Mods and Rockers

We met the boyfriend of the second oldest granddaughter while we were up North.  She has replaced her lovely natural blonde hair with purple, has piercings everywhere, a tattoo (the first of many to come apparently) and was dressed in black.  

The boyfriend turned out to be much the same, except the hair was black too.  I thought they were GOTHS, and was rather pleased with myself for knowing that. But it turns out they are not, they are EMOS.

Goths are the ones who wear black, have lots of tattoos and piercings, whereas Emos are the ones who wear black and have lots of tattoos and piercings...

What is happening to young people?  Back in the 1960s you could tell a Mod from a Rocker at a hundred paces!

Anyway, the Emo boyfriend turned out to be a really nice young lad, and he and Col had a long chat about metal detecting.  So who knows?  Perhaps it will all turn out well, despite all the tattoos and piercings (which look so horrid to our generation). We hope so anyway.

I must note that I have done the following cards:  A thank you to Jen, a thank you to Bea, a card to Das who we did not manage to see, one to the Bavarian branch, and one to Helen to thank her for the cake, which has been a bit of a godsend, as we did not really shop on the way down and the Waitrose delivery was not till Wednesday evening.

We are now restocked, Col left very early metal detecting, and I am trying to catch up with my studies. And we both brought back colds from the North, so we are both coughing and sneezing again.

Re tattoos, we in the worldwide congregations note a principle from Jehovah's word.  While we are no longer under the Mosaic Law, and thus free, for example, from its dietary restrictions - it does say this:

"Significantly, the Mosaic Law forbade God’s people to tattoo themselves. Said Leviticus 19:28: “You must not make cuts in your flesh for a deceased soul, and you must not put tattoo marking upon yourselves. I am Jehovah.” Pagan worshipers, such as the Egyptians, tattooed the names or symbols of their deities on their breast or arms. By complying with Jehovah’s ban on tattoo markings, the Israelites would stand out as different from other nations.​—Deuteronomy 14:1, 2.

While Christians today are not under the Law of Moses, the prohibition it laid on tattooing is sobering. (Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14, 15) If you are a Christian, you would certainly not want to make markings on your body​—even temporarily—​that smack of paganism or false worship.​—2 Corinthians 6:15-18."

This quote is from an Awake article: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102003689?q=tattoos&p=par

And as we are to be "no part" of the world, to stay out of its political fights and factions, would we want markings on us that identified us as belonging to whatever the currently fashionable teenage tribe is?

We want to belong to Jehovah.