Good grief! Sometimes I can be very unobservant. I wondered why the image I had posted this morning was getting so many bad votes, until I looked at it closer. Please accept my apologies for missing the booblical reference!
Okay, here's the image I had posted this morning that became an issue for me, or so I thought. This is the back of Tupac Shakur and I totally did not know the meaning of the large tattoo on his back mentioning Exodus 1831. Explanation is below...
The two possible meanings of Tupac’s tattoo EXODUS 18:31
“The first is that it references a verse from the Bible; however, there is no Exodus 18:31. Some have argued that he is actually referencing Exodus 18:11 which says, “Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, because of what happened to the Egyptians when they acted arrogantly against Israel.”
“Inside the cross it’s written “1831”. 1831 was the year of Nat Turner's slave revolt. The biggest slave uprising in U.S. history began on the night of August 23, 1831, when Turner and seven fellow slaves murdered their master and his family while they slept, and then set out on a campaign of brutal murder that terrorized the countryside and killed 55 white people. Nat Turner was later captured and hanged.”
To learn more about Nat Turner’s Rebellion, check out the movie “The Birth of a Nation”.
-SOURCE-
? Huh? I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteThat is the back of Tupac Shakur and the tattoo to which you refer is not a booblical reference. It is Exodus 1831, not chapter 18 verse 31. It is correctly in reference to the Nat Turner/slave rebellion of 1831(interesting reading). I don't know about the other commenters, but I rated it an awful pic because I have never appreciated that random placement of tattoos that only mean something to the owner, muddled tat lines and not very artistic IMHO. His front is as bad as his back. But he's okay with them and that's all that matters.
ReplyDeleteRick - Thank you for clearing that up! I'm going to put that image back up with the explanation I found on Google. I agree about the muddled tats that too many people have.
ReplyDeleteYou're not seriously recommending the movie 'Birth of a Nation'?? It's a slapstick racist evil darky movie. Don't go there.
ReplyDeleteWho is Tupac Shakur?
ReplyDeleteHammerhead - No, I'm not recommending that movie. That is part of the copy I sourced.
ReplyDeleteJohnF - He's a rap singer, famous from what I read.
Tupac WAS a rapper - dead at 25 by way of a drive-by shooting in 1996. Even this old fart on t'other side of the pond had heard about that.
ReplyDeleteAnon@7:48am - Considering that I thoroughly dislike rap crap, it's not a surprise to me that I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for letting us know.
ReplyDeletevery interesting
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