Description
Show your devotion to Carl, patron saint of neighbors, long voyages, and calling Home. The perfect gift / present for the humanist, atheist, nihilist, agnostic, spastic, bombastic, or totally regular person in your life.
The 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.
- 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.
- 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. It’s the perfect gift for everyone on your team… or that special person who makes you feel most at home on our pale blue dot.
- These candles are made in the USA with domestic materials.
