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

848 Responses to “Frequently Asked Questions”

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  1. 1 - nick - Sep 16th, 2006

    i dont get it

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  2. 2 - catherine - Sep 16th, 2006

    i once believed in scientology, but now….

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  3. 3 - Dave - Sep 16th, 2006

    Your credentials are as good as any prophet’s have ever been, and better than most.

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  4. 4 - Mr.Kennedy - Sep 16th, 2006

    As an avid traveller and theologist, I find the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be a resreshing break from the contradictions of todays mainstream religions. In fact I would argue that ANY intelligent design theory should only be presented alongside the teachings of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is also my hope that we will eventually see education institutions founded and conducted by the Church of the FSM. Thank You Bobby Henderson for helping so many others to see the light, this page and all the lives that have been changed by it is testimony to the fact that your Physics Degree has not been wasted.

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  5. 5 - Ethan - Sep 16th, 2006

    wow… ithink im going to convert. i have seen the light, or should i say his “noodly appendage”

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  6. 6 - Inspired to action - Sep 17th, 2006

    Hi

    I am glad I stumble upon your site. You see I have been searching for a new religion on which to base my beliefs.

    You almost had a convert. There I was, gazing into the steaming hot bowl of spaghetti and meatballs, preparing myself to dive in ….

    But then a nagging snigglet from somewhere down deep crystallized into a thought.

    The problem I was having is that if you want to actually follow and practice the fundamental beliefs of most of the really popular religions (notably the big five), you can’t honestly use them as justification for being truly horrid to other people, particularly those of the same faith.

    So I have been investigating the many smaller, newer, some would say “fringe” religions and sects. Those would, at least mathematically, provide a larger group of non-believers to persecute.

    What is the terrible tribulation from which this faith sprang?

    Where is the history of being persecuted and persecution?

    Where is the history of violence?

    Where is bloodshed?

    … the countless thousands of senseless deaths of unbelievers?

    But apparently this is part of what sets Pastafarianism apart, and I seen it as a weakness in the claim that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has true “religion” status.

    I was about to move on to the Moonies, but then I had another thought (yes two in one day, I must have been trulu inspired)…

    It’s a young religion; those days are yet to come.

    Then inspiration!

    Maybe I have come here for some predetermined purpose. Perhaps to help write that history. To help take Pastafariaqnism to the next logical step. To give the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster the psychological weight of bloodshed and murder to it’s C.V.

    A purpose! (Joy!)

    Now I am kind of squeamish about actual blood and guts and stuff like that. I’m more of an ideas person, preferring to leave the actual doing to others, but I do need a little more specific inspiration. Tell me of how it will all conclude. Surely there will someday come a tumultuous battle between the forces of good and evil, a final great conflagration, a great battle of Parmesan.

    P.s. is it a safe assumption that martyrs will be rewarded in the afterlife with jobs as quality control inspectors at the stripper factory?

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  7. 7 - Brandon Pardi - Sep 17th, 2006

    Hey Bobby, can you make a new version of the book? A real bible/gospel looking text would be awesome.

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  8. 8 - henderob - Sep 17th, 2006

    I agree that a real bible-looking text (instead of a flimsy paperback with a picture of a bible on the cover) would be awesome. I think that if there was enough interest, they might put one out. I’ll see what I can do.

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  9. 9 - Aaron - Sep 17th, 2006

    Bobby, I’d totally buy a bible-looking version of The Gospel. No questions asked. Put a section on the site, and give a general price amount, and take a poll. I’m sure you’ll find there’s MORE than enough interest.

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  10. 10 - Chris - Sep 17th, 2006

    Bobby,

    As a devout pastafarian I have to challenge you on this:

    “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.”

    One cannot be a “good” Christian because:

    1) If one is a “good Christian” because one is particulary adherent to the Bible, one would be murdering everyone who worked on Sundays, torturing, raping, etc. as Christian God instructs.

    2) If one is a “good Christian” because one takes a very liberal interpretation of the Bible and is generally an OK person, one is living a total contradiction by not standing up for what their Bible says, and one is also fostering a culture where it is taboo to question religion.

    There is nothing good about religion – positive morals/values can be found through reason and are more compelling that way.

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  11. 11 - Anna Mosier - Sep 17th, 2006

    Bobby- first of all, love the church, religion, website. It rocks! I have been converted. Could you please tell me if the Kansas School board is still keeping up this farce? i don’t want to send angry letters if they realized thier mistake. And whose the 4th minority person?I only saw three reply letters. I won’t pester the people on our side. I plan to put up posters in my school and hand out pamphlets, as soon as the office lets me. I am an avid pursuer of the sciences, and fully hate ID. Please reply, but I’ll understand if you don’t have time.Keep up the good work and Raamen!

    Anna
    P.S.- This Sept, 19th is national talk like a pirate day, in case you didn’t know

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  12. 12 - 9of12 - Sep 17th, 2006

    Arrrr..
    Telling folks at work about national talk like a pirate day (which we’ve been observing for years) is how we found FSM :)
    I’m checking at my B&N store for the gospel today, I imagine I’ll end up having to order it.

    I just came across a giggle. I now have a religious reason for continuing my low-carb lifestyle!!!!! I can curb my carbs out of respect for our starch-based deity ;) That’ll add a great opportunity for spreading the word, as people ask me about my diet all the time.

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  13. 13 - john - Sep 17th, 2006

    how do u know god isnt a giant beer bottle

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  14. 14 - Greg - Sep 17th, 2006

    Why did the beacon of Pastafarianism move to Arizona? Doesn’t FSM get all hard and brittle in that arid climate? That’s why no pirates, signs of life, or decent football teams have ever been found there.

    Come back to Oregon, and continue receiving enlightenment from FSM when he is saturated and dripping it everywhere.

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  15. 15 - Galen Caulfield - Sep 18th, 2006

    You might want to emphasize the issue of ID (intelligent design) being considered in science classes. It is not an issue of the ideas presented by ID, it is in the authoritative stance of the idea-presenters and their relation to the rest of society. It’s not god or the spaghetti monster – it’s about fundamentalism vs empiricism. My suggestion (based upon the hate mail) is that you make that clear in some way on the site, to reduce philisophical banter on the issue.

    i apologize for my unclear phrasings- if you have any questions feel free to email me back.

    i really love what you did here by the way

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  16. 16 - Katie - Sep 19th, 2006

    Does the Flying Spaghetti Monster play dice with the universe? and if so, is that game of craps happen near the beer volcano or the stripper factory?

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  17. 17 - Nich - Sep 19th, 2006

    Its great that someone avtually came up with an Intelligent design theory that alows its followers to think about the religon they are following and not what the religon thinks they should be thinking.

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  18. 18 - Dave - Sep 19th, 2006

    Chris, you are obviously well educated on Christian beliefs, being that you wrote absolutely nothing true about Christian beliefs in your blog. You did, however, account for Judaic, pre-Christian beliefs. Good job…

    Bobby, your site is amusing, and I can agree that ID does not belong in science classes. However, I also believe that Evolution does not belong in science classes for much the same reason. Let’s stick to chemistry, physics and biology based on the scientific theory.

    Good luck with the site.

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  19. 19 - Steve “The Black Fox” Kimball - Sep 20th, 2006

    As a devoted pyrate, a long time have we been vexed upon by the “official” navies of the world and thought of as moderatly lax in our morals. Although most of we pirates know that we’ve been “touched by gods,” recognizing the height-discouraging push of HIS appendage has been a graceful brush by a quite-saucy god.

    We at The Pyrates Way try to do our part in passing on the word next issue (Winter) when we print interviews of Pastafarians and show pirates on this earth that they can come out of the seachest and expose their slops for all to see.

    If you are interested in helping us bring the world temperature down while giving rise to the pirate population, please join us at http://www.pyratesway.com.

    Yours with a side-salad, rich in Italian dressing,

    Steve “The Black Fox” Kimball
    Publisher, The Pyrates Way

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  20. 20 - kickball keebler - Sep 20th, 2006

    I think Talk Like A Pirate Day should be secondary holiday. So when is the offical day to celebrate the Flying Spagetti Monster? If there isn’t already a set date, I’d like to suggest the date of the original letter.
    Thanks!
    Keebler

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  21. 21 - PreventerWind - Sep 20th, 2006

    I totally beleive in the flying spaghetti monster, but he totally messed up on the design of the human body. Why else would he put man’s balls in such an easy place to kick, rather than encasing them in bone for protection like our brains? Thus, proof of hte FSM!!!!

    Preventerwind

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  22. 22 - zach - Sep 21st, 2006

    i almost forgot FUCK THIS SO CALLED SPEGETTI MONSTER. I hope that every single one of you can find faith in Jesus.

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  23. 23 - elmon - Sep 21st, 2006

    If a Pastafarian bible has no spelling or grammar mistakes whatsoever and doesn’t contradict itself, it’s a whole lot better than the bible.
    I actually have a question to ask to the Almighty One, namely: Why is it mandatory in American Court to swear upon a fictional book, sometimes refered to as the bible, while the country in question has a law on the separation between church and state?
    If you could respond to aid me in my search for understanding, I will be eternally greatful to the Flying Spaghetti Monster and spread his word.

    A(n almost) faithful believer

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  24. 24 - Xaos - Sep 21st, 2006

    “Why is it mandatory in American Court to swear upon a fictional book, sometimes refered to as the bible, while the country in question has a law on the separation between church and state?”
    I totally agree with you on this one, elmon. But consider that the church and the state aren’t really separate in the United States (George W. Bush Jr., anyone? The Religious Right?)
    For a totally satirised view of the Bush Administration, check out: http://www.whitehouse.org (by the almighty FSM it’s hilarious!). This is a bit off topic, I know, but I’m sure the Flying Spaghetti Monster will forgive me. (Note: SPAGHETTI, not SPEGETTI (where did you learn to spell, zach? And by the way, what a very witty retort:
    “i almost forgot FUCK THIS SO CALLED SPEGETTI MONSTER. I hope that every single one of you can find faith in Jesus.”
    Nice to see studing the Bible has given you such an intimate understanding of the English language and it’s intricacies (like capital letters and punctuation) And it’s FLYING Spaghetti Monster).

    All praise our Noodly lord and master!!!

    P.S. Am I allowed to revere Foamy the Squirrel as my secular lord, or will this bring our beloved FSM’s wrath down upon me? (If so, I can change!)

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  25. 25 - Veronica - Sep 21st, 2006

    How did a link to this get on my myspace in the book section, and an add you to friends request at the top of my profile? WTF.

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  26. 26 - Danny-love - Sep 21st, 2006

    “i almost forgot FUCK THIS SO CALLED SPEGETTI MONSTER. I hope that every single one of you can find faith in Jesus.”

    Thank you Zach. You have completely convinced me that everyone should convert to Christianity…

    May He forgive me even mentioning such words of blasphemy (even if it is rather sarcastic). Please allow me to be touched by your noodly appendage!

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  27. 27 - Kanis - Sep 23rd, 2006

    Just wondering here, is it possible that Great Sleeping Cthulhu and The Flying Spaghetti Monster are really one and the same and Mr Lovecraft just wasn’t wearing his glasses when he was inspired?

    I’d like to think so, it’d help combine my vast love of The FSM who created us all and Sleeping Cthulhu who will inevitably realize his mistake and squish us later. :D Squishy parts!!

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  28. 28 - John Videll - Sep 23rd, 2006

    I think you’ll appreciate the shirt that I wore on September 16, 2006, for the Northshore Inline Marathon up in Duluth, MN.

    [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Mock26/FSMDuluth.jpg[/IMG]

    http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Mock26/?action=view&current=FSMDuluth.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

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  29. 29 - Dave - Sep 23rd, 2006

    Thank you for proving that closed-mindedness and collective ignorance is still alive and well in today’s society.

    P.S.
    My girlfriend has converted to pastafarianism thanks to you. Rock on!

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  30. 30 - Ruben A. Sola - Sep 23rd, 2006

    My friend showed me the book and I read the website and all I can say is….ITS IN-FREAKING-CREDIBLE, I love it, I made a Myspace Group of it and I’m looking for all of my friends and theirs and so on and so forth to join, to read, and to help, this stuff is Hilarious and should be taught in all Science Classes, even if its just for the Hell of it . Wea re all currently writing to the board of education in every Distric of Florida, New York, Texas, and even Puerto Rico.

    Ruben A. Sola
    P.S.= May the Flying Spaghetti Monster touch you with His Noodle Appendage.
    Ramen

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  31. 31 - Ryan - Sep 23rd, 2006

    Bobby, the only thing to keep in mind with the Bible-looking text is that since all the major Holy books are compilations, the FSM Holy book should probably be a compilation as well. Perhaps have verses dedicated to scientists, school teachers, and the infamous Kansas School Board… or at least the ones who voted against ID in the science class.

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  32. 32 - Death - Sep 25th, 2006

    Will any of this be funny when we are all 90 yrs old with a few years left to live? How funny will things be then?

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  33. 33 - gill - Sep 25th, 2006

    Death–very funny, I should think. Provided we’re sane enough at 90 to remember the whole thing in the first place.

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  34. 34 - Geo - Sep 26th, 2006

    I would really like to understand where your coming from and while, to you this is no joke, to me it sure seems that way, but if you could explain your religion to me i would really apprecite a better understanding of it because from my current perspective thier sure does seem to be some serious logical fallacies in the whole thing.

    sincerely

    geo

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  35. 35 - Stevee - Sep 26th, 2006

    Geo,
    The board is self explanatory really. Most of the people on this board are of a sceptical opinion. While no one puts down the right to faith, we do not feel that any person of a religious bent has the right to grievously inflict it on anyone. Enter the Kansas City school board, who wish to teach intelligent design as a science in direct opposition to the THEORY of evolution. As there is no basis in fact for ID to be taught as a science and is entirely based on faith, blind faith at that, Bobby Henderson told the Kansas school board about the FSM again an entity based entirely on faith and he also proved using faith based articles that as global warming increased that Pirates decreased, however I digress, Bobby stated quite rightly that as the FSM was based on “facts” in line with ID that it should be taught in school also. This has made Christians the world over in turn angry and perplexed.

    They have shown all the facets of Christianity, with a few exceptions, by damming everyone and promising all sorts of dire punishments from their kind and loving god, thereby showing a basic lack of understanding of their own religion and lining themselves up roughly to the right of Muslim fundamentalists.

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  36. 36 - CrackWhore - Sep 26th, 2006

    “Bobby, your site is amusing, and I can agree that ID does not belong in science classes. However, I also believe that Evolution does not belong in science classes for much the same reason. Let’s stick to chemistry, physics and biology based on the scientific theory.”

    I think you meant scientific method, not scientific theory. But that is sort of the point. Evolution IS a biology theory based on the scientific method. Intelligent Design, on the other hand, is not. Therefore ID has no place in science class, and even though a school board can change the definition of ’science’ in their district in order to allow the supernatural to be taught if they want, it does not change what science actually is. It just makes the rest of the world laugh at them for being ignorant fools who obvioulsy failed science class when they were in school.

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  37. 37 - Jesus - Sep 26th, 2006

    Can I be a pastafarian, if I dont wear pirate clothes?

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  38. 38 - Michelle - Sep 27th, 2006

    My comment is in response to Dave:

    “Dave
    Sep 19th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
    Bobby, your site is amusing, and I can agree that ID does not belong in science
    classes. However, I also believe that Evolution does not belong in science classes
    for much the same reason. Let’s stick to chemistry, physics and biology based
    on the scientific theory.”

    I think you may be confused on the definition of a theory. A bunch of statements proposing an explanation for some occurance (a hypothesis, if you will) without any evidence to back it up is just a possible explanation. For something to be a theory, it must be supported by evidence.

    Evolution is indeed a theory with evidence behind it:
    - there are fossil records that change progressively through geological layers
    - changes have been created in domestic plants and animals through selective breeding (evolution in action!)
    - molecular and physical similarities among living species (including genetic)
    - molecular timelines constructed using error rates of mitochondrial DNA
    - recent observations of species evolving in the wild (smaller mammals and invertebrates)

    I believe that evolution should be taught in science classes. Although the theory may not be perfect at this point, most science taught in schools is only the best theory available at the moment and (most) will change as science progresses. In order for the “chemistry, physics and biology based on the scientific theory” you believe should be taught to flourish as discliplines, people have to learn the (sometimes incorrect) theories so they can test and improve them.

    ps. evolution is biology (and chemistry)

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  39. 39 - Draco Merest - Sep 27th, 2006

    I saw the last 10 minutes of an English Comedy featuring computer nerds who have a ‘rough’ drawing on a pin up board of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. See link to web page.

    http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd

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  40. 40 - Andrew Pegleg - Sep 28th, 2006

    The source of “RAmen”
    In the beginning, when He descended upon the universe as we know it, He began to create that which He deemed well and good. After He created the trees, the mountians, and the midgits, He decided in his Semolinian goodness to allow the midgits to reproduce. WHen they bore forth many offspring (known as Primavarians), the number if prayer requests began to outnumber the Noodly Appendages He had. SO He created Emmisaries in his image. To the far east of the earth, he created the Underwater Rice Ball. The Rice Ball grew underwater in an area that became know to all as the Patties, an obvious translation of Pasta in the Asian toungues. In the asian people’s early attempt to purify their souls, a sect created believed in their hearts that the life blood of their religion, the red sauce of their souls, was to be found in another creation of His Noodleness, the Ramen Fairies. These fairies, they believed, were so numerous (in order to be accessible to the growin number of asian peoples), that they were to become packaged in $0.12 packages, and flavored in a myriad of styles. When later the Supreme leader of Fork-Twirling masses, the Holy leader of all that is Alfredo, the FSM revealed Himself as the fairies themselves, the sect had a change of heart. They saw the error of their ways and began again to worship the FSM throught His emmisary, The Underwater Rice Ball. To this day, Pastafarians world wide show their surrneder from other false religions by adding a “RAmen” to end of their prayers.

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  41. 41 - banghammas - Sep 30th, 2006

    fafnjdskalfdnasjkga

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  42. 42 - banghammas - Sep 30th, 2006

    ^ the new language of the almighty noodle

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  43. 43 - W P Gardner - Sep 30th, 2006

    Is it whole wheat spaghetti, or the usual “white” spaghetti? Or maybe the red or green kind you see sometimes? I am trying to worship at home and I don’t want to get the ritual wrong. It could be very dangerous.

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  44. 44 - The Aussie - Oct 1st, 2006

    it doesnt really matter, as our noodley guide is a benevolent creature. however, if this is not enough for you, try the picture of the FSM up the top of the website for inspiration :p

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  45. 45 - Jray - Oct 1st, 2006

    You make me really angry making fun of God like that.I know that the Christian story is false,but ya’ll anger me alot putting a Spehgetti Monster where God connected with man.How dare you do that.I ain’t religious nor do i understand the divine God at all.I just say that ya’ll are making a mockery of something no one can’t understand.Prayer is n’t necesary,nor is prayer,but this is one of the worst things to any relgioion or any person to do is make God look this way especially when no opne understands the being not even i do,but why put an image in front of something who we are not worthy call anything at all and we aren’t meant to pray,man tuaght us that which was good in some cases,but why get us worrying over stuff we don’t even understand.Men and women are here to live,have sex,enjoy life,fulfill their destinys and die or maybe not just depending on how healthy they are and can they live and not die.We all are given a choice in life to do right or messup it’s all up to us humans to research and not go ahead and sya this and that when we indeed don’t know God personally and say we did it’s wrong to say false stuff and not indeed know beings.I am not in any religion and never will be espeically this false religion claiming to be true come on.Ya’ll are a joke.Give me a break.Christianity isn’t real and saying this stuff will just get people mad why don’t ya’ll send the right message so people will understand what’s right from wrong instead of misleading many.

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  46. 46 - Pete Yellowbeard - Oct 2nd, 2006

    Jray – y’all wanna git yersel back n’ git some skoolin, ‘fore ya start tryin’ ritin like ‘em smart folks.

    We be talkin’ like pirates, not Wild West frontier gibberish.

    Arrr.

    Pete Yellowbeard

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  47. 47 - The Aussie - Oct 2nd, 2006

    wow… “Prayer is n’t necesary,nor is prayer…”
    couldnt agree more, nor could I agree more

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  48. 48 - Fred Waters - Oct 2nd, 2006

    FSM was mentioned by Richard Dawkins (Ph.D.)when he was interview by Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight Book Club (BBC, 22SEP06)about his book The God Delusion.

    Paxman: I was struck by one sentence in your book, in the middle of it, “God almost certainly does not exist”. You are leaving open the possibility that he does.

    Dawkins: Of course, any scientist will leave open that possibility. You can’t absolutely disprove the existance of anything. Just as we can’t disprove the existance of Bobby Henderson’s The Flying Speghetti Monster. We can’t be dogmatic and say for for certain God doesn’t exist, but it is just as unlikely as Thor with his hammer.

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  49. 49 - A skeptic - Oct 3rd, 2006

    Christianity is bunk because it can produce no better evidence than Pastafarianism. This claim might seem to need to be substantiated by a comparison of the evidence presented in favour of each. However, it doesn’t.

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  50. 50 - A Christian - Oct 3rd, 2006

    For my part, my Christian beliefs are almost entirely based on the eyewitness testimony of Paul the apostle. Why do I believe him? Well, for one thing – and it’s only one of my reasons – he seems sincere. And that’s something I can’t say about Pastafarians; they most certainly do not seem sincere. I know you won’t like that kind of evidence – eyewitness testimony I mean – because it demands a subjective judgment and is not easily amenable to scientific investigation. You can’t quantify sincerity. But we do make many important decisions based on this kind of evidence – whether to buy a certain product, who to vote for and who to trust. Members of a jury make life and death decisions based on such evidence. So it’s a kind of evidence we have to take seriously. Furthermore, the fact that Paul was killed because of the things he claimed to have seen seems to at least rule out the possibility that he was joking. So that’s some supporting evidence, again of a kind that Pastafarianism doesn’t have.

    So I really can’t identify with people who see faith and evidence as opposites. For me, faith is not about believing something in the absence of evidence. Rather, it’s the judgment you make about the evidence you do have. It’s the risk you take after you’ve considered that evidence.

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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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