Dear Bobby,
I’m a skeptic and former atheist who disavowed all supernatural causes and explanations for the universe and our place in it. For me, belief in a God was akin to belief in the Tooth Fairy… Until yesterday.
First, I read your web site (http://www.venganza.org/) on the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and found to my surprise I was actually interested in what you and others had to say regarding alternatives to so-called “intelligent design.” And I was greatly intrigued by the inverse relationship between global warming and the number of pirates.
Then, I attended a school function at my son’s high school, and BLAM, like a bolt from Heaven it became all so obviously clear to me.
The school marquee:
I had always wondered why a pirate was the mascot for the K-12 school in the little farming town of Bickleton, Washington, population 90, on the east side of the Cascade mountains and land-locked over 200 miles from the Pacific Ocean
ARRRH! Rumor has it that this statue appeared mysteriously without notice as an anonymous “gift” — literally out of nowhere!
While eating a delicious bit of pasta salad in the school gymnasium, I caught a glimpse of the large mural on the wall:
WOW! A pirate ship sailing in a field of wheat! Wheat makes flour, and flour makes… PASTA!
This could not possibly be a coincidence! Talk about a miracle, this was way better than an image formed in a grilled cheese sandwich… This was incontrovertible proof of the divine presence of powers greater than man or nature. Note the snow-capped Beer Volcano in the background!
Another miracle: While the town of Bickleton has burned to the ground several times, miraculously the BlueBird Tavern has survived. It’s the oldest continuously operating tavern in the State of Washington, where you can play pool on a 1901 Brunswick table and walk on the Wood Plank floor from the late 1800’s!
So I just wanted to thank you for your web site, and let you know there is a Mecca of sorts for us true believers! And let the Kansas School Board know… proof of ID FSM was found in a — SCHOOL! Raaaamen.
Most sincerely yours,
Bob Yoesle
Bickleton, WA
My hometown Hghschool is also the Priates we do not have near an elegant history as you or even a tavern your most beloved town does, but we are much closer to water we are lcated on a river and about 45 min from the ocean.
Aaarrrgghh! Brings a tear to me eye. RAmen and pass the Parmesan. Buurrp.
Yet more unquestionable signs of FSM!
RAmen
The tooth fairy is not real?
We also have a Pirate school here in Michigan…..wish I went there.
oh my pasta!
I have to get there, NOW!!!!!
i like pasta and ramen lets get toghther and eat fsm
hmm. I live in spotslyvania (the cursed place were I am the only pastafarian for miles) and well have a olf tavern as well. Funnily enough it’s next the the river which goes to the ocean. very odd.
i am so glad you saw the light, and shared those pics with us
i ust to work at a sea food restront at the water front on auckland harbour. on the breakfirst menu was spagetty on toast and 4 dinner spagetty and meatballs. not only that, it was a pirate theamed and the owner was a pirate. he died larst year RIP and the restront closed doun. in his memory could every body look up his web site ? WWW.flyingpirate.co.nz . i only wish i knew about the Sacred Orange Pasta before. RAmen PS is there any Pasterfarians in New Zealand ?
Ok Im a pastafarian living in CHAV city centre and non of them are clever enough to understand conversion. I found out though that there are many pastafarians in my scholl but in older years and for once Im not the only one. Oh yeah and I have converted two people one of which is buying the Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster right now wooop!
Another Pirate Goth - Have you thought of including religious tests as part of your education? Read what all the religions have to say before you make up your mind. Just remember, you have one shot at life, don’t mess it up.
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“Read what all the religions have to say before you make up your mind. Just remember, you have one shot at life, don’t mess it up.”
Clearly you are well versed in the ways of those who believe in reincarnation (in case you don’t know, these are generally the ones from the Indian subcontinent).
I think Christ4all should consider a career in politics (if he/she hasn’t already) because, well, the hypocrisy is about the same level.
El Peatieablo - I have read about reincarnation. I don’t believe a word of it.
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What is hypocritical about saying that one should read the texts of other religions before you make up your mind? Isn’t that the scientific way?
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Apparently you have chosen to be ignorant. Does that make educated people wrong?
I am also a new convert and a Wheelersburg, Ohio Pirate (class of ‘65)
@Christ4all
The hypocritical part is that we are used to the fundies that believes his gospel is the absolute truth and the other religions are completely wrong, and you don’t seem very different.
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Of course we have read about christianism, but we have also seen the ways most christians misbehave.
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“I don’t believe a word of it[reincarnation]” It’s as believable as the Arch, not more, not less. And as falsifiable as God
Thank you for the GOOD NEWS from Bickelton. Bickleton must truly be a blessed place highly favored by His Noodleness. As I recall, Bickleton is a fairly isolated small town in wheat country that is also a stopover for an annual migration of bluebirds. This phenomenon is pretty much unique in North America. I always wondered, “Why Bickleton?”
Now I see the light. The beautiful Bickelton-bound bluebirds arriving each spring are clearly a manifestation that He is well pleased with your pirate heritage and bountiful grain (or is it just the bountiful grain?)
The early Mormons had their “Miracle of the Seagulls” , which by the way, happened only once. Your bird-miracle happens almost every year. Who says that FSM can’t go toe-to-toe with the other religions?
Count your blessings and
RAmen