No worries dudespace6oy wrote:sorry if i was off / not thoroughly educated on that.
regarding bad luck tattoos though, meh. different reactions for different people.
i have thirteen 3s on my left arm, because it's my favorite number and i've had plenty of both pretty extremely good and bad luck in my life.
also have one of the grim reaper walking two dog skeletons i got after both my boys passed.
i haven't regretted any of my tats yet, aside from how i'm gonna get a bit of one covered up just because the good artists in cbus are 10x better than the best guy in athens.
I'm unclear as to where the number 13 got its bad reputation. According to various sources, it's basically the number of transformation. Jesus was the 13th after his group 12 Apostles, and he heralded a transformation of religion. In the Tarot, it's the same with Card 13, death allows the new force to be born/created. Some people think that the origin of Friday the 13th being unlucky came from the fact that the Knights Templar were all arrested on that day (it's also the prevailing theory of where Baphomet came from)
Yeah, the idea of "belief" is weird. I guess I could draw a parallel by referencing the studies done where people who wore white lab coats acted differently than without. The whole idea of a curse is that a person who thinks they've been cursed will suddenly start noticing any shitty little thing that happens to them more so than usual, and might even start to blame the curse. The reverse is how people who subscribe to astrology will unconsciously pick out the stuff that applies the most to themselves, even if most of what they read doesn't.jfrey wrote:That's kind of the point. I find the idea that such a thing could have a psychological effect to be kind of crazy. They are symbols of bad luck to other people. But to me they're just pictures. In some fundamental way I really don't understand beliefs. I have discovered I can't talk much about the subject without offending people, but it's difficult for me because I'm OCD about understanding things, and I'm very much incapable of understanding exactly what people mean when they say they believe something. So to me getting a tattoo made of symbols of superstition is kind of a symbol for the way I think, or can't think.gunslinger_burrito wrote:Even being a rational, atheistic sort of person, I'd never tattoo myself with symbols of bad luck, simply for the psychological effects it might have.
Whatever way you spell it, it would still make a cool tattoo
I'm surprised I haven't gotten a "Card 13" tattoo yet.
Looking forward to seeing the octopus one once the blue is all filled out. Thing has been a long time coming.
