Essentially, it is an expression of my atheism. It boils down to "religions are so focused on carving out their place in the universe that they forget to include living life."
At the time I designed it, it was looking likely I'd go into the Peace Corps when I finished graduate school (I had done the early paperwork) and so I also was pleased that it had a logical pro-religion interpretation (there's room in the universe for all religions to get along) in case I ended up somewhere that a big atheist tattoo wouldn't be appreciated.
And then I hooked up with Lani and all thoughts of going to the middle of nowhere for two years faded away.
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