Yeah, I know it’s satire

Published by henderob February 21st, 2007 in Hate Mail (and concerned criticism).

Yeah, I know it’s satire.  I’m an atheist, and I hate stupid, narrow-minded fundies as much as anyone.  But honestly, this joke has run its course.  People’s lives can actually get ripped apart by Pastafarianism, though I know you don’t really believe it.  Not as many as by organized religion, but organized religion can’t really be stopped except by massive revolution, whereas Pastafarianism can be.  It was funny for a while, but you don’t seem to realize (actually, some of you probably do) that no one cares anymore, that all the hate mail is faked.  Stop laughing at the rest of the world, and realize that you’re not better than the people who post your hatemail; it’s a /joke/.  And your religion has lost its humor.  So shut up when talking to people you think are stupid.  That was the /real /meaning of the “atheists are so arrogant” post.  He was pointing out that /you/ were so arrogant in believing that there were really that many stupid people in the world.  Some of you, I am now sure, know that all this hatemail is faked.  Tell the others, and get everyone to stop acting such a fool.

RAmen,
bbctol

953 Responses to “Yeah, I know it’s satire”

1. 81 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:22 pm - Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA Says:
   
   

   Batman, I’m glad you’re inspired.
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   I really do feel sorry for Christians believing their befuddled nonsense and somehow (in their own words) not being complete without a fiction to fill some hole they feel inside themselves.
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   I’d love to help them but they mostly don’t want the help. They are troubled.
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   On the whole, the atheists I know are fantasically complete and they include the strongest most compassionate and altruistic people I have ever met.
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   I and they are complete as we stand. Is it the case that if you grow up with the emotional crutch of religion you never learn to walk by yourself? I don’t believe that is true but it might be that in general only ‘passive’ believers can turn in adulthood and ‘active’ believers are a lost cause.

2. 82 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:22 pm - ihatemyspace Says:
   
   

   Oh the irony. Was I the only one taking bbctol too seriously, yet blaming him/her for that same thing?
   Yarr.

3. 83 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:24 pm - Veritas Says:
   
   

   @Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA,
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   I fully agree with everything that you have said. Why must you make such great points, with such a poetic touch?
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   See…without this site, I would never have met this person (not that a formal greeting has occurred), and read his posts.
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   -Veritas

4. 84 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pm - Alchemist Says:
   
   

   @Jean Bart. Yes. I can be daft, irreverent (and down right gross) at times. Yet I have learned so much from this site. I don’t just leave it when I log off. I pick up books, trawl through websites, ask peoples opinions. Take an active part in many other organisations.
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   Why? Because about six months ago I stumbled across this site. I’m an active member of The British Humanist Association and Amnesty International, partly because of this site.
   What good does this site do then bbctol? A hell of a lot of good! IMHO
   RAmen

5. 85 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:29 pm - Veritas Says:
   
   

   I am taking him seriously, although Wench Beth has planted a seed of doubt.
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   If this is a charade, why would one toy with my heart?
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   -Veritas

6. 86 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:29 pm - The Lunatic Mask Says:
   
   

   Has someone read through all TLMs posts to copy his vocabulary, style and language almost perfectly? Amazing!
   RAmen

7. 87 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:29 pm - Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA Says:
   
   

   Thanks for the compliment Veritas.
   I do seem to be a litle bit on fire tonight even if I say so myself.
   RAmen.

8. 88 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:32 pm - Veritas Says:
   
   

   @Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA,
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   There must be something in the air…
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   BTW, nice to meet you.

9. 89 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pm - ihatemyspace Says:
   
   

   Well, I feel duped, anyway. bbctol, you have got to stop messing with us.

10. 90 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:37 pm - Jean Bart Says:
    
    

    @Wench Beth Feb 21st, 2007 at 3:08 pm “I forgot… Jean Bart, Peter Popoff is running for president in 2008, so that’s a perfect example of a Pastafarian trying to make a real difference in the world. (Well, he’s not really, but we all thought it was a fine idea.)”
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    Be careful: I might get tempted to throw this idea on the “Political Issues” forum. Yarrr!
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    I’m almost constantly switching from these pages to the forums and back, and they’re in some really heavy debating right now. One thread, freshly started, goes like “Can a failed suicide bomber who acted for his religion plead insanity?”

11. 91 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:37 pm - Alchemist Says:
    
    

    @ The Lunatic Mask
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    It does sound like him!

12. 92 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:42 pm - Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA Says:
    
    

    @Wench Beth Feb 21st, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    Not a bad influence & a medium denier tan. no fishnets. She’ll look very sexy and not just tarty.
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    I didn’t know it was stockings, I thought it was tights.
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    I’m resisting (and almost failing) mentioning the obvious advantage of stockings with the thigh length boots.
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    Sherlock is a very lucky man and given that he is an atheist proof of the non-existence of God.
    If there were a God, why would he give Sherlock Booty?
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    RAmen.

13. 93 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:43 pm - Batman Says:
    
    

    @all
    Well, cripes… I was taking bbctol seriously (or at least assuming he/she was a genuine person with a genuine problem/question). So now what? Who is it?
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    @Veritas
    I am Canadian. And at least you have paperwork to make you look like you are working and give you something to move around in different piles. I used to have that… then I got “promoted”, and now pretty much my sole responsibility is sending out emails, organizing the office in-box, and generating reports that nobody reads. I know nobody reads them… oh the pointlessness of it all. =( But hey, at least it gives me lots of time to play around on the internet… so at least I am learning all the time… maybe not so pointless then?
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    @Captain
    Even if bbctol is faking it, you have made a wonderful argument. I am enjoying your posts, mostly because you are highlighting the good points of FSMism etc. rather than feeling like you have to defend against the negative aspects. Positive action will defeat negative reaction every time.

14. 94 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:52 pm - Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA Says:
    
    

    It may be that bbctol is someone playing a devils advocate, but that’s a different thing from the satirical ‘Solider of God’ parody posts.
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    As you say who cares. I don’t at all accept the argument that we should knock religion because religion doesn’t like it. Human relations are too complex and too interwoven for adults to always take the path of least resistence. Nasty people have it over nice people because the nice ones take the path set by the nasty. That can’t be good.
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    It will cause friction but this isn’t pointless spite. Religion is a serious worldwide problem but unlike things like disease it is entirely within the power of mankind to cure it. He/she created and could in principle destroy it by this time tomorrow. All he/she would need to do is realise the folly.

15. 95 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:55 pm - Veritas Says:
    
    

    “even if bbctol is faking it, you have made a wonderful argument…”
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    Even if the posts/emails/everything else is fake (this includes everything on the site), I couldn’t care less. The information is the only thing that matters in this case.
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    Batman,
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    Maybe one day I shall venture north, and visit your land of (true) freedom.

16. 96 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:59 pm - Dominic Says:
    
    

    bbctol, are you as much of a dick as you seem ? I strongly doubt that you are what you claim or you would not have made the moronic statement that

    “People’s lives can actually get ripped apart by Pastafarianism”

    Reading this was enough to make it pretty obvious you are some kind of religious nut - if you really thought that the FSM was a joke that had run its course you wouldn’t have visited the website in the first place, let alone come back to repeatedly. Any way you look at it, you don’t actually “get” the satire because sane people do not react to something they know to be satire in such a bizarre way as you claim to have done.

17. 97 - February 21st, 2007 at 3:59 pm - Jean Bart Says:
    
    

    @Batman Feb 21st, 2007 at 3:43 pm”I used to have that… then I got “promoted”, and now pretty much my sole responsibility is sending out emails, organizing the office in-box, and generating reports that nobody reads. I know nobody reads them… oh the pointlessness of it all.
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    Just put some “Satanic Verses” in those reports, and wait… Yarrr!

18. 98 - February 21st, 2007 at 4:00 pm - Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA Says:
    
    

    I mean
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    I don’t at all accept the argument that we should not knock religion because religion doesn’t like it.
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    above.

19. 99 - February 21st, 2007 at 4:04 pm - Captain Noodulous Silicate TBHNA Says:
    
    

    By the way folks, bbctol parents have been calling him but we know TLM (I can not believe we still talk about the witless twat) lives at home with his parents.
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    People don’t usually lie about things they don’t think they need to, so I think bbctol can not be TLM.
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    As him if his grand parents have underwater lighting in their swimming pool. The real TLM couldn’t possibly resist boasting about that and would break cover to do it.
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    Ha Ha. He really was a witless twat. I remember my mathematical proof of that is on the site somewhere.
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    Ho Ho & RAmen.

20. 100 - February 21st, 2007 at 4:14 pm - Batman Says:
    
    

    @Jean Bart
    HA HA HA HA HA… well, I would try that if I wasn’t pretty sure I would be fired for it. Nobody has noticed that I have been including a “Word of the Day” at the bottom of each one, which I take from the “undictionary” or just make up myself…
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    Seriously now, I just signed into the forums, but don’t really know what to do there, besides read all the posts. They’re interesting, but I find it kind of intimidating. I”m such a weenie…
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    @Veritas
    Aye, our land is free and our beer is like moonshine! (paraphrasing John Stewart in Big Daddy) Too bad about all this stupid snow, though. =(
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    @Captain
    If I was going to argue with you about making fun of religion (which I’m not really, you would probably wipe the floor with me), I would say that mutual respect is important, but if their beliefs can’t stand up to criticism then why believe? I think lots of us here make fun of the fundies, but it is usually done intelligently, with a good sense of humor, and they need to realize that humor is not their enemy.
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    I didn’t really say that right, but I am so hungry right now I can’t think anymore.

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