How many holes do you have pierced in your ears?

[God's_gift]

God's gift:

Kind, not really your decision, I guess, right?

Blessings.

funny because that's true, it was my mom's decision that time she wanted her little girl be able to wear those fancy earings from the shop...but eventually when i grew up glad my mom did it when we're still young ...

 

[farouk]

funny because that's true, it was my mom's decision that time she wanted her little girl be able to wear those fancy earings from the shop...but eventually when i grew up glad my mom did it when we're still young ...

God's gift:

Well, yes, I can see you are glad about your mom's decision to do it.

Kind of not your decision, but hers, but anyway.

(But now if ever you got more holes pierced in, as is the done thing today, these would really be YOUR decision, wouldn't they?)

Blessings.

 

[God's_gift]

well it turns out that as i grew up :D , i actually i have the same prefernce with my mom, one holes in each earlobes will do...;)

 

[farouk]

well it turns out that as i grew up :D , i actually i have the same prefernce with my mom, one holes in each earlobes will do...;)

God's gift:

Well, this is just great .

I suppose that in your country it's also often customary for women to get second holes put in, too, right? but if you are satisfied with the ones you have, this is the main thing!

(Anyway, you obviously like to follow your mother's preferences! )

Blessings.

 

[evenifigoalone]

There's a little baby belonging to a friend of mine at church who has earrings. She looks so cute with them.

 

[farouk]

There's a little baby belonging to a friend of mine at church who has earrings. She looks so cute with them.

questdriven:

I don't deny that this may be the case! and I don't deny that it might be a good idea, at a certain level.

But (as the dialogue with God's gift, above) also suggests, it's not the young girl's decision at all.

Now, whether young and older women want a second set of holes put in is entirely another matter for them to decide. But it's usually pretty clear that any second (or more) sets of pierced holes really are the woman's own decision, don't you think?

Blessings.

 

[farouk]

I was trying to be lighthearted. In our freedom in Christ, we can get ear piercings, tattoos, wear our hair in bizarre fashions, and cloth ourselves in modern styles. I think we differ on the wisdom of this, but those of us who think "old-fashion" shouldn't be judged and the other way around. That doesn't mean we can't discern what is better.

Romans 14:3

New King James Version (NKJV)

<sup class="versenum">3 </sup>Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.



- Davies

Davies:

In a similar, lighthearted response, I guess I would wonder if you really meant that ear piercing is 'bizarre'...

(Maybe you didn't mean to convey this...)

Blessings.

 

[Davies]

Davies:

In a similar, lighthearted response, I guess I would wonder if you really meant that ear piercing is 'bizarre'...

(Maybe you didn't mean to convey this...)

Blessings.

farouk,

I think ear piercings are a cultural thing. What is bizarre to someone is perfectly normal with somebody else. I agree this has changed in our society even in my lifetime. When you step out of the norm, that's when it is bizarre. I always thought it was bizarre when males had their ears pierced. I identified them with females. Then I saw those who were considered punks wearing earrings. Then you see the bizarre when someone has about twenty piercings, and they are labeled freaks. This form of labeling people is totally sinful, but let's face it, people don't get piercings to evangelize. The motivation is totally selfish, 'Look at me. Look how beautiful I am,' or 'look how different I look'. A woman can wear earrings and be modest, but can a man do the same thing? I don't think so, at least not in the norm.

I hope that wasn't too heavy?
In my California beach accent, 'That was totally heavy, dude.' lol

- Davies

 

[Davies]

farouk,

What do you think if I started a thread labeled, 'How many different wigs do you wear?' Would a man wearing a wig be bizarre? Don't you like my wig?

lol

- Davies

 

[farouk]

farouk,

I think ear piercings are a cultural thing. What is bizarre to someone is perfectly normal with somebody else. I agree this has changed in our society even in my lifetime. When you step out of the norm, that's when it is bizarre. I always thought it was bizarre when males had their ears pierced. I identified them with females. Then I saw those who were considered punks wearing earrings. Then you see the bizarre when someone has about twenty piercings, and they are labeled freaks. This form of labeling people is totally sinful, but let's face it, people don't get piercings to evangelize. The motivation is totally selfish, 'Look at me. Look how beautiful I am,' or 'look how different I look'. A woman can wear earrings and be modest, but can a man do the same thing? I don't think so, at least not in the norm.

I hope that wasn't too heavy?
In my California beach accent, 'That was totally heavy, dude.' lol

- Davies

Davies:

Well, yes, I would agree that ear piercing is a cultural thing, but it's a very longstanding practice.

While with some men who wear earrings it might seem kind of subjectively 'borderline', yet with a lot of young men it can look rather unremarkable, really: van drivers at a garage or truck stop; college students; amateur musicians: if they have their ears pierced, it's kind of widespread and in that sense pretty normal looking.

I think it needs to be realized by parents that if their son in his teens or early 20s expects to pierce his ears, then he might think it almost strange if his parents expected him not to do so.

But yes, it's the young women who often have a flair for ear piercings, including multiples. Again, it's now gotten pretty normal.

Blessings.

 

[Davies]

farouk,

I think my wig is rather 'long standing.'

What is normal today, wasn't normal yesterday. It's kind of like sin. At first, sin is exciting making your heart race as you break the barrier of your conscience. You do it again, but it's not as exciting, still fun though. The progression takes you to the place that say, 'This is normal. There is no problem with what I'm doing. Everyone does it.' In the mean time, the Angel of the LORD is walking down the hill to rain fire and brimstone on the inhabitants of that city.

I'm not equating piercings with sin, I'm saying crossing social norms is similar to the way sin works.

- Davies

 

[farouk]

farouk,

I think my wig is rather 'long standing.'

What is normal today, wasn't normal yesterday. It's kind of like sin. At first, sin is exciting making your heart race as you break the barrier of your conscience. You do it again, but it's not as exciting, still fun though. The progression takes you to the place that say, 'This is normal. There is no problem with what I'm doing. Everyone does it.' In the mean time, the Angel of the LORD is walking down the hill to rain fire and brimstone on the inhabitants of that city.

I'm not equating piercings with sin, I'm saying crossing social norms is similar to the way sin works.

- Davies

Davies:

Well I strongly agree with you about the 'exceeding sinfulness of sin', in general terms.

But if a young man wants to pierce his ears, I for one wouldn't regard it in itself as a sin, not by a long shot.

Blessings.

 

[farouk]

Okay, so thanks for the votes so far, folks.

For those who have voted in the poll so far, more respondents have ear piercings than not having them.

Blessings.

 

[Davies]

I always felt like I was a stranger in a strange land.

- Davies

 

[farouk]

I always felt like I was a stranger in a strange land.

- Davies

Sounds a good sentiment, Davies; reminds me of Hebrews which speaks of being 'strangers and pilgrims on the earth'.

But how does it relate to the subject in hand?

Blessings.

 

[Davies]

Farouk,

I suppose now that I know that I'm 'old-fashioned', and in the minority because I have no peircings, I liken it to the Christian who travels through Vanity Fair, a stranger in a strange land.

- Davies

 

[farouk]

Farouk,

I suppose now that I know that I'm 'old-fashioned', and in the minority because I have no peircings, I liken it to the Christian who travels through Vanity Fair, a stranger in a strange land.

- Davies

Davies:

Oh I'm not saying it's strange at all, not to have them.

(I like John's Bunyan's writings a lot, BTW!)

What I would say is that ear piercing is a practice that's definitely here to stay; even grandmothers have multiples these days and it's not thought to be unusual; and when young men want their ears pierced too, this is pretty commonplace and uncontroversial, I would have thought.

Blessings.

 

[Davies]

What I would say is that ear piercing is a practice that's definitely here to stay; even grandmothers have multiples these days and it's not thought to be unusual; and when young men want their ears pierced too, this is pretty commonplace and uncontroversial, I would have thought.

Blessings.

farouk,

You asked. Perhaps it's lesson on how to get along with someone who doesn't agree with you, even if it's a preference regarding piercing or tattoos.

- Davies

 

[farouk]

Maybe. I know she used to have piercings in her ears, a long time ago. They're closed up now. But I think she said she wouldn't get anymore. Not sure why.

questdriven: PS: Well, maybe she was talking about having (or not, as the case may be) the same holes re-done; unless she was talking about getting a second set of holes put in along the earlobes, because this is the definite trend now, isn't it?

Blessings.

 

[tessiewebb]

Okay, so thanks for the votes so far, folks.

For those who have voted in the poll so far, more respondents have ear piercings than not having them.

Blessings.

Why did you post this farouk?