It looks like the Polk County School Board has noticed us. Or at least the local newspaper.
The Ledger has published an article about our movement titled “Satirical Monsters More Competition for Darwin”.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has stretched its noodles to Polk County.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster, or FSM, is a satirical group that pokes fun at intelligent design. It first emerged in 2005 during the debate in Kansas over whether the belief should be taught in science classes.
The group has sent dozens of e-mails to Polk County School Board members demanding that the idea of a Flying Spaghetti Monster creating the world receive classroom equal time with other views. The e-mail campaign began after four of seven board members said in November that they supported teaching intelligent design in addition to evolution.
I don’t like it when they refer to our beliefs as being “satirical”, but if that’s the context they have to use to get the story out, then so be it.
So it looks like our campaign is working. Well done.
@ Mike Meier, you suggested using the forums to make new topics, and then go off topic, please correct me if I misunderstood, but that’s how it came across, I would have looked at the forums as the place to stay ON topic, not have silly, random, tangential conversations.
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You’re right about there being plenty of nonsense between useful information in many of the threads pre-mod, but when a serious debate broke out, the silliness was generally kept to a minimum, now, because of the lag, you can get multiple people posting pretty much the same thing over and over again, there’s just as much skipping over repitition as there ever was skipping over random silliness.
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@ DPG, my thoughts re mod exactly, end it last week and put up all the posts that have mysteriously diseappeared.
Hi storm petrel.
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I remember the J days well - that was when the scroll wheel rule was born :D
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I’d try to post something about the topic but I’m afraid I’ll be moderated.
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No point me spending twenty minutes composing a brilliant post if I think someone we don’t know decides what is ok and what isn’t!
The brilliant bit was a joke btw - wonder if this post is censored so as to distort the meaning of my previous?
HERE’S MY EMAIL TO THE POLK COUNTY SCHOOLBOARD
Dear Frank and Brenda,
Needless to say, you have our sympathies. It cannot be easy to be associated with Luddites who make Polk county a laughingstock. Even schoolboards in Africa and Central Asia, where the teachers still get get paid in livestock, have passed on this Intelligent Design nonsense.
Maybe the good folks of Polk County would like their children to be behind the educational standards of even third world countries. Perhaps life as a Super 8 chambermaid or Winn Dixie cashier is their lofty goal for their children.
Please continue to refute this nonsense. ID has no place in science. Over one billion Hindus believe the world is carried on the shell of a giant turtle and that Ganesh the elephant headed god brings good fortune to his followers. Let 20 Hindu children move to Polk County and see if they start teaching that in science class. I doubt it.
@Alchemist
“Which regulars are you speaking for Mike? The ones that post now, whoever they are, or the ones we’d know as regulars? The ones that have posted here for ages but have all gone away now?” =;)
RAmen