Last updated 7/2008
Q: Who are you?
A: My name is Bobby Henderson. I’m 27. I grew up in Oregon and move around a lot. I have a physics degree and have successfully avoided a “real” job for years.
Q: Did you really send the Open Letter to the Kansas School Board?
A: Yes. But, I received no replies until after I posted the website online and the School Board started getting lots of emails about it. You can read some of the responses I received here.
Q: Are you an atheist / heathen / what?
A: I don’t have a problem with religion. What I have a problem with is religion posing as science. Teach Creationism in school, fine, but don’t teach it in a science classroom. And don’t change the definition of science so that you can teach these things. That’s retarded.
Supernatural explanations are by definition not science, so why would you teach them in a science classroom?
Religion, itself, isn’t bad. But it isn’t necessarily good, either. There are plenty of good Christians (and Muslims, and Buddhists, and Hindus), and plenty of bad ones.
Dogma is bad for everyone.
Q: You are making God angry.
A: I doubt it. If there’s a God, and he’s intelligent, then I would guess he has a sense of humor. And how do you know He is NOT a Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Q: Do you make money off this?
A: Yes. The Church makes money off T-shirts, car emblems, book sales, and occasionally donations. We are saving a lot of money and pretty soon here we’ll buy our first Pirate Ship which will serve as a floating church, open to all Believers.
Q: Your graph is messed up.
A: No, it’s not. The X-axis doesn’t have to represent time. And the data points don’t need to be in order. A graph is just a collection of data points, I can display them however I want. It might not be what you’re used to, but it’s not messed up. Please stop writing me emails about it (well over 200 at this point).
Q: There are more pirates now than ever. Look at the South Pacific. And song-downloading pirates, and blah blah blah.
A: Real pirates use swords (cutlasses, actually). Those “pirates” in the south pacific are guys with machine guns, cruising around in power-boats. They’re not pirates. And the song-downloading “pirates” are smelly nerds, and therefore not real pirates.
Q: Your grammar/spelling/etc is bad.
A: Yah.
Q: You’re wrong. It’s actually a linguini / mashed potato / dinosaur / elephant / whatever monster.
A: Maybe He just disguises Himself as those things. Also, you’re not funny.
Q: Can I reprint your letter?
A: Yes. Send me a link, please.
Q: Acceptible use of content?
A: It’s ok with me if you’re using the FSM images/content as long as it’s not for profit, and you’re doing it to further the Cause of the church. I.e. printing out FSM propaganda materials and distributing them is ok (and encouraged). Making FSM t-shirts, selling FSM merchandise, etc. is NOT OK.
Q: What blogging/cms software are you using?
A: The recently redesigned site is built on the Wordpress platform with the K2 template.
Q: How many members are there?
A: I don’t know. There are no membership records as such, so I can only guess based on the amount of traffic the site receives, etc. Traffic to date (September 2006) is somewhere in the vicinity of 350 million hits, and around 15 million unique visitors. Google returns close to 2 million results for the phrase “flying spaghetti monster“. So, who knows – your guess is as good as mine.
Q: Why Pirates?
A: We believe that humans evolved from pirates. Consider that humans share around 95% DNA with monkeys, and more than 99.9% DNA with pirates.
Q: Interview requests
A: I’m happy to answer your questions. I recommend you just send me your questions in an email with a subject that I’ll notice, like “INTERVIEW QUESTIONS”. You don’t need to ask permission or set up an interview for some future time, just send me the questions. Thanks.
Q: Website statistics
A: Somewhere around 10k-40k visitors per day, and somewhere around 500k-1million hits a day. Hits are extremely high because lots of people hotlink images,etc from the site. Which is fine w/me.
Emails – depends, but 50 per day is not uncommon. I have 13,839 unread emails right now (9/25/06). I’ll get to as many as I can.
Q: Why is there an FSM banner on my MySpace profile?
A: It’s a virus/worm that WAS NOT CREATED BY ME. I had nothing to do with it. I’m sorry – it caused everyone a lot of problems, and I do not approve of this sort of thing. You can remove it by following the directions here.
More questions? Ask me below, or email me at bobby.henderson@gmail.com
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@ 847 – Johnny Zee -,
The eating of pasta and the drinking of beer are considered sacred communion, especially if you share with the poor and the hungry.
RAmen
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Proud to be pastafarian! I am member of CHurch of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, too. Pastafarian Mo-Fri, unicornian Sa-Su.
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i appreciate that you have given form to what i believe many of us atheists (or otherwise) have been trying to communicate to the shrinking majority of people who wish to impose their values (religious or otherwise) upon us. Your church has given me inspiration to stand up for this concept, and to make this lesson heard around the world :D
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Although I do not belive in the FSM, I do agree with your words about how religion isn’t bad. I pity you getting all this hate mail from people who use and endless number of swear words as an excuse to judge your work.
P.S. I hope you don’t mind, But I quoted your words in a reasearch paper at school.
“Religion, itself, isn’t bad. But it isn’t necessarily good, either. There are plenty of good Christians (and Muslims, and Buddhists, and Hindus), and plenty of bad ones.”
please don’t sue me…
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A friend and I are looking for a ship to use to plunder the Great Lakes. Any ideas?
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I’m suddenly craving spaghetti and meat balls. Great stuff!
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Its pretty funny that Bobby states that he has no problem with religion and yet there are all kinds of hate mail. I’m a christian and I think that this is funny.
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@ Holi (856) and Joe (857):
1. Caps lock is NOT cruise control for cool nor does it prove your “arguments” to be right.
2. English is not my native language. I’ve never even had english courses at school. (So sorry for my errors :)) But even I can see you two should better be learning English in stead of sharing your opinions in such an uncomprehensable manner…
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Hey just wanted to say that I love this stuff. I was raised catholic, but over the past few years Ive revaluated my religious views. I dont see this as an affront to God, Nor do I see it as a completley ridicoulous “theory”. All your points are valid, even the Pirate Graph. Thanks for finnaly stepping up to the plate and showing those idiots who think that they can teach intelligent design in the science classroom a thing or two.
Ps. Anybody who uses God to back up there arguments is a douche. You dont know what he wants, nor what his opinion on this theory his. So shut up you stupid Bible thumpers and go back to church and whine about abortions and preach about forgivness, which is kind of contradictory since you people cant seem to stand having somebody contradict your own views, and yet you do the same thing here. So BUGGER OFF.
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This stuff is hilarious! I’m Pastafarian on my Facebook.
And you make a VERY good point Alec (861).
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Ya know…I was just thinking the other day,
In certain denominations of Christianity, they “drink the blood of Jesus and eat his body” as in wine and those dry wafer crackers…
Perhaps we are all performing a religious rite at dinner time when we scarf down a nice big plate of spaghetti, in His image.
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Would “Pirate Captain” be a proper term for a Pastafarian who performs marriages? Captains traditionally perform marriages. Someone ought to perform Pastafarian marriages, and a title of sorts would be nice. Pastafarian Pirate Captains could then register in some states to perform marriages.
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@ 856 – Holli – ,
You too seem pretty frightened. It’ scary when you begin to realize that what you’ve been hearing from the pulpit makes no sense in the real world. It’s even worse when you realize that all of the authority figures in your life have been lying to you all these years. Who can you trust now?
As believers feel free to make claims about the way the universe works, then they should be challenged on it. That’s what happens when you make truth claims. That your claims are hard to back up is unfortunate. You’re free to believe that the moon is made out of green cheese, but being free to believe that, doesn’t require that other people coddle that delusion.
You and your fictitious god and your book that you can’t read or understand, seriously overestimate your ability to frighten me.
Your delusions are not ours to defend, and you do not have the power to force everyone to stop laughing at you, as much as you’d like to be able to do that. And isn’t that what this is really about? That churches want to be able to punish you for disrespecting their sacred craziness?
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Hi Holli
If you want to see something really ‘CRAZY’ you should try reading the bible that’s full of wacky stuff, in one part there is this geezer who gets killed and comes back to life (I think as some sort of zombie). The worse thing is they teach this to kids (who are innocent & trusting) as fact, I know it’s bad, they even push it in schools even though they don’t have anything to back up their claims!!
See there really is even more ‘CRAZY’ shit out there on that interweb thing!
To JOE H
Try not just randomly hitting the keyboard mate!
Thanks
G
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@ 856 – Holli -,
I’m sorry that I didn’t include this question in my last response to your post, but you didn’t specify which god I needed. Which of these equally improbable gods would you recommend for me?
If you feel that the Church of FSM is neither violent nor hateful enough for you, then maybe you’ll find something more to your taste here…
Godchecker – your Guide to the Gods
We have more Gods than you can shake a stick at. Godchecker’s Mythology Encyclopedia currently features over 2,850 deities.
Browse the pantheons of the world, explore ancient myths, and discover Gods of everything from Fertility to Fluff with the fully searchable Holy Database Of All Known Gods.
http://www.godchecker.com/
Hope this helps.
RAmen
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Epic. Thank you.
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As a proud Pastafarian, I like to do my part to not only aid myself and those around me, but the world in general.
This is why I have registered as a P.I.T. (Pirate In Training). If we have a surplus of pirates this should theoretically put a damper on, if not end entirely, the global warming issue.
There is no evidence disproving my theory, therefore I shall continue my training. I believe that the better a pirate one is, the bigger the hit on global warming shall be.
Please aid me in saving the world, for our future generations.
RAmen.
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Matey,
While I believe that your exclusion of South Pacific gun-toters and Internet song-downloaders is defensible, the criterion by which you exclude them is less so: surely the piratical sine qua non is not the cutlass but the “Argh!” Long John Silver himself carried nothing more formidable than a dagger, and that only rarely: held between the teeth, it impeded a full-throated “Argh!” At the very least, your graph–yes, yes, you may use whatever data points you wish but fair is fair–should bear the caviat: “(except on International Talk Like a Pirate Day).” Of course, this doesn’t contradict your brilliant discovery–but it does refine your argh!ument.
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Dear FSM site,
I discovered your site by accident today.
I find it absolutely hilarious! And that was before I read the ‘hate mail’. I don’t know what is wrong with these people but they obviously feel terribly threatened to have written such evil shit – and they are supposed god fearing citizens ;-)
Anyway – I just wanted to say thank you for cheering me up – I think you have made a VERY good point and in a humorous way.
I will now check out your site periodically.
Have a great weekend and don’t eat to many meatballs ;-)
Best wishes,
Stacey
p.s. how do I eat the body of FSM if I am a vegetarian? ;-)
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I would like to put a picture of the FSM on my credit card. Show my religious views and help others see his noodley light. Any copyright issues?
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Stacey,
His Noodliness does not require you to partake of any food stuffs that go against your ethics. Eat what you will and enjoy.
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i’m an inquirer that would like to know if you noodles have special holidays and if you have special ways of worship?
please don’t send my e-mail a virus.
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Hi people, arrgh,
I shortly became aware of the existence of His Noodliness and have many questions, the first is, how to register as pastafarian pirate?
May be some here can tell me if it is allowed, after dining, to shout “yo-ho-ho” instead of “Argh”?
Because in the italian version of the “The Treasure Island” movie there are Long John Silver and his companions singing a pirate song, and “yo-ho-ho” is the real refrain.
And, can I wear a kerchiefs? No more pirate hat in the shops until next Carnival!
Last, the sword, is it fine if made of cardboard?
Thanks, and Ramen.
renato
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Im the only believer in my area and was just wondering, 1) why do so many people take us as a joke?
2) can i be Bistro-ship of my area and spead his holy word?
RAman my bretherin
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@ 876 – renato -,
You become a Pastafarian by declaring that you accept the eight “I’d really rather you didn’ts”*, that you become educated in real world subjects, and that you will join us aboard to celebrate life as it really is. YO-HO-HO is just another dialect, and it is acceptable. The precise uniform of a pirate is variable and acceptable, so long as it is clear where your allegiance lies.
Welcome aboard.
RAmen
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#Captain_Mosey_and_the_Eight_.22I.27d_Really_Rather_You_Didn.27ts.22
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