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21 - September 28th, 2006 at 10:37 pm - The Aussie Says:
hmmm, i have one question about this heaven…
how do the stripper factories work? I mean, do they take catholic-school girls and give them a quick dance course, do they stamp em out of a mold or are they just latex coated stripperbots? -
22 - September 28th, 2006 at 10:48 pm - Stevie P Says:
I’ve had a revelaton regarding the stripper factories Aussie. It came to me in a dream last night (after a heavy supper of angel hair and Swedish). Basically, it breaks down like this. Initially, the noodly one reserved the strippers from the factories for martyrs - that is pirates who perished at sea in storms, or ate too much pasta and sank. However, after a day at the beer volcanoes, one particularly belligerent non-matyr got horny, and organized a protest. This culminated in the “Great stripper fight of 1597″, during which the FSM appeared personally and said “OK. It was pretty dumb to try to keep the stippers for an elite, but lets face it, if you’re going to be in a heaven designed and run by carbohydrate dominated food, then you get what you deserve. But OK, you can all have the strippers”. But of course, there were not enough to go around, and so robots are indeed used now - but really top ones, like the robot chicks in the old movie “Westworld”.
RAmen.
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23 - September 29th, 2006 at 3:09 am - The Aussie Says:
eyyyyyyy
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now, if all the religions could solve their problems like that, the world would be a better place.
RAmen -
24 - October 1st, 2006 at 4:13 am - Toastman Says:
I’m getting my copy next week. Can’t wait!
As much as I want to become a Pastafarian I can’t bring myself to do it until I know more about it. Lets hope the gospel meets my needs :P -
25 - October 3rd, 2006 at 7:50 pm - Saint Says:
I hope people aren’t seriously following this religion. I’m a devoted Christian, and I appreciate this as humor, but if people are honestly believing it, it needs to stop.
It’s not real.
It’s a funny joke.
A really funny joke.
So laugh.
Don’t believe.
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26 - October 3rd, 2006 at 9:13 pm - gill Says:
Tell me, Saint: who exactly are you to decide what is ‘real’ religion-wise or not? Or for that matter, what one should believe in or not? (and why can’t one both laugh AND believe?)
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27 - October 4th, 2006 at 10:46 am - Bernhard Kletzenbauer Says:
I am waiting for a translation of the Book in german language.
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28 - October 4th, 2006 at 1:48 pm - puffaliaz Says:
Where can I get this in Canada?
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29 - October 4th, 2006 at 1:52 pm - SqrlWthANife Says:
Saint, it is good to see you have a sense of humor. But as gill said why can’t we laugh and believe? How do you know “GOD” of Christianity isn’t a damned Flying Spaghetti Monster? Maybe we’re the correct ones and your not. Ever think of it that way? (Yay I just ordered my gospel). RAmen.
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30 - October 5th, 2006 at 2:10 am - whizzo Says:
just ordered my copy… although i already am a true believer, this is a must-have.
ALL HAIL HIS NOODLY APPENDAGE!!!!
ramen
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31 - October 5th, 2006 at 4:08 am - djjack Says:
Saint, it’s real alright. I have finally found, after years of searching and then ultimately giving up, an organization in which I wholly belong. Call that crazy, but if there was an actual building with actual services to practice Pastafarianism, I would be there religiously. This would be especially true if, as a follower of the FSM, I could take every Friday off for religious observance. What does “real” mean, anyway? In my reality, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. Is Scientology real? Whether or not the tenets of the “religion” are real, Scientology clearly exists. That is not to say that I think FSMism and Scientology are equal. They are, to be sure, equally absurd, but at least FSMism is benign and up front about all its beliefs and practices. All this aside, if I walk away from my computer having laughed, especially at myself, that is more benefit than I have ever derived from other belief systems. Unitarian Universalism came very, very close, but I just can’t get it together to actually go to church once a week. That is most definitely not a slam against the UU Church, by the way. The UU Church has my full respect and admiration.
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32 - October 5th, 2006 at 6:04 pm - pastaman Says:
finally i got the gospel!(hope that pirate ship gets finished soon…)
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33 - October 7th, 2006 at 8:49 am - YarrFysh Says:
Saint, (and other Christians)
As an ex-protestant, ex-Atheist, ex-born-again-Christian Agnostic, I found Christianity and ID to be as unlikely as FSMism (when I first found this site).
After hearing Richard Dawkins’s interview and reading the connections with string theory and chaos, my new position on the matter is that FSMism is far MORE likely than Christianity.
Quite frankly, a theory devised by a Ph.D.-educated Physicist is far more appealing than one passed on by a church with a history of criminal behaviour and self-regulated censorship in a 3000-year-old game of Chinese Whispers.
Most of the stories in the Christian Gospels, imagery used by the church, and even public holidays were stolen from Egyptian and Pagan religions that predated Christianity in an effort by the early church to convert “heathens”.
Even the book of Revelations has now been exposed as Anti-Roman POLITICAL propaganda (the “beast” in question being in fact a Roman Governor) as oppose to a religious text, and the recent discovery of the Gospel According To Judas sheds a very different light on the events surrounding the death of Jesus.
Having felt “the Holy Spirit” myself when I was young, lost and impressionable, then feeling the same feeling again the first time I played live (as a musician of the non-religious variety), I can with all honestly say that I was deluded into thinking that it was the Holy Spirit by the pressure of the churchgoers around me at the time, whereas what I actually experienced was nothing more than an adrenaolin rush brought about by the thought of everything I had ever worried about being meaningless if being watched over by a parental God figure, and the selfish desire for the promise of eternal life after death.
I now feel a deep sympathy for others who become deluded in the same way that I did, people who are scared and looking for reason in life.
When it comes down to it, there really is little point to life other than to experience it in all its glory and spread happiness and the truth wherever possible.
Admittedly, once one decides in one’s own mind to reject the fallacy of God, the world indeed becomes a scary and lonely place, but one of truth not delusion.
As George Bernard Shaw said, “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
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34 - October 7th, 2006 at 11:32 pm - mightypiratekalypso Says:
To Saint:
Actually, I could say the exact same thing you said only about Christianity. Is it a joke? -
35 - October 8th, 2006 at 12:07 am - The Aussie Says:
If it is all the joke of some non pasta-based god, he must have a rather crude sense of humour…
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36 - October 8th, 2006 at 12:08 am - The Aussie Says:
***BREAKING NEWS***
God manifests in Jerusalem
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His first words;
” Pull my finger!”
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In other news, gale force winds destroy middle east -
37 - October 8th, 2006 at 12:29 am - SaucyWench Says:
I knew it! I just knew Benevolent Flatulence would be a part of this whole thing. Hey, there’s another good name for a bnad… Benevolent Flatulence. Alright, maybe it’s not a good name for a band. It’s a good name for something, though. I’m sure of it.
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38 - October 9th, 2006 at 8:27 pm - Munificent Says:
YarrFysh, you are eloquent. You summarized my feelings completely. Thank you. Christian(s) and all, take heed, and leave informed.
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39 - October 10th, 2006 at 3:21 am - Maxx Says:
First of all, I would just like to say that I love this whole Idea. It’s both funny and functional. I myself am an agnostic. I come from a very strong christian background, but I had an “awakening”. What I do believe though, is that people can do more than we give ourselves credit for. That is exactly why I don’t believe in “bashing” anyone else’s religion. If you are a christian and it works for you, stick with it. I can’t help but think about the movie “The Matrix”, if I were given the option; I would have stayed in the Matrix. I have unfortunately seen the truth, but I won’t do anything to haul other people out of the Matrix. On the flipside, trying to force people into the Matrix is way worse.
I guess in the end of the day, it all depends on whether you prefer truth or a sense of “purposeâ€.
Back to the topic, I’ll need to scout around South Africa to find a bookstore that will be able to source “The Gospel†for me. I can’t wait to read it though, I guess it will just have to replace my copy of “Leadership†by Rudolf Giuliani, as my new coffee table book.
In closing, it is great to see that there are other like minded people out there. -
40 - October 10th, 2006 at 3:58 am - NoSfeaTuS Says:
Fellow Pastaferians
May His Noodly Appendage be with you all. I sit before you here to tell you that the growth of New-Age Pirates (NAPs)is grately pleasing His Noodly Grace. The growth of Torrent users, LimeWire Spamers, and Informaion Hackers is pleasing him. The fact that with a mouse click you can download $5,000+ worth of merchandise (such as MCSE certification classes, Recenty release Movies, Anime, Music, etc.) is stimulating his balls. So we can hope for a great temperature decrease in the near future, and we will not stop until it snows in iraq.
