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Permalink Reply by Meg Fields on September 14, 2012 at 3:24pm

Haha I live in Rutland an am getting my first ink this December!

Permalink Reply by Niki Liu on July 31, 2011 at 5:19am

I got this tattoo in Seoul, South Korea in 2009.  It's my first tattoo and has several meanings for me.  It represents my time in Asia.  It's a memorial of sorts to the pet snail I had my 5th year in China.  It's also a reminder to look out for smaller creatures in our world.  After all it was a cold wintery day when I found the little guy crawling up the wall in the the teachers' dorm's unheated hallway. 

 

Permalink Reply by Stephanie on August 4, 2011 at 5:08am

I don't have any Atheists tattoos yet, but I love the quote from Carl Sagan:

    "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." I think it sounds so beautiful! To know we are part of a grand universe, and even perhaps a multiverse, and we are a tiny, small eensie weensie piece of it all and the more we are able to observe, the more fascinated I become with what a wonderous beauty I am greatful to be a part of. There is something to be said of knowing that not only are we star stuff, but we are alive, and in the position to observe the ever changing astonishment of space. I don't see any fear in death, for living is such a wonderful experience alone, I couldn't ask for anything more than the opportunity to make a difference within this place, however small and insignificant that change may be.

Permalink Reply by Perthy on August 31, 2011 at 1:26am

Here's my tattoo. When I was 20, I packed up my car, took my 'savings' of $300, my credit card (max of $500 at the time), and drove cross-country to Phoenix, Arizona because my life was crap (about the time I began to question things and identify as an atheist) and I wanted to 'rise from the ashes' of my former life and begin anew. It worked! I got a job the same day I drove into town (I'd never been to Phoenix before and didn't even have a place to stay), took the job offer letter across the road to an apartment complex, and got an apartment.

 

I left Arizona a couple of years ago, and moved to Ohio. I got the tattoo there because I wanted a reminder that no matter how bad life seems, one can always rise again from those ashes. It proved prophetic, because earlier this summer I moved back, again, with literally nothing but a suitcase (stupid boys and their hookers). But  you know what? Everything is A-OK. People are resilient, I am strong, and nothing illustrates that better than the Phoenix.

 

Permalink Reply by Rayray on September 18, 2011 at 10:03am

Latest addition, much more to do. Enjoy!

Here is some existing work:

Permalink Reply by Rikke Petersen on June 30, 2012 at 5:08am

Don't think I shared this here.. Don't remember hahaha... anyway Sadly I don't  have any decent tattoo pictures, working in a tattoo shop maybe kills some of the exitement. xD It is me getting inked there, and my boss fillling in some color on the sleeve.

I can't by the life of me find a decent photo of any of the others, or of the dragon colored in.. I need to do something about that.. Suppose the store would have one in the tattooist portfolio.

Should maybe add that this photo is like 3 years old.

Permalink Reply by John Phillips on September 13, 2012 at 4:37am

Here's my tattoo. Pictured is the cross of questioning which to me represents skepticism over faith. I inverted the symbol so that the question mark is aright and the cross is inverted. That's because as I questioned my beliefs I turned my entire worldview upside down. I now sometimes refer to myself as the architect of apostasy. The cross of questioning is also a symbol for a band I like called Devildriver. Listen to Monsters of the deep, it's awesome!

This tattoo has another special meaning, I have a personal connection with the artist.

Permalink Reply by Lindsey Harris on September 13, 2012 at 10:42pm

I decided to get this tattoo after I became an atheist a couple years ago (I didn't actually get it until earlier this year). Coming out as an atheist in my highly religious family brought me to the lowest place I've ever been in my life thusfar. The bird soaring through the clouds represents my rising above my family's influence and the immense freedom that I now have in every area of my life. The yellow rose represents true friendship and loyalty, of which I was forced to find in myself during that time.

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