For those keeping score, the DonorsChoose Challenge stands at $3,262 right now. Only hours remain before this week's incentive deadline, so act quickly:
- For another $290, I'll stab myself with a fork.
- For another $540, I'll read and respectfully review Richard Dawkins's book, or some other atheist screed
- For another $2,737, you'll get one blissful year free of post titles like this one.
If any of those options appeal to you, act quickly. Time is running out...
(I'll do something different for an incentive next week. What, I'm not sure, but there'll be something different.)
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So, let's review the week in DonorsChoose fundraising:
Atheist baiting netted about $60, from three donors.
Appealing to your better nature brought in zip, zero, nil, nada. Not one person donated to the highlighted proposal after I posted that.
Offering to stab myself with a fork brought in $200…
As you may or may not recall, last year's DonorsChoose fundraiser featured a few... unusual offers. At one point late in the proceedings, I offered to read and review a New Atheist screed for $1000 in new donations. And, since I had previously said that I would rather stab myself with a fork than…
Well, the DonorsChoose challenge came up short of the "stab myself with a fork" threshold by the Friday deadline, though the whole business turned out to be surprisingly effective. Go figure.
At this point in things, militant atheist baiting is pretty much played out as a fundraising strategy,…
At the time of this writing (about 8:20 on Monday), my DonorsChoose challenge entry stands at $2,802, nearly double last year's take. That's outstanding, and I thank everyone who contributed.
Of course, I set a Challenge goal of $6,000, which means we're not quite halfway there. Which means I need…
What kind of fork, how deep, how long will the fork remain in you, and will there be any mentalist fork bending done during the show?
Hindus have 30 crores of gods - 300 million deities. Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe in no gods but one, atheists believe in no gods at all. Christians, Jews, Muslims, and atheists are therefore indistinguishable to eight decimal places.
A shortcoming of perturbative treatments is obvious.
For another $540, I'll read and respectfully review Richard Dawkins's book, or some other atheist screed
The fact that you keep painting them as "screeds" isn't real encouraging, given the generally negative connotations of that term.
A theist with a degree in Physics has wasted four years of her/his life and thousands of dollars. I suppose this is one way of making that money back...