Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 40 Aliens
Subtitle of this chapter: A joke and a bunch of religions
" On March 2, 1921, Yuan Yanshu accompanied Shi Zhaoji, then the Chinese ambassador to the United States, on a journey from New York to Washington. On the train, he met three famous generals of World War II, George Smith Patton, Jr., Henry Harry Arnold and Cao Linsheng."
"At that time, they talked about religion in their casual conversation. Mr. Yuan was very dissatisfied with the opposition of American fundamentalists to evolution. So he improvised and 'invented' the Flying Spaghetti Monster in front of the three officers and 'founded' the Flying Spaghetti Church."
"Of course, this was originally a satire on the ignorant believers. But beyond Yuan Yanshu's expectation, under the 'revelation' of his Flying Pastafarianism, many 'new religions' emerged that borrowed from or even copied the 'doctrine' of the Flying Pastafarianism..."
——Excerpt from "A Protestant Wave Triggered by a Joke"
"Gentlemen, don't laugh. This is a serious matter!"
Seeing such a delicious "god", the three officers and even the waiter next to them couldn't help laughing.
Our Master Yuan said solemnly with a straight face: "Gentlemen, who among you can deny that I have obtained the image of my Lord under divine revelation?"
"Okay, okay, we won't laugh anymore, ha ha ha..." Major Patton was the most delighted among them. He suppressed his laughter and asked, "So, Mr. Yuan, what kind of revelation did you get?"
Yuan Yan suddenly put down the basin in her hand, placed her hands on the table with her fingers crossed, and said solemnly as if praying: "In the beginning, the invisible and imperceptible flying spaghetti monster created the world after a severe alcoholism..."
"Wait, Mr. Yuan." Captain Arnold asked while wiping his eyes, "Why did he do this after a serious drinking binge?"
Master Yuan said casually: "Captain, if my God was not drunk, how could He create a world full of flaws?"
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"However, it is interesting that he was also an avid admirer of Mr. Yuan Yanshu, a 'disciple' in a sense. Herbert had a lot of experience when he was young. He traveled with his parents in Asia and the Pacific at a very young age. When he was 16 years old, that is, in 1927, he also visited China.There he met Yuan Yanshu, who had become a master of neoclassical liberalism.
"At that time, Mr. Yuan was very active in Shanghai, and he spent almost the entire day in the concession newspapers engaging in literary battles with the (sensitive word 'they' here)... However, he had close ties with political and military figures from the United States and Japan, and he was always accompanied by marines from these two countries as bodyguards. So his personal safety was still guaranteed to a certain extent."
"During this period, they met at a cocktail party at the American Consulate in Shanghai and became close friends regardless of age difference. It was also with Mr. Yuan's encouragement that Herbert embarked on the path of science fiction writing. But what fascinated the young man most about Yuan Yanshu was his 'superpowers'."
"Mr. Yuan is probably the greatest amateur magician in history. His mind-reading magic has not been cracked until the 21st century. However, at that time and even now, many people still believe that Yuan Yanshu has extraordinary powers, such as mind-reading, precognitive ability, huge appetite, and you know what I mean."
"Among these people, Lafitte Ron Herbert must be the most influential, if not the most obsessed."
"With the outbreak of World War II, he entered the US Navy as a lieutenant and commander of an anti-submarine corvette. Injured in the war, his left eye was partially blinded and his legs were lame. In 1945, he was diagnosed as a lifelong cripple. However, by applying the spiritual theories he learned from Master Yuan, he was able to not only help other military friends, but also restore his own health.. "
"But then he started to go too far. In 1955, he wrote a book claiming that Mr. Yuan Yanshu was an alien. In the book, he said that Mr. Yuan once admitted in person to him that he was actually the 340th star observer from the M78 nebula. Yuan Yanshu came to Earth in human form in the Neolithic Age 10,000 years ago for the purpose of making orbital maps. His alien name translated into English is... Ultraman Seven."
"But Ultraman Seven discovered that 75 million years ago, Xenu (or Xemu), the leader of the Galactic Confederacy, ruled 26 stars and 76 planets, including Earth (which was called Teegeeack at the time). In order to solve the problem of overpopulation, Xenu sent billions of aliens to volcanoes all over the Earth. Then, Xenu detonated a nuclear bomb to kill the aliens. Their remaining spirits are the main cause of mental damage to humans."
"In order to prevent these alien spirits from annihilating the new human civilization, Mr. Yuan Yanshu, no, Ultraman Seven resolutely stayed on Earth. That's why he wrote the book "The Man from the Crypt" under the pen name "The Man from the Future" in the 1930s, which caused such a big stir. In fact, this is Mr. Yuan's metaphor for his own identity. So the name of the book written by Herbert is "The Man from the M78 Nebula."
"And the leader of the Galactic Alliance, Znu, is actually the 'flying spaghetti monster' in Mr. Yuan Yanshu's joke."
"In his book, Herbert claimed that he was a disciple of Mr. Yuan Yanshu. He had mastered a method to free all mankind from suffering. He called this method 'Dianetics', which is a Greek variant meaning through the soul. Because he said that Dianetics was a modern science of mental health, he named his sect 'Scientology'."
"In fact, besides him, there are some people who have also gained inspiration from the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult and founded many strange new religions. In these sects, Mr. Yuan Yanshu and Ultraman Seven are either regarded as great prophets or the first apostles."
"Since the 1960s, Tsuburaya Productions, founded by Eiji Tsuburaya, the god of Japanese special effects, has produced a series of science fiction series with Ultraman as the protagonist. As a result, the image of a giant wearing a tight silver and red leather jacket and having two glowing yellow eyes has become a deity worshipped by some new religions."
——Excerpt from "A Protestant Wave Triggered by a Joke"
