Alex spent the afternoon dressed as a pirate, preaching the word of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on the University of North Carolina campus to a few hundred bystanders. You can contact alex here: pastafarian@gotfork.net
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Alex talks about his experience:
I planned the entire event in about two days and prepared by making a few posters about FSMism and borrowing a pirate costume (ok, well I know it might be a little bit more north African warlord than pirate, but I got it for free!) and talking a few friends into coming to take pictures and to heckle me to get things started.
I put on the pirate costume and walked to a central point on campus where I took off my shoes and started talking loudly about how the flying spaghetti monster created the world to no one in particular, and quickly attracted a crowd of about 30 people including some of my friends. I went through a brief routine about the creation, why we dress like pirate, scientific facts, the afterlife (I made a judgment call and said the beer in the beer volcano was a dark Belgian lager like “Lefe Brun”), our flimsy moral standards and so on. After that I answered a bunch of questions from people about FSM and fended off a few hecklers, most of them people I knew - it’s surprisingly easy to make everything up! While doing this I attracted more people by yelling questions at pedestrians and gesticulating wildly. Only after I had a fairly large captured audience did I talk about whats going on in Kansas. The key point I tried to push home was that FSMism was just as good as ID, but possibly better due to said beer volcanoes and scientific graphs. I went through this routine a few times in the first 45 min before I had to start walking around to find more people to talk to - next time I’ll go earlier in the day when theres more traffic.
The best part was the small number of people who clearly believed that I was totally earnest. These people asked the best possible questions and only added to the overall effect =). Another highlight when a bunch of people from the Physics department all came by at the same time and swore that the scientific evidence was valid - lol. I’ll try to get some video up in the next few days, even if I have to do it again. I’m waiting till our local religious zealot shows up on campus again.
This is a great way to make friends. An interesting suggestion that I was too chicken to try out is to make a long FAQ about FSMism and to make the last question be: Are you single? Yes.
Lisa V. from the University of Arizona asked for a few tips, which I reprint here:
Bring lots of water, having to speak loudly for more than a hour can produce a lot of wear and tear on your throat! Its good to be comic, but its even better if you can remain as serious and earnest as possible. Try to use as much body language as possible - wiggling your arms and shoulders while talking about His Noodly Appendage is apparently pretty funny. Bring posters or signs if you can, and while some should be large, funny and sarcastic, its probably good to have at least one serious one about whats going on in Kansas.
I didn’t have pamphlets or stickers, but that would probably be a good idea. Invite a few friends to come and heckle you to get started (or even practice with them in advance.) Not only will this help you generate a crowd, it can also help you get into the swing of things. If you’re working a single crowd and not moving, always be trying to add to it by asking questions of people walking by, etc. Make certain that if someone is taking pictures for you they know how to
use your camera!
If you have any other questions feel free to contact me!
-Alex, pastafarian@gotfork.net
you are a leg end man. a regular legend. all hail the fsm.
Lol, it’s been almost a year and I’m still getting mail about this. I think I’m going to hand the torch over to a new ‘pastafarian preacher’ for this next year. Glad to see that the church is still going strong!
That was amazingly awesome! Alex is my hero! I live in Poulsbo, WA, and everyone is very conservative and religous there (except me!) I am going to make some signs, go downtown, and start preaching about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pastafarians and our religion, the Kansas School Board, Pirates, and, last but not least, PASTA!
After all, we want everyone to see the light shining through the FSM’s Noodly Appendage reaching out to them!Lovelovelovelovelovelovelove,
-Emma
Alex, way to go man. I am a newbie to the church and still taking eveything in, but I think you have stepped out on a limb to bring awareness to something that all us believers hold high. Kudos to you my friend and may you be guided by his noodly appendage. Ramenon
Cool. I recently joined the Hackysack/FSM club at my school, and I’m doing a bit of preaching on my own.
Eric, you are an inspiration to us all! Thank you!
Wah! I wasn’t watching, Alex = Eric >
Alex-
You are the only clergy memeber I could find. Please be a source for my religion project. PLEASE!
-Carlton
P.S. I think your pirate costume is excellent, though I reccomend a fake moustache next time.
Dark Belgian lager in the beer volcano? We in the UK beleive that heavens volcano erupts ale.
Could this be the first Pastafarian religious schism?
As a fellow Brit who doesn’t really like real ale, I believe that His Noodliness is so omnipotent that he makes the beer volcano dispense the beer of your liking, from bitter to (my favourite) Waggle Dance honey ale.
He’s just *that* good to us.
CF
yodel, im only 12 years old, and i preach to my friends at school. i know for sure that i have at leats one of my teachers convinced, i showed him the web site and the graphs and everything.
Anywho, alex, u r brave. where i come from, i probably would have benn run down by an angey mob. of course, i have to fight one to get to my loker, its no biggie.
Long Live FSM!
Ramen.
i have gotten everyone i know to be a pastafarian
but the promblem is i am in a christian school i have to preach in disquise because pastafarians around the world are being persecuted for their faith.
umm im slightly confused…r u guys for real??? cause if u r thats awesome… if not then im incredibly ammused lol
FSM in Melbourne
i have gotten everyone i know to be a pastafarian, We are also trying to register as an offical organization in australia and spread the word even further
all hail the fsm
From all us Pastafarians in the UK well done.
Jesi,
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I’m definitely real. And also awesome, it’s true.
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(In case that’s not what you meant: stay here long enough, and you will find the Truth of His Noodly Appendage.)
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RAmen
I’ve got about 50 people at my school to be pastafarians, and this friday we’re staging a rally at lunch! pray to the FSM to caress us with his nodelly appendages.
hi i a m a person not a fucken saghettu and i dont need any of this nacho people loven speghetti!!!!!lol i m not kidding
Alex, you are a role model to Pastafarians around the world.
RAmen.
Hi, I love the work you have been doing. I am almost disappointed that I live in a country that is so secular, and largely atheist, UK, and this point doesn’t really have to be made. Missing all the fun. I suppose I could use it against some of the new age blokes, or the odd christian nutter that preaches down town.
Anyway, good luck, and all power to his great noodliness.
wevvy, it is our duty wherever we are the spread The Word of FSM. I also live in the UK and my car has recently been touched by His Noodly Appendage (evolvefish.com). RAmen.
This is great. I think I’ll start preaching, but I’ve already convinced/told everyone that I was god. So, I’ll figure something out.
ok, this is to the Saint guy. (he posted above cathie)
prove u r not made of spaghetti.
(burn)
i have reason to believe that the people who run Cartoon network are pastafarians. on fridays (our holy day) they seem to show only pirate shows. sure there is a normal show tossed in, but the majority is pirate!
ramen!
hey u r a legend im from uk and im the only person in my school of 1000 with the gospal…they all think FSMism is crazy….but i belive in the FSM 100%
i live in the uk and i am a devout moominist pastafarian
You’ve just recruited me by your website! And, I recruited my friends, a Babtist Pastor and Catholic priest into the FSM belief. Let me explain. We go fishing together often. On the last trip, while in the boat about 100 feet offshore, I donned my FSM hat and said, “Well, mother nature call.” With that, I hopped overboard and walked across to shore, then walked back across the water when I relieved myself. I did this several times, then the Babtist preacher said he had to go relieve himself, then confidently hopped over the side, and got soaked. A while later the priest tried it, but got a soaking, too. I preached beer volcanoes and pirates the rest of the day in that boat, and now they both want to introduce FSM dogma into their church (I never told them about the rocks).
youre the biggest faggot ive ever seen. do you have any self respect or decency? youre worse than that naked cowboy. id rather be seen in underwear than that fucking halloween princess costume. i really hope someone shoots you at the next speech you give. please die.
Could this preaching have anything to do with why you don’t have any friends?
As a UNC student myself, I commend you. I can just imagine you vs. the Pit Preacher… haha. wish I could have been there to see it.
Alex , u make me proud my young apprentice. Well done!
Bearer of my macaroni. Thou art of me.
Yet, claim no gift, but guidance.
For I am the giver of spaghetti.
Thou art the executor of Thy rewards.
Not a retard
Jan 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
” Could this preaching have anything to do with why you don’t have any friends? ”
Could your choice of name mean that you’re actually unsure whether or not you are a retard?
im not as drunk as these guys
Jan 13th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
” youre the biggest faggot ive ever seen. do you have any self respect or decency? youre worse than that naked cowboy. id rather be seen in underwear than that fucking halloween princess costume. i really hope someone shoots you at the next speech you give. please die. ”
There’s clearly some kind of underlying psychological problem… have you had an unhappy childhood? You express only anger, and no reason. Did the FSM make you realize that somethign that you are afraid to face?
praises to Eric! perhaps in this millenia we shall see the making new prophets or sub-prophets
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I cannot wait to try it at my school
RAmen!
Wow. Hotttttness. You rock my world =]
Ramen people xx
is there someone like the pope (all holly meatball)
HE HAS BEE TOUCHED BY THE NOODELY APENDAGE! WE SHOUL ALL FOLOW IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS!!!
You are my hero Alex, I hope to follow in your humble footsteps some day.
I could try to preach but I would be totally laughed at. (i live in a no-pastafarian zone full of born again christains as well as some christain athletes. only a few are even atheists!) can I help you guys next time YOU preach?
That is awesome. May my children follow in your footsteps–it was my 21 year old son who found out about the FSM and brought me to Pastafarianism. Love your preaching approach. May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage. RAmen.
@ im not as drunk as these guys
Dear fellow Human Being:
Rilly, bud, what happen to you? You get your wooden
toys stuck behind the radiator when you were a kidlet?
Eat thou some pasketti with meatballs n sauce.
Then you feel better, yus!!
Good job! But I’m depressed though. What percentage of your crowd do you think did really realize your intention to caricature the ID flimflam? And there was even ‘ the small number of people who clearly believed that you were totally earnest’???
Who were they? A group of campus cleaners?
Hans, Stuttgart, Germany
PS: who knows a well sounding German term for ‘Noodly Appendage’?
Shiver me timbers, Hans of Germany!
Surely Nudelisch-Anhang is the expresssion that you seek, ar, laddie? (Thanks for that to Babelfish).
I wish i had the courage to do that here in Australia.
In orientation week this year there was a guy handing out christian pamphlets. I’m trying to work up the courage to stand next to him next year in my pirate gear and hand out some pamphlets of my own. I am concerned however that by attracting an audience to myself, i might be helping him too (because i’ll be next to him). Any idea/advice?
So Alex, I suppose this makes you a Pasta (Pastor).
I think I’ll stick with the original Big Guy In The Sky and try not to take this too seriously for now (I hope God has a sense of humor or you and your totally worthy cause are all royally f***ed)
ARRR!
RAmen
Cooper
If people grew up believing in the FSM we’d have no conflict here. Instead they grew up believing in the prevailing religions we have today. So, what’s the difference? None. Both FSM and ID claim the unprovable, therefore they are the same in logic. FSM is just more scientifically grounded, lol.
teach me to be like you…
whoever did this is my hero
You are all pathetic if you really believe in the FSM. Think about what you’re believing in and get an education.
Get an education? i’m sure NONE of us had ever thought of that. not even Admiral Bobby.
@Commodore Angryy
I think we should do a study relating religious preference (FSM, christian, Hindu, agnostic etc.) and level of education (achieved or in the process of achieving). Perhaps we could add in a factor for correct knowledge of various scientific theories (nothing grammar related, the christians would be too embarrassed). Yeah, I bet Pastafarians would rate quite low in that.
I think it’s a great idea. They obviously ave an education, if they can try and slove a problem in such a unique way. After visiting this, i’ld say i’m willing to convert.
Your satire is wonderful
those crazy Christians in your country are wack, i cannot believe how many of them there are, and that people in america seriously think god created the earth.
Way to be great
Welcome Marjolein
We have a couple of long term Dutch faithfuls in our midst.
May His Noodly Appendage always guide your light.
RAmen
Welkom Marjolein. Mikkiee heeft gelijk, er is hier een aardige Nederlandstalige gemeenschap. Post nog vaker wat als je wilt, nieuwe Pastafarians zijn altijd welkom.
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Waar in Holland kom je vandaan? Ik oorspronkelijk uit Den Haag, nu woonachtig in Belfast.
you might be the first ever official fsm preacher good work
Something should be written… a NEW TESTAMENT OF THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER GOSPEL… and it should include such escapades as thus…
You could become the Joseph Smith of Pastafarianism (sans the golden plates, of course).
Maybe a story will written about you how the FSM gave you the golden meatballs, when he bid you to go forth and preach his gospel.
And maybe even a song sung to the tune of “Those Golden Plates” of Mormon fame.
Dear Alex,
I love what you did–but here’s some advice! NEVER, NEVER remove your shoes! You don’t know what stuff your bare feet are stepping in! (It may have been left by IDers on their way to Kansas and Pennsylvania). Also, shoeless people are just not taken seriously anymore.
Dude, somebody should make up a printable pamphlet about FSMism… Id totally hand them out.
Haha, so check this out… I get to do a 2-3 minute “informational speech” of my choice in English 9. You know what that meeeaaans…… yep. you guessed it: FSM. I get to preach for three minutes about how amazing Pastafarianism is and how He changed my life.
I hope my teacher likes it!!!
tell me how that comes out…
im doing a brochure in my english class right now
yeah defnitly let us no how it goes zeffy!
I must say, this is rather ballsy of you, and I must congratulate you on doing this.
It is nice to have someone spread the word, even if some people would not agree to this.
hello, im english… im not sure how much fsm has touched our great (tiny) nation. I began to preach on market street in ashby de la zouch where i live. it was so funny. however i alerted at least 50 peepz to fsm and got dressed up as a pirate!!! woz ded fun but then this happy clappy yooth 4 christ team showed up and i just couldnt take there isane, convert people by being insanely happy attitude and went home to brood. p.s sometimes i feel like a nerdy, piratey golem out of lord of the rings. my belief is still strong but sometimes i wonder if his noodly apendage has truelly tuched our country.
p.p.s i am noting a distinct lack of pirates in ashby… very worrying.
yours dedicatedly
master yoda of the jedi order
I wanna be a preacher nexty year when I go to college…I’m going to PSU which is in Kansas…wonder how that will go..luckily I have a fellow Pastafarian going there with me so we can tag team em!!!! thanks for the idea
It is not clear from the literature that I have read whether your religion has a Holy City (Tortuga ?) or not but, if you do, I hope it is not in the Middle East and not start with the letter J.
hello… I’m from germany. I’ll do the same tomorrow in Frankfurt!
can anyone give me some moore materials about the FSM because I don’t really think that i can persuade many people with english flyers…
Oh, wow. I go to school here… I wish I had seen the FSM preacher.
Do a Google Video search for “Pastafarian Preacher.” The first one that comes up is absolutely hilarious. That man is the source of all of my inspiration as a missionary.
May His Noodly Appendage bless you all, and may the Chosen Linguini come upon us! R’Amen.
Hi. i think the god exists. I had a vission of the god coming to my hometown, washington. It came to gorge bush and riped hishead off with its arms. I dont think you will remember me but i was that guy who came up to you asking if the fsm existed. ever since that day i have been having expirences of spageti flying and talking to me. I have even met a new ’spieces’ of spageti people. They live in hiding in fear that society will eat them up. I have an italian friend called Enrique who claims he will eat the fsm if he ever see’s him. Please, try and help convert him. Here is his email adress Enrique__hotie323@hotmail.co.uk.
Thankyou for converting me into tomorows next biggest religion.
Let the fsm live on forever in our hearts and all u haters, FUCK OFF. It exists and get over you’re self. The fsm is as real as the elephant headed boy in that other religion.
Thankyou
James