Dear Bobby Henderson,
Please find attached photos of the FSM cake decoration I made out of icing sugar. The decoration has raisins as meatballs and dried dried fruit bits as eyes. As you can see in the second photo, it is being worshipped by penguins.
Regards
Beastly Rich
Yum! That looks awesome! I like the penguin Pastafarians, too :) Hey, maybe if any Pastafarians get married, you could do their wedding cake!
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Hmmm… that made me think… have there been any Pastafarian weddings yet? Who would be authorized to perform such a wedding (other than Captain Jack Sparrow)? Well, at least I know what food would be served at the wedding dinner! RAmen!
Yes, the penguins are a nice touch. His Noodliness looks almost too good to eat.
RAmen and Happy Holidays to all
MJK
I found an interesting essay on the Public Library of Science website about teaching evolution in American Universities. Here is the link:
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0030364
@Coleoptera
Interesting read. I’m not teaching in my job (which btw, is in physics, not biology), but I’ve bookmarked it anyway.
@Queen of Rock’n'Roll
Interesting that you mention Pastafarian weddings. In part of the UK (Scotland) you can have humanist weddings. Unfortunately not in England or Northern Ireland yet. An attempt was made to get them authorised in N-Ireland too, but that failed. So there is actually a good bit of ‘marriage travel’ going on. People from other parts of the UK who want humanist weddings have them in Scotland. Anyone who would want a Pastafarian wedding could probably have an authorised humanist conduct the wedding and you would likely be free to give the event as much Pastafarian flavouring as you like.
I’m looking forward to seeing Scotland become a pirate marital haven. So if you want to marry that special someone but she has doubts, then be a good pirate, kidnap your love, and sail her in your pirate ship to a (cutless, not shotgun) wedding in Scotland.
I just came across a very interesting ID article on the Dawkins site (from The New Scientist) that I had missed previously. It goes into some detail of types of research the IDiots are conducting to disprove evolution.
“Intelligent design: The God Lab”
http://richarddawkins.net/article,421,Intelligent-design-The-God-Lab,Celeste-Biever-Redmond
It looks so tasty, and a perfect follow up to a bowl of speghetti and marinara sauce.
RAmen to my fellows Pastafarians all over the world ! REMEMBER, do not participate in decadent and sadly spiritualistic christian Christmas celebrations ! This would be a blasphemy towards our creator, almost tantamount to apostasy, punishable by death. It is your duty to spread the Gospel to convert the heathen and the beasts of the field. I want to say thanks to Beastly Rich for his wonderful cakes, they are awsomely good. Nonetheless I am ill at ease, for some of my pastafarian brothers in France have started worshipping the Sacred Being through the medium of Beastly Rich’s cakes. Should I consider this as apostasy/heresy and chop them to bits? I await the answer of the Reverend Bobby Henderson concerning those trainee heretics. I’ll nonetheless keep on spreading the word in France!
@julien
“REMEMBER, do not participate in decadent and sadly spiritualistic christian Christmas celebrations!”
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Ah…but what better place and time to spread the word of His Noodley Goodness?
I myself, found xmas lunch (non-christian/non-spiitual) with close family and friends just such a perfect ocassion to introduce FSM to those who had not previously heard word of
the one true God.
RAmen
Sorry to disagree with you, julien, but it is not Christianity itself that I have a problem with, it is the fundies. Fundies of any sort are annoying at best and dangerous at worst no matter what their religious affiliation. Our Creator, the FSm, wants us to spread the word, surely, but to force feed our faith upon others would render us no better than them. And just how does Pastafarian heaven, with a beer volcano and a stripper factory, constitute any form of punishment by death. Blasphemy is simply a bad idea.
Concerning Beastly Rich’s cakes, I would hope that when the tequila wears off they would return to their Pastafarian ways. One can only hope and pray to the FSM.
RAmen
@julien: No blasphemy is ever punishable by death. Christmas is not necessarily a Christian holiday. If you really look at the facts you’ll see that Jesus was more likely born in the spring, but it does not correspond with the Christian advent calender from birth to death. Many of the Christmas traditions come from Norse and Wiccan origins. The Yule festival is on the solstice and is crowned with evergreen wreaths. The Norse god Wotan travels on a sleigh pulled by his white horse to grant wishes to the good and beat the naughty with a yew switch - an obvious reference to Santa Clause.
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Sorry, got off the point. Please julien don’t be so aggressive about our religion. It is not what we preach and leads to fanaticism.
@ Nikki
Nice one, smite them with kindness, I say. And thanks for the link from Dawkins. Had missed that one and added it to my collection. Maybe the IDiots will be the ones to disprove their own theory! Well, I can hope can’t I?
RAmen
Hi Mad John. Hope you had a nice food/drink fest with family/friends.
I did gather quite a little interested audience at our pagan lunch celebration, when I started to expound on my new religion. Wish that I’d had taken a few more brochures with me. As it was, I only quickly printed off one for the householder at the last minute before my lift was due to depart to said gathering.
I didn’t pass that one around either, due to past experience of myself being one of the first targets of the kids (now traditional) water bombs. The kids were right on cue too. I was the second one drenched once they started!
Hahahaha…sorry, I didn’t mean to laugh at you, I was just imagining the look on your wet face. Can’t part with tradition now. Sounds like a fun lot you have there. (Well, maybe not for the target, anyway.)
Congrats on your conversion excursion. Today was my annual “listen to mum talk about life when she was a little girl” day. Most of the stories I’ve heard before, but occasionally she pops in a new one. I tolerate it because tomorrow is Boxing Day and me and dad will watch the footie and put back a few pints all day. So mum deserves to have her day before that.
Oh and I talked to me mate who owns the theatre company. I told him about the play that the group in California did and he is interested in doing something similar. Plus there is a guy next door who has a print shop and will do a deal printing out full-colour brochures for us to hand out. Something for next spring, but I’m already excited about spreading the word.
“Today was my annual “listen to mum talk about life when she was a little girl†day…………So mum deserves to have her day before that.”
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I always love listening to such stories. Living history! Also the mother is the one referred to as ’she who should not be ignored”
‘I tolerate it because tomorrow is Boxing Day and me and dad will watch the footie…’
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Boxing day is already winding down here. (~4.00pm) Do you want me to tell you who won? Hahahahaha
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‘Plus there is a guy next door who has a print shop and will do a deal printing out full-colour brochures for us to hand out.’
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I refill all my ink cartridges myself , so full colour is very inexpensive to produce.
I did all of the ones I took out to the uni at end of semester celebrations in full colour because I wanted people to keep them and have a good look at it when sober! (in case they didn’t remember how much they liked the idea when they were drunk)
I lurve me mum, but we have never seen eye to eye…on anything. She is always RIGHT and I am always WRONG. Having said that, I understand that it is merely her way of telling me she lurves me, so I don’t let it get to me and she would probably lose respect for me if I abandoned standing my ground now. We’ve never come to blows or anything and it is not as bad as it sounds, we just lurve to ARGUE. However, she does have a sense of humour, is quite taken with the FSM and can’t stand the fundies or this thing going on over in Kansas either (so I guess we DO have that in common). Me dad just shakes his head with a grin and stays out of it. Think I’ll make a noodly topper for her tree next year. :)
“She is always RIGHT and I am always WRONG.”
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Oh, I always thought that was a womens prerogative. Isn’t it?
I’ve got a b/w laser printer for my reports, quite the little workhorse, coming up on my one millionth page printed on that machine. The ink jet printers get used up to fast in my experience. For the colour stuff I go to a print shop. It’s tax-deductable for me anyway.
Kudos on the uni job. And it’s almost tomorrow here. We can actually get more matches here in the states now than me mates back in the UK. We’ve got five matches line up. Cable is really cool.
@ NIkki—“She is always RIGHT and I am always WRONG.â€
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Oh, I always thought that was a womens prerogative. Isn’t it?
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Surely, but I can’t let her know that. She would never forgive me. :)
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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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