Yes, Virginia, There Is A Flying Spaghetti Monster

[sechs]

http://www.venganza.org/

 

[Mercutio]

I think the Wikipedia Entry is a bit better organized. Particularly the parts about benefits of conversion. Stripper Volcanos for everyone!

Also, Creationist Morons might be interested in noting that ALL science can be refuted with drivel, as the Onion so beautifully illustrates.

For those who haven't ever taken a science class (apparently this includes over half the Kansas State Board of Education, George W. Ass and Senate Majority Asshole Bill Frist, MD, who really aught to know better), one of the guiding principles of science is that an actual theory is something that can be positively refuted, which of course "Intelligent Design" cannot.

I do like the idea presented at Boingboing.org that the Pastafarian holy week consist of Macro Polo's Birthday (September 15th) through "Talk Like a Pirate Day." Macro Polo, after all, brought pasta to Europe, and must therefore be a prophet of His Noodly Appendage.

 

[Tannin]

Beautiful. Delightful links.

 

[Tea]

Bahhh. What a load of nonsense! Anyone with half a grain of sense can see that all the world's creatures were created via a process of Intelligent Design. I myself am living proof of it.

 

[Tea]

Oh, excuse me. I just realised that the entire concept of Intelligent Design is founded on the premise that the designer Himself is ... well ... intelligent. Woops!

I don't think that word really applies to Tannin. Can we rename it to be more in keeping with real world processes as they actually function?

Something like Not-very-intelligent-but-uses-lots-of-big-words-in-the-hope-that-people-will-be-fooled-at-least-some-of-the-time Design would suit my creator much better.

 

[mubs]

Truly, the Dark Ages are being revived. I really, really don't understand what is happening to this country.

 

[mubs]

L.A. Times: Strategizing a Christian Coup d'Etat: A group of believers wants to establish Scriptures-based government one city and county at a time.

It's interesting that the country is coming full circle. The founders left England to have religious freedom, now religion is being shoved down everybody's throat.

 

[Mercutio]

I'm pretty sure the land of the free is Canada.

I mean, there's a country where people can buy guns but don't regularly kill each other, get no-cost healthcare, have an abortion, marry another guy, watch "the Sopranos" on regular TV and get broadband no matter where in the country you live.

A couple weeks ago, there were two murders on the same weekend in one of Canada's larger cities (don't remember which one and don't fee like looking). The funny thing is, that made NATIONAL news there. Two murders. On different days.

But hey, I'm really hoping the utter ridiculousness that is FSMism takes off.

 

[Splash]

The Spaghetti-Monsterism thing sounds a LOT like the "Bob" religion thing that was around about 20 years ago (and still is I susupect).

As for myself, I'm a Frisbee-terian; We believe that when you die your soul flies up onto the roof and doesn't ever come down.

 

[sechs]

I'm pretty sure the land of the free is Canada.

"Land of the free, and home of the raging lumberjacks," just doesn't have a ring to it

 

[Mercutio]

The Spaghetti-Monsterism thing sounds a LOT like the "Bob" religion thing that was around about 20 years ago (and still is I susupect).

Do not speak ill of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.


Slack!

^^^^ See? I am a prophet to these people, for my very name is slaker!

 

[time]

Wonderful stuff, Sechs.

 

[Mercutio]

 

[Mercutio]

Utah, a state that is so overwhelmingly populated and ruled by Mormons that it might as well be a theocracy, rejects teaching ID.

 

[Tannin]

Yeah, but then Mormons are, to generalise, intelligent people - certainly when you compare them to some of the weirdo religious kooks going around in the States.

(OK, we have them too, but they are - thankfully - fewer in number, lacking in power and media access, and generally not regarded as serious contributors to political debate.)

 

[Mercutio]

Mormons ARE weirdo kooks. Just read up on what they believe, and their history, and that much is clear.

When I was at Purdue one of the guys who lived down the hall from me - an evangelical xtian - used to complain that the LDSers would send people to evangelize at "Intervaristy Christian Fellowship" events. Which to me just seemed funny.

 

[sechs]

I had a roommate back in college who was Mormon. Made lots of interesting conversation, to say the least. Never got around to the sacred underwear.

Utah is very conciencious about Mormons being considered wierdos and goes to some efforts to not seem so wierd.

 

[Will Rickards]

Their beliefs are weird, the people I've met have been nice though.

 

[Fushigi]

I'm vertainly no expert, but some of their beliefs make a lot of sense:

- Stockpiling 6+ months of food. Makes a ton of sense. Think about how the NOLA citizens would have fared if canned food was readily in supply. Dig through some rubble or find it floating. Also makes sense if a family were to lose it's source of income, if the crops don't pan out for some reason, etc.
- Polygamy. The reason they allow it originated in the relatively short lifespans and dangerous lifestyles in the 'old days'. If the husband, arguably the breadwinner, died in a hunting/farming accident or from illness, the wife could remarry into another family to re-gain a breadwinner. This would be done with no shame on her or the new breadwinner. Thus, the widows and children were looked after by society. Beats welfare as far as I'm concerned.

 

[sechs]

It's the why, not the what.

They're stocking up food for the end times, not just "an emergency."

 

[Fushigi]

It's the why, not the what.

They're stocking up food for the end times, not just "an emergency."

Vs. the Christian way or preparing: Get dunked in water. Having food on hand seems the more prudent thing to do. Not to mention the purchasing of those supplies are beneficial to the economy.

 

[Mercutio]

Best. Flash. Ever.

 

[i]

My best score was 3500.

And you're right Mercutio, that is the best flash game I think I've ever played.

 

[Will Rickards]

Well It would have been better if the controls weren't so fluid.
Very hard to control, 4800 here.

 

[Handruin]

Hard to control indeed. Got 6000, I'll have to play it again later.

 

[sechs]

Not to mention the purchasing of those supplies are beneficial to the economy.

Whose economy? They can't trust just anyone to do this. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints produces all of this stuff, itself, through subsidiaries.

This is to say, the Mormon church is raking it in.

 

[Mercutio]

At one time, the Church was the biggest retailer in Utah, too, with Zionist Cooperative Mercantile something-or-others as the only store in most towns.

I suspect the edicts regarding goods on hand had more to do with making the local grocer rich than anything else.

 

[sechs]

And where are you going to get your sacred underwear anyway?

 

[Groltz]

Article I stumbled across

 

[Mercutio]

The Onion Strikes Again!