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- German Pastafarian Seeks Recognition for Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- World’s Most Expensive Chocolate Costs a Whopping $260 per 42-Gram Bar
- This Man Has Photographed Everything His Right Hand Has Touched in the Last 11 Years
| German Pastafarian Seeks Recognition for Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Posted: 26 Feb 2015 02:49 AM PST In case you haven't heard of it before, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, also known as Pastafarianism (a cross between pasta and Rastafarian) is a movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion, and is generally viewed by the media as a satirical take on organized religion. But 63-year-old German retiree Rüdiger Weida takes his Pastafarianism quite seriously – he established his own church chapter in the town of Templin, in September of last year, and is now trying his best to get it legally recognized by the state! Weekly noodle worship at Weida's church begins at 10 a.m. every Friday. The basic mass format is somewhat similar to mainstream Christian churches – there's an altar, a time for prayers, scripture readings, hymns and a Holy Communion. But the similarities end there. The wine and bread are replaced by beer and of course, cooked strands of spaghetti, and parishioners hey say "Ramen" instead of "Amen" and chant "Beer-alleluia" at the end of the service. As the leader of this unusual church, Weida, who goes by the alias"Bruder Spaghettus", acts as the "Noodler", which means he presides over the service wearing a long yellow robe and a pink stole.
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| World’s Most Expensive Chocolate Costs a Whopping $260 per 42-Gram Bar Posted: 26 Feb 2015 01:46 AM PST If you’re looking for the finest dark chocolate money can buy, you might want to try , a delicate, handmade chocolate, made from the finest cacao beans Ecuador has to offer. At a hefty $260 per 1.5 ounce-bar, it is the most expensive chocolate in the world. According to the makers of To'ak, 95 percent of the world's chocolate is made from mass-produced beans, whereas they use rare cacao seeds harvested from the coast of Ecuador. These seeds are fermented and converted into liquid chocolate, which is then hand-moulded into bars. Each bar contains 81 percent cacao, and requires 36 different steps to create. Finally, a single, hand-selected, hand-measured, shelled cacao bean is placed in the center. The bean, measuring between 7 and 8 mm, has to fit perfectly. |
| This Man Has Photographed Everything His Right Hand Has Touched in the Last 11 Years Posted: 26 Feb 2015 12:57 AM PST Alberto Frigo is a man on a mission – for the past 11 years the 36-year old Italian has been photographing every single object that his right hand has touched. And he plans on continuing the bizarre project until he reaches retirement in the year 2040. Frigo said that he had been fascinated about the idea of recording his life many years before he began the project. He tried embedded cameras for a while, but found the experience frustrating. Writing a journal did not appeal to him either, because the writing eventually fades. The idea finally came to him in September 2003, and he started photographing every object his right hand came into contact with. Soon, he got so addicted to it that he simply couldn't stop. And now it's become a habit. "At this stage, my left hand now naturally photographs my right hand using objects without me really thinking about it."
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