I’m seriously considering starting one. I could use the tax free status to promote science above patriotic mysticism. Our first hymn:
Our second:
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Our third hymn
With Professor Brian Cox on keyboards* (although he will tell you things will only get worse because of entropy).
*ok, so he wasn’t on the recording, but he did play it live lots of times with D:Ream
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ETA: if anyone can tell me how to properly embed GIFs from sources which use the mpg 4 containers I’d be glad. On mobile, that is. You can PM me if you like.
Also, it sucks that image insertion from the keyboard image search doesn’t work in my mobile browsers. Any convenient workaround for that?
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Since we guide our lives by believing in facts, then we are smarter and more rational than those who don’t. I don’t know about morally superior, but I certainly think that my reliance on the truth has led me to actions intended for the good of others over my own comfort and convenience.
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I predicted that you were going to say that …
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You and everyone else here is an excommunicated and fully ordained deacon of my cabal, the Hermetic Order of Knighted Über-Mutants. Founded and disbanded by me. Just now.
Or HOKÜM, if you will.
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We’re also going to have to include wide swaths of the Weird Al canon. “I think I’m a Clone Now,” “Like a Surgeon,” “Word Crimes,” and just so many more great science oriented songs.
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We also need to get the church band lineup sorted out. We already have Brian May on guitar and Brian Cox on keyboards.
Can you think of any more prominent scientists who were/are in successful bands? Bonus points if they are called Brian or can be persuaded to change their name to Brian.
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Echoing a comment above: I’m fascinated whenever right-wingers call secularism a “religion” or “church” in order to undercut its credibility.
They’re confirming that they’ve lost the war but don’t know it yet.
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Brian Adams on lead vocals. Brian Eno as sound “visualizer” and additional keyboardist. Brian Jones on rhythm guitar. Brian Blade on drums.
Edit: other than Eno, whose sound work can be considered scientific, I don’t think the rest are scientists.
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No, they have to be scientists. The change of name documents can be sorted out afterwards if they are needed.
Brian Eno might count though.
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I think I have found a list
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Oh, they’ll be ‘cured’ - eventually. It just takes too long and permits them to do too much damage in the meantime. Plus, they are only ‘cured’ individually one at a time. If only they’d all just die en masse - which seems increasingly plausible given this virus, though it and they will take many less stupid people with them.
Unfortunately, even if they did, there’d be some fuckwits somewhere with the wherewithal to start manufacturing more of them. (i.e. another Fox News)
As a similarly immunosuppressed person I sympathise with your plight and can only thank my lucky stars my own situation is, in comparison, luxurious. (I’m retired and have sufficient resources that I don’t have to go anywhere or see anyone I don’t want to.) I have always been up-front about my condition and have never faced people who, once it was explained, didn’t react appropriately. I cannot begin to understand what it must be like to have daily contact with so many inhumane, uncaring, fuckwits. Sympathy goes not very far, I know, but you have it, in spades.
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No, you predicted that someone might say something that might have a very similar effect eventually.
I think this would be on the service sheet, too.
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"He nods almost imperceptibly, acknowledging the statement in a form of non-verbal communication that only members of the Second Foundation would understand.
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It’s the fastest growing religion in the country!
(I hate the tired old fallacy of “Having no religion is a religion!”)
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At risk of repetition, projection is like a superpower for the Right. Which is why now all the “Obama will refuse to leave office and start a revolution” stuff seems a lot less funny now.
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Science is iterative. That is the thing that religiosity types can never seem to grasp. We don’t pick a position and say “this is it forever and ever, Amen.” We keep hewing closer and closer to the truth, even thought we also realize we may never completely get there. Science is a method not a religion.
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Another hymn?
I shouldn’t have dropped out of the xylophone lessons in primary school.
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