Q: Who are you?
A: My name is Bobby Henderson. I’m 26, currently living in Arizona, Originally from Oregon. I have a Physics degree and am happily unemployed.
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 on the T-Shirts?
A: Some. Not enough to buy a pirate ship, but enough to avoid a real job for a while.
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
So does that mean that every time I eat Spaghetti it’s like paying homage to FSM?
Because my dad makes Spaghetti a lot.
I ate it today.
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[Spaghetti is capitalized because it’s now a religious word.]
We’re definetly related, we should get together have a spa together and ummmm discuss FSM, if it leads to more then so be it =)
Is the FSM a jealous deity?
I’m a polytheist considering adding adding the FSM to the list of deities I worship. Of course, this only makes sense if I can do so without angering Him. Can I worship Him and still worship Santa Claus? (I’m a Santaist, among other things.)
Is the FSM really male? I suppose He is always poking things with His Noodley Appendage, so I can understand why it would be expected that the FSM is male… and there is always those meaty balls…
In the light: Sorry for all the attacks. However, please realise we are not an anti-Christian group. It even says so in the faq.
How can one satirical letter become a “religion?” After reading the FAQ, Hate mail, and this entire thread, all I can say is I’m bemused, yet amused, by the cretinous “Spaghettians” (or whatever you claim to call yourselves). I thought the argument was about separation of church and state, not about viciously attacking everyone else for their beliefs. Additionally, I’m sorry you all are getting scammed into purchasing merchandise to support this vacous cause. Enjoy your blissful ignorance!!
Amazing. I am writing a “Cultural Hermeneutics” paper on the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster for my Relgion and Society class. I attend a private Christian university, and I just wanted you all to know that FSM is the best subject for a paper EVER! If you need a copy for legal purposes, super.
Steven, The FSM is not a jealous deity. The first I’d Really Rather You Didn’t states, “I’d Really Rather You Didn’t Act Like A Sanctimonious, Holier-Than-Thou Ass When Describing My Noodly Goodness. If Some People Don’t Believe In Me, That’s OK. Really, I’m Not That Vain.”
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George, the second I’d Really Rather You Didn’t tells us (Pastafarians), “I’d Really Rather You Didn’t Use My Existence As A Means To Oppress, Subjugate, Punish, Eviscerate, And/Or, You Know, Be Mean To Others.”
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RAmen
Okay, if god is so real and all. Then who the heck made the dinos?
People say they were before civilization, there is PROOF dinos are real. [bones] So in the bible it says god made light and everything then how did the dino’s live? i am a person of science. there is no way anyone can possibly belive gos is the real thing. think about what i just said. im not asking you to change religion, im just asking to think if this IS your religionm, or your parwnts and whole famliy got ot church and you just grew up around it and learned to belive it. i have a point.
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Okay, if god is so real and all. Then who the heck made the dinos?
People say they were before civilization, there is PROOF dinos are real. [bones] So in the bible it says god made light and everything then how did the dino’s live? i am a person of science. there is no way anyone can possibly belive gos is the real thing. think about what i just said. im not asking you to change religion, im just asking to think if this IS your religionm, or your parwnts and whole famliy got ot church and you just grew up around it and learned to belive it. i have a point do is you have questions then…
contact me at: smithgirl10@hotmail.com
FANTASTIC!! I laughed my butt off! I only hope those that truly need to “get it” do get it.
In FSM we trust !
Hey Lauren- read the book of Genesis in the Bible. It explains the story of creation. Maybe you should be better informed before claiming that “you have a point” and that “there is no way anyone can possibly believe God is the real thing”. Because I do. My family does. Most of the world does, actually. So I’m pretty insulted by that.
The first chapter in the book of Genesis is the creation story, which says how God made: 1. on the first day, night and day,
2. on the second day, the sky,
3. on the third day, the oceans, the dry land (earth), and all of the plants, trees, fruits, veggies, etc.,
4. on the fourth day, the sun, moon, and stars,
5. on the fifth day, all the living creatures that live in the water and all the birds that fly in the sky (and the Bible even mentions “the great sea monsters”- dinosaurs!), and
6. on the sixth day, all the living creatures from the earth (the Bible says “wild animals of the earth of every kind”- dinosaurs, Lauren!) and all humankind (you, me, and the rest of the human race IN HIS IMAGE! I’m glad God isn’t really a Flying Spaghetti Monster because then we would all look like him), and
7. on the seventh day, He rested.
So, judging by all this, which came directly from the Bible, your entire above statement has no real proof. This is what I believe, and what I think is true. Make of it what you will.
I have a serious question for the FAQ section. I am a recent convert to Pastafanarianantidisestablishmentarianism or whatever it is, oh heck I just worship the flying spaghetti monster!! But I want to worship him the way he wants me to worship him. I do not want to blaspheme. I love eating spaghetti and all such yummy pasta sacraments. But I’ve noticed that I enjoy eating the pasta sacraments more if I get “toasted” first by smoking some herbal supplements. What does the FSM think about this? I know Jesus smoked herb so it’s OK for christians but what about Pastafawhatevers? Has the FSM ever spoke of this to his followers? Oh and what is DOG smoking and can I get some?
wow.. even though i think this whole spaghetti monter thing is riddiculous….. it was nive to see lauren get put in her place by bethany…. Good job bethany… GOD is proud of you!
Bethany you gotta be half retarded and you to skylerbug because god isn’t real nor is Jesus because if they were real where are they ? Jesus bones ? they just disappeared huh ? but all the people in his suppose time are still there . . . and some crazy guy could have easily wrote the damn bible and don’t tell me god did because no one saw him don’t tell me Jesus did it because theres no proof just a retarded book just like you two so if you don’t believe in FSM then deal with it we don’t believe in god and we deal with it and don’t make a big deal out of it we don’t go to your dumb sites and leave comments saying god isn’t real because we already know he isn’t so deal with it you dummy’s
You know if you’re going to insult our religion we could just do it back we don’t because we don’t need to insult people to feel superiour and for all ofyou who do insult us you should really just stfu because some day this is all going to back at you (When pastafarianism is the main religion) when people insult christians or catholics everyone raises a big fuss about it and that’s what is going to happen when pastafarians are well known.
I hope I do not get the benefit of any of Lauren’s “science” as she can barely type a comprehensible sentence so I am sure that skews the results - either by interpretation or implementation. Must have gotten a hold of Cleetus’s “herbal supplements” - and didn’t share with the rest of the class.
I can’t believe you don’t believe in the FSM. You will spend eternity with the purple oyster!!!!
Kourtney, eating Spaghetti is indeed paying homage. If you’ve witnessed communion is Christian masses, you see them drink wine symbolizing the blood of Christ, and eat a mass produced cracker thingy symbolizing the body of Christ. When I eat Spaghetti, I feel a spiritual connection to our beloved creator.
And a question for Bobby:
With your approval (or if I need it) and to symbolize my devotion to our faith, I would like to become a priest/minister whathaveya for the Church of the FSM.
Thank You,
P.S.: Denying my priesthood may leave me no choice but to form my own fundamentalist sect.
haha bethany u do realise that no sea creature was ever a dinosaur, only marine reptiles. secondly, a day is a mesurement made up by man, a thougth put in2 our heads by his noodleiness, surely if the bible is exactly how things happened it wouldnt say a day, probably sumthing like “a presumed amount of time”. k thanx gud chat :)