Nick Jones came up with this FSM money stamp. It covers up “In God We Trust” and replaces it with “In Pasta We Trust”. I like it.
Closeup: 
BoingBoing had a post a while ago showing a tiny stamp to strike out the word “God” from paper money:
Which prompted Kim Moser to suggest the following FSM stamp:
Here’s what I want to know: how many people would be interested in a money stamp? We could have them made if there’s enough interest.
The Church is funded entirely by your purchases of FSM merchandise. Thank you for your support.
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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Damn!!!!!!!
did I miss out on all the good stuff?
Is anyone left to argue with?
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Speaking of money everyone here should listen to this, as it deals with education in America!
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http://inc-omplete.org/2006/12/08/verizonverizon/
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Download the file and listen, its the funniest thing I have heard in quite a while!
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Verizon operators and management don’t understand the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars. Its almost painful to listen to but absolutely hilarious!
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http://inc-omplete.org/digg/verizon.mp3
@James
“If you’re half as smart as you’ve been making yourself, you’ll know about the SIMPLE laws of thermodynamics. The point is, things aren’t “evolving†if anything, we’re declining in everything.” (My capitals).
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I have heard of the laws of thermodynamics. As you have pointed out they are simple and cannot be extrapolated beyond simple systems. Importantly the laws of thermodynamics break down when energy is added to the system. For example, a fire will go out unless energy in the form of wood is added.
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In systems which involve living organisms energy is constantly being added. Ultimately this energy is derived from the sun which plants and other organisms with chloroplasts use to sythesise carbohydrates. Carbohydrates can then be broken down releasing their stored energy to power chemical reactions in cells that sythesise other molecules like proteins.
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“These laws tell us that energy is always decreasing, mountains are becoming short and dull, our very sun is slowly going out, you get the idea.”
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These laws tell us no such thing. They tell us that energy is held constant but that systems tend towards simplicity. It takes more energy to make stuff than to break stuff.
@James
“If you’re half as smart as you’ve been making yourself, you’ll know about the SIMPLE laws of thermodynamics.” (My capitals).
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I have heard of the laws of thermodynamics. As you have pointed out they are simple and cannot be extrapolated beyond simple systems. Importantly the laws of thermodynamics break down when energy is added to the system. For example, a fire will go out unless energy in the form of wood is added.
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In systems which involve living organisms energy is constantly being added. Ultimately this energy is derived from the sun which plants and other organisms with chloroplasts use to sythesise carbohydrates. Carbohydrates can then be broken down releasing their stored energy to power chemical reactions in cells that sythesise other molecules like proteins.
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“These laws tell us that energy is always decreasing, mountains are becoming short and dull, our very sun is slowly going out, you get the idea.”
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These laws tell us no such thing. They tell us that energy is held constant but that systems tend towards simplicity. It takes more energy to make stuff than to break stuff. The sun is going out because it is losing energy into space in the form of things like light, heat and sound. Although the sun’s energy is lost to the sun it is still in space. Some of it arrives on earth as I said before.
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“The point is, things aren’t “evolving†if anything, we’re declining in everything.”
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One thing that we seem to be declining in is science education.
@James
“Over time, man has…oh lets say…improved. We have better eye sight, we’re taller, we’re smarter and more civilized. Now show me the evidence of one different species changing into a completely different species.”
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So, you agree that over time traits within a population change in frequency. You would also agree that traits that improve the number of surviving offspring increase in frequency and vice versa. In a short space of time, say 30 years, we can artificially change the frequency of traits within a population of animals or plants to produce different breeds. Nature can also change the frequency of traits within a population. This is microevolution as you may know it.
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Up until here I don’t think we are in disagreement. If we extend our time line to 300,000 years and place multiple selection pressures on our populations we get speciation. You may know this as macroevolution. There is no difference between miro- and macroevolution, they are simply different scales of the same phenomenon. Accepting one and not the other is ludicrous. To do so would be like saying I believe that centimetres are real but I don’t like to sound of kilometres.
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“In case there are some of you that are a bit more challenged than others and try to use the lame excuse of primates mating with another species to create us, that doesn’t work. It’s like trying to mate a horse and a donkey,they create a mule, but the mule is now sterile and can never reproduce or help reproduce. So unless you want to try explaining to me that we came from animals where that doesn’t apply, like dogs, I’m not thinking so.”
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Hybridisation is not as simple as you make out and depends on a lot of factors. The most important is probably genetic relatedness. Some hybrids are fertile like wheat (a hybrid of 2 species of grass). Some hybrids are all female but can still produce offspring in a type of asexual reproduction known as parthenogenesis. As you point out, other hybrids are infertile like mules. Dogs are all very closely related and are considered to be the one species. Consequently, offspring from the crossing of 2 breeds of dog are not considered hybrids.
@Nick the Infidel: ‘I made the original “In Pasta We Trust†one. Right now its a one of a kind. I’d be stamping some bills with it now, if I had some damn money!’
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Very nice work. By the way, I’ve been wanting to ask you if you are the ‘Mr. Pessimistic’ Nick. Are you?
@max-a-million Dec 8th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
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“Farseer
what are your views in the christian faith????
(notice the question marks) ”
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It’s taken me a bit to work my head around this, because in addressing your question, I could easily write a book. Instead, I will keep it simple.
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I believe that Christianity is a myth. In order to explain what they don’t understand, humans create mythology. Because the origins of our universe are uncertain and the inevitability of death is both mysterious and terrifying, the Christian myth is embraced by many for it seems to hold answers to these unknowns.
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My views on the Christian faith expand much further than that, but for brevity’s sake, I’ll save elaboration for later posts.
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-Farseer
I love that last one. Id definatley buy one!
Hey yall time to fuk with thuh FSM thang sum more
PASTAFARIANISM ROKS UH LOT
There is definately no one tuh talk at on here
If thuh pasta god rilly exists it can smite me down rite now
Well ah aint been smited so thuh sum uh bitch must not be reel
@ Billy
man u talk jus like me where r yuh from
@ Bob
ahm from virginia Where r yuh frum
@ Billy
HELL YAH Ahm frum VA too
ok, i left for a few days and this post is still fucked up. wtf
Well ah gotta go Billy ahll talk at yuh later
Alrite bob talk at yuh later