For some Americans, every day is Halloween

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Extremely disturbing stuff. Yes, I’ve seen quite a bit of evidence of this unfortunate trend. It’s very sad and rather horrifying. I just don’t know what to say. I long for a simpler and more wholesome culture. 😦
 
Oh come on now…I think tatoos and multiply piercings are wholesome 😃 …

heck I married a man with some of both 😉
 
“Bug-Chasers”? What, I’ve never heard of this before, what are there like five people that do this? I really don’t see anything wrong with most of it except for the stuff that could be dangerous to the person, such as these so called “bug-chasers” or cutters. But the things like toungue splitting, tattoes, piercings, while sometimes weird, I don’t really mind. Not that I have or want any of these things, but I just don’t see anything wrong with them.
 
it’s better than tubal ligation or a vasectomy. At least their parts work when they are done.
 
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Trelow:
it’s better than tubal ligation or a vasectomy. At least their parts work when they are done.
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Actually, most people associated with this lifestyle aren’t exactly probably doing without birthcontrol, sterilization, abortion, etc. These bodily mutilations are expressive often of other lifestyle choices of a negative and sinful variety. It’s an extremely dark and sinful subculture with Satanic overtones.
 
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“Bug-Chasers”? What, I’ve never heard of this before, what are there like five people that do this? I really don’t see anything wrong with most of it except for the stuff that could be dangerous to the person, such as these so called “bug-chasers” or cutters. But the things like toungue splitting, tattoes, piercings, while sometimes weird, I don’t really mind. Not that I have or want any of these things, but I just don’t see anything wrong with them.
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I don’t see anything morally wrong with the body modification type things (tatoos, piercings, tongue splitting etc.), but I do wonder if, at least in the more extreme cases, they aren’t a sign of mental illness.
 
Bug Chasing??? You mean to tell me that there are actually people out there who try to catch diseases like HIV??? :eek: :bigyikes: That is some horrifying stuff there! Man, I thought I had heard it all! Guess not! :nope: :crying:
 
We have to be careful not to judge a person’s interior by what they present to the outside world. A person could engage in some forms of tatooing and piercing simply because they are artistic and seeking a means to express themselves.
 
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Bug Chasing??? You mean to tell me that there are actually people out there who try to catch diseases like HIV??? :eek: :bigyikes: That is some horrifying stuff there! Man, I thought I had heard it all! Guess not! :nope: :crying:
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Isn’t this sad and depressing? Basically these people are commiting a form of slow suicide. What in a person’s life would cause them to want to die in such a manner?
 
I seem to recall that suspension was a ritual performed by some of the Plains Native Americans. I may be wrong on that, it has been a long time since I studied early Native american cultures.
It is still no anything I would like to do, but there is something to say about pain and religious (or spiritual) experiences. Even the Church thru practices of fasting has connected pain with religious experiences. Think about Maximillian Kolbe. While he was being tortured to death thru starvation and finally the injection of acid, all the while he was singing praises to God and according to witnesses, it intensified as the days progressed.
Now I practice fasting and prayer and yes, while doing this, I do feel closer to God, especially while praying the rosary. I feel the people written about in this article are the extreme, very extreme. We need to be carefully when discussing this and not become judgemental about it.
 
Some of what is written in this article is what was predicted in Humane Vitae. People are not respecting the body that they will have for eternity. I personally think that to mutliate the body that God has given us is seriously wrong whether it is piercing (other than ears once), tattooing, tongue spiliting, vascetomy, and tubligation.

It is time for people to learn JPII Theology of the Body.
 
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Some of what is written in this article is what was predicted in Humane Vitae. People are not respecting the body that they will have for eternity. I personally think that to mutliate the body that God has given us is seriously wrong whether it is piercing (other than ears once), tattooing, tongue spiliting, vascetomy, and tubligation.

It is time for people to learn JPII Theology of the Body.
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why is ear piercing once not mutilation…???
 
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why is ear piercing once not mutilation…???
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oh, but it is! (if you are a guy) 😛

I don’t know about that book. It sounds like a bunch of supermarket tabloid stories.
 
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I seem to recall that suspension was a ritual performed by some of the Plains Native Americans. I may be wrong on that, it has been a long time since I studied early Native american cultures.
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Mandan and some Sioux tribes, mainly those along the Missouri river.
 
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Mandan and some Sioux tribes, mainly those along the Missouri river.
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Just because a culture somewhere incorporated body mutilation into their rituals doesn’t mean it’s a great idea. They do female genital mutilation in Africa. Our respect for them doesn’t have to include approving of all their questionable cultural practises. I’m sure you’ll agree that there is objective truth in the world and that mutilating girl babies is a bad idea, correct?

My point is that bodily mutilation often results in disordered thinking, and from an essentially sin oriented, dark subculture. It’s not to say that every tatoo or piercing is an evil thing. You have to look at the whole picture.
 
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My point is that bodily mutilation often results in disordered thinking, and from an essentially sin oriented, dark subculture…
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I would argue that disordered thinking results in bodily mutilation.
 
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Trelow:
I would argue that disordered thinking results in bodily mutilation.
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Correct, that was a typo on my part. Yes, I meant that disordered thinking leads to body mutilation.
 
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