I find this religion absolutly rediculous. In fact, it is so rediculously stupid that it has turned me off to any type of religion at all.
Someone…please change my opinion/views on this matter. I want to know if this is real and why you beleive. But until i get answers…your all fucking crazy. I mean listen to yourselves!!!!
‘OH YOUR GREAT NOODLYNESS!!!’
‘ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY INVSIBLY MOSTER MADE OUT OF SPAGHETTI THAT CAN FLY!!!’
…do you hear yourselves when you speak??? Im not trying to be mean, and this is not hate mail in any way im just curious to the point where it enrages me!!!
Someone please answer my questions!!!!
Explain this religion to me!!
why spaghetti? And why pirates?? What proof do you have??? Someone get back to me. I must know.
-Emilee
I find this religion absolutly rediculous
Published by Bobby Henderson September 22nd, 2008 in Hate Mail (and concerned criticism). 147 Comments
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dear Emilee,
please change the word noodyness &
THE MIGHTY INVSIBLY MOSTER MADE OUT OF SPAGHETTI THAT CAN FLY in god and than .. maybe you will understand one day!
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It’s a parody meant to mock religions. In Kansas, people wanted to teach students about creative design according to the catholic bible and many were against this because creative design is all speculation. There’s no proof that it occurred; therefore, it should not be taught in schools. To show how ridiculous it all is, some guy created the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion. Just like Christianity, there’s no actual proof that there’s a spaghetti monster. But if they’re teaching creative design, they may as well teach the flying spaghetti monster.
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I found this “Spaghetti Monster” thing to be QUITE worthwhile.
To summarize my appreciation of it, I would say that, yes, it IS ridiculous. But that compares it equally to most ALL religions.
If one thinks openly about it, there is no more proof of Jesus, classic Christian “God”, the Bible…
To accept this Spaghetti M. concept automatically is no more ridiculous than to accept, without EVIDENCE, all of the precepts of Christianity.
If you are a Christian believer (or Buddhist or whatever), you might be offended by these remarks. But, if you were to come from another planet and hear of Christianity and all of its concepts, especially if you were of an andvanced, science/logic-sophisticated culture… one that views something with a “that makes sense” or “that’s totally unbelievable” set of attitudes… you would likely roll your eyes and think “WHERE did these folks get THESE ideas?”.
Try to forget that you were brought up, from day one, being told, “This is the truth” about religion(s).
(If you were) Then read the Bible, with its incongruities, illogical declarations, beyond-reason stories… THEN think about HOW religion(s) came about: they were concocted in a time of ignorance as to how to explain wonderful, horrid, amazing and confusing “things” in this beautiful world in which we live. Mankind likes to, in his ego, think that he understands his world. We all want to say that we know what is going on, It makes us feel safe… protected…warm and fuzzy.
THEN, think about how certain factions in our world, for millennia, found that they could, through that fear and ignorance, lead and control the populace by perpetuating and elaborating the fairy tales, all the while guaranteeing afterlife and eternal joy, etc. It surely does work well.
Why can’t mankind simply accept that there are some things which are beyond our knowledge?… that we can’t know everything and there will always be mystery as to what it’s all about? There is a lot of fun in that…just like the fun when you are fooled by a magician. When you see the trick revealed, you say,
“OH…. OK…. “, and the “OOOHHHHH”-factor is gone.
I don’t BELIEVE in this S-Monster. But I don’t believe in GOD, either. I am NOT an atheisth. I DO believe in SOME sort of universal connection, spirit, or whatever… That and the hidden “magic” as to “what’s it all about” keeps me fascinated a LOT…. without all of the kneeling and praying and building churches and real estate/banking empires in Rome, I have so much MORE time to study a leaf or a bug or the REST of the planet and be TOTALLY blown away at how incredibly amazing all of THAT is.
Religion is unfounded imagination…teen romance without consummation.
But, through all of that, I am a VERY spiritual person. One can have that wonderful glow without the clutter of all of those STORIES. WITH those stories, we have built societies that waste time and kill people …MASSES of people. There are better and more pointed and fruitful occupations of our time in which to involve ourselves.
That is what the Spaghetti Monster is all about…
In my opinion.
PLEASE let me know that you received this. AND, I am happy to hear any contrary views.
Drop me a line.
-Sumshee
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…and a further thought:
Something I wrote years ago to, as succinctly as possible, condense the thought which I expressed earlier;
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POINTS ABSURD
Religions are a noble thought!
Though they try, they just are not
complete in what they do begin:
asking what is God and sin.
The problems that do seem to be
are in the vast complexity
of trying to convince this man
to do the very best he can.
Tablets, scrolls and manuscripts;
no one really knows which fits
the key hole of our universe.
There are so many what is worse,
they all just preach the Golden Rule.
I don’t think myself a fool
in need of children’s teaching-tales
of burning bushes, gobbling whales
and stories long since stretched far out
beyond the truth and into doubt
with story tellers’ flailing arms
and parables all full of charms
of things that simply could not be.
I find it hard to think that “HE”
wanted all this to transpire,
when all we need is to aquire
an understanding of some right,
so that we may sleep at night.
-Sumshee
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wooooooooww oh my goshh……i did’nt think people would actually beleive in such a thing until my frend showed me this page….im suprised
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The FSM managed to stop creationism being taught in school.
All the debate about evoultion was not able to do that
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Very nice writing Sumshee.
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Great poem, Sumshee! RAmen!
As for poor, poor Emilee: You must first ask yourself why you are so angry! (How is it even possible to be enraged with curiosity?)
– I sense that you have great frustration, perhaps even feel a deep betrayal, at the slowly dawning realization that there might not be a Religion out there with all the answers. Or with ANY of the answers, for that matter.
Yup, that’s right. You will have to find your own answers. Asking the right question — “Why spaghetti?” — is a very good place to start. (One possible answer — Why NOT spaghetti?)
By all that is Good and Noodly,
RAmen
“It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser but a greater thing.” — D. H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930)
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Seriously, do these people actually exist?
When did people lose the ability to notice satire?
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response to 108.
I will believe in whatever i want, and that is his noodley appendage RA men
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well Lully-chan, technically its possible to eat jesus too, its called cannibalism, you can eat pretty much every deity that is in religion so why should spaghetti be so offensive to you?
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Sumshee–
Brilliant poem. Absolutely brilliant.
RAmen
ET
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What I understood this to be was a protest against holding one religion over any other. What proof is there in any religion? This just happens to be alot more entertaining than sitting in church while some guy talks at you.
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Why pirates?
Because we couldn’t find the ninja, obviously. But then, that’s not that surprising. We’d probably have a better chance of finding God than a ninja. At least he doesn’t wear all black and skulk about on rooftops … that we know of.
As for proof, I believe someone mentioned the chart. We have a chart. With numbers and everything. Also, I suspect there’s ink and paper involved, so that just adds credibility.
P.S. I’m glad we moved from ridiculous to rediculous. Eventually we’ll go on to redeculous and we can save a fortune on ‘i’s as his Noodliness has no doubt intended.
P.P.S. See Also, ‘relegeon’.
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“And why pirates?? What proof do you have??? Someone get back to me. I must know.”
Have you not SEEN the CHART?! O_o
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this religion seems to make as much sense as everything else in this world. So what, I worship the sister goddess of FSM, FRM, Flying Ramen Monster. just ninjas, not pirates (but pirates still important). so RAmen to the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monsters!!!
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Dearest emilee
Your frequent exclamation marks truly convey your enraged state.
so i decided i’m enraged at how enraged you are !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but im not enraged at you!!!! im just enraged and rage and being enraged by original enragement!!! Enraging as it is, being enraged often enrages others!!!
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love conor
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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All religions are rediculous that’s the point.
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do you mean ridiculous, or REDiculous? i have never known ridicule to be red. hehe. REDiculous. thats possibly the funniest thing I’ve read all day. I’m going to start sayign that from now on! so anyway, thank you for carrying in the great tradition of english-mangling-leading-to-new-words-on-the-internet. We salute you.
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I love how he says this isnt hatemail, and then winds up having three posts in ‘Hate Mail’. irony is awesome :).
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It is not everyday that you find an theological argument that is both intellectually and gastronomically satisfying; on this basis alone please consider me a new convert.
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Obviously he has not been blessed with the Divine talent of sarcasm, as given by His Noodlyness.
I’ve only been touched by His Noodly Appendages today and I feel truly enlightened, Lol. I’m very glad someone else has had the good sense to make religion fun(ny).
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OMG! this is absolutly CRAZy! and retarded who is going to believe that there is a freakin [flying speghtti monster] thats just soo fraking wierd!
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ours is no more ridiculous than any other. i think Scientology is the most ridiculous though.
anyway, most religions are basically equally rediculous, and that is the Pastafarians main point.
you are free to kiss my ass.
RAMEN
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Long live the all mighty FSM who by the logic of any other religion.. probably exists XDXD
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I don’t really believe in the Flyingspaghettimonster. It’s just really fun to talk about! XD What I do believe is that there is a energy which has created all of us. We come up with many name for this “energy” which supports all religions. So yes I believe in God and the Flyingspaghettimonster, there are one in a way.
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let me take a minute to quote you on something:
“…your all fucking crazy…and this is not hate mail in any way…”
…yeah, ok then.
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The Lord Spagetti Monster prevails above us all
he reaaches all and hears all that fall
“The almighty who soars high above;
The strings reach out grasp with love;
Evolution science the one main truth;
Atoms round and strings like plant roots;
meatballs, noodles present these atoms and strings;
Oh mighty lord forget these manly sins;
For those who chose not to Beleive;
A day will come when you too Beleive;
Spagetti monster is science, philosophy and all;
The universe was all created withs noodles and balls.
All Hail Supreme Spagetti Monster!
All who do Not Shed Science! Shed Reality! Shed Philospphy
Because truth is Spagetti Monster.”
Quoted from Messiah 12:35 Book of Spagetti Monster
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“In fact, it is so rediculously stupid that it has turned me off to any type of religion at all.”
Hooray! Ye has got some of the point!
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‘OH YOUR GREAT BEARDLINESS!!!’
‘ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY INVSIBLE BEADED MAN IN THE SKY WHO CAN FLY!!!’
Fix’d.
Like, how is believing in the FSM, semolina be upon Him, any sillier than believing in a giant bearded man who created the universe?
srsly
Also: ‘Why pirates??’
Can ninjas do this?
http://www.howstrange.com/gallery/yoda_pirate.jpg
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Hi, alright. You want explanations, I’ll give it to you.
First of all, I’m gonna get flamed for this so you better appreciate it. This religion is a mockery of Christianity specifically, and religion as a whole. We are simply saying THIS religion has the same amount of proof as any other. We could make this absolutely as absurd as possible, and still have the same amount of proof as any other religion. Hell, we have MORE proof than Christianity. We don’t ACTUALLY believe there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster, people will quote me saying, “YES WE DO!” but I’m here to tell you we don’t. This is 100% the truth. It’s a way to protest any kind of Intelligent Design being taught in schools, because if they teach that, they have to teach ours. I apoogize it enraged you. I hope this cleared some things up.
Here’s to hoping His Noodly Appendage touches you,
-GM
RAmen
If you have any questions or simply want to discuss the existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, you can reach me at kanastag@comcast.net
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emily, honey, I think this is just too hard for you. How about just working on your spelling. Maybe you could do something with that.
kk
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@ 134 – Chilled – ,
Isn’t that how everybody’s god is created? Remember the first rule of the computer:
Garbage In :: Garbage Out.
Google was not created in 1611. It is not holy. It is a search-engine. Try this:
I’ve attached a link to a talk by Dr. Andy Thomson who discusses measurements that correlate neuroscience to human religious needs and brain responses. Let’s listen to it carefully and critically:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg
It seems to me that it correlates our physiological needs as helpless infants with our psychological fears as adults as far as MRI brain activity is concerned.
RAmen
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I, for one, am curious as to how Google constitutes proof…
Definition of ‘religious’:
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
Since this website is a satire (you can look that definition up all by yourself), and I, and many other Pastafarians, are atheists, we are not religious. I have no concern for sacred matters because things that are sacred are dubbed so by people and are apparently excellent reasons for starting wars. I am also not concerned with religion; other than the fact that I think it is a horrible, hypocritical, scamming institution. I am also not concerned with church because in general, they are just having a “my church is bigger and prettier than your church!” battle. I would even relate it to boys comparing their dick sizes.
I am not a god (if I was I would be invincible, and I’m not), and I haven’t made one up. The FSM is performing miracles everyday. Just check out the rest of this website.
Oh, and I am sure I have read much more of the buybull than you have. I was a Christian for 22 years. Now I know that god is a hateful, vengeful creature who toys with man for his own pleasure. He asks his followers to kill, rape, and pillage. If that is what you want to be a part of, go for it. Not for me. I grew up. Judging from your lack of knowledge concerning spelling, grammar, and reasoning skills you have not.
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Oh and if you enjoy reading a good book, try ‘More than a carpenter’, by Josh Mcdowell, quite an eye opener
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You people have converted me!!!
thank you so much for showing me the way… I saw this site, walked down the stairs and had a steaming plate of spaghetti with two meat balls shoved in my face by my mom…
thank you so much for showing me the way
i truly believe that FSM in all his greatness will touch these poor people and show them the way…
may Grog be with you.
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Two words: Spell Check.
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I do not accept the argument “believe in god so you have better odds JUST IN CASE there is an afterlife”. That is called Pascal’s Wager, and it is ridiculous. Your relationship is based on fear, not on love. Not to mention, you are now betting that you have actually chosen the right god out of the 5,000+ gods that have been created throughout history. May want to say a prayer to all of them, everyday, just in case.
Your assumptions are offensive. I have seen “demons” cast out. I spoke in tongues. I fell out in the spirit. I danced before the lord. I gave and received prophesies. I have had experiences with “dark forces”. I prayed for people to be healed. Witnessed supposed miracles. I am still an atheist now. It has nothing to do with something bad happening to me. I actually became an atheist because of a happy event. My husband and I had many long and thoughtful conversations about religion. It was from that point that I began to do my own research. I wanted god to exist. I did all the research from that point of view. My choice to no longer be a Christian had nothing to do with not leading a “normal” Christian life. It had to do with the fact that I did research, studied history and philosophy, debated people, and read books.
As for your book, he is basing this book on the assumption that Jesus actually existed. A fact that cannot actually be proven. The Roman’s kept excellent records… still somehow no mention of all of this. No proof of the slaughter of the innocents. The Herod and Jesus timelines don’t even line up. Not to mention that the entire story of Jesus is almost word for word like the story of Horace from ancient Egypt. So a book based on unproven fact and assumption doesn’t do much for me in the way of making me believe something.
Oh, and if you are hearing voices, then you should really see someone about that. It isn’t normal, and could be the starting symptoms of schizophrenia (mental disorder characterized by abnormalities in the perception or expression of reality. Distortions in perception may affect all five senses, including sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, but most commonly manifest as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction).
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@ 137 – Chilled – ,
You’ve not answered the question that I posed to you in #134 above. However, your response to Jesso indicates that your level of commitment is that of a gambler at the card table.
You’ve come to our website, and you’ve obviously ignored the directive to read the Open Letter and the “About” tab material. You could have learned that our purpose is the exclusion of religious mythology from the science curricula of the public schools.
In the mean time, since you’ve proposed your own mythology, it is up to you to prove to us the existence of your deity. Mis-quoting from a Hebrew/ Koine book that you probably can’t read is not accepted as proof. You must know the language, who wrote it, when it was written, and the politics and economics of the authors and editors before we can have a clear rational discussion about it.
“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, ‘This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed’? Instead they say, ‘No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.’” – Carl Sagan
I believe that all facets of religion were created by and for people, and that religion is an attempt by people to answer cosmic questions using the best knowledge and data that were available at the time. In the lives of all religions, it seems to have been standard practice for the clergy to define orthodoxy and enforce dogma for the exclusive advantage of said clergy. Whenever some body questions or up-dates the dogma in any way, it is always fought fiercely by the clergy. See: Rome vs Christians; The Inquisition; The Reformation; Galileo; Science. There is not one example of a peaceful transition in the religious world.
RAmen
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Jesso, Im really confused,who healed those people you prayed for? And how can you have a relationship with the Lord without hearing His voice, what made you prophecy? If you met the God i knw, u would know He’s not wicked, you wouldnt say that if you werent offended, you wouldnt deface Gods character jus because you dnt believe in Him. I knw there are a lot of churches that are sif moneymaking,corrupt businesses, but God is not involved in that. what made you doubt that very 1st time,what made u feel this miracle working,relational God isnt real anymre? What made you doubt the word that says, whoever drinks of the water I shall give him, will never thirst, i know many people that never thirsted again. In this reply im not tryin to defend my God or to say that your rediculous or stupid, Im just interested,and cant grasp how, once youve tasted and seen that the Lord is good, turn away, Ive seen far to many lives restored, bondages broken and lives renewed to ever believe that Gods heart is not to heal and restore us, and ill be honest I havnt exactly walked intimately with the Lord for 20yrs, but what I have seen so far, excites me, and cant wait to see what restoration the Lord still wants to do in my life and those around me. I truly have joy in my salvation, and knw that i knw that i knw, God, and I mean Jesus Christ, lives and reigns. Blessings
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Jesso, Im really confused,who healed those people you prayed for?
– No one did. I never said that they were healed, I said that I prayed for them to be healed. It didn’t happen.
And how can you have a relationship with the Lord without hearing His voice, what made you prophecy?
– There was no relationship to have. I never heard anything. I made guesses.
If you met the God i knw, u would know He’s not wicked,
– Anyone who goes around and exterminates the entire planet, calls for the murder of children and the rape of women, is wicked.
you wouldnt say that if you werent offended,
– You seem to confuse offense and anger. I am angry that people like you pollute minds and give every one this holier-than-thou attitude. You come here and give us crap, but what would you do if I walked into your church and told you how ridiculous it is to worship an imaginary friend?
you wouldnt deface Gods character jus because you dnt believe in Him.
– I have not defaced anything. I have read the bible. The bible says it all.
I knw there are a lot of churches that are sif moneymaking,corrupt businesses, but God is not involved in that.
– How is he not? Isn’t he supposed to be the governing body?
what made you doubt that very 1st time,
– Logic and seeing all the contradictions.
what made u feel this miracle working,relational God isnt real anymre? What made you doubt the word that says,
– I honestly never felt it. I did what I thought I was supposed to do. I thought something was wrong with me. I faked it.
whoever drinks of the water I shall give him, will never thirst, i know many people that never thirsted again.
– I feel better and freer now that I have come out and admitted being an atheist.
In this reply im not tryin to defend my God or to say that your rediculous or stupid, Im just interested,and cant grasp how, once youve tasted and seen that the Lord is good, turn away,
– Easy. He wasn’t there to begin with.
Ive seen far to many lives restored, bondages broken and lives renewed to ever believe that Gods heart is not to heal and restore us,
– Some people need that crutch. I don’t. I am good because I am a good person. Not because I fear what will happen to me if I don’t believe in god, live a good life, and ask for forgiveness every 20 seconds. You do know that less than 1% of our prison population is atheist, right?
and ill be honest I havnt exactly walked intimately with the Lord for 20yrs, but what I have seen so far, excites me,
– I am happy for you, but I look at it as a bunch of people who fight and even kill those who do not believe the way they do. I don’t mean physical fighting. I mean trying to take away rights and freedoms from those who do not believe the way they do.
and cant wait to see what restoration the Lord still wants to do in my life and those around me.
– Good luck with that.
I truly have joy in my salvation, and knw that i knw that i knw, God, and I mean Jesus Christ, lives and reigns. Blessings
– Aren’t god and Jesus supposed to be the same person? Here is the first problem that I have with Christianity. You can’t even prove Jesus ever existed. And, no, the bible doesn’t count.
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The mere thought of his Noodly appendages gives me a warm feeling inside.
He makes me laugh, he makes me smile. The FSM is wonderful. He gives me reason to live.
It should be written into law (as it is in Kansas, USA) that we are all taught about FSM from a young age.
I think I shall also have it written into my will my love for the FSM just so that a minister from the local church has to talk about him and his wonderful noodly appendages in his sermon.
RAMEN
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its absolutely ridiculous that you spelled ridiculous wrong a countless amount of times. go canoodle yourself foolish mortal for i am so humble as to not vanquish my majestic meatballs upon you.
Quit being a bitch and just respect other peoples religious views, regardless you will burn in hell.
i am jah ramen rah better known as noodles, i exist to not be real but only to rid of all humans that do not praise faith in jah.
RAMEN… no, top RAMEN
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i find this absolutly appealing to know their are others who laugh in the face of religion hail thy noodly master
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