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campfire site

Published by Bobby Henderson September 5th, 2008 in sightings and General FSM news. 0 Comments

I have discovered clear evidence of his noodley appearance departing from a campfire site next to a lake in Finland.

Yours truly,
Heikki

FSM appears as lightning in Malibu

Published by Bobby Henderson September 2nd, 2008 in sightings and General FSM news. 15 Comments

Micheal Gardner captured the above photo. I’m not sure he realized what he’s captured but it is very impressive.

Boston billboard

Published by Bobby Henderson September 2nd, 2008 in sightings and General FSM news. 2 Comments

Could the FSM indeed be the creator of all life? Well, this billboard in Boston’s North End could shed some light on it! Enjoy the photo, and long live the FSM!

-Ben

Historic Proof of his Noodley Intervention

Published by Bobby Henderson September 1st, 2008 in evidence and General FSM news. 23 Comments

The above photo was provided by Pastafarian Eric. I will assume it’s legitimate unless someone proves otherwise (as per all matters of religion).

fsm man?

Published by Bobby Henderson August 31st, 2008 in sightings and General FSM news. 13 Comments

So me and a friend of mine were sitting in our Study of Religion class when she spotted this! We were truly touched by his noodley appendage!
-Jake

I’m not sure what this is … anyone know? Creepy.

Chilean school endorses the FSM

Published by Bobby Henderson August 29th, 2008 in General FSM news. 17 Comments

Pastafarian Lyn spotted stained-glass window depicting the FSM at a school in Chili. Excellent!

I thought I was the only Pastafarian in Chile, and since I didn’t make this, there are others. I even made my schedule so I didn’t have any classes on Friday.

Ramen to all of you.

Lyn

Some more pictures:

FSM at the Olympics

Published by Bobby Henderson August 27th, 2008 in sightings and General FSM news. 13 Comments

Was watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics and guess what I have found! It must be proof that the Flying Spaghetti Monster endorses the Olympics and was obviously a sign to all of us Pastafarians who were witnesses to theses closing ceremonies. His Noodly Appendage’s are so graceful!

Sauce be upon Him.
RAmen.

-Raist

He landed on a cake

Published by Bobby Henderson August 26th, 2008 in food, sightings and General FSM news. 10 Comments

His Greatness landed on a cake…. who knew….
-Sammy

Did you eat Him?

Berlin Pastafarians find publicity

Published by Bobby Henderson August 25th, 2008 in Recognition and General FSM news. 16 Comments

Pastafarian Dylan found this article published in the Berlin Kurier. Amazing!

Here’s a translation:

Spaghetti Monster, Have Mercy

Pastafarians celebrate their fun religion in pasta masses

Friedrichshain (place): They say that they believe in the power of the internet, beer and stripper factories and that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the Earth. Millions of Pastafarians worldwide worship their god. In Berlin and Brandenburg almost 500 young people perform a pilgrimage regularly to pasta masses.

The community in pirate costumes stand with a set expression in the living room, say a civil “Our Monster” open their mouth to receive spaghetti and beer from their priest. 10 minutes later the religious speech is over, the three youths hungrily eat bolognese in silence. A typical evening watching television begins. Have these lads got pasta on the brain?

Brother Spaghetti alias Rainer Weida (57) explains “we want to use our mostly public masses to criticise every form of religion.” In East German times the teacher complained already about the “misuse of faith by the Church to hold power”. His club modelled on that of spoof prophet Bobby Henderson, who campaigns in Kansas against the free churches, has 20 members in Berlin and in the whole of Germany 500,000. The goal “is to make sects and fanatics think through pasta.”

(Captions)

First the mass, then the evening meal. The community enjoys their favourite meal – two meatballs with spaghetti.

Priest Captain Nodus alias musician Wolf Weida (35) divides the spaghetti offering between the young people.

Top picture: the Monster.

Galactic Spaghetti Monster

Published by Bobby Henderson August 22nd, 2008 in evidence and General FSM news. 17 Comments

Respected science publication New Scientist has provided us startling evidence of the FSM in a report of the phenomenon pictured above, which they’ve termed the “Galactic ‘Spaghetti Monster’”.

Long-lived magnetic fields are sustaining a mammoth network of spaghetti-like gas filaments around a black hole, a new study suggests. Previously, it was not clear what prevented the delicate filaments from being destroyed by competing gravitational forces.

The black hole lies at the heart of a large galaxy known as NGC 1275, which itself lies near the centre of a cluster of galaxies called Perseus.

As the black hole sucks in gas from its surroundings, it powers jets of matter that produce bubbles of energetic particles in the surrounding cluster gas. As these bubbles grow and rise, cooled gas from NGC 1275’s core gets drawn into long tendrils in their wake, like the strings that trail behind balloons.

Until now, no one was sure quite how old these gas filaments were or how they avoided being torn apart by the galaxy cluster’s immense gravitational forces. “Quite what the filaments are and how they are produced hasn’t been known,” says study author Andrew Fabian of Cambridge University in the UK.

But Hubble Space Telescope images used in the study, the most detailed yet taken of the galaxy, are changing that.

They show the gas filaments seem to be made up of a number of thin threads. These threads are so tenuous that magnetic fields are the only thing that can protect them from being destroyed, says Fabian.

You can read all about it here.

Thanks, New Scientist!

Heavenly Bloom

Published by Bobby Henderson August 19th, 2008 in sightings and General FSM news. 8 Comments

An email from Pastafarian Haley:

I was recently on one of my favorite websites, graphjam, when I saw an advertisement on the side that looked very much like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I clicked on the link and started browsing the bloom teas …

when one caught my eye. Ironically enough (or not ironically, this is the way the Flying Spaghetti Monster wanted it) it was the one called “Heavenly Bloom”. Heavenly. And it looked JUST like the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

RAmen!,
-Haley

Here’s the link to the Blooming Teas.

Ikea endorses the Church

Published by Bobby Henderson August 18th, 2008 in General FSM news. 14 Comments

I bought this doll in IKEA in Taiwan about a year ago. Just knowing the FSM has been a strong presence in our son’s life from the start is indeed a comfort.

Ramen.

-Heinke

This is news to me, but I’m not too surprised, as the Swedish are a very intelligent people and have been strong supporters of the Church of the FSM since early on. Thanks, IKEA!

An illustration of the church

Published by Bobby Henderson August 15th, 2008 in General FSM news. 29 Comments

So I was originally drawing a house then this came to me instead.

I was touched by his noodly appendage for sure.

Those things with wings are pirates.

And the top says “F.S.M. ‘And he spread his noodly goodness and saw it was good…’ ”

-Ben

Court date set for Green Bay nativity scene lawsuit

Published by Bobby Henderson August 12th, 2008 in General FSM news. 36 Comments

Some of us what happened last Christmas when Green Bay city officials installed a Christian nativity scene atop a public building. Drama ensued when the city would not allow displays representing other religions - including the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They mayor referred to a proposed Pastafarian display as “silly”. (Clearly he hadn’t seen my schematic (below)).

Now the city of Green Bay is being sued. Not by us - by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

The Madison-based foundation and 14 local residents are suing the city of Green Bay, Mayor Jim Schmitt and former City Council President Chad Fradette over the display. The lawsuit claims the display depicting the birth of Jesus violates the Constitution as a governmental endorsement of religion.

I can’t get too worked up about any of this. I’m sure most of us Pastafarians are not offended by Jesus displays. I assume that most Christians would enjoy a festive Pastafarian display. If we’re going to allow one religious display, why not allow them all? What’s the problem? Who doesn’t like pirates and strippers?

Maybe Green Bay mayor Jim Schmitt just doesn’t understand what a wonderful belief system we have. I can’t help but wonder if this all could have been avoided if we had done more evangelizing.

I suppose the Mayor will be busy for a while battling for his right to endorse Jesus with government resources, but after this lawsuit dies down maybe we can convert him to the one True religion.

You can read more about the lawsuit at the Chicago Tribune here.

Purchase the Gospel

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