So I’m trippin lately, so much is going on that I wish had never happened. There’s nothing I could’ve done to prevent it either. Thats what floors me. People really amaze me. Part of it is terrifying what people are like, and the other part breaks my heart. As far as I am aware, I’ve never done anything to hurt the people I love, even if they didn’t love me, which apparently was the case in my situation. The place that was once my home is now the place I fear the most. And I hate it. I’ve never been put in the situation where I was the outcast, where I was the one people hated. The worst part is, I never did ANYTHING… and if I have no one will be mature enough to communicate it to me. I almost vomited from the anxiety that I felt tonight. I don’t want this to affect my relationship with my father. I don’t even know what to do anymore. Girls have their own language, and I saw fightin words tonight. I really feared I would be physically harmed tonight. And it didn’t help that the person who I know would do anything to protect me was absent. Things are getting tougher than ever. And I’m afraid to say fear is beginning to take over.

So much has happened since I last posted. One of which I didn’t think would ever happen. But apparently I should’ve expected it. Someone stabbed me in the back. I don’t think I’ve really ever been stabbed in the back but I didn’t think it would hurt this much. People you think you can trust are just out to get what you love. I should’ve seen it coming too.

On that note, I also discovered that I am disliked amongst a lot of females. I’m not sure where this comes from or who thinks it but I can assure you it’s a miscommunication. Anyway.

So I’ve made some new friends over the time I haven’t posted. One of which is probably my best friend haha. Flash!

Bff

Haha he’s a G. And a pro at halo.
Blah!
Well, anyway. I’ve gotten a job at FireHouse Subs. It kinda sucks but that just because I don’t like working, at all.

OH! Batman came out last night! I haven’t seen it yet but I want to so bad! And Hellboy. And I still have yet to see the hulk. Which makes me a little sad. Rumor has it all of these movies are awesome or are going to be awesome.

Well, I thought I’d catch you up on my life a little. I’ll be updating more now that I’m not grounded.
hahaha
Peace.

Yes, it’s true. Check out this article about it on wikipedia.
History and developments
The first public exposure of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CoFSM) and its eponymous deity can be dated to January 2005, when Bobby Henderson, describing himself as a concerned citizen, sent an open letter regarding the FSM to the Kansas Board of Education. The letter was sent prior to the Kansas evolution hearings as an argument against the teaching of intelligent design in biology classes. Intelligent design was thought of as a way to teach creationism in the public school system without mentioning the name “God”. Henderson stated that both his theory and intelligent design had equal validity; saying

“I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.”^[3]

Henderson explained, “I don’t have a problem with religion. What I have a problem with is religion posing as science. If there is a god and he’s intelligent, then I would guess he has a sense of humor.”^[6]

The Board only responded after Henderson posted the letter on his website, gaining significant public interest.^[7] Henderson subsequently published the responses^[8] he received from board members.

As word of Henderson’s challenge to the board spread, the website and Henderson’s cause gathered more attention and support. The satiric nature of Henderson’s argument made the Flying Spaghetti Monster popular with bloggers as well as humor and Internet culture websites.^[9] The site was featured on websites such as Boing Boing, Something Awful, Uncyclopedia, and Fark.com. The mainstream media quickly picked up on the phenomenon as the Flying Spaghetti Monster became a symbol for the case against intelligent design theory in public education.^[10][11][12] Henderson himself is surprised by its success, stating that he “wrote the letter for [his] own amusement as much as anything.”^[13]

In August 2005, in response to a challenge from a reader, BoingBoing.net announced a $250,000 challenge, later raised to $1,000,000, for “Intelligently Designed currency” by other bloggers, payable to any individual who could produce empirical evidence proving that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, though Jesus is not a part of Pastafarianism.^[14] The challenge is modeled after a similar challenge issued by young-Earth creationist Kent Hovind (an award of $250,000 to anyone who can prove evolution “is the only possible way” that the Universe and life arose).

In November of the same year the school board voted to allow criticisms of evolution, including language about creative design, as part of testing standards.^[15] On February 13, 2007, the Board voted 6 to 4 to reject the amended science standards enacted in 2005. This was the fifth time in eight years that the board had rewritten the standards concerning evolution.^[16]

Bobby Henderson, a 25-year-old Oregon State University physics graduate, had stated on his website that he was desperately trying to avoid taking a job programming slot machines in Las Vegas.^[2] On November 15 the Dallas Morning News described him as an unemployed slot-machine engineer,^[17] and on the following day the New York Magazine described an advance from Villard to write The Gospel of The Flying Spaghetti Monster with the subheading “Jackpot for unemployed slot-machine engineer and heretic”.^[18] As of February 2008, Henderson describes himself as spending “a lot of time trying to avoid a Real Job”, saying that “it’s not just about the money. Speculative work is more interesting. Specifically, I’m interested in random stupid projects.” He cites as a successful example his “taco-art project” which took him one day, and orders for prints had made him over $2,000, though many other “stupid (but interesting) projects” didn’t work out.^[19]

In November 2007, three talks involving the Flying Spaghetti Monster were scheduled to be delivered at the American Academy of Religion’s annual meeting in San Diego. The talks included titles such as, “Holy Pasta and Authentic Sauce: The Flying Spaghetti Monster’s Messy Implications for Theorizing Religion”.^[20][21] The question is, can the work in creating and sustaining the universe only be recognized in the eyes of faith? Academics say while its inclusion in the program may get laughs, it is a serious debate on the essence of religion exploring questions such as “does religion require a genuine theological belief or simply a set of rituals and a community joining together as a way of signaling their cultural alliances to others?” or in short, “is an anti-religion like Flying Spaghetti Monsterism actually a religion?”

In December 2007, The Ledger reported that members of venganza website, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, sent emails to School Board members in Polk County, Florida, on the issue of intelligent design.^[22]
Beliefs
Henderson proposed many of the beliefs in reaction to common arguments by proponents of intelligent design.^[23]

The canonical beliefs of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism are set forth by Henderson in the Open Letter,^[3] the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and on Henderson’s web site,^[24] where he is described as a prophet.

The central belief is that there is an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the entire universe “after drinking heavily.”^[13] The Monster’s intoxication was supposedly the cause for a flawed earth. All evidence for evolution was planted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to test Pastafarians’ faith — a form of the Omphalos hypothesis. When scientific measurements, such as radiocarbon dating, are made, the Flying Spaghetti Monster “is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage.”^[3]

The Pastafarian belief of heaven stresses that it contains beer volcanoes and a stripper factory.^[25] Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale, and the strippers have VD.^[26]

Henderson uses parallel concepts from religious texts when describing the FSM, poking fun at those who literally interpret the Bible. The religious text of the Pastafarian religion is called the Loose Canon instead of the formal Canon. In place of the Ten Commandments, it contains the Eight I’d Really Rather You Didn’ts.

The official conclusion to prayers is “RAmen”, contained in certain sections of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and so on. It is a portmanteau of the Semitic term “Amen” (used in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and Ramen, a type of noodle. While it is typically spelled with both a capital “R” and “A”, it is also acceptable to spell it with only a capital R.

Soooo, I haven’t posted anything in a long while.

Haven’t really had a whole lot to say. I hung out with Brooke, Matt, and Fuzzy for a few minutes yesterday. We rambled on and on about my dog and how Brooke should make Matt and Fuzzy give her gass money when they ride with her. It’s not really fair that she takes them wherever they want to go and gets nothing in return. I think thats how I’m going to work things when I can finally drive alone. Which isn’t long. about 6 months. I’m not sure what I’ll get to drive, I just hope it’s not the Saturn. I think it’s dying. When your car starts to moan when you turn I think you have a problem.

I’ve also been playing with the idea of getting an SLR camera. I don’t know what kind tho. And I think I might wait until my birthday so my fam can buy it. They’re expensive. I really like the idea of going out and taking pictures of my friends at random “cause I feel like it” photo shoots. If anyone has any suggestions on what kind of camera I should look into, let me know

Random photos

Real Life’s Unbreakable encounter retreat. First, here are some lovely pictures.

MY BEST FRIENDS!

[Mac and Cheyenne]

Emily, and Nikki….[iloveyou]

Also MY BEST FRANDS!

yeah, Clays wearing Macs pants. He couldn’t move

We were here for maybe an hour and we had just gotten done doing the same thing on a bridge.

haha

And last but CERTAINLY not least, my brother, Austin Maxey

It was indeed an amazing weekend and I’d do anything to be back there right now. I know of at least two of my friends who are no longer going to do drugs or smoke. And that alone is amazing to me. There was laughter and definately a lot of crying like little girls. But we did it together. haha.

I love everyone that went. And I hope I’ll get to see you there next time.

So yesterday I was playing on XBL, as usual, and I said “Hey everyone, I’m gonna go. I’m going to go cut my hair” and one guy said. “Thats creepy” and he said the reason it was creepy was because when most girls cut their own hair it’s ugly…???

I don’t understand his logics, but you tell me, am I creepy?

I heard on the news this morning about 8 teenagers that called over one of their “friends” for a “friendly” hang out. But when she got there they ambushed her and animalisticly attacked her. [if that is a word]

There were two males standing outside to make sure no one came in. The reason for this conflict was the young girl that was being attacked allegedly threatened to post something mean about them on MySpace. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?

I swear, girls these days are slowly turning into animals. If I were that girl none of them would make it out alive. really.  And they taped it? They obviously go by the “Haters make me famous” motto. Luckily they were all arrested but unfortunately they probably won’t stay that way.

I really hope someone hurts them, to where they need a hospital… hahaha

Here’s the video

So I’ve been watching this over and over again….

and I thought you should have your day brightened by this fat yellow creature

Katie

So after I pulled a tick off a dog today, I thought to myself, “…this should gross me out”

I was thinking about how spiders and ticks and beetles and things don’t scare me at all. Infact I find myself saving them a LOT more than killing them. I think killing a bug or any animal isn’t fair if they didn’t do anything to hurt you, but if they bite you or something, they’re history. haha

But what I’m getting at is I will willingly pick up any bug pretty much but the thing that makes my skin crawl and leaves me lying awake at night is ROACHES!

I will kill any of them for just existing! I HATE THEM! They will make me cry, and thats a big deal for me haha.

What are makes your skin crawl?

Peace,

Alyssa

xoxo

I can’t think of something more fun to be honest haha.

I’ve been playing for a while. If you like to play games like Halo 3 or COD4 or even games like Guitar Hero III or Rock Band you most def should try it out. I highly recommend it.

I’ve been working myself to the freaking bone to get to a level 30 in halo, which I should be at least a 35 according to my online frands, but apparently bungie is racist again girls [yes, racist. according to my not so bright friends on halo] I can easily get to 29 and then it won’t move. I win every game I play and still don’t move. then if I love ONE I go down. It’s sooooo lame. I want to get rid of my stupid doors with the nooby bars and at least have one of them nifty stars. Then hopefully I’ll get a pretty bird, and eventually some cute little leaf things. dream big. hahaha

Well thats my XBL sob story, I’ll most def be letting all of you know when I finally get that star.

Peace, G

-Alyssa

I got my star yesterday

+1 noobie bar