Alex Mellnic – FSM Preacher
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
Videos:
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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
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