Well a picture says a thousand words! I had a tattoo done today.
It was actually interesting because as I was chit chatting with the tattoo artist, she asked me if this tattoo symbolized anything....well actually it does I told her.
me: I was a JW and they are strongly against tattoos or anything that is really "normal" for people.
Tattoo artist: I know all about JW, my ex-girlfriend's family was all JW, and I remember one time going over to her parents house and her grandma sat us both down and made us read some scriptures from her bible as to why we were going to hell.
Me: Actually you will due at Armageddon, that is the JW thing.
Tatt artist: Oh right that is what her grandma said. I forgot about that, you're right.
So then the rest of the conversation was just me telling her it's a cult and I told her never listen to any JW who comes knocking.
Something else interesting that happened just before I came on here. I was doing dishes and I just started crying, it took me a few minutes to figure out why. I've wanted a tattoo since I was 16, and my mom told me even as a little kid I would also draw on myself and have temp kids tattoos. The reason I was crying was because I finally did something I wanted, and didn't have anyone telling me I was going to die at Armageddon because I had a mark on my body and the other reason is when I look at this beautiful tattoo on my shoulder it's a constant reminder that I am a slave no more and I'm FREE!
I thought my dad was going to have a heart attack because he has always been against tattoo's and even after he learned TTATT back in December I told him I was going to get a tattoo, he laid the guilt trip on me, but this morning I almost had a heart attack, he said if he can decide on what to get, he wants a tattoo. I guess we all have really changed just in the last 4 months.
Peace and good night/morning
Gojira