Has anyone else ever noticed
Offline I, probably like many of you, have evolutionist themed bumper stickers and plaques on your cars. My favorite being my, "Monkeys Evolved from Creationist." , and of course my Darwin Fish. I have been watching peoples expression through my rear view mirror at stoplights and such, and began to notice two distinct reactions.
First, is the double take, point it out to the passenger, and a quick giggle or laugh. This is sometimes followed by a thumbs up, or a nod of approval.
Second, starts as a squinty eyed look, slacked jaw gape. Sometimes followed by squirming in the seat, and sudden rolling of the eyes and maybe a wrinkled nose followed by a huff of disgust while mouthing something unintelligible at me. This is sometimes followed by a dirty look as they speed past me in the other lane, or even a index finger pointing up toward the sky.
I wish I got more of the first reaction, but honestly it seems to be a 40/60, the 60 being the latter response.
I was just wondering if anyone else ever made this observation?
Man is the only animal in all of nature that cannot accept its own mortality.
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I have both a Darwin "fish" and FSM emblem on the back of my car. I have actually gotten a few comments on the FSM emblem (all good). I should really start looking in my rearview from now on to see more reactions.
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
If I were to even attempt such a thing in my town there would be a lynch mob standing outside my front door in the matter of a few seconds.
Your god's silence speaks loud and clear
Well I've seen a couple Darwin fish around town. Those cars looked unvandalized.
A good friend of mine has lots of them on his car, and my favorite is "Atheism is Myth Understood." Only very smart people get that, so he mostly gets puzzled looks.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
I want to put a huge "God Is Imaginary" sign on my car soon.
Slimm,
How smart do you have to be?It's not very complicated. I've also really liked it since the first time I saw it.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
A mate of mine came back from the US with a bumper sticker, and being the only atheist bumper sticker in Ireland at the time helped to draw attention to it. It had
GOOD GOD?
DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!
on it.
He took it off after a short time when he found himself explaining for the five thousandth time to inquisitive strangers that it was not a prayer to the almighty to cure a giggling fit.
Some slogans are just too subtle for christians to understand apparently.
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Good bumper sticker slogans are hard to come by. Something short and sweet is usually not going to be clever or funny enough, and something long uses small text which requires other drivers to get uncomfortably close to read them. Unfortunately, I'm a proud car guy, and I have a body colored bumper, so all bumper stickers are completely out of the question.
"I've yet to witness circumstance successfully manipulated through the babbling of ritualistic nonsense to an imaginary deity." -- me (josh)
If god can do anything, can he make a hot dog so big even he can't eat all of it?
Here, people don't have any bumper stickers, only sometimes the ichthys sign. They explain this ancient paganic and astrologic symbol as a sign of "swimming against the stream" (proverbial crowd). Well, so much for a main world religion.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
Case in point:
QED
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
Don't overcomplicate it. "Atheism is myth understood" is simply atheists understand that religion is a myth.
I don't have my own car but if I did I'd put some up. I've only seen one person with an atheist fish sticker, and the rest are Xtian fishes. It's annoying because I'll get excited at first and then realize "oh...it's a Bible fishy...the dumb kind that just swims in circles..."
Some of my favorites:
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
"Those believers who are sophisticated enough to understand the paradox have found exciting ways to bend logic into pretzel shapes in order to defend the indefensible." - Hamby
It's a play on mis-understood, as well as religion being myth. So theists have all crazy ideas about atheists being satanists,misunderstanding it, while all it is is understanding that theist's beliefs are myths. Or that's what I thought.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
The "Guilt Fear Mass Insanity" sticker is great, but I would not go with a Darwin fish. The fish is a great gaping goddess pussy symbol turned on its side. "Goddess" means it's a religious symbol, and I don't want to imply in any way that I have "faith" in Darwin.
"I've yet to witness circumstance successfully manipulated through the babbling of ritualistic nonsense to an imaginary deity." -- me (josh)
If god can do anything, can he make a hot dog so big even he can't eat all of it?
Souldn't it then be "Atheithm ith myth underthdood"?
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
I got my friend this one for his birthday one year. One of his nicknames is "Rex" because when he runs he looks a little like a T-Rex. It's fun watching other people look at it with a confused look.
"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
Oh I didn't notice the play on "misunderstood" until you said it. lol Nice.
Eh. I don't know about that. In any case, I love goddess pussy. Even the thought of it.
"The whole conception of God is a conception derived from ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men."
--Bertrand Russell
Oh, but it's not what it implies. It catches you by surprise and slams something unexpected in your face. That's why it's awesome. I don't know why anyone would think it's about faith in Darwin...it's like a political cartoon.
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
"Those believers who are sophisticated enough to understand the paradox have found exciting ways to bend logic into pretzel shapes in order to defend the indefensible." - Hamby
Because theists are convinced atheists have faith and Darwin is our god.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.