Oh, wise prophet,I, James of the family Duck would like to enlighten you of the plight faced by the soldiers, civilians, Iraqis and pirates in his noodly appendages cradle of civilization. Currently the United States Army provides a vast and diverse Chaplains Corp to fulfill the spiritual needs of its hard pressed soldiers. However at the more remote sites, the Chaplains visit when they can about once a month and distribute literature and religious supplements like crosses, Korans and rosaries.Unfortunately there are no Pastafarian Chaplains for those touched by His Greatness. We believe that His Noodlyness deserves equal time along side those theories that harness the power of the printed letter and printer ink. Even without resources one lone Pastafarian has spread the word to the willing and now over 10% ( 3.27 people) of our installation have been touched. The local Pastafarians lack the proper eye-patches, swords, hook hands and frilly pirate clothes to properly speak to others who may also seek the truth in these ancient lands. I propose that if we had official looking papers with letters on them bound into a 192 page “Gospel” to stack proudly next to our mountain of more commonly available books more passers by (which we get quite a lot) could take interest in the Truth that is Flying Spaghetti Monster.We where wondering, oh wise one, if you could help us out in our plight to spread the word by sending eye patches, hook hands and if possible big pirate hats and a number of copies of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster . We here do not have the expendable resources to print out pamphlets, posters or charts showing how global warming is afflicting the pirate population and feel a couple copies of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will enforce equal time.Thank You for listening to our plea,SPC Duck, James and fellow PastafariansP.S. If you would like to help us out please email me back so I can give you our address. We really want to take pictures of us in Iraq with FSM propaganda and we think the Iraqi Army guys here with us would love it too! We also think that a picture of an American and an Iraqi coming together under His Noodly Appendage would be a great message of world peace. Of course we will try our best not to just jump one of the Iraqi Army guys here and snap a shot off, we will do our best to inform him so he is totally aware of the decision he is making to put his face on the Internet and what it is for. These guys risk their lives just working here.
P.P.S. Also I saw a US civilian contractor with a “Do you believe?” shirt on a month or two back. Did not get to talk to her, but let it be known the truth is out there. Even if nothing comes of all this, THANK YOU for providing us with such awesome entertainment. I does get people thinking.
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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
Baghdad - That’s what I meant. Stupid laptop.
Thanks for the reminder Alchemist, I had seen the letter2ted but hadn’t realised that it could also function for anonymous communication. Useful.
And nice to see that new posts are appearing even on Christmas day. At least here it still is, your time zone mileage may vary.
Hi DutchPastaGuy. I think we’re in the same timezone (UK). Mind you, I’m in Yorkshire now so it’s anyones guess. Had a look at your linked site - the mathematics bit scared me off but it sounds like you’re doing some interesting work (I’ve always had a problem with equations that start with big squiggles :))
I love the idea of building a multinational experimental fusion reactor in France (I think I heard that?)
Have a good one.
Hi Alchemist,
I’m lagging the continent by 1 hour.
The physics involved in my work is numerical quantum mechanics, but it’s not as bad as it sounds. Quantum mechanics certainly is bizarre at times. A great theoretician, Richard Feynman said something like ‘If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you haven’t understood it well’. But if you’re doing rather applied quantum mechanics then the complexity doesn’t show up during most of your work. People who are way smarter than me write codes that implement the difficult theoretical side. For most of it I’m just gratefully using their work to get my things done.
You heard correct about the fusion reactor in France. But don’t count on that for at least 25 years to light your living room. And fusion energy has been ‘25 years away from’ us for the past 4 decades. But I’m not too worried. I’m interested in fundamental research to see how nature works, not the technological application. The research proposal from which I’m paid may have said something about the great practical benefits to society, but that was done probably because any proposal that doesn’t promise to solve global warming, air and water pollution, AIDS, abolish locust plagues and bring peace throughout the world has little chance of being accepted.
@DutchPastaGuy - you said the evil word (quantum) run away, run away. I still shiver when I recall QCD and PW Atkins. I’m one of the mathematical illiterate - I can suffer basic calculus but no more.
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What you said about AIDS, plague and peace. A noble statement and I’ll join you in it. Unfortunately a good number of people seem to relish these things. The age of reason has gone!
oops, didn’t read the end of your post (as usual). Sorry.
Still stands though. It’s a crying shame that scientific research is so dependent upon grants from business.
I was once sponsored by ICI (Zeneca) - All I managed was the null hypothesis :)
The only question is, will the Shiite and Sunni Muslims join opposite sects of the Church?
‘K, it’s been a couple of days, has SPC Duck decided which propoganda he wants and how we can send it to him? I also advise using someone’s site as middle ground for this. I will send stuff, I just need to know how. Duck, could you please say which of the posters and phamphlets you prefer? Colorful or wordy? Both?
Oh! Hey! Is there some sort of army thing we can send the stuff to, and they’ll pass it on?
SP5 R Kowalski
1st Signal Btn
44th Sig Bde
Long Binh, RVN 1971-1972
Is that the Duckman’s adress or someone else’s?
@L’TUAE_42
“Is that the Duckman’s adress or someone else’s?”
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Not Duckman’s. It belongs to:
The Naughty Oarsman Dec 24th, 2006 at 10:43 am
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Ok, sorry, my chocolate high is leaving me slightly disoriented.
hahaha…..I, myself have 4 or 5 boxes of those in the fridge unopened. Will make an effort to start on them sometime. I think I am still digesting yesterdays lunch (and drinks!) and may be doing so for a few days yet!
“Even without resources one lone Pastafarian has spread the word to the willing and now over 10% ( 3.27 people) of our installation have been touched.”
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I wonder if Duck and co. have manged to convert the other 6.73% of that person yet.
Of course you meant the other 0.73% of that person didn’t you Grand Mama?
Hello Everyone!
I know it has been a bit long, but things have been happening over here…
1. Someone else in the Army in Iraq saw my letter, I am not sure if he wants his contact info added to mine for FSM stuff and I was waiting a bit to see if he was OK with that.
2. “Things” I cannot talk about that might have changed my mailing address got worked out.
3. A Fellow Pastafarian has found my myspace, I was kind of wondering it that would happen… neat
I have decided that hey, if you want to send stuff, contact me at my Yahoo account at
james.duck@yahoo.com-nospam please-
Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the
Children of God
(Mat 5:9)
Jesus’s way is not by sword but by cross
http://club.us.cyworld.com/prcc