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Do you believe in The Flying Spaghetti Monster?

  • 26-11-2013 6:39pm
    #1
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭


    Thread on the Atheism and Agnosticism forum talking about Pastafarian's with driving licenses in Ireland?.

    It seems kinda silly or not overly serious when first viewed but it really is, albeit a relatively small, challenge to the status quo that religion is afforded extra rights, privileges and protections that ordinarily are not given.

    Do you welcome our new Spaghetti Monster overlord?

    Do you believe in The Flying Spaghetti Monster? 49 votes

    Yes, obviously!
    0% 0 votes
    No, obviously!
    75% 37 votes
    Obviously, obviously, obvious, obviously!
    24% 12 votes


Comments

  • #2
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    all these religious threads are spaghetting on my nerves


  • #3
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Sounds like a thread for the Atheism and Agnosticism forum.

    Oh wait.....


  • #4
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    First time I heard of it...


  • #5
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    It is irrelevant whether I believe or not.
    It is your right and choice to decide whether you believe.


  • #6
    Me?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    Meatballs?


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  • #7
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Everyone knows that spaghetti monsters don't fly. They undulate through the atmosphere.


  • #8
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    And remember kids ....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIcnBccjgMw


  • #9
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    MarkR wrote: »
    Everyone knows that spaghetti monsters don't fly. They undulate through the atmosphere.

    Splitter!


  • #10
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


    Fvcking Dawkins has a lot to answer for :mad:

    If only his books were as readable as his dogmatism.


  • #11
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Gran Hermano wrote: »
    It is irrelevant whether I believe or not.
    It is your right and choice to decide whether you believe.

    How do you decide to believe ? Surely you either believe or you dont. If it was that easy I'd decide to believe I was a real person and not a pretend person in a real persons body.


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  • #12
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Only one thing worse than militant theists. Militant atheists who come up with this shíte trying to prove a point. Eejits.


  • #13
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    SV wrote: »
    Only one thing worse than militant theists. Militant atheists who come up with this shíte trying to prove a point. Eejits.


    Indeed. Beats me why anyone would draw any attention to something that a) they dont believe in and b) possibly annoys them greatly


  • #14
    Artful_Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    SV wrote: »
    Only one thing worse than militant theists. Militant atheists who come up with this shíte trying to prove a point. Eejits.

    Atheist militant anti-militant-atheists. Stay one step ahead of the bandwagon !


  • #15
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    HerrScheisse wrote: »
    Fvcking Dawkins has a lot to answer for :mad:

    If only his books were as readable as his dogmatism.


    I have no interest in what he does or doesnt believe.

    However, I find him really annoying.


  • #16
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    Atheist militant anti-militant-atheists. Stay one step ahead of the bandwagon !

    Usually they introduce the bandwagon


  • #17
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


    I agree Wacker. I have read much drivel but Dawkins takes the biscuit; He perpetuated this preposterous spaghetti monster idiocy to the masses in his books.

    I read a book from him before and thought I was having a stroke. I gave him a second chance by reading his much lauded "God Delusion" and wished I was having a stroke.

    Dogmatism is not science.


  • #18
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    What I'd like to know is, when is someone going to come up with a new phrase to replace the "flying spaghetti monster".

    It's become cliched


  • #19
    TomoBhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭TomoBhoy


    SV wrote: »
    Only one thing worse than militant theists. Militant atheists who come up with this shíte trying to prove a point. Eejits.

    Urgh !!


  • #20
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    TomoBhoy wrote: »
    Urgh !!

    Is that an acronym or something? Doesn't make much sense otherwise


  • #21
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    TomoBhoy wrote: »
    Urgh !!
    SV wrote: »
    Is that an acronym or something? Doesn't make much sense otherwise

    Undulating Rigatoni Gargoyle Harem.
    Preach yo!!


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  • #22
    Burt Macklin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭Burt Macklin


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    Thread on the Atheism and Agnosticism forum talking about Pastafarian's with driving licenses in Ireland?.

    It seems kinda silly or not overly serious when first viewed but it really is, albeit a relatively small, challenge to the status quo that religion is afforded extra rights, privileges and protections that ordinarily are not given.

    Do you welcome our new Spaghetti Monster overlord?

    Careful with questions like that, we have laws against blasphemy!


  • #23
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    HerrScheisse wrote: »
    Fvcking Dawkins has a lot to answer for :mad:

    If only his books were as readable as his dogmatism.
    The Flying Spaghetti Monster (PBUH*) has zilch to do with Dawkins and vice versa. Why does his name keep getting dragged up at any mention of atheism/agnosticism? I don't get it. There were atheists long before he was vocal about it. He didn't even get "militant" (his term) and write The God Delusion, until he was approaching the age of retirement from his "day job".

    * Parmesan Be Upon Him

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #24
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    bnt wrote: »
    The Flying Spaghetti Monster (PBUH*) has zilch to do with Dawkins and vice versa. Why does his name keep getting dragged up at any mention of atheism/agnosticism? I don't get it. There were atheists long before he was vocal about it. He didn't even get "militant" (his term) and write The God Delusion, until he was approaching the age of retirement from his "day job".

    * Parmesan Be Upon Him

    This always brings a smile to my face.

    I don't have an opinion on religion either way and, Again, I have no interest in what Richard Dawkins does or doesn't believe but I always love seeing an arrogant wanker getting kicked in the balls. I believe his manner does him few favours.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/For-once-Richard-Dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html


  • #25
    Bananatop
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 166 ✭✭Bananatop


    Don't get me started on Antipastifarians!


  • #26
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


    bnt wrote: »
    The Flying Spaghetti Monster (PBUH*) has zilch to do with Dawkins and vice versa. Why does his name keep getting dragged up at any mention of atheism/agnosticism? I don't get it. There were atheists long before he was vocal about it. He didn't even get "militant" (his term) and write The God Delusion, until he was approaching the age of retirement from his "day job".

    * Parmesan Be Upon Him

    It became widely known through his "scientific" writings.


  • #27
    HerrScheisse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭HerrScheisse


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    This always brings a smile to my face.

    I don't have an opinion on religion either way and, Again, I have no interest in what Richard Dawkins does or doesn't believe but I always love seeing an arrogant wanker getting kicked in the balls. I believe his manner does him few favours.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/For-once-Richard-Dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html


    Amen to that.


  • #28
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    I find that religious discussion (whether it's real or not) is some of the worst discussion there is.


  • #29
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    I find that religious discussion (whether it's real or not) is some of the worst discussion there is.

    Isn't it pasta your bedtime?


  • #30
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    Isn't it pasta your bedtime?
    You questioning my loyalty to Rael?


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  • #31
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Diabhal Beag wrote: »
    You questioning my loyalty to Rael?

    Chelsea all the way.........


  • #32
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,591 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Somalia has "the highest number of pirates and the lowest carbon emissions of any country".

    What more proof do you need ?


  • #33
    SweepTheLeg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭SweepTheLeg


    SV wrote: »
    Only one thing worse than militant theists. Militant atheists who come up with this shíte trying to prove a point. Eejits.

    Militant Atheists make up a fun Religion. Militant theists behead and butcher people. I know what I'd prefer.


  • #34
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Somalia has "the highest number of pirates and the lowest carbon emissions of any country".

    What more proof do you need ?

    Pirate chart was my favourite part of the gospel.


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