Charity Work?

[Kung Su Maniac]

I had recently posted proposing an idea for attempting to get this as an actual religion, under the Name Kung Su Maniac as a guest, I decided to join. Because Religion should not be taught in science class.

Most religions do charity work to get thier name out there and get more people to join. I was thinking that maybe people from the same state get together and perform so huge charity drive to a cause many people believe in possibly AIDs or Cancer. And people should realize that this has some thought to it and just wants to be considered a religion, to proove it's point.

[Alpaca]

Mm.. Good idea. The only thing we've tried so far, to my knowledge, is the Million Noodle March, but we should do more.

The problem is getting the geographically disparate Pastafarians together in one place.

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

The idea of the Million Noodle March was to get Pastafarians to donate, but apparently many places don't have food banks. Other charity work is good too... if you could get enough people and money together (wouldn't take much) you might be able to work with a local homeless shelter to do a free spaghetti dinner.

I'm thinking about getting involved with a local group called Food Not Bombs; local (organic and natural) grocers donate food and the FNB volunteers cooks it for a local shelter. Seems win/win to me, and I should be able to convince a few members about his Noodly Goodness.

[Alpaca]

That's right... I need to get a zebra-striped pin.

[Kung Su Maniac]

Honestly, we wouldn't have to have alot of us to do the charity work. Just like people do what ever they can to get the name out, like maybe one person could do something alone like start a spaghetti collection and donate them to families or the homeless people who need it and if asked why they are doing it just say that it's for FSM to get his name out.

[Sir Francis Drake]

For some reason this reminds me of an idea I let go of some time back. I wonder if we could have some stamps made (for use with stamp pads) which have an FSM logo and venganza address on them. We could use them to stamp envelopes addressed to charities and bags donated to food drives.

[Dr. Otis Lansa]

Hmmm.. it would be even easier to make label templates that could be printed on a home computer. The advantage of an ink stamp would be that one could do fun things like emboss it in gold. They're not prohibitively expensive, but hard to swap between users.

I included some small versions of the FSM holiday card in the last donation I made to the food bank, just in case 40 lbs of spaghetti didn't get their attention.

[aquazoo]

For some reason this reminds me of an idea I let go of some time back. I wonder if we could have some stamps made (for use with stamp pads) which have an FSM logo and venganza address on them. We could use them to stamp envelopes addressed to charities and bags donated to food drives.

Oooh, neat idea! Or what about stickers? Stamp pad ink could smear or not show up on some things (like spaghetti boxes), but stickers would be lovely. If someone makes a PDF file, and specifies a label size, we can all print them up and stick them on donations.

I heard about a group that donated underwear for people displaced by Katrina, and they made their own tag for the undies.

[teripie]

Stamp pads are a good idea. Then have fun with them, break the law and stamp every piece of paper money that passes thoguh your hands.

[Kung Su Maniac]

I don't think that would go over to well with the government, so that could actually hinder the process for becoming a religion.