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.
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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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Actually, I did an entire essay on the diffrence between ID and evolution, and it got published in the newspaper…Now a stupid person couldn’t do that. Plus whats the point of being intelligent if your a stuck up prude that everyone hates…Where’s the fun in that?
In a way he the openning post is kind of correct, I mean we are not actually showing are full potential here. Then again I don’t really need my full potential to out wit a christian!
It seems like you have time for the joke, otherwise you would not have sent this hate-mail.
That statement itself is idiotic…any fool can believe in a god (any god) because a book or their parents told them to…to look beyond that takes not only guts and self-confidence but a brief sense of logic that isn’t circular (”I believe in this book” “why?” “because it told me to”)….and about the web site….any fool can read and comprehend something; only the knowing can enjoy the joke.
Last time I checked, sheep (and other easily led livestock) didn’t have very large mental capacities. Shocking that those who follow blindly would be attacking those who think for themselves. something to ponder I’m sure.
Betcha my IQ is higher than yourse!
> what we get is people who know nothing and want
> a place to mock religion
-f,
I believe you are confusing divine inspiration with mocking. To be sure, there are some parallels between Pastafarianism and Christianity, but just the parts that by chance, or by His noodly inspiration, Christians got right, such as the creation of the world by a single “Creator” (in 7 days for Christians, in 0.062831853 seconds, approximately, for Pastafarians). This is not a mocking of Christianity - Christians deserve credit for getting a few things right - and Pastafarians are not afraid to give credit where credit is due.
We Pastafarians simply want a level playing field - let all religions/theories be free - let them all be taught. If you truly believed in religious freedom you would be a supporter of Pastafarianism.
As for Dawkins, well again Christians and Pastafarians, can find some common ground. Dawkins has famously said that “religion is the root of all evil”. I don’t know about the Christian god, but how can “noodly goodness” be “evil” - by definition that is not possible, so Dawkins is wrong.
I would urge you -f, and you Mr Dawkins, to open your hearts to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and let him into your life.
Go in garlicy peace my friends.
Brother Boyardee
I just stumbled across this site, and had a good chuckle out of this thread.
I’ve always said “Life, no one gets out alive”. So you can either have a good time, enjoy yourself, enjoy the finer things in life. Or you can take everything totally seriously and be completely miserable for the rest of your life. Me? I think I’ll chuckle and ponder the more amusing things I stumble across…
I think you guys scared him away…
–Sean
It’s true. Smart people have no time for humor. I looked it up…seriously.
you’ve got to be kidding me. if you all take any of this stuff seriously you are just letting everyone know that you are very niave.sp? this site is ment to be humorus and prove a point. the point is that if intelligent design which is strictly based on faith alone can be taught is schools then why can’t something absurd as the flying spagetti monster? i am not saying that faith is a bad thing, i am not an atheist, but it should definitly not be taught in schools as a science.. that’s what church is for. there is much more evidence that supports evolution than that supports intelligent design and therefore, intelligent design should not be taught as a science.
By American law I am not yet an adult, but I have an IQ over 50 points above the U.S.A average. In general, yes we are a clever lot.
@ Jack Sparrow,
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You are confusing me. You are named after a paragon of piraticality, but your posts suggest to me an anti-pastafarian trend.
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Lay yer cards on the table, ye scabrous dog. Arr ye with us, or ‘gainst us?
@Devil Ponies
“Actually, I did an entire essay on the diffrence between ID and evolution, and it got published in the newspaper…”
Post it for us.
@liz Oct 27th, 2006 at 7:11 am
“Last time I checked, sheep (and other easily led livestock) didn’t have very large mental capacities. ”
Spot on liz.
Most genuinley intelligent people have a sence of humor.
Uhhh inteligent people like humor to. You don’t like the FSM fine, just dont call us all stupid when you have no proff were all as brain dead as you claim. You probly dont even know any of us personaly either so go make fun of people you know are retarted to make yourself feel better.
As someone who often eats bagels, I feel eminently qualified to expound on this matter of intelligence and how it is represented within the FSM community as a whole. Having only been knocked unconscious twice, I believe in the FSM. Having eaten more acid than TUMS and Rolaids combined, I stil can’t get stupid enough to believe in Adam, Eve, unicorns, Noah or tea leaves.
IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION, THEN DON’T GET A FLU SHOT THIS YEAR!
(Allow me to explain for the un-intelligent design loonies. Influenza viruses mutate (evolve) constantly so that each new strain must be identified and an anti-viral must be developed. However, in a world where there is no evolution, then this must not actually happen. Belive that if you will and skip the flu shot. Perhaps a few idiots will not fare so well with an untreated sickness and the herd will be culled of a few IQ curve-killers.
Take faith and twirl it on a fork.
Arrrhhhhgghhhhh. Ramen
-f seems to confuse intelligence with leisure time.
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Is there a correlation between intelligence and free time? Do smart people work more than not-so-smart people because they are working on difficult projects (some do), or less because they’ve got figured things out and don’t have to work so hard to earn a living? Probably both.
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You have to be pretty smart AND motivated AND dedicated to get a PhD. While not having a PhD doesn’t mean one is not intelligent, motivated, or dedicated.
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Obviously this site attracts people from all intelligence levels, but it’s the hate mail that proves “f’s point.
@BroBoy
Oct 27th, 2006 at 11:37 am
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“[T]here are some parallels between Pastafarianism and Christianity … such as the creation of the world by a single “Creator†(in 7 days for Christians, in 0.062831853 seconds, approximately, for Pastafarians).”
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I thought it was 10-12 minutes (or until the noodles are ‘al dente’). Then drain and serve with a delicious Saucy Wench and a tasty beer. However, I consulted the GOTFSM and - Y’aaargh! Enlightenment on page 51!
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However, I found no requirement that I forgo Saucy Wenches and tasty beer, so my belief in the wisdom of Pastafarianism is unshaken.
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May we all be touched by His Noodly Appendage.
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RAmen!
If you say that intelligent people are not attracted to pastafarianism, then their fields of expertiese are of no consequence. As soon as you say that an intelligent person is attracted to pastafarianism, then intelligent people ARE in fact attracted to it. you cannot say they they do not when by your own admission they do. the idea of them being “and exception to a rule” is likewise stupid, because by your own admission they are intelligent, and attracted to pastafarianism.
period.