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From: D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:17:08 -0600
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On 2/24/25 4:28 PM, D wrote:
>>
>> I'm not a religious person in the traditional sense of the word, but
>> turns out I find myself one of the most religious person I've ever met
>> because patience, perseverance, lack of ambition and a certain mastery
>> of the art of listening seem pretty religious to me.  For instance,
>> pretty much every religious person I know has at least one tattoo on
>> their skin.  I think that's totally non-religious because a tattoo
>> effectively destroys (at least a bit) something natural that took a
>> zillion years to be prepared---to protect the person.  I think that if
>> God speaks to us at all, it is done through the movement of nature.
> 
> Never been a fan of tattoos. But in my case it is a conservative upbringing
> where tattoos where seen as low class. It is strange how things like 
> that still
> stick with you. On the other hand, it is permanent, and since I don't have
> anything permanent to say, I don't really see why I should get a tattoo.
> 

Most intelligent people realize that the subcutaneous inks used in 
tattooing cause cancer. It's not difficult to predict, when one observes 
that most all foreign substances admitted to the body (whether by 
breathing, ingestion, etc) lead to cancer.