peoples problems with scarification/branding - Page 8

Obsidian · 15th February 2007, 11:27pm

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Originally Posted by Hammer

There's really nothing romantic about being scarred in war or though an attack and I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of wounded soldiers and mugging victims who would much rather not be consigned to live their lives with disfiguring injuries.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!
Thats the complete beauty of the human body and psyche...
It heals.
That is how we grow as a human being by hurting and healing.
I love every single one of my scars and i love everyone of my partners scars, it what makes us individuals.

I'm Your God Now · 15th February 2007, 11:33pm

Bam Margera's cock brand was glorious, mainly cause he is a fucking walloper.

Other than that, it's fucking bent as far as Im concerned.

High-Five!

karbon14 · 16th February 2007, 12:08am

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Originally Posted by Obsidian

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!

unless you get malaria.....

Hammer · 16th February 2007, 5:33am

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Originally Posted by Obsidian

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger!
Thats the complete beauty of the human body and psyche...
It heals.
That is how we grow as a human being by hurting and healing.

Or alternatively, what doesn't kill you can leave you a gibbering wreck of person, unable to work and requiring years of therapy just to deal with day to day life.

MarkMono · 16th February 2007, 1:10pm

Christ, picking up the post every day does that to some people.

Obsidian · 16th February 2007, 4:04pm

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Originally Posted by Hammer

Or alternatively, what doesn't kill you can leave you a gibbering wreck of person, unable to work and requiring years of therapy just to deal with day to day life.

Sorry thats just the way i look at things.
I believe life has a plan for you and if you get beat up bad on the way then so be it.
If you join the army/navy/raf you have to deal with the outcomes of war.
If you go to visit or live in areas of where malaria is present then thats another risk.
Is that not what lifes about or should we all just float about like the boy in the bubble?

fefe · 18th February 2007, 2:34am

What about people who have no option to live in areas that Maleria say is all around?
Or folk who are involved in wars through no fault or choice of their own?

they sure as hell wont see scars the same.

MarkMono · 18th February 2007, 2:38am

Applies equally to countries where scarification is perfectly normal.

Good to see we're all thinking.

apocalypso4laz · 18th April 2007, 10:34pm

If done subtly, like something small or artfully done, then l have no problem with it. But when you see some chick that has had 95% of the skin on her back removed so she could have bamboo shoots then l say: what the fuck?

To me it seems less a statement of: look at my pretty picture than: look at what pain l can take for an idea l had.

Also its all red, lm not a big red person, lm more blues and greens. If they can do it but make it blue then l'll give it two thumbs up.

faerie_child · 18th April 2007, 10:58pm

i don't have a problem with it, as long as it is well done. same with any mod. if it has been done badly then i think it looks wrong. *shrug*

karbon14 · 19th April 2007, 5:06pm

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Originally Posted by apocalypso4laz

If done subtly, like something small or artfully done, then l have no problem with it. But when you see some chick that has had 95% of the skin on her back removed so she could have bamboo shoots then l say: what the fuck?

skin removal scarification is less painful than tattoing by a country mile. and it heals white, like most scars.

Neil. · 19th April 2007, 5:31pm

Basically, I dont think it looks very good, in the same way as some tatoos look shit. However i'm yet too see any scarification and go "cool". Usually i just think about someone doing that to themselves, or what it would feel like to have it done, and it makes me wretch, if i'm honest.

Also, I must add, obsidian if you feel its your scars that make you an indivdual, rather than what you do and say, that just strikes me as having a weak personality, or being insecure about it. Its actions, words and thoughts that make you an individual, not body modifications, which like it or not is a trend, no matter how underground or counter culture you may think it is. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have done it.

Quite frankly though, and I'm sure i'll be called all sorts of names for this, called ignorant and such, but, it just seems silly to me, even more silly when people pass it off as anything other than a fashion trend. Its not about individuality, its about identifying with a group, all be it a slightly more focussed group than, buying a pair of nike trainers, or wearing a cowboy hat, or tatooing your mums name on your arm.

Like i say I dont have a huge problem with it, unless people try and pass it off as more than it is.

Obsidian · 19th April 2007, 6:34pm

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Originally Posted by Neil.

Also, I must add, obsidian if you feel its your scars that make you an indivdual, rather than what you do and say, that just strikes me as having a weak personality, or being insecure about it. Its actions, words and thoughts that make you an individual, not body modifications, which like it or not is a trend, no matter how underground or counter culture you may think it is. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have done it.

I'm am well aware that it is not simply my scars that make me an individual.
They are a part of my body and i believe they should be cherished as a part of my overall make-up of body and soul.
Any scars i have are from falling off horses at a gallop, falling outta trees, falling off quads, falling over fences, falling down drunk... (I fall alot you'll notice)

It's not just what you do or say that makes you an individual, because everyone is an individual are they not?
or is that just my insecure-weak personality speaking?

Oh and incidentally i dont have any body mods other than my tattoos which cannot be seen unless i show them.
They're for my pleasure no-one elses.