On Sept 19th, a good portion of UC Davis was introduced to the Pastafarian faith. These are the photos of the event.
Thanks very much to Ray and Mario for Spreading the Word. Ray’s description follows:
At the ready, with Gospel in hand.
Looking for potential pastafarians.
Still looking …
Our poster board.
Walking away from a failed conversation.
Catching up with this guy.
This guy was just touched by His noodly appendage.
This dude wanted nothing to do with me, but his girlfriend made him stay.
Looking over there…
These guys were just as confused about our faith, as they were about my attire.
Looking for another convert.
stuped
stuped people for not beleving!
Lol, should go around, door to door looking to convert the heathens
Damn, I knew I should have gone to campus that day.
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For non-UCD folks, all kinds of religious nuts show up there around lunch time to preach their faith and condemn the immoral students for whatever it is he thinks students do outside of class. It can be quite, sad, even pathetic. They’d be carrying their signs, preaching, maybe standing on a little box, and yelling at people, trying to pick fights. One guy who wasn’t getting any attention and broke down and took all his clothes off to try to make some point. The police helped him find his clothes and maybe get some help. Once a preacher-guy was out on the lawn chastizing everyone for not be as Christian as he was, and somehow, slowly, sneakily (a word?), three students who had been throwing a Frisbee had maneuverd so that he was in the middle of their triangle. He got really mad, with the Frisbee flying around him and these students just going about their business as if he wasn’t there. In the same way this site is very funny, so what that situation. Funny, and sad, but mostly pretty damn funny, in a nice way.
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Anyway, it is so good to see FSM in public in Davis.
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Next time the religios in town try to get Halloween canceled, or change the name of the high school sports team (Blue Devils), or protest the showing of Monte Python’s Holy Grail, or such stuff, FSM should be there, too.
LOL… As an alumnus it is nice to see some pics of the campus.
I’m new to Pastafarianism, and I’m curious: if spreading the Pastafarian faith must come “above all else,” wouldn’t that violate the 1st “I’d really rather you didn’t”?
“I’d Really Rather You Didn’t Act Like a Sanctimonious Holier-Than-Thou Ass When Describing My Noodly Goodness. If Some People Don’t Believe In Me, That’s Okay. Really, I’m Not That Vain. Besides, This Isn’t About Them So Don’t Change The Subject.”
@ GixxerKid
It’s about spreading the word as an alternative to other established religions, not a forced feeding. It’s about suggestion, not coercion. It’s about attitude. Many are looking for a debate on the issue and should be engaged accordingly. If they are not interested, then let them pass.
Welcome aboard and may you be forever touched by His Noodly Appendage.
RAmen
MJK
You should do this again on a day when class is actually in session so that people will not be hard to come by. :)
Fall Quarter didn’t start till Sep. 30th.
Hmmm I am very inspired by the spreading of the noodily word to campuses across the country. I think that when Spring Semester I will enlighten othes of the FSM.
Yea there a lot of UCD students who talk about His Noodleness (I hope I spelled that right!?). For all those readers out there that have no idea what majors Davis pumps out the most of it is in the Biological Sciences. SO there is definitely a large part of the student body who believe in a deity that could have caused phenomenon like evolution to occur. I wish I could have been there the day the Pastafarians showed up. Hopefully they can get the courage to do it before spring break so that I can praise them for all their hard work before graduating. Good people Pastafarians are. And, like Mike Meier said, we get our share of the religious peeps on campus, and always in the quad around lunch time. I would enjoy walking up to a Pastafarian instead of an “Abortion is a sin, and since you don’t want to help stop Abortion your a sinner as well” type of stuff. And also the grotesque pics that you would never see on TV even in France (maybe the internet has some of this stuff if your interested in a disturbing sort of way) that go along with this kind of rhetoric. Of course they can be entertaining. But, I’ll pass. The difference between the Pastafarians and the ‘Abortion is sin’ people is that the Pastafarians aren’t trying to convert you through force, nor subjecting you to their ‘holier than thou” attitudes. Yea, this is an intoxicated person writing all this, but His Noodleness approves of beer, and strippers (know any?), so I can feel good about being drunk… no matter how much I regret it in the morning.
Ramen.
@Angry White Boy
Why so angry? Anger is just depression with attitude so cheer up little camper.
Pastafarians may not be trying to convert by force just yet but is it not also true that you can catch more flies with sugar than vinegar?
Don’t be fooled by the promise of beer and strippers…the FSM is indeed a monster seeking to eat your confused little soul.
Any try to cheer up. Hopefully with the help of the Lord and perhaps a good woman you can grow up to be a Not-So-Angry White Man.
Amen
Stupid people!!!! they should beleve in my MASTER!!!! FSM!!!!!!!
hey i have a theory. i listened to wat some people said(the christians especialy) and i have come up with this. man created pasta. then pasta got smart. a smart piece of past went back in time and created everything. i am a firm believer in the spaghetti monster, so please take into consideration of my theory. thank you for your time.
sincerely,
saw3rules@yahoo.com
“Pastafarians may not be trying to convert by force just yet but is it not also true that you can catch more flies with sugar than vinegar?”
Yeah that’s why we don’t force our religion on people. And we never will use force or else preaching like that will contradict ourselves as it violates the first I really reather you didn’t.
“Don’t be fooled by the promise of beer and strippers…the FSM is indeed a monster seeking to eat your confused little soul.”
How do we know that your Jewish zombie god isn’t going to eat our soul?
“Any try to cheer up. Hopefully with the help of the Lord and perhaps a good woman you can grow up to be a Not-So-Angry White Man.
Amen”
Your “Lord” Is not the only one, everyone can choose which religion they want to follow.
And if you are going to take the time to write that up, at least end it in proper text.
RAmen.
P.S. Great idea, I shall try this where all the crack heads wander with bibles talking to themself. Actually on second thought, I’ll try it half a block down from them.
okay the reason you didn’t convert anyone is because nowadays going door to door or preaching on the street is wierd. Eiether use e-mail or Personal Messaging. Don’t call the person. They really get freacked out especally if you do it more than once. Trust me on that.
How about a nice old fashioned mass mailing?
I am calling for a pasta crusade those who will join the ranks we will fee pasta to the masses and therefor fill them with his n00dly goodness!
PS. Being Italian helps its all good pasta from a very early age!
You can bet that these pirates already have vocanoes and factories reserved for them in Heaven. Although, FSM forbid them going there any time soon!
And you become a PIRATE! What wonderfull… you’re a terrific man. Our planet need many people like you.
Some of us are getting together at Davis to do this again on March 13, 2008 (today) in the same location. Pictures will be sent.
You should register wit SPARC so you can march in the Picnic Day Parade.
I was there and witnessed this amazing event. It really warmed my heart to see fellow followers on campus. I think we should do a counterpoint campaign much like the “I Found It” one… which was absolutely ridiculous.
I wish I could have seen it. We need one of these at U of Michigan.
no!!!
i go uc davis.
i’m so sad i missed it!
Needs a Daviswiki.org section i believe.. and a UCD facebook group…
I’d like to be touched by a noodly-appendage.
I landed on this site because I question all “religion” with a healthy dose of skepticism and rational thinking. I needed to learn more about FSM. I already enjoy dressing like a pirate. That coupled with FSM’s easy, non-confrontational makes-sense-to-me style makes me want to be a Pastafarian.
My prefered pirate costume: http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk167/capntwitch08/06PirateWenchBoobs.jpg
I am a convert and work on the UCD campus and have converted half of My Parental Units and confused the other half, Friends the same in as much as they’re Parental Units too.
I was introduced to this wonderfully awesome Ra-man religion by my friend Duckhead on tdrs.com’s forum, who spiked my interest in learning more, opening up to the realization that I live off of this god’s wonderful noodley sub-appendage.
But my question is, Is it wrong to eat your God?
Would have loved to be apart of this but I work at night, so I missed out.
Chris
Eating spaghetti is a required form of worship
Not at all, in the Gospel of the FSM He instructed the first midget to eat pasta.