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.
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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.
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I believe max means live
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@anybody
well…since Farseer and One Eyed Jack are gone…who’s here?
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Talk monday OEJ
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@Everybody
alright…well..Farseer and One Eyed Jack….I guess I’ll see you on Monday…looking forward to our debates.
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Ah gee, Billy boy, did you find out that it is really YOU that no one cares what you have to say? Did ya crap your diaper? Need mommie to change it for you? Aawww. Ain’t that cute, ya toothless wonder.
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@kupo
im truly 14
@caped crusader
I no about homosexuality
ok so whatever
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@Kupo
I know that you directed your question at OEJ, but here is my answer anyway:
Many of us are not against your religion, just against those who would try to force it on us. you cannot expect us to change our views in order to seem more polite. what we don’t like about religions in general could go on for pages on end, and if you collected all that we have stated in all of these little chat rooms into one group, it would. we do not like your god’s overly violent tendencies, his blaming his own creations for a myriad of often completely innocent “crimes”, damning those he dislikes to an eternity of pain, his amazingly hypocritical view of his own 5th commandment, and, of course, quite a few of his followers. Most orthodox Pastafarians do not mind in the least having intelligent debates with those who have different views, as in one way that is why we are here, but we cannot be expected to always reply politely to those who come on to say that we will burn in hell why they laugh by “God’s” side in heaven.
RAmen
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I won’t go so far as to claim that we are a bunch of polite pacifists (though I do like that breed). there are plenty of hate-mails going in both directions. just remember, you ARE on our site, not one devoted to your god.
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There’s my Billy boy. XXXXXXX
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sorry that I can’t quick message, but I am using dial-up and 46 kilobytes per second make it rather difficult to reply without missing 12 pages of messages.
RAmen
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Well said, Gnocci Man. Unfortunately, you are speaking to a load of school kiddies who should be studying instead of pissing in OUR Church. But there may be a ray of hope among a couple of them. RAmen for your efforts. May all your lapdances be tax deductable.
MJK
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MJK, we need to find some more intelligent people to argue with. looks like kupo and CC have vacated the premisis, and arguing with Billy is like arguing with canine fecal matter. See you tomorrow!
RAmen
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where can I get a money stamp?
I love this site. Sent to everyone I know.
a new convert,
India
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The problem is that they’ve run everybody off with their crap, but I’m glad that at least some of my friends found it fun to debate with them. I was just looking around for a thread that I’d enjoy more, but not much is going on. Oh well, back to work.
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not sure I will know how to get back to this page – you can write to me at pokerspider@aol.com
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Is someone actually selling the stamp? I thought it was a one-off kind of thing.
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“Jesus died on the cross, he made it possible to just aski him to come into your heart. So in order to get into heaven you just have to ask Jesus into your heart.†….Am I the only one who has an issue with this? Oh, is that ‘all’ you have to do!? Sounds easy enough. Except that then I’d be lying to myself because I don’t think Jesus is alive and able to understand whether I ‘take him into my heart’ or not. Also, any religion that lets Jesus-loving child molesters into heaven over good, decent, honest people who don’t happen to be Jesus-lovers is to me a disgusting perversion. No offence, of course. (For the record, I know and respect plenty of Christians who don’t see it that way at all….I’ve noticed that only the fundies seem to, actually.)
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“That the Red Sea actually parted, that the Jews crossed it (and didn’t sink into the sea bed)†Please. I’ll be honest, the biggest issue I have with that story (besides, y’know, the physical impossibility of it all) is that people actually think one guy could have convinced all those other people to follow him. Jews love to argue and debate, hence why the most popular image happens to be old bearded guys studying the Torah for the millionth time, to try and figure it out. There’s no way they’d ever be able to agree to follow Moses like that…or if they did, it would take a few dozen years. Heh. ( since people seem to get offended very easily on this thread, that was a JOKE. )
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“RELAX….†….That’s pretty funny coming from someone who’s spent so many posts trying to prove to us that a piece of satire is untrue.
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“if OEJ and I turned out to be drunk, inbred, necrophilic neo-Nazis with twelve wives,†Now *that* would be an interesting turn of events.
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“I simply said that it in no way ever says that slavery is “okay†in the eyes of God.†Ah, but it also never says it’s NOT ok, now does it? So slavery at the very least was *allowable* by god, correct?
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Italia—Whoever you are, I love you for that ‘chill out’ post of yours.
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Yay for long posts.
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Welcome aboard India. May you be forever touched by His Noodly Appendage. May the Sauce be with you and yours always. And may you find the way to Pasta Heaven. Arrrgh!
RAmen
MJK, Orthodox Pastafarian
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Fr. Corpus Callosum
“Is someone actually selling the stamp? I thought it was a one-off kind of thing.”
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!
Bobby hasn’t said what his plans for the stamp are yet, but I could tell you how to make your own custom one.
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You guys have blown this thread up with 400 posts in two days. I can’t even keep up.
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I wish the posts were numbered.
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Just goes to show what happens when a couple of creationists show up.
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Creationists showed up in the form of school kids. Yippee. And obnoxious kids to boot.
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Hey Nick… I would be quite interested in your stamp-making methodology.
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@Farseer
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I just went to Michaels (local crafts store). I found a stamp thing where you could turn various dials to spell out words (like the date stamps librarians use, but with letters). I just took an exacto knife and cut out the letters I needed. They also sell these clear plasic blocks for making your own stamps (so that you can see through the stamp and line it up with what you are stamping). I just glued the letters onto the stamping block. Don’t forget that they must be spelled out backwards! I carved the FSM image out of a rubber eraser. The vertical bars at the top, are just a strip of the letters turned upside down.
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I had tons of letters left over, so I made another stamp that also covers up “In God We Trust”, but says “Federal endorsement of a deity or religion violates the U.S. Constitution”.
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Hope this helps!
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That sounds easy enough. Thanks Nick!
May His Noodly Grace grant you a happy weekend.
RAmen
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“I happen to believe that homosexuality is directly related to a chemical imbalance in the brain.”
Well, uh, that is just idiotic. The rest of your post was good. Scientists don’t know why straight people are straight much less why gay people are gay. But good try. We’ll make a smug, left-wing assclown out of you yet.
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First of all high school students can be some of the most intelligent individuals. Many of us know our stuff and take this thread seriously. Billy is the only one who takes it as a joke. James or Kup and I love debating with everyone. Don’t sink so low as to judge us as imcompetent idiots because of our age.
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I know that scientist aren’t sure One oared Marc. Didn’t you even read the quote. It says I HAPPEN TO BELIEVE. As in it is my opinion.
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Oh and I am not religious and happen to be one of the most liberal people in the whole sate of Virginia
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You are reasonably smart for a teenager but you are fucking stupid for an adult. So, stop being so obnoxious. You happen to believe, based on what? Your own stupid opinion? Think. It doesn’t hurt. And learn.
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Oh, and Virginia is not a “sate” or a “state”. It is a Commonwealth. At least learn about where you live.
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Howdy folks.
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Damn, I missed a post fest and a half. Still, a few points…
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@Caped Crusader (pretty damn sure it was you, but cannot be assed rechecking several hundred posts) what is your fascination with Australia? First you call us idiots, (in jest I know, but still…) before going on to display a real hankering for Nikkiee. Curious…
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@Everyone; Is it just me, or did Billy slowly grow more coherent the longer he posted?
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@Whoever was talking about the seas parting; Don’t know if this helps, but I saw a BBC doco a while back that expressed the idea that the Israelites might have crossed an area thick with reeds. These reeds allowed the passage of the foot-slogging Israelites, but the horses and chariots of the pharoah’s army foundered due to lack of solid support.
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@Nikkiee. If you ever get around to reading this, I think caped crusader has a thing for Aussie girls, so watch your step.
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See you all around,
Jingles
(Australian with bells on)
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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
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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?
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@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
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I love that last one. Id definatley buy one!
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Hey yall time to fuk with thuh FSM thang sum more
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PASTAFARIANISM ROKS UH LOT
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There is definately no one tuh talk at on here
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If thuh pasta god rilly exists it can smite me down rite now
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Well ah aint been smited so thuh sum uh bitch must not be reel
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@ Billy
man u talk jus like me where r yuh from
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@ Bob
ahm from virginia Where r yuh frum
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@ Billy
HELL YAH Ahm frum VA too
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ok, i left for a few days and this post is still fucked up. wtf
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Well ah gotta go Billy ahll talk at yuh later
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Alrite bob talk at yuh later
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