I took this picture in Thailand a few days ago. Does anyone else thing there is a resemblance between this statue and the FSM? With the many arms, etc. Also, another similarity: both Pastafarianism and Buddhism are peaceful religions. And.. there were a lot of pirates in this area years ago. Coincidences?
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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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DPG, I lurked for about 3 months until I started posting :)
About a week of lurking for me DPG, but I started posting as rabbit and then changed my mind, fair while ago now.
I had seen the sight when it didn’t have the comment threads yet. Then visited it very infrequently. Lurked for ~2 months probably before posting, once comment threads were introduced.
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@storm petrel: how’s that email coming along?!
Still procrastinating, I’ve a load of stuff to sort out by the end of November and that’s been taking priority, I will get around to it one of these fine days…
Hmm…I didn’t lurk. Just started posting right away.
“What are the things in the statue’s hands?”
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Well lets see, I think that’s a noodly appendage under the pizza! There seems to be some kind of tomato under the noodles. I’m not sure what the circular saw in her/his right hand is for, but may be related to the drill bit that’s a couple of hands above. There also seems to be a giant golden willy.
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Anyone else have any ideas?
You don’t even have a doooooor! And if you do, you don’t have to go and answer it!!!!
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Arrrrggghhhhhhhhhhh
I see a tambourine and a Cellphone!
I think the satire is funny. The thought that this whole planet could result from a collision of matter, that is also unexplained, is a rather large bsm. I guess I’ll just use my faith to expalin the lack of transitional species.
Visited a couple of years back when I first heard a reference, then prompted to come back out of frustration towards the end of September after meeting an archaeology student of all things who didn’t believe in evolution when I was on site this summer, in combination with reading the latest Christopher Brookmyre book shortly after I got back, in which he has a go at ‘psychics’. The two elements together pushed me to read Richard Dawkins and start lurking here for a couiple of weeks before joining in.
And, while I’m here - @ Jeff - the lack of transitional species is actually a result of zoologists’ use of taxonomy. They have to make a decision on what to call something, and put them into broad groups with most of the same qualities. Therefore everthing that shares a sufficient degree of zebraness is identified as a zebra, rather than 50 separate species. In the same way, if you really wanted to look for transitional species, you could argue that people without wisdom teeth make up a transitional group between everybody with, and nobody with - they’re a current transitional group.
@jeff
Welcome to the church of the FSM.
Astronomers see planets at various stages of formation in many places in the galaxy. Their formation is pretty well understood. Are you not mixing up ‘unexplained’ with ‘unexplained as far as I bothered to immerse myself in the area’? Ditto for the ‘lack of transitional fossils’.
@jeff
btw, your last name would not be ‘Mills’, now would it?
Is the FSM male or female? Or is he/she/it androgynous?
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I’m willing to bet male because of the noodles.
@Momi Pink Shoes
Most refer to the FSM as He/Him. For some the two balls seem to be the reason, rather than the noodles.
we should have an official CoFSM Handsign, i’m thinking about using mime to twirl spaghetti around your fork or something.
@Momi Pink Shoes–the FSM could be a he-she; a hermaphrodite. The combination of male/female could be that of the ultimate creator. Or I could just be talking out of my ass…;-)
@I love eruptions in heaven–is that the same as a secret handshake?
I heard the FSM’s secret handshake is so complex and awesome that your brain would explode if you have seen it.
@Deelawn–so, is that because our minds are too puny to handle the awesomeness of his handshake, or because of the number noodly appendages (vs. just two hands)?