The flying meatball god

[andythegill]

The flying meatball god

Now I have no faith in the worlds intelligence anymore, if this isnt a joke I swear im going to create the underworld coke lord.
Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

please tell me this is a joke and not something more unbelievable than a flying pig that shoots bacon from its eyes.

 

[Dark Drakan]

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You not seen that on South Park a long time ago? :lol:

 

[andythegill]

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No I didnt.

 

[Dark Drakan]

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South Park X: Season 10

In the 'Go God Go' Part 2 episode.

 

[droded]

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Some people have no sense of humour.

How could anyone not love to be a Pirate.

And again, how could you not like the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

 

[Darg]

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Seriously, it's their opinion, but I think it's just wrong to make a mockery of religion. Damn pastafarians treat it like it's a real religion!!! I have several of them in my school who think just because they follow a flying plate of pasta they should be taken into consideration as "religious people". It just sickens me!

 

[andythegill]

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pastafarians are real!?!? my god they must be wrong in the head, and yes I am trying to be offensive ITS FLYING PASTA PEOPLE COME ON.

 

[Hexadecimal]

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Seriously, it's their opinion, but I think it's just wrong to make a mockery of religion. Damn pastafarians treat it like it's a real religion!!! I have several of them in my school who think just because they follow a flying plate of pasta they should be taken into consideration as "religious people". It just sickens me!

as I have told you before, the point behind pastafarianism is that it is a satirical take on the claims made my major religions that their beliefs are true just because they say they are...
and who are you or I or anyone else to make judgements on what is or what is not a "real" religion?
a world in which we are told what we are allowed to think and believe and what faiths are real and which should be banned is not a democratic one or any place I would wish to live
I don't imagine that you would be much impressed if you were informed that your beliefs were "sickening" to others

pastafarians are real!?!? my god they must be wrong in the head, and yes I am trying to be offensive ITS FLYING PASTA PEOPLE COME ON.

there is no need to try to be offensive
you may feel someone's beliefs are ridiculous, but there are those who could say the same of countless other major religions and for some people the only difference between worshipping a golden cow or a beam of light or a spaghetti monster is that one is accepted and one is not
there is no need to mock people's belief systems, whether it is meant as a religious belief or a socio-political statement, outright attempts at offense and mockery are just uncalled for.

 

[HodgePodge]

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Like Hex said, it's pretty much just a statement. Pigs shooting bacon from their eyes however, are very real:

Spoiler

 

[Tsuyu]

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Spoiler

It is a mockery, as Hex said, mostly of the whole crazy idea of "creationism" and "intelligent design". One of the major points is that whoever created the life on earth must've done so via "unintelligent design" seeing how much suffering and all that there is on earth. The FSM did it on a drunken bender.


You really only have to read the very first lines on Wikipedia to get the idea:

Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster[1] and its system of beliefs, "Pastafarianism". The religion was founded in 2005 by Oregon State University physics graduate Bobby Henderson to protest against the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution.

The The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is very much worth a look, as well.

 

[andythegill]

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Oh good they weren't serious but isn't that supposed to be blasphemy?

 

[Tsuyu]

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Oh good they weren't serious but isn't that supposed to be blasphemy?

Not really. It's supposed to be clever satire/parody and it succeeds very well at that point if you ask me.

RAmen.

 

[droded]

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I for one think it's hilarious. I may convert as I age.

RAmen

 

[andythegill]

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Well im strongly against religion in the fact that its a little far fetched to me and evolution has been basically proven. Yet I still thing religion was created the same was as this, some guy thought it would be a great idea to say something like "Well do you also believe some guy could get drunk on water that tastes like wine?" and they went along with it... just a theory. This time no offense.

 

[Gikoku]

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I don't really buy into any religions out there, as alot of them don't make any logical sense, and have been proven as such. As with the whole belief that God created man 10,000 years ago, when it has been scientifically proven that man has been walking the Earth for well over 200,000 years. Most of which things that are from things like the Bible, seem like fairy tale to many (Such as Moses, the Devil, and the virgin mother Mary).

Some believe that those who blame God for the creation of everything, feel that they just don't want to go through all that extensive research to find the real truth, so they just quickly turn to the very simple solution of "God Did It", since there are people out there in this world who actually feel very offended that they're related to Monkeys & Apes.

Point being, I won't believe that everything that exists today was simply made from the snap of a finger by an invisible man, when physical data proves otherwise (Darwin Theory, which is now classified as fact in many places). But with that said, I have nothing against those who choose to believe in a powerful being that watches over them.

 

[Hexadecimal]

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Well im strongly against religion in the fact that its a little far fetched to me and evolution has been basically proven.

the belief in a higher power and acceptance of evolution do not have to be mutually exclusive concepts, you know...

 

[Angel]

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the belief in a higher power and acceptance of evolution do not have to be mutually exclusive concepts, you know...

This is very true. In fact, the early church couldn't stand the fact that there were Christians around who were also scientists and were flyng in the face of some of their misconceptions about the earth's shape and creation. Many Christians who are scientists today have no problem with marrying evolution with God's creation - to their mind, if He can make a world, surely it's up to Him how He does it? If it was a huge bang, then so be it. If it was evolution, fair enough. If He had a huge factory full of people moulds then why the hell not?

Science and religion need not be poles apart - they complement each other in many ways and one can give reasons why when the other tells you how. Darwin gave the world a whole new concept and for that he is rightly hailed as one of the scientific elite.

The only irritation I have ever had with any one theory about the beginning of the world is when schools declare only one school of thought as definitive fact when actually there are several ideas and not one has been proven irrevocably true, religious or scientific. All options should be presented to people along with all information available about that specific theory and then people can make up their own minds.

I can't prove God made the world any more than someone can prove "it just happened" - we are all basing our opinions on what we have learnt about various theories and belief systems and if one wants to think the world just happened or that there is a higher power (not necessarily God) who carefully planned each detail and created the world over millions of years or whatever then so be it. There's no point in claiming one theory as true over another because none of them can be proven beyond all doubt. Similarly, belittling one system over another is pointless because again, theories are just that - theories. As far as I know there are no absolutes in science, after all - rather continued exploration.

 

[Tsuyu]

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The only irritation I have ever had with any one theory about the beginning of the world is when schools declare only one school of thought as definitive fact when actually there are several ideas and not one has been proven irrevocably true, religious or scientific. All options should be presented to people along with all information available about that specific theory and then people can make up their own minds.

I am not sure you are referring to Creationism or Intelligent Design or not, but if you are I disagree with you - it is not science, it doesn't have the proof that Darwin's "survival of the fittest" and various other theories have.

The main argument for those theories is: "It's in the Bible", whilst Darwins ideas can be observed in practice by everyone.

If one individual choose to believe in those theories I have no problem with it. But it shouldn't be tought in school. At least not in the same scientific manner.

 

[Hexadecimal]

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I am not sure you are referring to Creationism or Intelligent Design or not, but if you are I disagree with you - it is not science, it doesn't have the proof that Darwin's "survival of the fittest" and various other theories have.

The main argument for those theories is: "It's in the Bible", whilst Darwins ideas can be observed in practice by everyone.

If one individual choose to believe in those theories I have no problem with it. But it shouldn't be tought in school. At least not in the same scientific manner.

I agree... here in North America there are a number of schools attempting to teach Creationism in Science classes as a scientific theory...
that is pretty disturbing for a lot of reasons...
for one thing North America is very multicultural and to put forth one religious idea and not another is just arbitrary and discriminatory...
Religion is also not science... it can be spoken about in Religion classes, but science has to pass certain tests such as being objective, containing empirical evidence, being made up of tests that can be repeated over and over with the same result... Religion can be many things to many people but it does not contain these elements and is not Science...
Creationism is also not a theory... many people seem to think that a theory is merely and idea which has been cooked up by somebody and any idea had by anyone can be a theory... this is not the case...
a theory is based on existing hypothesis... it has been tested and retested at great length in countless ways in an attempt to disprove it and when it has withstood this analysis it can be declared a theory but should it ever be disproven it will be disregarded... Every theory, in order to be a theory must contain the ability to construct an experiment or analysis to prove it is not true... so if my theory is storks brought us, one could do a test to prove their are not nearly enough storks , if the theory is Darwinian evolution one could perform a test to prove Evolution must be done differently or that traits dont change the way Darwin thought they did... this cannot be done with God... there is no test to definitively prove a God did not make the world...
so for all these reasons I cringe when I hear of it being taught in a Science class...
just as the social factors leading to mental illness have a place in Sociology but not Biology class, and the chemical imbalances have a place in Biology but not Sociology, Scientific accounts of the world belong in Science whereas Religious accounts belong in Religion...

 

[Devalion]

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The function of a human being is to control everything inside itself, and everything outside itself. I could expound for a long time about this theory that I think is correct ( and I would love people to prove me wrong ) but I have to sleep =x