That's the only redeeming aspect of this tattoo -- it's not irony, it's the truth. While I don't much like tattoos in words, my favourite of the species was a beautiful large scrollworky pectoral tattoo of the word "Temporary" that a (Jewish!) friend got.
Just out of curiosity, why did you reveal the fact that this friend of yours is Jewish.
Is that an inside joke, some sort of spiritual quality of Judaism that says that "we are only temporary in the eyes of JVHV" or was it just completely random?
I supopse speaking aesthetically, the location of the tattoo on his (I suppose it is a he because the humor of a woman getting such a tattoo on her pectoral area is too droll) pectorals would also make a difference in this matter.
I only drone on because those two particular details of your post either rankle or intrigue me. I am not too sure yet.
Of course, I have just entered the office and the days is still young. Yet it rains out there.
Right. In Orthodox Judaism, at least, tattoos and piercings are seen as mutilations of your G*d-given body, sacrilegious and potentially perilous to your afterlife. So he was making a statement on both the impermanence of his flesh as well as his lack of faith in its "essential" nature.
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Is that an inside joke, some sort of spiritual quality of Judaism that says that "we are only temporary in the eyes of JVHV" or was it just completely random?
I supopse speaking aesthetically, the location of the tattoo on his (I suppose it is a he because the humor of a woman getting such a tattoo on her pectoral area is too droll) pectorals would also make a difference in this matter.
I only drone on because those two particular details of your post either rankle or intrigue me. I am not too sure yet.
Of course, I have just entered the office and the days is still young. Yet it rains out there.
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