Rexing & Jesus are sons of the FSM.
Rexing & Jesus are sons of the FSM.
That's a funny picture. I can imagine at this very moment as a plane goes down somewhere in the world, there may very well be a smug 14:XX 5k runner sitting in a passenger seat pissing his pants and pleading to the fake god of pasta for help and comfort across the unknown void. Keep on laughing. Some day you'll come around.
Vesper wrote:
.. sitting in a passenger seat pissing his pants and pleading to the fake god of pasta for help and comfort across the unknown void. Keep on laughing. Some day you'll come around.
Isn't it ironic?
Haha, this is exactly what the church of FSM is all about.
"Fake god of pasta"
Please explain why the "true" god is more credible than the Flying Spaghetti Monster and why praying to the true god is better than to the FSM.
By the way according to your church you as a son of the sinner adam will end up in hell anyway.
The church of FSM believes that all believers will end up in a kind of heaven with beer partys and a stripper factory, why the hell should i pray to the true god if the FSM offers much more?
Wow!!!! FSM has some serious gnads.
My point wasn't the type of God or whether I am a follower of the Old Testament or not. My point is that at some point in your life, things may get a little more serious. It might be when you get that pain in your head that won't go away and you have to sit in the doctors office and await an MRI, or get in your car and get hit by a drunk driver and have a couple seconds of life to dwell on things. You may have a God and it might be that funny, zany FSM, but those cool beer parties and stripper factories won't be in your head. You'll be thinking about a different God and how she/it/him can help you for real. Please note when using the word 'you' I don't mean you. I don't wish harm on anyone and respect your beliefs, but expect them, along with most of those clever FSM faithful to change at some point when the seedy side comes. Happy Thanksgiving and don't eat pasta for Godsakes.
...or when those things happen, you could think "wow, i hope i get out of this. if not, i had a good life!" and not blubbler like a fool praying to a big invisible bearded man on a cloud. and if you think it's all about going to heaven (and others to hell) then, to you, life is just one big test- and that's a pretty hollow existence.sorry you're so depressed/frightened that you need to turn to superstition to validate your life! i'm gonna go for a run.
vesper wrote:
My point is that at some point in your life, things may get a little more serious. It might be when you get that pain in your head that won't go away and you have to sit in the doctors office and await an MRI, or get in your car and get hit by a drunk driver and have a couple seconds of life to dwell on things. You may have a God and it might be that funny, zany FSM, but those cool beer parties and stripper factories won't be in your head. You'll be thinking about a different God and how she/it/him can help you for real.
You know what's the best to do in difficult situations:To be active and do as much as possible that improves the situation!
And i still don't know why your god is more serious than the FSM.
You know i'm also scared to death when facing things i don't understand or simply can't handle but then i want straight answers.
Your church is so-so, some say god is an old mean with a beard, some say god is some kind of light, some say god is a feeling.The FSM has defined image and Spaghetti is something i know so this calms me down quicker and better than any abstract creation.
In your church some say this is metaphorical and then others say it's not and then some say we go to hell and some say not and at one point this apostle say you should love anyone and then on the next page he says that you should torture,rape and then kill anyone.
The church FSM has some strict rules, it's clear, it's friendly and freedom-loving, it's positive and it's entertaining.Perfect Religion.
FSM sounds like hedonism to me. Nothing new there other than the new, divinely-inspired picture placed over classic, timeless works of art for the witty little laugh. Contrasting free beer, strippers and be happy while taking a toke from the bong of selfishness with washing the feet of the poor and throwing all your wealth out the door to go help others (Buddha, St. Francis and other evil religious figures in history that believed in a creator that wasn't a joke).
vesper wrote:
Happy Thanksgiving and don't eat pasta for Godsakes.
Why the hell not??
vespers wrote:
washing the feet of the poor and throwing all your wealth out the door to go help others
You do realize that a person doesn't have to be superstitious to be inspired to do that, don't you? Since you brought it up, how well have you adhered to that principle?
vesper wrote:
You'll be thinking about a different God and how she/it/him can help you for real. I expect them, along with most of those clever FSM faithful to change at some point when the seedy side comes.
No offense, but you have to be delusional in order to think some deity is either interested in or capable of bailing people out of illnesses, disasters, or other varieties of earthly "seediness." If this past hurricane season hasn't taught you anything (how many of those New Orleans residents were longtime devout folks who prayed like crazy as they were drowned in their attics?) you must be stumbling around in a daze.
Every day, perfectly kind and gentle people are shot, stabbed, killed in auto accidents, and felled by heart attacks, often leaving behind large, equally kind and gentle families. I'm sure plenty of 14-year-olds are praying for "God" to remove their pastors' dicks from inside their tender little asses, to no avail. "God" clearly either is impotent or doesn't give a hoot about humanity.
Praying to a higher power may be something of an obligation in the context of human psychology (no other species can contemplete their own inevitable deaths), but that doesn't validate claims about powerful allies floating around in the aether. (And don't start in with the crap about free will, which only reinforces the superfluous nature of humankind's gods anyway.) If only usefulness and truth were coincident.
Indeed I very well may be. My point wasn't about myself. My point was to delineate the difference between the FSM and 'God' as defined my most of the major 'religions' of the world which 'spawned' people who strive to put themselves last and other's first unlike the FSM which wants you to enjoy yourself along the way and get your beer and your strippers when the credits roll. Selflessness isn't there, but is there in Christianity, Buddhism, and lots of other religions and factions. Regarding the fact that people don't have to be 'superstitious' to do this stuff. I do understand that. I applaud all good deeds regardless of whether or not you believe in a funny, devised religion made up to poke fun at others who are 'superstitous' such as myself. Good deeds are good deeds and don't require a belief set. But a belief set that teaches good deeds is better than one that doesn't. So I'll abstain from the witty FSM charade.
You surely realize that there are as great a percentage of truly selfless people among the non-religious as there are among the religious, don't you? Go into any Christian church and you will have a hard time finding people there who honestly and consistently live the creed of putting others before themselves.
Also, why you take FSM seriously enough to warrant what you've written is beyond me.
grow a sense of humor! wrote:
Also, why you take FSM seriously enough to warrant what you've written is beyond me.
Even funnier is that anyone would, with a straight face, attempt to distinguish the FSM in any way from other gods. The only difference is that stories about God, Yahweh, Allah, Quetzalcoatl and Shiva have been around longer. From a thinking person's perspective, all of these accounts are equally stupid.
People who can simultaneously mock the FSM concept yet tout their own equally implausible god concept both reinforce and miss the whole point of the FSM.
vesper wrote:
You'll be thinking about a different God and how she/it/him can help you for real. I expect them, along with most of those clever FSM faithful to change at some point when the seedy side comes.
No offense, but you have to be delusional in order to think some deity is either interested in or capable of bailing people out of illnesses, disasters, or other varieties of earthly "seediness." If this past hurricane season hasn't taught you anything (how many of those New Orleans residents were longtime devout folks who prayed like crazy as they were drowned in their attics?) you must be stumbling around in a daze.
Every day, perfectly kind and gentle people are shot, stabbed, killed in auto accidents, and felled by heart attacks, often leaving behind large, equally kind and gentle families. I'm sure plenty of 14-year-olds are praying for "God" to remove their pastors' dicks from inside their tender little asses, to no avail. "God" clearly either is impotent or doesn't give a hoot about humanity.
Praying to a higher power may be something of an obligation in the context of human psychology (no other species can contemplete their own inevitable deaths), but that doesn't validate claims about powerful allies floating around in the aether. (And don't start in with the crap about free will, which only reinforces the superfluous nature of humankind's gods anyway.) If only usefulness and truth were coincident.[/quote]
I must ask, in response to such a malcious appeal to the Pathos, which would you rather have? Free-will and the ability to make all your own decisions or to be a pre-programmed robot that, although cannot cause harm, cannot make any decision on its own?[quote]Hello, pair o' dolls wrote:
"People who can simultaneously mock the FSM concept yet tout their own equally implausible god concept both reinforce and miss the whole point of the FSM."
Exactly and this is why it's so funny!
The only thing christians/the catholic church were/are more afraid then of science is...comedy/satire!
Read all the hate posts on the church of FSM homepage, it's so hillarious, people throwing bricks into a mirror.
Just watch that movie with Sean Connery, you know based on that famous novel by Umbert Eco...the name of the rose.
I think the bible/christianity is by far more bizarre than the church of FSM.
Ever read the book?
There are lines like "when you had an affair with a daughter of a gardener you have to put a rope around your d..k", suchs stuff is really in the bible!
IT IS RIGHT TO SAY A PRAYER BEFORE A RACE BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS CHRISTIANS ARE FASTER THAN PAGANS!!!!
IF YOU DON'T PRAY BEFOREHEAD, GOD WILL BE PISSED AND MAKE YOU RUN BAD. UNLESS YOU PRAY TO RADKE WHICH WILL OFFSET THE GOD PRAYER YOU DIDN'T DO!!
I ran a race this morning and while they were saying the prayer, I was doing a stride (I think I blew my nose as well). Then I won the race. What does this all mean?
The Lord helps those who help themselves.
It doesn't seem to require a lot of common sense or reason to see that religion has become a satire of itself.
The FSM is no more bizarre than Scientology (please don't sue me) or the Mormons. Aliens & thetans? Seer stones and magic underwear? Virgin births and an old man on a cloud? (Sidebar, why does god look like an 80-year old man? If you were an omnipotent being, wouldn't you take the form of a 25 year-old bodybuilder? And why is he single? Why not a harem of hot chicks? Just wondering.)
It's incomprehensible to me that any intelligent & reasoning person can really, truly believe any of this stuff.
