It’s not accurate to say that FSM attracts intelligent followers by its nature. Genuinely intelligent people don’t have time for the joke, so what we get is people who know nothing and want a place to mock religion, as well as people who have read up a bit on evolution or have read up on Dawkins and have a few points on which they can argue.
-f
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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“Typically we refer to them by their religious affiliation. “Morons†is really harsh. For shame.”
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Yes, I think this is a typo: he meant “Mormons”.
“It’s not accurate to say that FSM attracts intelligent followers by its nature. Genuinely intelligent people don’t have time for the joke…â€
Actually, I think it’s the truly intelligent who realize humor is one of (if not the) most important things in life. If you can’t laugh, why bother living?
Wait, so you actually think that getting a PhD is simply a matter of studying hard? That intelligence is in no way inherited or socialized?
I knew Phil Plait was a Pastafarian. Had to be. hehe.
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OEJ
One of the things I love about this site is how intelligent and witty so many Pastafarians are. I’m not one to debate theology, and I don’t have a PhD, yet I’m no fool. There are plenty of intelligent posters of the non-Pastafarian type also, but I don’t find them very amusing. I admire those of us who debate Christians on their own terms, however. Now, I have to go look for a vegetable costume for Halloween. My department at work has been instructed to dress up as vegetables.
If you are under the age of 20 you are automaticly stupid- According to -f’s logic, since you can’t have a PHD @ that point. So basicly, wasting many years of your life @ an academic institution = intelligent. Just thought i’d sum it up
-f,
God loves you, everybody else….
Sorry -f, a bit below the belt but hey it makes me laugh and drains my intellect!!
Can you tell me is intelligence a requirement to get into Heaven?
I’d just like to say that this is just hilarious. Look at all the people getting worked up because we believe in FSM instead of God. Hello people! What happened to religious freedom? Oh, since I’m a pastafarian, I’m stupid and deserve to go to hell? Yeah, all of you people getting worked up about this make me laugh till I pee!
And I’ll still be laughing after I pass away, as I quaff from the beer volcano and watch those handsome strippers rolling off the assembly line! Ramen!
Travis: I’m 15, in university 2nd yr and I see no reason why I can’t have a PhD before 20…
-f you.
Oh, and stop this discussion. The “intelligence” -f’s talking about is only “christian intelligence”, which is equal to 1/(academic knowledge). -f’s intelligence is infinity, while ours is 0.
“Genuinely intelligent people don’t have time for the joke,”
Thank you. I hate how people always think genuinely intelligent people like us have the time to process anything other than completely bare statements of fact. As if I could possibly dedicate my precious brain cycles to the terribly obfuscated idea behind the FSM. It would just take so much mind juice to even begin to think about it.
Just the other day, the following exchange took place between me and a good friend of mine:
Him: “Knock Knock!”
Me: “SHUT UP CAN’T YOU SEE I’M BEING GENUINELY INTELLIGENT”
@Obscurans
“christian intelligenceâ€
Yet another oxymoron! There are so many good ones on this site.
RAmen
@Opa-Opa
…Him: “Knock Knock! …
Who’s there?
“Genuinely intelligent people don’t have time for the joke”
Jokes take no time at all. Either you get it or you dont. Then its funney or it isnt. I dont see as how the joke part takes any time at all. Or is it that intelligent people dont participate in jokes. Are you saying that all intelligent people are boring, glum and joke free?
Hey F-!
You said the expertise of PhDs is narrow. They know about the field they have worked on, so why should they know more about religion than anybody else? This is your point, right?
So here is an answer. Getting a PhD is more than remembering random shit. Having a PhD means making a scientific carrier, specifying and in fact narrowing the field of work. When you do this, you get fucking aware of the fact that you cannot study the whole world, and you will stay ignorant in many respects. But why should this keep one from studiying, from trying to understand the world? The question is how to treat ignorance.
And this is the point where science and religion differ. Science accepts ignorance, religion does not. A scientist knows that he doesn’t know shit - but he also knows that he could investigate things and would, with patience, find out. For religious people, there is nothing you they don’t know (or, from the scientist’s view, they do not accept their ignorance and are too fucking lazy to switch on their brains). In religion, everything you don’t know - is GOD! (sorry, I of course would say the Spaghetti monster). By the way, in logic, you call this “argumentum ad ignorantiam”.
Believe what you want, but if you can switch on your brains and think about it… realize that religion and science are perspectives - and fucking are different.
Greetz, mopert!
I heard einstien had a wicked sense of humour……look at the hair….nuff said…
You specified intelligence. Do your responses mean everyone who does not study religion is unintelligent? And how many Christians do get a PHD in religion? I’m willing to bet that a lot of them choose other subjects. So what makes them more qualified than us?
Also, I’ve got to say that unintelligent people would go “lol, spagetti” and forget about the FSM. Intelligent ones would get the purpose and continue to be amused and support this new God.
I agree with SaucyWench - I find Pastafarians to be seriously funny as well as seriously (or is that genuinely?) intelligent, as a whole. There are many witty folks hanging out here. Plus, there’s the fun of being a pirate.
lunchlady
PS Too bad you have to be a vegetable for Halloween at work, SaucyWench - I get to wear my full pirate regalia (well, except I have to leave my pistol and sword at home), and go to school and feed my students pasta!
Tell you what. When you can present to me evidence that you are right, and FSM is wrong- then I will convert to whatever religion you are. But you have to present evidence against thousands of years of time that your religion didnt’ exist, present a logical explanation for the countless inconsistencies in your holy book, explain why your religion is “more” correct than the thousands of other religions that present the reason “because god said so”… actually… how about you just email me; I have a checklist.
lunchlady, how lucky you are! Now wait a minute, though. Couldn’t I at least pay a little homage to His Noodliness and go as tomato or spinach pasta of some kind? I think that qualifies as a vegetable. At the very least, it would confuse people.