The Flying Spaghetti Monster thing was really a microcosm of Internet Atheism
1) Russel's Teapot but more smug
2) Misunderstanding the phrase "correlation does not imply causation" to be smugly anti-global warming
3) Smug jokes in order to be xenophobic against Muslims in order to pretend to be smart
Every time I remember that shit I'm so embarrassed it even existed
1) Russel's Teapot but more smug
2) Misunderstanding the phrase "correlation does not imply causation" to be smugly anti-global warming
3) Smug jokes in order to be xenophobic against Muslims in order to pretend to be smart
Every time I remember that shit I'm so embarrassed it even existed
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•But basically - they would say "The number of pirates has decreased and the temperature of the earth has gone up - so it's pirates that cause global warming". It was... bad.
The whole "I want to wear a colander on my head in my driver's license photo was a direct result of anti-Hijab stuff.
The Church of the Subgenius I am aware of less bad things in (other than inspiring *real* UFO cults)
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•But also - people were seriously getting the photo taken with the colander and then mocking the government for it - and that was a lot of the high profile stuff I saw. But also - I was a Canadian university student in a tech university - and so I have a cultural context.
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Martijn Vos
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Of course, when your MO is "claim to believe absurd things with a straight face," that can get into weird places.
Since you seem to have had a much less savory experience with these folks, I'm curious what you saw regarding climate change activism. Did you see Pastafarians actually pushing back on climate change?
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•Of course the point about pirates was wrong, because there's actually a lot of pirates today. See the Somalian pirate scare from a decade ago or so.
You make some good points though. Especially about the anti-hijab stuff. Though I don't object to fighting overly strict ID photo rules.
silverwizard
•And then the joke about hijabs and stuff is easy to defend as "religious people get exemptions" and "photo id rules are bad" but quite easily becomes "hijab wearers are bad because they are asking for a special privilege" and even that is easy to couch in anti-religion.
And I have no doubt certain right wing elements did this on purpose.