Woah….that is just so..so…dumb. Really, it is. I hope no one actually thinks that that graph has any purpose, or credibility. Global warming and pirates have nothing in correlation. The reason global temperatures have increased is due to (not only just greenhouse gas, which actually do not contribute much overall) the earth’s natural process of heating and cooling. Pirate numbers have decreased because the practice is far less accepted and is more easily restricted. I don’t mean to sound rude, well actually I do. That’s bullshit, all of it. Seriously. I’d rather you believe in no higher power, and have good morales, than worship dinner.
-sean
Thanks Nikkiee. I think I’ve got the coolest tag in the whole of the known universe.
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@ Ûž – I think that very well may be true! :)))
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your a complet retard of course pirates and global warming corrospond. the graph explanes it, hell even a dumb ass kid would know that. youre a waste of my time. TTFN
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Wow, so much hate and discontent, all in the name of religion. How easy it is to spew forth hate freely while cloaked in anonymity, yet claim to be an upright God-fearing (Jew, Christian etc)in front of those who know you and would (Horrors!) judge you? Personally I think your all full of shit, Christian, Jew, Muslim etc, religion being a panacea (narcotic, even, if you will) for those of weak mind and afraid of the dark, but what do I know, I’m just a pasta-loving pirate!
I don’t cloak myself but stand naked (eeks!) for ALL to see.
Ramen
Ron
Pocatello, Idaho (not much of the briney deep here)
rhewittidaho@msn.com
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@Ronbo – I commend you for your superior utilization of sarcasm.
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Reading your hate mail is, to me, like the 20th minute after eating a prozac (I imagine): I feel my blood pressure going down and my mood lifting. I’m ashamed to admit how gratifying I find seeing you get under the skin of so many morons. Perusing the hate mail should be considered a sacrament.
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@ Ronbo May 8th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
@ Aristotle, God of Satire May 8th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
@tim snead May 8th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
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RAmen
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RAmen
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What a world we live in, to see so many who hate so indiscriminately (and swear so often when plain old not-swear-words speak the truth so much more eloquently).
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Eh, I’m not going to add to the already brilliant responses posted here, just adding in to say how delightfully chewy these hate-mails/concerned criticisms are. They taste delicious (even if some of them are fake, they’re still hilarious!)
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~Auryon the Ultimate Lurker
P.S. @tim snead: A sacrament indeed! It should be considered a national pastime. & @sean: We have excellent morale, thank you!
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Restatement. I think it may be an attept at homeostasis, as follows:
1. Warming up the earth means a melting of the polar ice caps.
2. The melting of the ice caps results in risen sea levels.
3. Risen sea levels adversely cause there to be less land surface.
4. Less land surface forces sea living population increase.
5. Increase in sea living population increases total number of pirates.
6. More pirates = Earth cools down again.
Self-regulating.
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Well Done!
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hey, this is one of the best ones! Worship dinner… hehehehe, cool…
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First, a guy with no sense of humour (most likely a republican)
Second, one of those who says that human activity has nothing to do with the climate crisis… (definitely a republican HA!!!)
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I am a bit new to all of this but I have to say that all these fundamentalist twats are really out of control: if people want to worship pasta that’s their business. Your business is to try to convince them to change path … not call them faggots etc. I am a Christian, but I also see the Other Truth: that another power may have created the earth and planets, and it may have been pasta-like. If you are a fundamentalist believer answer me this: Exodus 21:7 says I can sell my daughter into slavery, could you tell me what price I should expect at auction? Do you wear glasses, and have you approached the altar in your church? If so, you are in contravention of Leviticus 21:20. Go outside and flagellate yourself. Alternatively, shut the f*ck up, you give us a bad name
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@Moi
“I am a Christian”
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Ok, I probably shouldn’t be doing this but: why?
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Ah, why FSM? Why not? There’s only just about enough evidence to suggest Jesus existed, no proof. That’s what faith is all about. I’m not here to preach, I am here to tell that idiot to shut up.
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First of all, we do NOT worship dinner. We believe in the greater god, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and not the mortal food that some may consume for a meal. Second, the pirate decrease DOES have something to do with, as you put it, “global warming”. We are not very sure what, but it does. Hopefully, you will somehow see the truth, and be finally touched by his noodle-like appendages. Nevertheless, thank you for a response to our religion.
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Gosh, I really enjoy reading the hate mail and seeing just how stupid these people are. They don’t understand the point or the purpose of anything.
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Hey Fundamentalists!. Before you claim historical evidence of Jesus I want you to research a few things. Heiros Anos: a genre of story pretty much identical to that of Jesus. Thousands of these were written, Jesus’ story was adopted and put with the Old Testament as a means of promoting the stoic undertones contained within in the Roman Empire. Also, I don’t know how easy it would be to access, but you should look up some information on bodies being taken off of crosses after crucifixion. I’ll tell you; it didn’t happen often, virtually never. There were wild dogs to eat the dead bodies. That might put a dent in the ever-true bible. Also, I doubt any fundamentalist would have the capacity to research the locations of the Garden of Eden given in the old testament. I’ll do it for you. The location is impossible. It references real locations (bases of rivers, etc), but the directions are contradictory. That one you may be able to excuse, but here’s another. Which creation story given do you accept? There are two consecutive stories given in the bible that are somewhat contradictory. Don’t believe me? Read it. I could go on for days, but I’ll give it a rest.
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If you fundies would grow a few more brain cells, I’m sure you could understand the meaning of the word “satire”.
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You’re the kind of right winger who takes the Colbert Report as serious
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@jess- true. infact these letters, make us mad at the writers, less likey to obey the writers’s wishes to convert, and make us a more unfied religion.
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I do have good “morales”. All Pastafarians have lots of morale! ARGGH!!!
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we have flimsy moral STANDERDS though
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Dumbass. Pastafarianism was made to show how utterly stupid teaching intelligent design in schools is. If you can believe that God made the world in seven days, rested, made women from the ribs of men, and wouldn’t let them eat apples, you can’t believe that god is made of spaggheti? Nuh uh, you are NOT pulling that crap.
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@Chubaka, Wookie Disciple
Welcome to the church of the FSM, like your post.
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this whole thing is shit. flying noodle monster…..yeah. get a life!!
Do you realize that no one actually believes there is
a Flying Spaghetti Monster? The whole idea is a fun
made up one in order to show the ridiculousness of
believing in something that you have never seen and
that you have no factual evidence that it ever
existed.
email kry12wth_me@yahoo.com
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Actually Sean, I’m pretty sure that Piracy, especially among youth, has definitely been gaining support in recent years. How silly of you to question our supreme graph of Truthiness!
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You’re wrong. That’s all I have to say.
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Isn’t it better to worship dinner instead of a fairy tail.. You won’t fill your belly with a fairy tail..
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He taketh the lord’s name in vain!
His Noodliness is not Dinner!
Sacrelicious! (all right reserved H.J.Simpson)
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MrAaaaaargh, it is our most holy sacrament to eat spaghetti or noodles. After all He created it in His Image!
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But how do you know that, had pirates not decreased in numbers, they could not have decreased the ammount of greenhouse gass or discovered some way to halt the Earth’s natural process of heating and cooling?
After all, if people still went around in pirate ships, we wouldn’t have all the pollution from motor-powered boats!
You can’t disproove it, and until you can, I refuse to believe differently.
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ALL YOU NOOBS THAT DONT BELIEVE IN THE 1 TRUE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER CAN ***** OFF BECAUSE ITS LIKE CHRISTIANITY NO1 CAN PROVE ITS TRUE SO GOD EXISTS. LOL AND ALL YOU CHRISTIANS THAT SWORE HAVE ALREADY FUCKED UP IN YOUR RELIGION
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THE LINES ARE A MIDDLE FINGER(USE YOUR IMAGINATION)
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666, i would prefer you really not sink to the level of the fundies, it disturbs me.
i do approve of your name though, the church of satan is very well thought through and respectable.
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@666 Sep 10th, 2007 at 4:37 am “THE LINES ARE A MIDDLE FINGER(USE YOUR IMAGINATION)”
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Pfff… you could as well have written:
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“Dear differently thinking friends, please imagine a numbered character pointing its middle finger towards the sky, thus telling you how much it dislikes your philosophy.”
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That would have been a lot easier.
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For us.
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To read.
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And to understand.
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RAmen.
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Wow – forgot about this thread too – thanks.
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@ 666 – there’s a thread with a lot of ASCII art on it somewhere – buggered if I know where though.
PS – please don’t shout – HTML tags work here – sometimes. It’s nicer – leave the shouting to the fundies eh?
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Sheeit! I’ve just had a look at the thread. I must have had some pretty good weed that week – I can’t remember which names I was posting under :D
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I just hope no one actually thinks that you have any purpose, or credibility.
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Don’t worry, Pluto – no one does :)
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What???
I’ve been lied to again?
Damn it all!
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I’m returning to a point raised far above…
I just want to pipe in with the voice of cautious skepticism – this time applied to ‘global warming’. If you go digging through Time magazine from the mid 70’s (I can’t recall the exact year), you will find headlines trumpeting the UNDENIABLE, ABSOLUTELY INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF that the earth is slipping into an ice age and the sea levels will fall as more ice is created at the poles, and this will cause more ice to form and crops will fail and all will be DOOMED to a chilly extinction…and so on.
Now, I treat any pronouncement that claims infallibility with the same level of derision applied to fundies, the pope and true believers of all types. Deeply held beliefs are the scariest thing of all because they warp all perception to fit the belief framework. Our religious community has claimed infallibility so often that we’ve stopped listening, but for some reason, we still listen with rapture if infallible science is invoked.
Infallible people simply (to the best of my knowledge and personal experience) do not exist in this space-time. Maybe they live with Plato and his perfect chairs in that ghostly realm of space-time that we mortals do not occupy. Now, please note that I do NOT claim that the talk of global warming is false, but I do accept that it may not be entirely true, either.
I’ve pulled up data from global warming studies. Depending on where you truncate your data set, you can show flat, rising or even falling global temps. What does that _prove_? Nada. Now, in general I do believe (note the explicit belief) that it would be a good idea to check for a more concrete connection in case there is something to it…but I am unwilling to follow on faith alone.
The argument about hedging your bets is the same one that various religions use to bully people into accepting their belief system. To whit – even if the chance that god exists is infinitesimal, the payoff of eternal hell or heaven makes it worth believing. Even if the chance of global warming being really affected by humanity is small, unless you have another planet to live on, you must believe it. The parallels are a bit disturbing.
IMVNO although science is a far better compass to use in guiding your life path, it is important to remember that scientists are people and as such are suspect in matters of the future, especially the future of a system that we do not completely understand. Does that mean that prudence shouldn’t be exercised? NO. But, nor does it mean that we shouldn’t maintain our usually high levels of skepticism.
cheers
PC
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I am sorry, but against all the hard evidence displayed on this website, i have no other choice but to resign… All hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He created us and in his image we shall live!
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Faith and proof are contrary; no one can know whether there is a God (in whatever form) until its too late. It is possible there is God. It is possible there is not.
Why isn’t it possible that there is an FSM? Maybe all it takes for something to exist is a quantity of people believing in it. Like that scene in Mircale on 34th Street where they prove Santa Claus exists because so many people write to him.
Maybe “God” is a word we three-dimensional beings use to describe some extradimensional manifestation that we don’t have the words to describe or understand due to being limited to only three of many possible dimensions. Maybe our ’souls’ are simply sub-components of some fifth- or sixth-dimensional being and this universe is simply a construct to resolve the issue of good versus evil, or to determine if free will is a good idea or not. Within that framework, we would certainly all be connected; thus it would be prudent to, regardless of your faith, treat people the way you’d want to be treated.
Global warming: there is no way that any scientific study can prove or disprove something like this, especially given the way scientific research is done today. You want accurate, non-partisan results? You need to double-blind all scientific research. The researchers can’t know who is funding the study so they won’t be predisposed to produce results expected of them. And, the gathering of the data should be completely separate from its analysis.
An excellent and compelling book that makes this point much clearer than I can is State of Fear by Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park and other techno-thrillers).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_fear
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PC – Please note that the sceintists have determined (I am not sure of the method used) that the global temperatures appear to be the highest immediately preceeding an ice age. As I understand it the ice age processs goes like this, the temperature risees, the ice caps metl, alinity of the oceans drops because of fresh water from the ice melt and the oceanic circulation stops. This causes the poles to get very cold “quickly” and the equator to get very hot. Out come the ice packs.
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There is a large number of reasons that the research on global waring is flawed. One of them is the scientists are trying to predict long term and trend based on a very small data set. The vast majority of the temperature measurement reported before the 1960s is crap and unreliable. This applies to the “ocean level” measurements as well.
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Don’t get me wrong, I conceptually agree that the globe is getting warmer on average; however, I think that the mechanism is much more complicated than just CO2 emmisions.
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Frink Labs – please note that State of Fear is fiction. The book has a terrible aweful ending. I enjoyed all but the last 30 or 40 pages.
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Peer review of published articles is a joke.
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Sorry – I should have said novel, not book. State of Fear’s ending wasn’t the only part that sucked, but I think that the story was incidental, a framework used to deliver the content. I found the comparison of global warming with eugenics quite compelling.
The most entertaining part was probably his brief descriptions of the publications on his recommended reading list.
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It’s important to note that a lot of the “facts” that Crichton used in State of Fear are somewhat distorted. There’s a good article highlighting some of the errors here:
http://www.pewclimate.org/state_of_fear.cfm
It was a good read, but at the end of the day it’s a work of fiction and best treated as that.
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