Brand: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Features:
- SHOWS YOUR DEVOTION - to St. Billie, the patron saint of torch singers. The perfect gift / present for the humanist, atheist, nihilist, agnostic, spastic, bombastic, or totally regular person in your life
- ADDS FIGURATIVE AND LITERAL FLARE - Secular Saints candles are dedicated to cultural icons you can believe in. The front of each candle features the saint's image. The back of the candle shows their patronage, saint's day, and a unique prayer to inspire and enlighten
- ANSWERS AT LEAST TWO PRAYERS - UPG's Secular Saints votives are guaranteed to grant your desires ("I need romantic lighting") and aid the powerless ("I need light until the power comes back on")
- MEASURES - 8.5" tall, 2" diameter. Made of glass. This candle will add sparkle to your studio or illuminate your salon. Set out some fresh gardenias and let Lady Day inspire you through Solitude and Ill Wind, Come Rain or Come Shine
- MORE SAINTS AVAILABLE - Including Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Betty Friedan, Charles Darwin, Frida Kahlo, Jane Austen, John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut, Margaret Sanger, Nikola Tesla, Noam Chomsky, Salvador Dali, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Virginia Woolf, and William Shakespeare
Publisher: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Details: Brought to You by The Unemployed Philosophers GuildThe origins of the Unemployed Philosophers Guild are shrouded in mystery. Some accounts trace the Guild's birth to Athens in the latter half of the 4th century BCE. Allegedly, several lesser philosophers grew weary of the endless Socratic dialogue endemic in their trade and turned to crafting household implements and playthings. (Hence the assertions that Socrates quaffed his hemlock poison from a Guild-designed chalice, though vigorous debate surrounds the question of whether it was a "disappearing" chalice.) Others argue that the UPG dates from the High Middle Ages, when the Philosophers Guild entered the world of commerce by selling bawdy pamphlets to pilgrims facing long lines for the restroom. Business boomed until 1211 when Pope Innocent III condemned the publications. Not surprisingly, this led to increased sales, even as half our membership was burned at the stake. More recently, revisionist historians have pinpointed the birth of the Guild to the time it was still cool to live in New York City's Lower East Side. Two brothers turned their inner creativity and love of paying rent towards fulfilling the people's needs for finger puppets, warm slippers, coffee cups, and cracking up at stuff
UPC: 814229008538
EAN: 814229008538
Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 5.5 x 4.7 inches
Item Condition: New