Response from Mrs. Janet Waugh - District 1 - Received 6/25/05
From: JWaugh1052@[xxxxxxx]
To: bobby.henderson@gmail.com
Date: Jun 25, 2005 6:34 AM
Subject: Response from a member of the Kansas Board of Education
Thanks for your comments about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and all the supporters who have sent their support to members of the Kansas Board of Education. I am supporting the recommendations of the science committee and am currently in the minority. I think your theory is wonderful and possibly some of the majority members will be willing to support it.
Thanks again,
Janet Waugh District 1
Response from Mrs. Sue Gamble - District 2 - Received 6/26/05
From: msgamble@[xxxxxxxxx]
To: bobby.henderson@gmail.com
Date: Jun 26, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: Reply
Dear Mr. Henderson, Thanks for your message. Thanks for the laugh. Your web site is fascinating. I will add your theory to a long list of alternative theories I intend to introduce when it is appropriate. I am practicing how to do this with a straight face which is difficult since it’s such a ridiculous subject; it is also very sad that we are even having the discussion.
I will be one of the four member minority who will be voting against the flawed science standards currently being proposed by the six member majority.
Sincerely,
Sue Gamble
Response from Mrs. Carol Rupe - District 8 - Received 8/16/05
From: Carol Rupe
To: bobby.henderson@gmail.com
Date: Aug 16, 2005 8:19 AM
Subject: Kansas State Board of Education
Dear Mr. Henderson,
In the midst of the sad circumstances of having our science standards lowered, you and your legion of fellow FSM followers have offered wonderful comic relief. Rather than the form letters which we often receive on other topics, each FSM letter has been clever and unique. I responded to several at first, but now there have just been too many. I am a member of the Kansas State Board of Education and have voted repeatedly to maintain excellent science standards. Last week was the vote to send a new draft (written by the 6 conservative members) out for external review. The four of us on the board who are moderates were in the minority on the vote. The group of science teachers and university professors who had written the original standards (before they were changed) have now asked that their names be withdrawn from the document. The new version changes the very definition of science from “seeking natural explanations” to “seeking logical explanations”. That is why I think FSMism is able to be included. It is as “logical” as any other theory.
The final vote on the standards will be in October. We will be in Lawrence, Kansas for that meeting. Those of us who are moderates on the board are trying to have the meeting in the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. We think that would be an appropriate setting for the occasion. We welcome you to be in attendance.
We have received thousands of emails from scientists around the world. At first, they all tried to explain good science to us. After the vote last week, however, they have resorted to calling us hillbillies and morons. And those are the nice letters!
Thank you for adding levity to this situation. You have developed quite a following. I was wondering if we could reverse the effects of global warming if we started breeding pirates.
Sincerely,
Carol Rupe
P.S. I ordered a Kansas Museum of Science t-shirt. I may just have to wear it to a board meeting.
From: Mrs. Kathy Martin, District 6
“It is a serious offense to mock God.”
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that is one of the most amusing things i have read in quite some time. Its nice to see that there are more people on the board of education supporting science over religion, its been long enough
I have been working on the pirate breeding program to end global warming. I am looking for willing female participants in this state of the art program. Please respond with letter of interest and a recent picture.
Prof Froggy
I am proposing a scientific and mathematical undertaking to define the existence of the FSM and pastafarianism hidden within secret codes in all the great literary works of antiquity. I believe that it can be shown that the FSM had his noodles in the noodles of all writers of consequence throughout history.
From the Bible to Beowulf, from Shakespeare to Keats, from Kipling to Shelly and from Bulfinch to The Arabian Nights, all great literary works will demonstrate undeniable evidence of the noodly appendages of the FSM.
To this end, I propose that a foundation be set up which will fund true scientific exploration of all significant literary works. These works will be scanned, via high resolution scanners into a computer. The electronic documents will then be examined by optical character recognition software, which will be compared to the original documents by multiple human screeners to insure accuracy.
Once the document character matrix has been verified, special software will analyze the documents for periodic and repeating references to the FSM, Pastafarianism and other relavent materials to the one true religion, utilizing the modern and pioneering techniques of equidistant letter spacing (ELS). Along with this, I recommend a new and novel approach of RLS, or Random Letter Sequencing. This new technique will look for letters at random distances from each other in mulitple dimensions, and will likely yield greater and more startling results than the earlier process of ELS. Combining the two scientific methods, it is my conjecture that we should be able to demonstrate beyond any statistical doubt that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the one true creator of the universe.
I am willing to spearhead this effort, and wish to engage the help of any and all fiscally capable individuals to provide the means to make this holy endeavor a reality. We are in desparate need of high-resolution, large-format color scanners, computing hardware, office space and fiscal support for the human aspect of this project.
Thank you.
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I am supporting the Flying Spaghetti Monster Theory in my R.E essay. It is as logical as any other theory I have heard of.
You people in Kansas are trying to teach religion as a science. Science is meant to be discussed, dissected, and argued about. Since “God’s” word is law, in your religion, why are you opening it for debate?
Also, isn’t Sunday School (or whatever form you have your worship services in) good enough? Just stick to “preaching to the choir” then trying to push it on others.
Good site! … I am forever finding myself coming back to the site for pin data, …
thanks to the people running this show! it is indeed a good site .
brilliant, absolutely brilliant
i support the flying spaghetti monster in all aspects
p.s. i love the fsm store
I have contraindisputable proof that the FlyingSpaghettiMonster exists and that he is PISSED! Yes that’s right, he is mad as hell about recent movements to teach Intelligent Design. The proof? I can no longer find Raviolios in my local supermarkets. These non-noodly sacraments have been taken from us, mysteriously vanished from the face of the Earth over the past year. They are no longer sold at my local ACME. I can’t find them at Giant. I have searched in vain for these holy cans at Landis, Hennings, Giant, Superfresh, Shoprite, Food Emporium, Genaurdi’s, Vidalia, Clemen’s, Costco, Food Lion, Safeway, Walmart, Pathmark, Kmart, Wawa, and even 7 Eleven. Something’s up. The end of the can is near. I have faith in HIS all knowing powerful wisdom. But I’m hungry anyway.
“It is a serious offense to mock God”
Wow… what an ignoramous.
i’m not saying i don’t believe in Him, but it sounds crazy, no ofence,
I think it’s really kind of sad how so many people are seriously against this… I think they should really realize the point of this whole thing. Right now, this is probably the best thing that I’ve seen on the internet in a while. Keep it up! Maybe people will realize how irrational they are! I love the FSM store and the FSM car emblem, too!
of all the religions this is the best!! and it makes most sense, it doesnt contradict itself, it has really cool things eg:pirates
this actually makes more sense then christianity,
1.it theory is as good as christianity, but 1000000000000x more cool
2.pirates are obviously the the right chose, not some idiot who can walk on water
(my theory is that jesuse try to reach the pirates, but when they rejected him he wanted his own religion)
3.pasta is delicious
4.it has actually evidence for its beliefs
Ha!
I laughed at that last letter :P
The poor woman clearly doesn’t see that Christianity is rater out of date, being written 2000 years ago and all. While the FSM theory is new and bold. Just like Jesus was back then.
My little sister went out as a Pirate for Haloween just because she read the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I lent her.
Ra’men to you all, my Brothers and Sisters
The only cooler than a pirate is a ninja and the only thing cooler than a ninja is a pirate-ninja.
I wonder would the FSM agree, or is this sacreligous?
Do we have a good FSM chant or something that I can sing over the intercom at my school?
I believe it should be mandatory teach about the belief in Kira. Thanks to his judgement of criminals, the crime rate has dropped exponentially.I fear Kira will kill the more close-minded of those on the school board if changes aren’t made.
I agree with the CoFSM. May be this theory “logically” explaings all things as we know them???