Why I worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster

As many of you did, I kinda paused a little when I was facing some facebook questions for setting up my account a year ago (or so).
One of those were "Do you have any religious views?"
I said "Yes".

I worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

And quite interestingly, we are now more than 100 people (in France), declaring ourselves Flying Spaghetti Monster zealots.


But what is the Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster?
This cult, also known as pastafarism, is a direct response to "intelligent design" being taught in some schools in US. (in 2005)

Meaning : "If God is being taught in school, so should the Flying Spaghetti Monster".
For some of you, who might not know the basic principles, here they are:
The flying invisible monster is all-knowing and most of the time invisible.
You can not find any proof of its existence, because it can travel back through time and erase all evidence.
As well it has left some fake evidence to lure people into believing in Darwinism.

Some of the footage of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are still existing to create confusion.


Whether the FSM exists or not, I wonder if all this is just a game to entertain such a mighty entity.

Some things you might need to know:
- The Earth was created by the FSM after drinking heavily
- Pastafarist heaven is made of beer volcanoes and strippers
- Friday is a holy day. No working on friday.
- Pirates are divine beings. As they disppeared, global warming rose. Therefore they were preventing it. The pirate costume is the official clothing for pastafarists.

Well I hope you've understood more about that religion. As they say:
"rAmen"

Competitive eating subculture

Last year, a friend of mine ate a hamburger with 8 burgers for his birthday.
Yes, I said 8.

You know why he made it?
He had technique.
Bite by bite, he slowly swallowed the beast with method. He was cutting the hamburger like a pile of kebab meat.

Congratulations, JB. I won't publish the pictures, I promised.

This really got me interested in that fabulous sport that is Competitive eating.

What is competitive eating?
Born during the 4th of July, where America celebrates abundance, people face off to see who can eat the most. The most burgers, the most beans, the most wings... whatever is greasy or disgusting.
One of the major leagues, the IFOCE has gained popularity. The categories are well defined, and the rules are strict. To see the records, it's here.

Once an all-american activity, the fever has caught up with Japan, and soon, skinny japanese would compete as well.
The famous Kobayashi became famous for being the 6-time-champion of the famous hot-dog contest.



Kobayashi(65kg) was later beat by Joey Chestnut (102 kg).

But you'll ask me:
How do skinny japanese people stand up to thick-boned americans ?
Method and training.
Actually, experience show that obese people develop a fat belt. The amount of fat in their stomach does not help the guts to properly stretch. Therefore, what seemed an advantage becomes in a hindrance for high amount of food!

Kobayashi drinks water extensively to help stretch his stomach at times, therefore gaining a competitive advange over less stretchy stomachs.
With a technique that consists of maximizing the amount of food for each bite.
-splitting the sausage in 2 (Salomon's method)
-dipping the bun in water or soda
-forcing the food down the oesophagus with a shake. (Kobayashi shake)

Don't try this at home.

The beauty of unsupervised learning.

As I previously wrote: life is an algorithm.
Everything we do are outputs of a complex device.

The rules put pressure on a system that develop itself and become something surprizing. That's how we got where we are.





Sometimes, the pure beauty of pure and plain geometrical forms simply astonishes me.

I recognize the madness of men passed to gentle rectangles forced to fight each other in a quest for survival. No wonder they take such human behavior.

That also brings back the question from within... Am I a rectangle?
Am I a collection of rectangle?

Computer says "Yes". Counts the pixels. In the matrix.