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professors who had written the original standards (before they were changed) have now asked that their names be withdrawn from the document.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.”
Who was it that said,,,,”One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh,,,,?”
Fantastic. Finally a church I can belong to, and eat the sauce too. Show me the meatballs, oh great FSM!
And just a quick note, I just read the local Jehova’s news pamphlet, which included an article about science and the theory of evolution, and I just thought you should all know that, accordingly, the fine molecular theory has never been scientifically proved.
(umm… what?)
Ramen, and have a great saucy weekend!
Response from Mr. Filippo ****** - Italy - Received 22/2/08
From: Filippo
To: bobby.henderson@gmail.com (well, not really, just a reply on this website =P)
Date: Feb 22, 2008 3:32 PM
Subject: Considerations
Well, the first time I actually happened to see a drawing of the FSM (in a flash on Newgrounds), I didn’t understand what the hell was it supposed to match with the whole surrounding…
Today, scrolling various articles of the free press newspaper Metro, I was caught in astonishment when a giant picture of the FSM itself made it’s appearance in the middle of the page!
After reading the article, I felt like I HAD to go and look for the website of such an original (and hilarious) idea.
Now that I’ve seen the text of the letter (the Italian translated version isn’t totally fair to the English one) I must say you’d deserve to have this ipothesis to be taught as a subject, at least for it’s “logicity” (to be intended with the same meaning Mrs. Carol Rupe meant it to be).
Sadly, most people I know just don’t understand that it -could really- be a FSM out there, as well as any other entity suggested by any else religion!
For the same reason, the “pirates-global temperature” connection, in fact, isn’t less credible than the “Greenhouse effect”. Actually, both are only based on graphs about statistics and the “Greenhouse” one in neither more accurate nore more “logical”.
As a result of these considerations, I offer you my full support, invisible and untouchable of course!
Sincerly,
Filippo
P.S.: sorry for my not perfect English: it isn’t my mother language!
I am from the hold church of The Blessed Bike Mechanic and we believe that the universe was created a week last Tuesday. We abhor your “faith” and all that is stands for and we declare a holy war upon you and your faithless creed. There is only one true faith and one true God (praise His Holy Name) and he fixes bikes. Our crusaders will be around shortly to remove your infidel heads, as soon as they’ve gotten those nasty grass stains out of their nice white shirts. Can anyone recommend a good laundry detergent? A curse upon you. Have a nice day.
I took the pamphlets from The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti monster, photo copied and spammed my entire town with them. Seriously, like hundreds. All over the hydro poles. The world will know…especially the town i live in.
Thank You
I am going to design pamphlets of my own, that three fit on an A4 paper, so that I will only have to print 1/3 of the actual amount needed. Since my printers exploded, and the librarian at school is rather unfriendly. I will also design a similar poster in A4 format and stick them wherever it is not illegal.
This is going to be so much fun.
I added a link to Pastafarianism on the Wiikipedia article on Pirates. The world needs to know. Al Gore needs to know. It’s the truth, however inconvenient. The truth is like garlic butter.
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This is every bit as non-sensical as any religion. I’d go for it!
“When one person suffers from delusions, its called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.” - Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
Another English politician with no shortage of names - William Pitt the Younger, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it”
-http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html
When this country was founded it was done so with the belief that religion would be a free choice, when teaching Creationism based on faith enters the school system, the system will crumble because they must propose every other possible language, including Pastafarian and Rastafarian. They are opening Pandora’s Box and are going to regret it for the rest of their natural born lives and the lives they live in the future, whatever the FSM has in mind for these no believers.
Praise and Pasta Be with You.
RAmen
Wyatt
On the previous comment, I am missing a couple of things.
First is the second Quote, by Baron Acton, “Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.”
Second is when I stated language, what I meant to say was Religion, but I am sure you could have figured that out through the context of the passage.
There is a new voice for Pastafarians in N.O. and I will be out every Friday on Burbon St. supporting the FSM and Hurricane Drinks from Pat O’s and Grenades (and maybe a strip club from time to time =P).
Praise and Pasta Be with You.
RAmen
Wyatt
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