I had it all planned out. I was gonna get a spiffy name — how about the “Establishment Atheist Establishment”? — and a website, and then I was going to sign up my cat as the first member, because she’s a cat and an atheist and everyone loves cats and she’s evil, and then I was going to put my zebrafish on the roster to pad it out, and then with all those credentials established, I was going to lecture everyone else from my lofty perch on how to be a True Atheist™…
But then I saw the really hard questions Greta Christina asks of such an organization, and decided I was too scared and shut it down. I guess I’ll just go back to calling it a “blog”.
Another atheist thinky person for the Secular Tone Troll Institute to whine about. ;-)
A spiffy name? How about: With Dog We Strut. We could even put in on our money!
Any organization with a cat as a founding member deserves to be immediately shut down.
The cat would shut it down.
Whatever. You can always change your mind and start your atheist thinky-tank anyway. All you have to do is list a bunch of names and groups and then email and tweet and Facebook the list to everyone. It takes maybe 45 minutes.
Assuming you already have the photo of a group of atheists leering, that is.
foremost leaders, at the institute,
foremost leaders at the thinky-tank,
foremost leaders, foremost leaders,
and they all think just the same.
there’s a white man, and white man,
and a white man and a white woman
and they’re all work at the thinky-tank
and they all think just the same.
To heed, or not to heed? That is the question—
Whether ’tis better for the reputation to suffer
The slings and arrows of uncomfortable criticism,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by shouting ‘La la la I can’t hear you!’ dismiss them?
Thanks to Ophelia for reminding me of that nightmarish photograph of a group of fucking neocons leering. That’s what neocons and their New White Supremacist Atheist friends do – leer.
CD #6
I know just the music for your poem.
chigau, I’m pretty sure Crip Dyke intended it as alternate lyrics to “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds.
For a name, I would have suggested Curb Your Dogma.
As for Greta’s questions, they shouldn’t scare you, unless you plan on making broadbrushed, baseless attacks on other people.
@Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden (#6):
And their arguments are made of ticky-tacky,
And they all sound just the same.
Melanie is just too weird and repetitive and weird and cranky. I don’t trust whatever game she is up to. Banned.
@screechymonkey
I think chigau got that too, thus the music reference.
@Richard Smith:
nice extension
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sQSp5jbSQ
screechymonkey
Meet Pete Seeger.
a god, if there ever was one
(sorry, Pete)
Daz #7
That was good, too!
(I am better at singing along than declaiming along.)
It should be called Atheist Rationalist Secular Establishment.
Don’t worry, PZ can use all the name ideas as his organization cycles through slightly different incarnations every year.
Aww, this is sweet (although mistaken, PZ: you’re the cat’s human, never forget it.) But when did PZ resign to his fate of being owned by the rescue kitty?
PZ #13
Oh thank Dog. Their repeated misuse of the word “neocon” was really starting to irritate me.
I think “melanie” was a poorly executed attempt to create a false trail; expect to see the ‘pitters circulating the claim that “PZ called [the usual suspects] neo…”, with melanie’s comments cited as evidence.
You’d get sued by Donkey.
Who’s Donkey and why is he called Donkey?
I am, dont know why though but ‘e ah..’e ah… always calls me that!
You can have thought leaders or you can have freethought, but not both.
What would the thought be free from if not from thought leaders?
No Irish wankers club?
OT:
@Throwaway, #19:
Quite some time ago. I don’t know if I would be able to find the exact post, but it was by last fall at the latest – maybe september or october I saw something? I’m not sure.
Aha: This post here may have been the first one in which PZ unambiguously refers to the beast as his cat, and that was in september.
And then this post here was made on the day of official adoption, at the end of october.
How awesome is that, remembering a september-october time frame and then seeing the posts stretch from first semi-official to really, really official over the time frame Sep 8th – Oct 31st? Shit it’s like I read this blog obsessively and commit every detail of PZ’s life to memory or something! Isn’t that great?
Or, y’know, pathetic?
Or, perhaps creepy-stalkerish?
Fuckit. Take your pick.
/OT
That’s Tyrant PZ at work. Banning people for just….ermmm….”disagreeing” (?). Yeah, disagreeing. Let’s go with that. Or he is so petty that he will even ban people that agree with him. One of the two. Both. No, let’s go with both, definitely.
I’m starting an Atheist No-Think Tank, which will be just a computer responding to people with one of 150 artfully chosen phrases of pseudo-intellectual word salad. Join today and artfully choose one of the phrases for no pay!
I think the first reference to “…my cat” was when all the toilet paper got unrolled onto the floor, but I don’t remember the date.
@wcorvi:
Yes, it was, but that post is very specific that it was a fostered cat. it may even have included encouragement for Horde members to consider adopting the little fluff ball.
Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden #25:
Well PZ is a teacher. You’re obviously just hyper-aware that There Will Be A Quiz.