SATANISM

[AkiraTheViking]

I guess I don't understand why it is how you have presented yourself here a couple of times.

I am wife, mother, grandmother (GiGi), and tattooed.  I just don't introduce myself as tattooed.  But, you do you.

Just trying to understand why you lead with it here.  Husband is tattooed...all my kids are tattooed and I am sure once the oldest granddaughter hits 18, she will be too.  So far she has had to settle for piercings.  It's just a thing, doesn't define any of us.

I kinda have to side with this. I am a metalhead, I paint my nails black. I wear band t-shirts (black) and black jeans, spikes, earrings and rings, battle jacket everywhere I go. I even have a tattoo. Yet any post that I have here were It's not relevant, I don't mention it, similar goes for real life. And that's because I know that I love these things and I choose to express myself through how I look. It's not for the people around me, I don't care how they feel by the way I look, it's for me.

I'm not really sure, it was the first thing that popped into my head. It may well be because when you see me for the first time, it's the first thing you'll see. No one here knows what I look like, and I'm proud of the work that I've had done. 
Other than that, I don't know.

I get it though. I think why you mentioned it allot here is because you don't really have allot a places outside of our circles to express it through dialogue. I on the other hand have learned to live with that mainly becuase I don't care to felx. I have my circles, it's enough. But it is nice talking to one of us in the wild. I'd be lying if I said I didn't like talking to you. It's the old human error of wanting to be social on a deeper level and we, as humans, try to achieve this through flexing.

There is a Membership Photos thread where you can post a pic of yourself tho.

As in relation of this thread, since it's supposed to be about Satanism, I do love satanic imagry, satanic black metal, gore, horror and given the chance I would actually join the Satanic Temple but I still woudn't identify as Atheist Satanist. Why? Because I would feel silly calling myself a Satanist.

Of course, they're all black.

Let's be honest. They're all gray. Laundy Detergent hates black. While I do wash my band clothes by hand, only recently I found out that you're supposed to wash anything black with fabric softner only.

It's funny, a few years ago my wife and I were in our local Michaels store. I happened to be wearing one of my more blatant concert shirts(Septic Flesh) that day, and as I was looking around the store, an older woman saw what I was wearing. As she was walking away from me, I heard her say "apparently they let the Devil shop here" to herself out loud.
I thought it was funnier than hell.
I list myself as an Atheist/Satanist because like you said, some people would consider me a Satanist, depending on what their definition of a Satanist is. Simply not believing any of their bullshit is enough sometimes.

I feel like I should link a story I posted in the Membership Photos thread here. https://atheistforums.org/thread-49-post...pid2151051