I guess I've never understood why people want to put holes in their skin. If I did wear earrings, they'd be clip-ons. No ear punctures for me, thanks anyway.
That aside, are you sure the meaning of the verse in Psalms is "pierced" ears?
KJV: Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
MY husband (and my son) will most certainly NOT be having their ears pierced. I think it looks girly, and that's the end of that. I don't care whether David did it or not.
So you tell your husband what he will NOT do?
That would be the quikest way to get me to wear an earing.
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~Aesop
Or we could call it what it really is. A mild version of body mutilation.
mu·ti·late (mytl-t)
tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates 1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple. 2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. See Synonyms at batter1.
3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts.
mutilate
verb
1. maim, damage, injure, disable, butcher, cripple, hack, lame, cut up, mangle, dismember, disfigure, lacerate, cut to piecesHe tortured and mutilated six young men.
2. distort, cut, damage, mar, spoil, butcher, hack, censor, adulterate, expurgate, bowdlerize The writer's verdict was that his screenplay had been mutilated.
Calling piercing the ears a form of mutilation is really a rather large stretch of the truth. As you can see from the vast majority of definitions above, ear piercing barely fits any of the definitions. Couple that with the connotation that mutilation is usually something that is very bloody, gory, and leaves the mutilated in a very noticable state due to the horrendous condition their body is left in. Attempting to call ear piercing a form of mutilation is a lie.
And you see while it may not be a lie by the connotation of what a lie is, it is definately a lie under the definition of what a lie is. (lie ... 2. Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.) So since calling ear piercing a form of mutilation gives the wrong impression, then by definition this is a lie. The point is, its much better to use words with their connotation than their denotation. Otherwise people are going to look at you as funny as you are looking at me by saying what you did was lie.
That would be the quickest way to get me to wear an earing.
You would deliberately do something to upset your wife?
He wouldn't do something like that without talking to me about it first, and I wouldn't either. (get my ears pierced without his approval)
I don't boss my husband around, but he gets my input on just about everything, and vice versa. When it comes to decisions that affect both of us, affect our children or affect our family as a whole, we have an agreement that the "no" vote rules. That way nothing ever gets the go ahead unless both of us are in agreement. If he doesn't agree with me, it's my job to persuade him. If I'm uncomfortable with something, it's his job to persuade me. I think it works pretty well. Trust me - it doesn't all go MY way. LOL!!!!!
Women who nag and whine and are bossy tend to have resentful husbands who don't want to do anything for them. However, if you're kind and you pick your battles, you're more likely to win a few. I am 100% confident that if my husband decided for some crazy reason to pierce an ear or two, that my "no" vote would completely halt the process. Ergo, I can say: My husband will not be getting his ear[s] pierced.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Hmm. I think I just realized why my wife is always telling me "Don't take out the trash" and "Don't even think about doing the dishes".
ROFL!!!!! My husband IS the type of person who will rebel if I'm bossy--so I know better.
He changed our wedding ceremony because one of my older sisters snapped her fingers at him during rehearsal and told him to get in line (literally). He formed a new line from a new door. It was hysterical!
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
ROFL!!!!! My husband IS the type of person who will rebel if I'm bossy--so I know better.
He changed our wedding ceremony because one of my older sisters snapped her fingers at him during rehearsal and told him to get in line (literally). He formed a new line from a new door. It was hysterical!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
In antiquity most piercings and cuttings of the flesh were done to "brand" an individual as a slave or the possession of another. That's why primarily women and pirates or other mercenary forces wore the ear ring - that loop or hoop style dangle thing. Of course there were many other reasons as well - a rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood, etc.
The woman was chattel for her father until he sold her off to become the chattel of another man (a wife). The pirates were often run away slaves. Mercenaries were often the slaves possessed by their captain who hired out the entire band to the highest bidder.
Free men had no such scars or piercings to identify them as the property of another. This is my own primary motivation for not being branded in any way - I am a free man.
I agree with pelathais here. Earrings could biblically signify a woman's submission to her husband, although most women probably never think about it that way.
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis
You would deliberately do something to upset your wife?
He wouldn't do something like that without talking to me about it first, and I wouldn't either. (get my ears pierced without his approval)
I don't boss my husband around, but he gets my input on just about everything, and vice versa. When it comes to decisions that affect both of us, affect our children or affect our family as a whole, we have an agreement that the "no" vote rules. That way nothing ever gets the go ahead unless both of us are in agreement. If he doesn't agree with me, it's my job to persuade him. If I'm uncomfortable with something, it's his job to persuade me. I think it works pretty well. Trust me - it doesn't all go MY way. LOL!!!!!
Women who nag and whine and are bossy tend to have resentful husbands who don't want to do anything for them. However, if you're kind and you pick your battles, you're more likely to win a few. I am 100% confident that if my husband decided for some crazy reason to pierce an ear or two, that my "no" vote would completely halt the process. Ergo, I can say: My husband will not be getting his ear[s] pierced.
Don't try and put this on me. Reminds me of a book I saw once, Bobbed hair, Bossy Wives and Women Preachers.
If my wife told me what I WASN'T going to do then she might expect a similar response from me. My wife doesn't tell me what to do, so we don't have the issue.
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." ~Aesop
If I did wear earrings, they'd be clip-ons. No ear punctures for me, thanks anyway. 
I don't care whether David did it or not.
Ergo, I can say: My husband will not be getting his ear[s] pierced.
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