Census write-in?
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Census write-in?
Forgive me if this has already been discussed. I was just reading in the forums about people trying to write in "heavy metal" as a religion on the 2010 census and that got me to thinking. Is there a Pastafarian option as religious choice on the census? Probably not. Should we Pastafarians write one in? I think so! Who's with me???
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Re: Census write-in?
P'doi... O' COURSE I BE IN!
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............................P(X|A) * P(A)
P(A|X) = -----------------------------------
...............P(X|A) * P(A) + P(X|~A) * P(~A)
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Re: Census write-in?
Should we go with "Pastafarian" or "Flying Spaghetti Monsterist". I'm just considering that some tired overworked census official might quickly glance at Pastafarian and just count it us as Rastas.
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That is true... FSMist it is then!
Bayes Theorum:
............................P(X|A) * P(A)
P(A|X) = -----------------------------------
...............P(X|A) * P(A) + P(X|~A) * P(~A)
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn
~*L'Nox ti notve*~
............................P(X|A) * P(A)
P(A|X) = -----------------------------------
...............P(X|A) * P(A) + P(X|~A) * P(~A)
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn
~*L'Nox ti notve*~
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Re: Census write-in?
I agree. FSMist works for me.
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If a man means me no offense and I am offended, I am a fool. If a man means me offense and I am offended, I am still a fool.
* * *
"I am weary of chickens. How they look up at us with their small eyes as though we were unimportant." - Pablo Naruda
"Well they do. And we are. It's just hard to take it from a damn chicken!" - Greg Brown
If a man means me no offense and I am offended, I am a fool. If a man means me offense and I am offended, I am still a fool.
* * *
"I am weary of chickens. How they look up at us with their small eyes as though we were unimportant." - Pablo Naruda
"Well they do. And we are. It's just hard to take it from a damn chicken!" - Greg Brown
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Re: Census write-in?
Typically they don't ask for your religion as a descriptor of yourself, but rather as the name of the religion to which you belong, ie. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Sometimes people do put self-descriptors in if they're writing in if they don't belong to a religious organization, but they could just as easily write "agnosticism" or "atheism" as they could "agnostic" or "atheist". Typically they'll know what you mean if it's a well-known religious belief or lack thereof, of course.
I suggest we go with "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster", just to make it official-looking and match it up with the way they list the religions on the form. That's what I'd do.
I suggest we go with "The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster", just to make it official-looking and match it up with the way they list the religions on the form. That's what I'd do.
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An even better point!
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster it is then!
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster it is then!
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Indeed! Good point! Church of the FSM it is.
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Re: Census write-in?
Hi
This is my first real post here. I was going to make a new topic but then I noticed this one and figured thread necromancy was better than multiple threads on the same topic.
I myself intend to put Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as my religion on the UK census next year. I think that we should spread the word of this plan and try to get as many forumite's as possible on board.
The Jedi's did it so I don't see why we can't.
RAmen.
This is my first real post here. I was going to make a new topic but then I noticed this one and figured thread necromancy was better than multiple threads on the same topic.
I myself intend to put Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as my religion on the UK census next year. I think that we should spread the word of this plan and try to get as many forumite's as possible on board.
The Jedi's did it so I don't see why we can't.
RAmen.
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The first public activity of the Bulgarian Pastafarian Church -
http://www.novatv.bg/bg/news/view/10994 ... 1%82%D0%BE
- protest at National Statistical Institute on 16.11.2010, demanding to provide the option “Pastafarian” as a possible answer of the question about religion in the forthcoming national census in February 2011.
http://www.novatv.bg/bg/news/view/10994 ... 1%82%D0%BE
- protest at National Statistical Institute on 16.11.2010, demanding to provide the option “Pastafarian” as a possible answer of the question about religion in the forthcoming national census in February 2011.
En mateno de hela ero, per la forĉo de espero, venas viglaj pastafaroj, vere fluganta gefratoj.
Ah, vi flugu, Nia Monstro! Vin observas milionoj serĉiantaj vermiĉeloj, per espero kaj per amo.
Kaj la bona pastafaro post la malfermita pordo, trovos la eternan vivon en pastafara paradizo!
Pastafarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
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Ah, vi flugu, Nia Monstro! Vin observas milionoj serĉiantaj vermiĉeloj, per espero kaj per amo.
Kaj la bona pastafaro post la malfermita pordo, trovos la eternan vivon en pastafara paradizo!
Pastafarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!
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Re: Census write-in?
Although I'm a Pastafarian, I'm afraid on the census form I'm going to tick "Other" then in the write in box simply put "None of your business".
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Re: Census write-in?
We don't have a mandatory religion question any more in Scotland, after the whole 'Jedi' thing 10 years ago...
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