I did my own when my rugby team won. Go Spartans!!
I hope this is some kind of joke and not a genuine suggestion that I’ve made my comments on gaudy, rediculous religous ornamentation out of bitterness and jealousy.
Otherwise your remark is really pretty presumptuous.
And Lord knows, presumptivness is the last thing we want in this thread!
“I’ll take irony for $200, Alex”.
Hey Argent Towers, you know what would be so cool !?! Get a tattoo saying “I’m a Judgmental Prick” right across your forehead. That way you could fight hypocrisy and induldge your love of tattoos at the same time. Win-win situation!
I’d say a little from Column A, a little from Column B. Myself, I think you made them because you’re a pompous idiot.
PS My ink, proudly displayed on my right arm, depicts a svastika {kindly note the spelling} incorporated with a fractured yin/yang and a spiral. The meaning is intensely personal, and you can stick it up your arse for nothing and fuck off for free.
Love,
Case
How do a svastika and swastika differ, Case Sensitive? Is it an attempt to neutralize its co-opting by the Nazi party or is it something more significant? dictionary.com and wikipedia both say it’s just a spelling variant.
It is a spelling varient, but the conote different things. The svastika is an ancient religious symbol with menaing in India, Tibet, and even some Native American cultures. I have a Navajo rug with similar symbols. THe nazis used a variet of the traditional symbol that’s a mirror image. Just because the Nazi appropriated something doesn’t make that thing evil. Hitler was a vegetarian and I don’t see people running around telling vegetarians that they’re Nazis by association.
I also believe the ancient Japanese used the symbol, and to this day it has a significant representation in their most preserved displays of architecture.
Sam
This is a hijack now, but why would you say the Nazis used a “mirror image”? That’s just not true; the swastika (you can spell it however you want) was uusually used in Hindi and Navajo imagery with the arms bent in the clockwise direction, like the Nazis used.
If you make one, I know somebody at The Brooklyn Museum…
Actually…I have a friend who does. I think he just hates vegitarians.
Actually, we’re both wrong. swastikas with a counter clockwise spiral seem to be as common as the opposite.
Navajo Swastikas (not the only tribe to use the symbol)
http://antiques-internet.com/colorado/adobewalls/dynapage/PP03.htm
Bhuddist Swastikas
Hindu Swastikas
http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/omkar.html
/hijack
Sorry about that. We now return you to your regulararly scheduled rant.
How you drew the conclusion that I was calling Case Sensitive a Nazi by association is beyond me as I’m well aware of its history before its appropiation by the Third Reich and if you will read my post, you’ll notice I flatly stated it was co-opted. All I asked was why the v’s substitution for the w was so significant that he felt the need to point it out.
Relax, I didn’t draw the slightest inference that you were accusing me of Nazism. I’m aware that both spellings are equally valid; I just chose the “v” over the “w” to de-emphasise the Nazi connotations, and to try and forestall accusations of Nazism. 
Yeah, at least in the Northern Indian tradition, which mine is patterned on, the arms of a swastika can go clockwise or anti-clockwise, although each carries different connotations: this site has some good information on the topic, while this one has some good examples {with pictures} of the swastika motif being used by various cultures.
Now all I need is Argent Towers to come in and accuse me of blasphemy and cultural imperialism for appropriating an ancient Indian religious symbol.
I was never concerned that you or anyone else would infer an accusation from my post which is why I was surprised that ImaginalDisc evidently did.
And thanks for the explanation. It was as I assumed.
So, “all denominations of Jews hold” I’m not obligated to follow Halakha law but I am required to follow Noahide laws… … . Remind me to send them a letter thanking them for their opinion. Typical religion: It isn’t enough for them to tell their own people what to do they figure it gives them the right to tell everyone else what to do, too.
Now all we need is that dickweed to come in here at all…seems like it was your typical “Rant ‘n’ Run”…
Sam
I figure I’m old enough to realize what I want adorning my skin, I’m 36. I have 3 of the 8 or so tattoos I’m going to have and I’ve thought them out fairly carefully. Mine are basically a theme that can be seen by the world…I have a Celtic, a Hindu, and a Christian tattoo done. Next, I have a Native American, a Muslim a Buddhist and an old-style Roman coming. To me, they mean…God is to big for one religion. I sincerely believe that. …and they mean something to me.
It’s just me though, think of me what you’d like.