Friday, 29 April 2011
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Raise money for Camp Quest! Help defeat PZ Myers!
UPDATE: IF OUR SIDE WINS, PZ HAS TO SHAVE HIS BEARD!!!!*
While the children of deeply religious parents are off being indoctrinated into the useless (and often maladaptive) dogmas and traditions of their various religions, Camp Quest gives kids the chance to learn actual applicable skills. It's an endeavor and a group I completely support (to the extent that I am writing up a music program for them this Summer and will be a volunteer counselor at Camp Quest Ohio this Summer teaching kids how to do magic).
Amanda Metskas, their executive director, is a tireless and amazing worker. She is also clever, and has devised a little contest to raise money for Camp Quest.
Five awesome atheist bloggers are competing to see who can raise the most money to support Camp Quest!
Since one of those bloggers is the indomitable PZ Myers of Pharyngula, we have made two teams in order to make this competition more fair.
Team 1: Greta Christina of Greta Christina's Blog, Hemant Mehta of Friendly Atheist, Jen McCreight of Blag Hag, and JT Eberhard of Zerowing21.
Team 2: PZ Myers of Pharyngula.
The first team to raise $5,000 for Camp Quest, or the team that has raised the most by June 1, 2011 will win!
What will the winning team receive? Bragging rights. Pure and simple.
You can help your favorite team win by donating through ChipIn to support the team of your choice. Early reports think PZ has this sewn up, so if you like underdogs, give to this ChipIn and help his competition. Or you can make help make the pharyngulation complete by supporting PZ's ChipIn.
All contestants and contributors receive: the knowledge that they have supported a fantastic program for freethinking families and their children.I will, of course, be ganking the support of all the Atheism Resource readers. Atheists have no morals, so I'm not above cheating and using two blog outlets.
PZ already has a post up pissing and moaning about how unfair it is, so he has a head start. I also hear he's extremely cuddly in person and that he, in fact, does not breath fire and have blood perpetually dripping from his fangs. If you want to help an affable nancy like that, be my guest. However, if you have an affinity people who think we should go after religion without reservation, you can (and should) contribute through a real firebrand!
Those who attended the American Atheists Convention in Des Moines this last weekend are fully aware that I was more livid than PZ Myers. In fact, I recently emailed him after the conference and tagged my email with 'I'm angrier than you', a fact palpable to anybody who saw our talks. He responded with...
That makes me FUCKING FURIOUS.
PZ is clearly not furious enough, says I! I say we drive him into a frothing rage by helping me, Greta, Hemant, and Jen to lord over him in triumph!
* PZ has not agreed to this, but I'm not above cheating. Besides, if the rumor spreads like wildfire, PZ will have to do it!
Ok, PZ is handing us our asses out of the gate. It's ok - we just need a super big donor to come in and save us.
Also, PZ is taunting all of us via email. Nobody likes a bully!
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Comments (14)
To tell you the Truth I have asked for information about the camp for Waci several times, I was told that there was assistance via, grants for children of underprivileged families but have never gotten a response.
I will probably donate anyway but would love for my daughter to go one year...
This is great!
You think I'm taunting you by email? Hah! I am in my hotel room, and I bare my buttocks and break wind in your general direction.
@PZMyers - ROFLMAO.... That's NOT a taunt at all
I also think $5,000 was too low an amount to shoot for
@Volizden -- apologies if we've dropped the ball on getting back to you about camperships. We're almost entirely volunteer run, so sometimes things fall through the cracks, and I'm really sorry when they do. This year we have a better system for campership applications here: http://www.campquest.org/financialaid.
Thanks for your support. :)
This is interesting. I've recently been exploring atheist activities/meetups in my area as I want to get more involved and just recently was reading up on Camp Quest. I was considering being a day volunteer, but it's in the same month as CONvergence so I wouldn't be able to get 2 weeks off in the same month. And speaking of CONvergence, I just checked out the discussion panel and PZ Myers is on at least one panel this year - so maybe I'll get to meet him this time. Last year I partied too much and ended up missing all of his panels. :(
@Melissa___Dawn - Get down to Skepticon 4 and I'll introduce you. :)
JT
I'm trying, been trying for the last 2 Skepticons - but it's so close to Thanksgiving I never manage to get the time off. Still working on it though, so maybe it will happen this year. :)
@Melissa___Dawn - That would be Great I Live here in Springfield... It's how I met JT :-p Would be awesome to meet a fellow Xangan here. My partner and I volunteer sleeping space for skepticon last year we had four people sleeping at our house including Jon Voisey the Angry Astronomer LoL
This is more interesting than the Royal Wedding.
@Zerowing21 - I just checked out the Skepticon site, are the dates of November 19 and 20 the official, confirmed dates now? Turns out those are available on my work calendar so I already put in a request for the time off - making progress. :)
@Volizden - Looks like I will have the time off, now just need to get a plane ticket, hotel reservation, and oh yeah meds for flying and anxiety, lol. Hopefully I will get there this time, it would be great to meet you. :)
@Melissa___Dawn - Yup. Those are the official dates. :)
JT
Congratulations, JT and others!
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