerov kute.

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          • #6
            I got them done in one of my rage-phases and I'm passed that now. I regret one of them, the other is not that bad.

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            • #7
              Only way you can remove them is with laser. It shouldn't leave a scar, but you never know.

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              • #8
                i think tattoos a re just another way of showing off and thinking youre "cool" ...getting assimilated into a certain "in" group--i think--
                now that alot of people have them i just cant stand them anymore...both tattoos and piercings...

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                • #9
                  Don't have one and never getting one. I like my body light the way it is and don't want to have anything drawn on me.

                  As for tattoos being "cool", when were they ever cool? Just because someone says it's cool does not make it so. Some people I know fell under the peer pressure of getting a tattoo and now they regret it.
                  I see...

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                  • #10
                    i didnt say they are cool...if i thought they were cool, would i say that i dont like them? anywhoo...i said people think they are "cool" because for example--its usually the case where some kids in high school want to get it and their parents wont let them, so they go out of what their parents say and get the tattoo-- therefore thinking they are cool...do i need to explain for people to get such a simple idea?

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