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FSM Pareidolia

TheBoyPaj

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I was driving to work and, while stopped at traffic lights, I glanced down to the kerb beside me. And what should I see, peering up at me?

fsmpare.jpg

The Flying Spaghetti Monster! It is surely a sign!

I was so excited at the prospect of selling His image on eBay that I ignored the irritated hoots of the motorists behind me and had to open my door to get a good shot. I have dug up the kerb stone which is playing host to his Noodliness and have placed it in a ziploc bag.

You'll be glad to hear that the FSM has not attracted a single spore of mold. Shall we start the bidding at $10,000?
 
I submitted "pareidolia" to the OED as a new word, because it's not in the current edition. Does anyone know the etymology?
 
Matabiri said:
I submitted "pareidolia" to the OED as a new word, because it's not in the current edition. Does anyone know the etymology?
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From wikipedia:
Pareidolia (from Greek para- amiss, faulty, wrong + eidolon, diminutive of eidos appearance, form) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) being mistakenly perceived as recognizable. Common examples include images of animals or faces in clouds, seeing the man in the moon, and hearing messages on records played in reverse.
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There's your etymology.
 
HE is certainly real!
I accuse TheBoyPaj of HERESY!

For verily, is it not written?
"Thou shalt make NO image of HIM, save only that using pasta or on an official T-shirt or Other Approved Holy Item."

(From the Booke of Menus, Ch.23., v 27.)

Heretic! May you be boiled in the sacred pot and served with a mediocre Chianti!
 
I think this could be a defining moment, when the more liberal and image tolerating Picto-Monsterists split from the strict members of the first church.

After all, who can take a religous movement seriously until it has split at least once and each side immediately set about killing and converting the other one.
 
I botched developing a photo in my photography class, and it looked like the FSM. I'll see if I can scan it.
 
pjh said:
I think this could be a defining moment, when the more liberal and image tolerating Picto-Monsterists split from the strict members of the first church.

After all, who can take a religous movement seriously until it has split at least once and each side immediately set about killing and converting the other one.
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The only problem with that is, it's always better if the split is over some obscuer point of theology that no one with out a divinity degree could ever even hope to understand.

This is over wheather or not we can hold to be sacred a lump that the FSM has so graciously given to us mere mortals so we can better see his Noodley Glory(tm).
 
kmortis said:
The only problem with that is, it's always better if the split is over some obscuer point of theology that no one with out a divinity degree could ever even hope to understand.
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Perhaps we can have a theological schism concerning the number of IPUs that can sit atop each of His Noodly appendages
 
I actually think the FSM is a true force for evil in this universe. Creating a delicious-sounding neologism for the terrible-tentacled one will not fool the enlightened. Can anyone present the slightest scrap of evidence that His Noodliness has made the world a better place? - No, I thought not. All I see around me are signs of chaos and destruction.

Those in the more deprived nations of the world have to face life traumas that way exceed what we have to bear in the western world, yet even there we see signs of His Malign Influence at work. Only last week I heard of a particularly vile case of demonic possession by His Edible Pastoid - see here:

Warning! - this image may be too disgusting for you to bear, but The Truth is out there! - and you all need to know.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/n/c/ncj111/images/Ascaris.jpg

(And don't even get me started on the numerous well-documented examples of alien prehensile appendage penetrations - these are so awful that the victims wished they had been subjected to anal probing by my little grey friends instead).
 
Deetee said:
I actually think the FSM is a true force for evil in this universe. Creating a delicious-sounding neologism for the terrible-tentacled one will not fool the enlightened. Can anyone present the slightest scrap of evidence that His Noodliness has made the world a better place? - No, I thought not. All I see around me are signs of chaos and destruction.
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HERETIC!!!

Your BLASPHEMY shall not be ALLOWED to exist!!! The Flying Spaghetti Monster shalt send his HOLY PIRATE MINIONS after you!!!

(doggamn, how do the fundies keep up that typing style. I haven't even gotten to the misspellings and really bad grammer.)
 
I always wanted to be a fundamentalist. And now my prayers have been answered.
HIS Noodly Appendage has touched me and I have seen the pesto.
I shall immediately begin to grow a waggly beard.
 
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