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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on March 15, 2012 at 5:57am

Oh, I dunno.  He's giving his own expression to where he is, and if he is, indeed, happy, who am I to argue with him?

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Permalink Reply by Pat on March 15, 2012 at 7:29am

I don't concur. It's no more silly than a evolve, or Darwin, or dinosaur eating a fish bumper decal. I'll take him at his word that he is happy. That's more than I can say for a lot of people.

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Permalink Reply by revelwoodie on March 15, 2012 at 9:30am

I'm new to this site, so I'm having a little trouble posting this.  I hope it works this time.  I took this picture in a local parking lot:

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on March 15, 2012 at 10:11am

Nice!

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on March 15, 2012 at 11:28am

Such bravery!

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Permalink Reply by Pirate Bard on March 15, 2012 at 9:39am

I don't concur.  You say yourself it's in the parking lot of a university.  I would see this and think this car belongs to an atheist who is happy and frugal, spending money on their life, fun and education, not professional bumper decals.

I would also think this is someone who is sick of the assumption that anyone happy must have "found gawd" or conversely that you can't be happy if you haven't.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on March 15, 2012 at 10:10am

I don't think it's embarrassing at all.  It's frugal.  They are recycling a box.  It's not tiny print that you have to rear-end someone to read, like a lot of bumper stickers.  If they say they are happy, why say they are not happy?

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on March 15, 2012 at 11:15am

If you are so desperate to say that "you are happy" - typically you are trying too hard and in reality, are not happy.

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Permalink Reply by Pirate Bard on March 15, 2012 at 12:48pm

OR, you're perfectly happy and sick of people implying that you're not just because you haven't "found Gawd"... 

Now, if you equate being frustrated with a misconception and being generally unhappy, I guess you got me; however, if you think of general happiness as something that can exist for a person even while said person is frustrated with other people's misconceptions, then your argument doesn't hold water.

Bottom line to me is:  Really?  Who are you to judge whether someone is happy or not based on them claiming that they ARE?  That's right up there with saying that anyone who has an atheist (or christian, or jewish, or pastafarian, or whatever) bumper sticker of any kind couldn't possibly actually be that thing because after all "if you're so desperate to say that" then "typically you are trying to hard and in reality, are not" atheist (or christian, or jewish, or pastafarian, or whatever).

Seriously.  What's wrong with taking it at face value that the person is atheist and happy (and happened to want to say so with a home-made sign instead of shelling out money for a mass-market bumper sticker)?

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on March 15, 2012 at 11:28am

Well .. even if they are happy .. I don't see the need for the cardboard sign. Maybe they hold it up on a corner (panhandling) somewhere and hope to get money (hehe).

A Darwin fish would look classier -- I agree there.

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Permalink Reply by Sassan K. on March 15, 2012 at 1:49pm

:) It looks so damn ghetto and quite embarrassing. But I regress.

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Permalink Reply by Pirate Bard on March 15, 2012 at 12:50pm

That's not fair, John...  I was an atheist before it was "cool" to be one!  and I have the correct, classy bumper sticker to prove it!

<removes tongue from cheek>

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