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professors who had written the original standards (before they were changed) have now asked that their names be withdrawn from the document.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.”

1115 Responses to “Kansas School Board Responses to the Open Letter”


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  1. 1021 VictorVictor Mar 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  2. 1022 Josh Hoffman Mar 8th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    Ok, as I read that letter the whole time I thought to myself, “WTF!” How can someone write the words “noodly appendage” without bursting out laughing. I myself am laughing now. I mean really, come on, Flying Spaghetti Monster!?! Get real, I may not have a clear opinion in my head about religion, I mean I belive in God but I don’t believe everything that the Bible says, but this whole religion, if one can call it that, is a joke! A damn joke!

  3. 1023 Hans Mar 9th, 2008 at 12:10 am

    Well the board of education will see otherwise when we are billion strong in 2000 years! , THEY THEY WILL NOT LAUGH IN HIS NOODLENESSES FACE.

    rAmen!

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  6. 1026 E Vella Mar 11th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Can I lick his Scrumptious Noodleness?

  7. 1027 Joe Blow Mar 12th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Josh: “I mean I belive in God”

    yes Josh, please continue… what does he/she/it look like? how tall is your God? Or is it more like a pure energy being? Does it have spatial and temporal contiguity?

    what drives your belief? Have you met or spoken with your god? did you catch a glimpse of your god on a foggy road when night was falling?

    and does your god interact with you? the world? if so how?

    please be as detailed as possible.

    thanks
    Joe

  8. 1028 connie Mar 13th, 2008 at 2:09 pm

    the last letter made me laugh.

  9. 1029 me, myself and his/her/its noodly appendageness Mar 14th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    i believe i met this entity one night after devouring quite a lot of our special friends the magic shrooms.

    i believe that these shrooms are the poo-poos of our beloved creator the many tentacled, many appendaged doer of good.

    i believe that i’ve been touch by one of his appendages.

    can you send me the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s creed or if you like i’ll write it for you.

    me and myself

  10. 1030 Jeff Mar 14th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    ” but this whole religion, if one can call it that, is a joke! A damn joke!”
    _________________________________________________
    We’ve got a smart one here!

  11. 1031 Koen Mar 14th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

    It is not a serious offense to mock an unexistant thingy.

  12. 1032 LEO rOBERTS Mar 15th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    THE QUINTESSENTIAL PROBLEM IS TO LEARN HOW TO CRUCIFY A SPAGHETTI MONSTER AND THEN TO FREE HIM/HER FROM THE CROSS WITHOUT DAMAGING HIS (?) APPENDAGES.

  13. 1033 GorGo Mar 17th, 2008 at 4:59 am

    If you keep offending his NOODLENESS you are calling upon you the wrath of his spicy souce and a NOODLEY HOLY WAR.

    And believe me .. that will make one hell of a mess. Everyone knows how much fun it is to clean up sticky noodles.

    Best of wishes to all brothers and sisters of the one true NOODELY faith.

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    lol

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  17. 1037 Dan Mar 18th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    You guys need to remember that we are one of the only religons who can say we havn’t killed anyone to join or promote our religon. We obviously make the most sense, but we respect all others religons. I’m sure if everyone sawa ll of the overwhelming scientific evidence of His Noodley Ones existance, they would believe in him aswell. Maybe instead of trying to threaten with noodley holy war, you should grab your eye patch and your parrot, make some pamphlets and spread the word of our FSM.
    RAmen

  18. 1038 Henry Pierson Mar 18th, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Leo—It is due to the poverty of your imagine that you can not fathom how his greatness could be crucified. If the great one would allow it, you would merely tie together, with tie-wraps, several of his noodley appendages—the spike, (nail etc.) would be placed between them. Clearly his holiness has seen fit not to endow you with perception. As for me, I have personally visted with the great one and he has revealed to me that you should be crucified in his place for even suggesting such a thing.

  19. 1039 OAPV Mar 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    Greetings
    As I read most of this enlighted website that spreads the world of our creator the godly FSM, I have converted to the most devoted beliver. After viewing some of the sightings, He appeared in my dreams and I was touched by His noodly appendage. He, our creator, the being we should pay tribute to, has been neglected by the ignorant hordes of humans that betrayed Him adoring imaginary beings, these fantastic creatures won’t save the humanity of His rage against misbelievers.
    A noodly greeting to all borthers and sisters, believers of the one and truly creator of the universe
    VIVA FSM

  20. 1040 mitch Mar 19th, 2008 at 2:33 am

    this is the best religion, all hail the fsm

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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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