It's related to religion
When my great-grandmother (only found out she was a year ago - she had my nan out of wedlock, the dad was a married man whose identity she never revealed to anyone) passed away she left me a cold cross. It is not small, it is at least half a cm thick, and is about 5cm long by 2.5cm wide. It has all those important stamps on one edge, is engraved with a floral pattern on each side and is surprisingly heavy. I have worn it since I was 12 years old, so after 11 years of constantly having it on, I barely notice it.

This is where religion comes in, kind of. I am not religious, I am in fact morea Satanist after reading The Satanic Bible (google it, it's not what you think!). The closest I came to converting was at my cousins christening age 10 (I thought it was cool that you got a snack in church). However, people see my cross and assume I am. This means I have the ultimate defence against door-to-door converters, but best of all is when people ask (I have no idea why) "Are you christian?" and I tell them quite happily that No I am not and doubt anything could make me.

When I then get asked why I wear a cross I tell them it's because it means more to me than religion does. I'm sure they think I'm screwing with them...
(Cydonija well it sure as shit ain't sad, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 15:49, 4 replies)

while the Satanic Bible does have some good bits
it is mostly bilge from what I remember
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 15:53, closed)

Anton LaVey
also plagiarised the better part of it almost verbatim from previous occult authors. If I remember correctly, he lifted the principal moral tenet,"Do what you will." verbatim from Aleister Crowley. Surely, no worse than the bilge you find in The Bible itself, and at least LaVey was kind enough to make it more than a 1000 pages more brief.
( Ithyphallophobia, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 18:01, closed)

I may be being thick, I am quite hungover....
But I don't unserstand the first bit. You didn't realise your great nan was your great nan until last year?? I've read it 5 times and I can't make any sense out of it!
( user_names_suck, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 20:20, closed)

I had always been told she was a great aunt, then my nan was talking about family and reavealed my "great-aunt" was in fact my great-grandmother, that's why I only found out last year.
(Cydonija well it sure as shit ain't sad, Fri 2 Sep 2011, 11:35, closed)