Great site. Even being a Christian, I get it. :) I don’t think the teaching of so called Intelligent Design has any place in public schools. Faith is not science. Anyhow, long live the FSM. I won’t worship him, but I’ll enjoy his noodly goodness… :)
Have a great day
Tony
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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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Yet more Christian Love Mail!
If only all Christians were as open-minded and tolerant as you, Tony.
Well said, Tony. Well said.
Have some noodles.
RAmen.
Way to go Tony. I like your ‘tude dude.
The sad part is that you will probably be attacked in posts to follow, for being Christian and not condemning us to burn in hell….
YHWH forbid that anyone be attacked for not being condemnatory! Let’s face it, Pastafarianism, while a joke, is a joke with a clear purpose: it makes a mockery of modern creationism. Creationism hasn’t panned out scientifically, and its remaining supporters found their belief on a foundation of ignorance and poor reasoning, not to mention shaky hermeneutics. The utter silliness of Pastafarian doctrine is just a reflection of creationist thinking, and this parody is yet another weapon in the arsenal against unreason. Long live the parody!
Aaron Solomon Adelman, PhD (epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, 2006)
Orthodox Jewish evolutionist
Parody?
hey! this page has yet to be infested by the porn-linkers. They’re all over the “ok, seriously…” page. And a few others, i think
I bet it’s because your name is Tony. Sounds Italian to me. And in my opinion, ALL Italians should get it. Because they love pasta.
Frankie and Paulie didn’t quite understand it…
And they’re swimming with the fishies.
If only all Christians could be so open-minded.
Enjoy His Noodlyness Tony, it’s a start ;))))
@lilwench:
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Parody?
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Parody!, parody!, parody dode!!!
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I’m gonna parody like it’s 1999!
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Sorry….
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@Tony
“I won’t worship him, but I’ll enjoy his noodly goodness… :)”
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That’s fine, the FSM is ok with it if you don’t believe in Him. Moreover, He doesn’t want you to spend too many resources glorifying His noodly goodness anyway, the way many of your fellow christians (especially catholics) do for their made-up god. Enjoy your meal.
Good on you Tony. It’s the Fred Phelps crowd that gives you guys a bad name. With your attitude, you’ll make it to the Beer Volcanoes regardless.
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On a darker note: Someone seems to have compromised my dignity on Myspace by ‘borrowing’ my good name just because their dumbshit nick won’t get them laid. Please visit my myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/st_john_the_blasphemist for more information. I’d like as many people as possible to click ‘add to friends’ on this person’s profile (it’s private, but you can still add). If/when they accept you, please add a comment (where all their friends can see) telling them to stop borrowing other people’s names & think of something themselves. I know they didn’t make the name up themselves, cos they have an FSM quote on the profile.
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Oh, and you can add me as a friend too.
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Thanks folks
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St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Vengeance
I’m a muslim and I get it too. There’s no real proof of God, its just a matter of faith and like tony said faith aint science.
@Tony and @halal pasta–thank you for being open-minded, for getting FSMism, just being nice. And good spellers. That’s always a big one. May you both be touched by his noodly appendage (or just enjoy a good dish of pasta). RAmen.
if only all christians could be like you
I wish all Christians were like Joseph Smith and read the word of god from a hat! How cool was that? I am currently reading the word of god from inside my right shoe; I read from the left one the devil will get me!
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Well done on the acknowledgment, feel free to convert, we offer more than any other religion and we are less hypocritical about it.
Don’t forget the 30 day free trial, no strings attatched, although you may become mildly addicted to pasta and noodle based foods, but they’re good for you, so that won’t be a problem.
@St John the Blasphemist Nov 20th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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I found this strange comment ou your myspace page:
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“Nov 20 2007 1:42 AM
No! we are 2099, The Crawling Chaos not Jean Bart, sorry…”
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Another JB sailing cyberspace, I suppose?
@Jean Bart–2099? Another doomsday cult perhaps? Planning on hiding out in a cave for the next 92 years?
Yeah, congratulations, I guess…
Strange, whenever there’s lovemail from Christians, overall grammar quality seems to increase.
That becasue the smart ones know better that to argue and don’t get pissed off when they are confussed.
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A quote from a great french writer :
“Father, I believe you are wrong. Science Fiction is stronger than religion. Because it opens the mind whereas you close it.” - (Bernard Werber)
Cool Christian! Yeah baby! Okay, that sounded really weird.
@Jean Bart: They’re some French band who added me to their list. I thought it might have been you cos they did it shortly after I posted the above message, so I asked them (with the help of Babel Fish) “Est-ce que ce vous, Jean Bart?”
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St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Online Translators
UPDATE: The present danger has ended. He’s changed that name in brackets to someone else’s. Thanks to all those who helped.
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St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Community Values
Tony will never make it to heaven. Just as I won’t. Being a skeptic in the Christian culture, especially if it’s fundie, leads to apostasy. I left the the Southern Baptists when a guy came to our church and declared himself a paid heretic finder from headquarters in Nahville. (I expected to see a stake erected in the parking lot with firewood piled about it as I left that night.) And I didn’t go back.
@Old Bogus–a paid heretic finder? Hahahahahaha!!! How do you go to a job interview when your previous profession was “paid heretic finder?” And how exactly does one find heretics? And more importantly, what is the pay like?
All you have to do is make sure your perspective employer is an especially crazy fundie, they’ll be so impressed to see ‘heretic finder’, you probably won’t even need to interview.
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They probably find heretics the same way as the Spanish inquisition, a pissed off neighbour denounces someone, and the heretic finder tortures a confession out of them, heretics aren’t really human you see, so it’s all right. Either that or any denial of being a heretic is a lie, why would an evil heretic tell the truth?
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I’m guessing pay is on commission.
Hey, he doesn’t have to look hard. I’m a paid heretic :) a) i get paid 2) by his standards I’m a heretic/pagan/non-believer. So I fit right?
hahahaha Paid heretic…good FSM I’m so sleepy I can’t even think!
I wonder how long it will be before Tony is excommunicated for his unforgivable betrayal…
I’m a christian, too and I think that this is great! Intelligent debate is a good thing. Especially if done with a sense of humor. The one thing that christians need remember is: our forefathers mandated a separation of church and state for a reason. God bless you all!!!
Thank you sir for being so understanding of our religion
i don’t get intelligent design either
May you bask in His noodly goodness
R’amen
thank you tony for understanding you are awsome (not as awsome as his noodlyness but still pretty awsome)
may his noodly appendage embrace you all
ah tony, if only all christians could be like you!!
the thing is, believing in God (or the FSM) is a faith thing, not a science thing, you just can’t prove (or disprove) that God (or FSM) exist or not. its faith, not science (btw i am a science teacher :o))
Well done my man, blessed be The Almighty ;)
I am very surprised. I am used to being dammed to hell, and here is a tolerant Christian! It is refreshing and very kind of you to be so open minded and caring. I beleive you are the most Christian on this sight.
@Paisley the Pirate - He, you’re right, Italians DO get it.
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I’m Italian and I get it just fine ^.^
Finally!!! A Christian that understands!
Need to be careful getting too many chrisitan pastafarians, if everyone follows the way of the noodly one won’t pasta prices go sky high leading to less money to spend on grog?
If that happens, we can just make our own pasta, it’s easy enough, 1 1/2 cups flour, 1 egg, few drops of olive oil, and just enough water to bring it all together into a dough, then you can make any pasta you want. There are also special pasta machines with rollers and cutters designed for making every type.
Sorry Storm Petrel
You do know pasta grows on trees, I saw this program on the BBC that said so. If the whole world is full of pasta trees how are we going to find anywhere to brew grog?.
I do love pastafarians but sometimes they really dont think!!
@Cabin Boy Jon
It’s true. And they grow meatballs for fruit. There’s even a song about it. I’m sure many are familiar with that great anthem “On Top of Spaghetti”.
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St John the Blasphemist
Saint of Great Anthems
@ St John the Blasphemist
is the church of the fsm granting you this sainthood?
Really do need a pasta uk meet up
Our last one in London was on a real pirate ship (Golden Hind) http://www.goldenhinde.org/
and even had state funding (BBC)
I could not possibly agree more. I’m a Christian, too, but I don’t want Intelligent Design taught in science class. It’s not a religion class, it’s not church, and it’s not the appropriate venue. It blows my mind that so many people are unable to grasp that. They want to do away with the separation between church and state, and they want religion in school because Christianity is the predominant religion in the U.S., and as such they stand to lose nothing. I wonder how they would feel if Christianity weren’t the predominant religion. What if their kids were forced to sit through 5 minutes of mandatory, teacher-led Satan worship at the start of each school day? I bet they’d be all gung ho about the separation of church and state then. It’s so easy when it’s their own agenda they want forced on everyone else. I’m a Christian, my faith is incredibly important to me, but I will never be in favor of forcing that on anyone, and particularly not on children in school.
If you think about it, the entire prayer in the public schools, ten commandments on the walls of our courthouses, intelligent design taught in the science classroom, abstinence based sex education, et al is not about Christians (particularly, fundamentalist Christians) teaching their own children the tenets of their religion. No, that’s not what they want at all, because they are completely free to do that in their homes, churches, sunday schools et al.
Rather, for them it’s all about teaching everyone else’s children the tenets and belief of their religion, and using what belongs to all of us, the public school system to do it. Talk about an entitlement mentality!
all hail his noodly goodness
but i was wondering
do u guys not belive in eating spaghetti
dudei am on atkins. NO SPAGHETTI
i am a music pirate does that count
am i holy
his noodly goodness has bestowed a life of piracy upon me…ALL HAIL HIS NOODLY GOODNESS..AM I AM THE HOLYEST OF ALL PASTAFARIANS
jacob u bitch stop thinking ur better than the rest of us
one of the 8 i’d rather you didnts says to get over ur self
ur not that great.
hahahahaha booby…i have hacked ur account now i shall show my pirate ways…i will find u…lovingly jacob…and once agen I AM THE HOLYEST OF ALL PASTAFARIANS!!!!
cas - you need to throw off the oppression of the christian god and join the pastafarians. We are generally tolerant, similar to unitarians. Give it a 30-day trial. If you don’t like it, you can be born again as a christian.
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Shit…parents this days have to be more responsible with watching what their kids are doing
Thanks for that link Cabin Boy Jon. Did anyone else spot there’s going to be a pirate fun day on the 15th December! Also just for the reminisce - thanks for resurecting an old memory of my father dragging me and my sister out of bed at about 5am about 20 years ago to see the replica sail through our part of the country. We were stood on the banks of a river at 6am waving at the crew when they passed us, then got in the car, drove to another point along the route, and waved again. Cheers!
It’s is also interesting how Christians are trying to lobby against programs to vaccinate young women with the new cervical cancer vaccine. Affraid this would increase the liklihood of premarital sex, they prefer that their own and everyone else’s children face a potential death penalty for this offense.
If an effectivce vaccine is ever discovered for AIDS, is there any doubt these wackos will try to block its distribution at every turn. Wouldn’t want is encumber divine retribution, now would we.
@cas:
“What if their kids were forced to sit through 5 minutes of mandatory, teacher-led Satan worship at the start of each school day? I bet they’d be all gung ho about the separation of church and state then.”
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Oh yeah. That hoary chestnut (hmmm, makes it sound kinda dirty, doesn’t it!) is always dredged up as the Last Bastion against force-fed fundy teaching in a public school. It usually takes the form of: “If we let X-denomination do (whatever) then we have to let EVERYONE do (whatever).”
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Well, yeah, here in the US you kinda do.
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Then the clincher: “What if teh WICCANISTS want to (gasp!) worship TREES or the MOON or (speaker faints) a GODDESS? What if teh SATINISTS (and yes, they often spell it this way!) want to worship SATIN! What would happen then?”
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In an insular community, everyone has a moment of satisfying group panic, staved off by a rousing proclamation that *this* school will proudly endorse X-denomination, and everyone else can just move to another country, like Iran. And the really sorry thing is, *any* majority religion or denomination thereof inspires *identical* behaviour in frightened people.
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Somewhere, perhaps this very site, I came across a joke letter which expresses this beautifully.
http: //www.jumbojoke.com/the_pastors_pen_268.html
(take the space out after the http:)
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Best wishes cas; I hope you like it here!
Oops, I forgot to add: “Oh noes!!1!1″
after “What if teh SATINISTS want to worship SATIN! What would happen then?”
@neal–The cervical cancer vaccine has been a big issue with some fundementalists. Brief background on it: there is a drive to make the vaccinations mandatory by the state, so insurance companies will be legally required to cover them. It’s an expensive vaccination–approx. $300. Now, this has upset fundementalists: “If you make it mandatory, then you’re encouraging teenage/premarital sex and sin! And my daughter would never engage in such unholy activity! So it shouldn’t be mandatory!!!” What they tend to ignore is the fact that parents can opt out of having their daughters get this vaccine, like they can opt out of any vaccine. The drive to make it mandatory has more to do with economics than any sort of morality worries. But, you get a few people with some narrow-minded beliefs who can theoretically screw it up for everyone. We’ll see how this all plays out.
@pieces o’ nine–”SATIN!!” *snicker*
Satin as an idle of worship?
That’s even more ridiculous than worshiping an invisible hermaphrodite!
Then, Tony, you aren’t truly a Christian, nor do you have any idea what REAL science is. You have just called God a liar, by your position, and you deny the reality of Genesis.
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First of all, having a PhD in imagination does not count for a thing. Finding it in a Cracker Jack box or buying it at Walmart does not amount to a hill of beans. You can have the entire alphabet behind your name and still be an idiot. And most who do are.
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Second of all, if anyone on this site has a shred of intelligence, I want you to provide an answer to this problem. Scientists have not been able to give an answer for it, because the only plausible answer “is unthinkable.” Here it is:
The nucleus has properties that force outward - they expel, or push out - so how is it that everything is held together?
Isn’t satin a type of fabric?
So they will wordship the god of Fashion?
Sorry I meant worship
@Rylore:
“The nucleus has properties that force outward - they expel, or push out - so how is it that everything is held together?’
> Have you not read the introductory info so thoughtfully provided by Bobby (may sauce be upon him)? It’s the noodly appendages.
> It is *just* this sort of question which drives intelligent people to pursue *science*, rather than saying, gee, I dunno, and declaring, “God did it. End of discussion.”
> Of course, anyone with a shred of intelligence already knows that, and either researches the available scientific evidence or pursues the study him/herself. ‘Cause it would be really kind of silly to ask it as a theological ‘gotcha’ question.
@Rylore
All nucleons (protons and neutrons) are attracted to each other through the Strong nuclear force. All particles of similar charge (a group of protons) are repelled by the Electromagnetic force (that you reference).The Strong force is stronger than the Electromagnetic force. The neutrons hold the nucleus together but you can’t just add more neutrons to make a nucleus stable because the neutron (two down quarks and up quark) would transform into a proton (two up quarks and a down quark), an electron, and an anti electron neutrino without the protons stabilizing it through the Weakly interacting nuclear force. If the nucleus is disturbed in the right way (say bombardment by a neutron moving at very high speeds) the balance is upset and the Strong force bonds between the nucleons are broken causing the Electromagnetic potential energy between the protons (along with the energy in the Strong bonds) to be transformed into kinetic, heat, and radiative energy.
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I’m surprised that somebody so confident in themselves about this didn’t pick that up that bit up in sophomore/junior (in high school) level chemistry/physics (or wikipedia, I mean, it’s right there!). I suggest that anybody unfamiliar with the basics of my last post should look up the wikipedia article on “atomic nucleus” and follow the relevant links.
i have to agee with you, even being a Christan, it doen’t mean that i will not enjoy the noddle goodness. while understand, that i will Not worship him, i enjoy the site.