FSM
Submitted by
Theoryful on Thu, 06/05/2008 at 12:38pm.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, "Pastafarianism". The religion was founded in 2005 by Bobby Henderson to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. Because intelligent design implies the existence of an intelligent, but not necessarily omnipotent or omniscient designer, some, like Henderson, argued that this designer could, in fact, be anything imaginable.
In an open letter sent to the education board, Henderson makes a mockery of the concept of an intelligent designer by professing belief in a supernatural creator called the Flying Spaghetti Monster which resembles spaghetti and meatballs. He furthermore calls for the "Pastafarian" theory of creation to be taught in science classrooms.
Due to its recent popularity and media exposure, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is often used by atheists, agnostics (known by Pastafarians as "spagnostics"), and others as a modern version of Russell's teapot and the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
--Wikipedia
The following is an excerpt from a thread started back in October of 2005 in which the poster calls for submissions for an FSM equivalent to the Ten Commandments:
1 1 S.: Two things to keep in mind: OUR RELIGION IS WAY BETTER, and WE HAVE FLIMSY MORAL STANDARDS.
On that note, we don’t have COMMANDMENTS, we have SUGGESTIONS. We don’t have ten, we have as many or as few as we decide we like. By we, I mean all of us, you, me, the Council of Olive Garden, The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Let’s all toss them out for consideration.
Here are the “gimme’s”
“Ye ought not do stuff ye already know is wrong, like killing, lying, cheating, stealing, etc. Do ye really need these carved into a rock?”
“Judge not, for verily it be not thine job neither most likely to be thine business.”
“Be kind unto others whether they are kind unto you or not, for it maketh you the better person in most situations, and occasionally it doth piss off an idiot, which is funny unto Your Lord the Sauced One.”
What’s next?
2 verbtea.: I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You shall have no other monsters before me. (Afterwards is OK; just use protection.)
3 S.: ROFL…. being a nitpicky scribe, however, I’m gonna capitalize “monster”
4 verbtea.: Don’t you dare! The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Him! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization.
5 S.: okay, okay, point taken…. ::: takes out flail, begins to flagellate self ::: begins to chant “I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy” over and over again…..
6 S2.: Ye shalt make no graven pasta.
Ye shall throw waffles at thy neighbor’s kittens.
7 S.: Verbtea, I’m just wonderin’…. and I’ll keep my flail handy, cause I see you get a tad testy once in a while… if we could incorporate your SUGGESTION with its follow-up, to whit:
“I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You shall have no other monsters before Me. (Afterwards is OK; just use protection.) The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization.”
::::cowers:::: ::::prepares to flagellate and grovel::::
::::mutters to self “this scribe gig is NOT worth the constant self-flagellation”::::
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