Another friend said why the heck would you want to tattoo yourself. You shouldn't do that to your body, and even the bible says you shouldn't do that. My reply was simple, I'm paying honor to my Native American heiritage. She asked me if I knew what tribe I was from. I honestly don't know, since I never done an indept DNA test. I only know I have Native blood due to what family has told me.

When I said that to her, she said well why don't you use that money to get a DNA to really know. Then she said I guess it would work if you worked on a reservation. I told her I have worked on a reservation as a teenager and if I remembered correctly it was a Cheerokee reservation, but when you're talking 30 some odd years ago.... well memory isn't always accurate.

She's damn lucky I was polite and didn't blow up at her. March 12 thru April 30 is a hard time for me because something bad always happens to me in that time frame, family, friends, pets pass on, or something just really bad happens to me like this year someone cut me off on April 29th, and I clipped their rear passenger side panel. Good news with that no one was hurt, and the cars weren't that damaged.

But yeah back to the point. She's lucky I didn't call her a judgemental bitch who is overly religious. I get a lot of older folks are heavy into their religion. And these gals are very Christian and keep trying to get me to go to their churchs. I'm always polite and say I only go twice a year, due to being forced into religion as a child, and when I was old enough I started studying other religions, and I have friends of all religions. But this one lady was damn lucky I didn't tell her my view point on Christian religions. I probably would have had the entire group in the ICU for mutlipul heart attacks, but I followed my manners and bit my tounge to keep from getting the others as pissed off as I was.

Thanks for reading my ramblings. If you read this far virtual pat on the back and a handshake.

The tattoo I'm planning is of my totems/Spirit guides on one arm, and then portaits of my cats from life with their birthdays and passings under their portait on the other arm. I have three guides that are always with me, and I have a few that come and go depending what's going on in my life at the time. So I plan on having the main 3 take up the majority of the space, with the few that come and go in the surrounding and backgrounds of the main tattoo. As I stated it'll be about 3k, but worth it if it turns out the way I want it to for the totem. It'll probably be 1.5k for the cat portaits on the other arm.

Unicorn Acres said:

i think tattoos are awesome. ive been thinking about getting a tattoo myself, im indigenous puerto rican and would like it to be cultural of some sort (but not something tacky with feathers lol). if you think you could be native, i suggest trying to trace family lines to find out what tribe!

With the bible it's open to inturpertation for a few things. And a lot of people take it to the extrems which is what this gal does. I almost told her "Judge ye not least ye be judged". I try to keep an open mind on everything when it comes to religions and religious texts. But I don't go around quoting those books.

That's why I am saving up to get my tatto, and well I have 5 cats that love to claw me up at times, so from what my roommate said getting a tattoo is like my cat scratching me lol. I love a good detailed tattoo, and I have lots of friends who have them.

TenaciTea said:

"The Bible doesn't say you should..." well, not everyone follows those guidelines. I wish everyone was capable of grasping that concept :/ I'd never get a tattoo because needles ouch but I think they're neat!