{"id":813,"date":"2010-06-07T11:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-06-07T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T18:46:20","slug":"denial-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Denial Ho!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As my friends know, I’ve become a fairly devout follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a>. Well, when I say “devout”, I mean that I’m about as devout as you can be when you also ask yourself “What Would A Pirate Do?” on a daily basis. Because a pirate probably wouldn’t stress about it.<\/p>\n

So, this week, a well-phrased question by a Christian made me doubt all that I believe. What if it’s all a hoax?<\/p>\n

A hoax<\/em>?<\/p>\n

And suddenly it hit me. Everything about the Flying Spaghetti Monster religion seems suspiciously like it was just, you know, made up<\/em>. The holy scriptures, the holy illustration of his noodlyness creating everything, all of it. What if Bobby was not divinely inspired? No, no! If that’s true, then all the time I’ve invested, the fish on my bumper, the tattoo, the eye-patch, the pamphlets…I’ve wasted all this time spreading “good news” that was really all made-up lies! I would have to admit to all of my friends that I’ve been fooled.<\/p>\n

Admitting that I’m wrong: that’s just too painful to face. Goodbye truth; hello denial!<\/p>\n

So, to those of you who are trying to tell me my faith is misguided and that I should follow your god instead: I’m sorry. I’d like to say that I see where you’re coming from. I’d like to listen to your point of view and decide objectively what parts are valid.. But, that would require first admitting to the merest possibility that I might be wrong. And, you know, that would mess with the whole denial trip that I’m on and stuff. You know how it is.<\/p>\n

Yes. I’m quite sure you know how it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As my friends know, I’ve become a fairly devout follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Well, when I say “devout”, I mean that I’m about as devout as you can be when you also ask yourself “What Would A Pirate Do?” on a daily basis. Because a pirate probably wouldn’t stress about it. So, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,160],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-fsm","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}