Leslie Scrivener has written an excellent article, In praise of an alternate creation theory, in the Toronto Star.
From the department of one scientific theory is as good as another, comes the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The theory goes like this: the Earth and all living things were created by a Supreme Being, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and though there are no witnesses to creation, there are written accounts of it.
In time, men and women heard of the spaghetti monster and came to worship him. And as the word spread, a gospel was written and churches were established in his name.
And artists, inspired by his word, drew his image – a tangled mass of pasta, with two generous meatballs, and googly eyes protruding from stalks.
Since the Flying Spaghetti Monster was revealed in 2005, millions have seen his image or read about him and his teachings, on the Internet site www.venganza.org and also in a book published last year, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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Read the article HERE.
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L’TUAE – a brazilian is the name for a type of shave that people have “down there” there are various kinds – I think the brazilian is the full lot shaved off.
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Yeah. Sorry. Carpe Diem :)
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Alchemist, that’s your can of spaghetti-o’s.
I’m not sayin’ a word! Perv!
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Not me Peter. I’ve always thought there was something slightly worrying about blokes that like the Fred Bear.
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hahahahaha
Like my southern friends would say… I ‘heared’ dat!
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No joke Peter – it’s always creeped me out a bit has that! Why?
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I may convert! I’m a practicing Frisbeterian. We believe that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and you can’t get it down. Bit we don’t have a beer volcano, or any srippers. How do I convert? Is it hard? I hope there isn’t a test.
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Just say you’re a pastafarian and you are.
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However, some spaghetti, a pirate costume, and a few Arrrrrrrs wouldn’t go amiss either.
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So grab some grog, find a pirate (or wench, whatever floats your boat) and join the party…
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RAmen
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Jen ~ welcome to the piratehood! pass the grog, pillage some churches and as Jingles so aptly put grab a wench or pirate of your choice (or maybe one of each? aaaarrrr sounds like a rollocking port’o'call…)
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RAmen
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I do like the idea of Frisbeterians though!
Shame about the no beer volcanos…
Maybe we could steal some ideas though, that is considered normal practise for religions isn’t it?
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The article reinforces my faith in Him and reminds me of my sacred duty to spread his message.
No test to become a pastafarian, and don’t forget the 1 month free trial, after that if you don’t like it, your old religion will probably have you back.
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The Frisbeterians sound like a nice bunch. I’ve also known some Cathoholics that were okay. The best part about Cathoholics is the sexual guilt part. All that pent-up sexuality makes them really explosive.
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The Bapdismals on the other hand, are just a dour, sick bunch. They can only smoke and drink on the sly! Can you imagine? I once lit up on the steps of one of their churches and people were pissed. Who knew? Weird customs, I tell you.
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Re-Oared Marc “…I once lit up on the steps of one of their churches and people were pissed”
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Oooh you sinner, you! Didn’t you know that tobacco – I’m guessing ;) – is a thing of the flesh? An earthly desire! You should cast off all earthly desires and concentrate on the pure, the spiritual. As I have.
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I am sorry Alchemist – are you sure you are feeling alright?
Do you need to go and have a lie down?
I have a close friend who is now a Bapdismal, having married one and had to “convert” – they are so depressing to be around at times (luckily they live a long way away) but when you say slightly risky stuff you can see them wincing – I find it very hard cos in my job you have to take all sorts (and I enjoy it) but I can’t talk to my friend about any of it because she cringes! And we can never meet in pubs on Sunday cos they won’t go in them – even if they are not drinking! (she used to drink a little, don’t know if she does anymore – probably not) They are training to be ministers (or whatever they call them) – he is the main one, and she is the “little wife” (pass me a bucket!) thing is they have no idea about the real world – they live in a fantasy! If someone comes to them with a problem of domestic abuse or something they won’t have a clue!
Alchemist – do you reckon Pasta is a thing of the flesh too? I sincerely hope so!
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Ahhh Booty. The sins of the flesh! I thought it was one of those “Big Chief I-spy” type games.
“Yep, got that one and that one. Oooh, haven’t tried that yet, must make a note” I’m hoping there’s a prize.
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@Alchemist
What? Most sins tried?
Cool, I’ll give you a run for your money!
I think the prize is the beer volcanos, not so keen on the strippers personally, they tend to be too muscley for me down here on the earthly plain – I expect they will be more to my liking in heaven though ;)
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I sure, Booty, that all of the strippers will be cute, sweet, and just as you imagined them. Also, they get cuter and sweeter the more you partake of the beer volcano. I have it on high authority, and this is a big secret, that after you drink out of the beer volcano that you don’t have to get up to pee. All you have to do is think that you have and, voila, the feeling of having to go is gone! Praise FSM!
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No Pee?
Wow! That is a strange thought for a Urology nurse!
But girls LIKE going for a good social wee, it’s where we catch up on the gossip!
Cute strippers…..hmmmmm……goes off into a nice daze…….
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Hahaha – but nurse, it hurts when I pee? Stop peeing on the cat then!
BTW joined with the photo thing. I’ve not uploaded any yet but will do later on today or tomorrow. Is there a file size limit? I know they’ll probably have that in the FAQs but can’t be bothered reading them (now there’s a surprise).
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There is a download limit for the free account, it is quite a lot if you download fairly small images, and when you get to 200 images they start archiving the old ones, but if you are using it regularly I would recommend a paid account – it is really cheap and we get huge amounts of use out of ours :)
Glad you have joined up, we really like it, it’s lots of fun, and helps with the fact all our friends are such a long way away.
I won’t ask why anybody would want to pee on a cat…..to get their own back maybe….
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Booty – the cat thing is an old family joke – my dad, seriously, knew someone called Claude Balls. He knew a Senior Reg. called Dr De’ Ath too.
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I really meant the image size – all of my jpegs are 3 – 4 meg each. I suppose I’ll have to compress them?
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Erm, dunno!
We used to make the images smaller, but I don’t know how much to be honest – my husband does all the technical stuff!
Sorry, not much help am I?
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If I suddenly disappear in a bit I have gone to bed – we kind of got a bit carried away last night and didn’t get to sleep until goodness knows when – we are both nodding off big time here!
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No worry Booty. I’ll read the site info. Just being lazy:)
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:)
It’s no use – I can’t keep my eyes open – I’m for bed.
Catch you tomorrow.
‘Night!
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photos? where are they?
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I need to find a good image hosting site that’ll keep all my photos together. At the moment they’re all over photobucket.
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Beastly. That flickr site seems ok!
http://www.flickr.com/
I haven’t uploaded anything yet but have joined it. You need a yahoo id though. Still it’s free (or $25 per year if you use a lot of space)
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Hey, that thing is pretty cool. It downloaded everything really fast.
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Good! I’m going to upload some of my pics there soon. I’ll send you an invite. Be warned though, they aren’t too interesting. Unless you like Cairn Terriers, landscapes, sunsets, arty farty stuff, plants, insects and spiders etc.
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Oh, and thanks go to Booty for bringing the site up!
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I’ve some nice coast pictues I took while on a detour home from work and a few general interest ones.
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Nice, I like coastal scenes. I saw a cloud formation that looked like the FSM a few days ago. Typical luck, I didn’t have my camera ready :(
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Well, better than a cloud formation, I saw the image of the FSM in a piece of toast! I almost fainted. Of course, that was from hunger which was substantially diminished when I spread the toast with butter and jam and ate it. *Urp*
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I saw FSM in my tea today.
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Ahhh R-OM. Transubstantiation. You’ve got to love it!
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Hi Peter
ref the half evolved feathers… in fact it is you who have opted out of the debate…
I have several times asked if you would comment on Dr Fedducia’s refutation of these fossils but you dont seem to have addressed this point, last time I checked.
Nikki/Tom/Molecular biologist/etc/etc
Is it really open and transparent to keep admitting you manufacture artificial identities on BBC blog, (as you admit above) in order to oppose me???
BTW, if you have a look on BBC, you will notice I have always been a solo voice. It really doesnt matter whether everyone else abandons me or not. “Let God be true and every man a liar”.
And anyway it seems I have been virtually on my own on the BBC McIntosh threat for quite a while now.
I still dont understand why you guys are getting so hostile about all this… I dont take any of it personally and have no grudges against any of you.
I believe in free speech and thought – yours AND mine…
Bless your noodles
PB
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“Is it really open and transparent to keep admitting you manufacture artificial identities on BBC blog, (as you admit above) in order to oppose me???”
Hahahahahaha You still don’t get it do you pb?
Just like everything else!
How are you going with trying to convince everyone that scientists are trying to convert you. Hahahahahahaha
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“I still dont understand why you guys are getting so hostile about all this”
Hostile???
Hahahahaha
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Oh poor pb
Here’s a hint.
Check the dates on your earlier ” big science conspiracy” posts over at BBC, then check the dates on the Pastafaia promotion posts on the same forum.Check the dates on the above posts.
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RAmen
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Trevor!!
You party pooper :(
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Aww…and I thought everything that was said here was private and hidden from prying eyes. ;)
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@ pb,
One of the pastafarians on the ‘fringe religion’ thread is a biology lecturer, Dana, I think, if you still don’t have the basics of evolution, maybe you should go talk to her
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FSM saved me from being misguided by evolution
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Ah.
I love this article.
As i get the Toronto Star, I clipped it out. It now resides in my copy of the gospel. I intend to use it for a art project. Our teacher wants us to bring in a newspaper article, and do something with the topic of said arrticle, and our creativitity.
The FSM has blessed me. I may do art in his honour, and get marks!
RAmen.
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@Shinysheep Go with God Shinysheep. Not some stupid fucking monster that doesn’t even exsist.
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@Leporidae
You’re not Penne I can tell that much. Are you thelaughingman or maybe the FSM sent me a real gift and you’re mr. frodo. Lemme know whichi one!
RAmen
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Where can I find more on the FSM vs SPAM “feud” or the FSM vs IPU “feud”
RAmen
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Probably the forums… (take a look around the tool bar up the top, i think the link is in worship)
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@Leporidae (impersonator troll) Jan 23rd, 2007 at 7:31 pm
@Shinysheep Go with God Shinysheep. Not some stupid fucking monster that doesn’t even exsist.
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Not mine. Not even a good impersonation. Sad child!
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A fantastic read….very literate and informative. Many thanks….where is your RSS button ?
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