“As people, we are regularly on the edge of an existential panic. Becker said that if you were to see the world realistically; just how vulnerable and totally insignificant you are, in terms of the cosmos, you’d go crazy. So you constantly need stories that build up your self esteem and make you feel significant, which is, of course, what culture provides.”
OK, changing the subject a little: Tattooing has been around for thousands of years, we’re even finding early humans with tattoos. Do you think there is something inherent to human nature that makes us want to tattoo ourselves?
Sure. The cadaver that was found frozen and preserved in the Alps, which I think is about 5,000 years old—he’s in a museum in Italy, you can drop by and say hello—the latest research shows that his body has quite a few tattoos on his skin. They tend to be abstract designs. Based on their locations, it’s been hypothesized that they were there to distract from uncomfortable physical things like arthritis. Or possibly, that they have some kind of magical significance. If you think about it, from a certain point of view, as all of our behavior tends to be very magical in some ways. Imagine that there’s some special power in…
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Tattooing was, still is, very significant to identify the hierarchy of a person in their tribe or in confronts with their enemies. Or tell that person’s history regarding their antecessors and their identity. Many reasons to want ink in your skin, some religious others just a trend. For me, it’s not important the reason. I don’t know if it’s that simple “what culture provides” because there is still a lot of stigma about tattooed people.
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i can’t think, i gots a skin full of ink xD
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A limerick for you:
Marking your body with ink
As long as it’s not purple or pink
For a butch woman hot like you
Many a ranter, ravers a few
Who gives a fuck what people fink
Bonito dia :)
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i marked myself with plenty of ink
none of it anything like purple or pink
tats and bruises should be black or blue
the silver needle soon teaches you
never give a fuck what people think
and here is my favourite of my own tats, it means a lot to me:
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2392/1715040080_5396d2eb4e_z.jpg?zz=1
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I have 2. A butterfly on my ankle and a red bracelet design on my wrist. Someday I will post pics. I would like to get another, when the funds allow…
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What’s the significance of the red one?
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Normally I like Vice, but this has a really judgmental tone about it – i think the only person deciding if the tattoo is good should be the tattooed person.
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My grandfather made me swear never to get one. He had a naked woman on his arm that he was very ashamed of.
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Awwwwwwwwww somehow that’s really sweet.
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I would feel weird if I did not have some of my tattoos. Like, I would feel incomplete without them. You can figure out which ones, I bet.
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