Hilarious and inspiring, and entirely made of win. In this video, JT Eberhard — co-Founder of Skepticon, and captain of the Missouri State University Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster — explains how a couple of jokers chalking the FSM on a college campus turned into a major annual atheist conference with over 600 attendees (and climbing). Lots of the talks at the recent Secular Student Alliance conference were awesome — but this was the only one that was still making me chuckle days later. And he makes some seriously important points about how to build an organization that people will actually want to participate in… and how to not let “I don’t know how to do that” stop you.
Greta Christina has been writing professionally since 1989, on topics including atheism, sexuality and sex-positivity, LGBT issues, politics, culture, and whatever crosses her mind. She is on the speakers's bureaus of the Secular Student Alliance and the Center for Inquiry. She is editor of the "Best Erotic Comics" anthology series, and of "Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients." Her writing has appeared in multiple magazines and newspapers, including Ms., Penthouse, Chicago Sun-Times, On Our Backs, and Skeptical Inquirer, and numerous anthologies, including "Everything You Know About God Is Wrong" and three volumes of "Best American Erotica." She lives in San Francisco with her wife, Ingrid. You can email her at greta (at) gretachristina (dot) com, and follow her on Twitter at @GretaChristina .
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2 comments
Ian Andreas Miller
August 12, 2010 at 12:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
JT is hilarious!
John
August 13, 2010 at 7:00 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I want to have his children! That talk made my day. Thank you for linking to it.