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14 Aug 2008, 10:51 am

Orwell wrote:

Fnord wrote:

It isn't just the Christians, and it isn't just the other Religionists, but it's also people from Amway, the Democratic National Party, the Libertarian Party, the Republican Party, panhandlers, Atheists, survivalists, unionists, neighborhood committee advocates, telemarketers, New-Agers, Scientologists (and other cultists), environmentalists, animal rights activists, and just about every other special interest group and pseudoscientific philosophy you can name.

Don't forget Mac users.

Hahaha!

Mac users...they're such a pain in the ass. :lol:

(Note: half-joking)

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14 Aug 2008, 11:30 am

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Also, let's not leave out people who drive hybrids, the smug bastards!

Hey!

I am NOT smug!

Just 'cuz I drive a Prius ... you gotta call me smug ... hmph!

:wink:

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14 Aug 2008, 12:24 pm

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Spiritual Salvation is a DIY thing, or at least it should be. If you pimp your religion d2d, it loses all value and becomes a filthy mundane thing. I am not the keeper of my brother's immortal soul nor should that responsibility ever fall on me.

Agree. Totally.

I suffered this unpleasant experience all through high school. Made harder to 'shut the door' in a manner of speaking because
a) they were my classmates and I couldn't help seeing them every day,
b) I stuck around with those people when they weren't trying to convert me because I was so scared of not having any friends, and
c) many of the teachers were also of the same persuasion, therefore turned a blind eye to it.

My husband's always found that telling Jehovah's Witnesses that you're a Pagan is the quickest way to send them running back down the garden path. On the other hand, he once had some Latter Day Saints come to the door who were intrigued by what he believed, came in for a cup of tea and spent most of the time listening to him!

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14 Aug 2008, 1:06 pm

All you need is a clealy marked sign on your door or mailbox:

NO SOLICITORS PLEASE

Remember, a Jehovah's Witness is a salesman first and foremost. You are the sale.

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14 Aug 2008, 1:08 pm

Hey, I have relatives who are Jehova's Witnesses, and they never tried converting me.
In fact, they are the nicest people.

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14 Aug 2008, 1:09 pm

Yes, because they're your relatives. Are you not JW yourself?

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14 Aug 2008, 1:20 pm

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Yes, because they're your relatives. Are you not JW yourself?

No, I like you was raised Roman Catholic...

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14 Aug 2008, 3:17 pm

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Orwell you reckon that atheists are a pain in the ass. Ever consider how much of a pain it is having superstitious clap trap rubbed in your face day after day.

Almost as much of a pain as having someone's opinion that my personal belief system (which I don't disseminate to the general public unless it's specifically solicited) is supposedly "superstitious clap trap" rubbed in my face all the time...

PS: No, I'm not a Jehovah's witness, I'm a mainstream Presbyterian...

Exactly dittoes what ToS said. Including the part about being a mainstream Prebyterian. "Frozen chosen" FTW!

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14 Aug 2008, 3:19 pm

Dox47 wrote:

I'd have to agree on th Mac people, I've yet to see any PC user with the sort of fervent fanaticism that evangelical Mac devotees so commonly display. PC people may get defensive when confronted by a dedicated Mac-head, but seldom try to actively convert other OS users to PC usage. I'd say the Mac people are the most evangelical, but the Linux/Unix people are the most condescending.

There's one stirring up trouble in the Comps, math, sci and tech forum not. Pat666rick is his name. Mainly bashing on Linux, though, but he is somewhat combining Mac fanaticism with Linux condescension and applying it to using Windows.

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14 Aug 2008, 4:29 pm

Orwell wrote:

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Good lord, I see the reason for the 666... I might have to go check this out, It'll be like watching a Jehovah's Witness trying to pitch a Wahhabist... :lol:

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14 Aug 2008, 4:58 pm

ToadOfSteel wrote:

DentArthurDent wrote:

Orwell you reckon that atheists are a pain in the ass. Ever consider how much of a pain it is having superstitious clap trap rubbed in your face day after day.

Ahhhhh that is my point! I bet you dont get this sort of comment regularly, unfortunately for those of use that believe in reason and science we have to put up with the god hypothosis on an hour to hour basis, a great many religious believers cant keep it to themselves and then get upset when they meet the occasional atheist.

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14 Aug 2008, 5:05 pm

Honestly though, Jehova's Witnesses are really great people especially for not having any holidays. Imagine that (well, I don't pratice holidays anyway, but that's different!)

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14 Aug 2008, 6:31 pm

As far as Jehovah's Witnesses go, when they try to convert me...

"I'm a Satanist. I'm about to sacrafice a cat to a demon, would you like to join me?"

I'm really not, but anything to get them away and keep them away!

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14 Aug 2008, 7:10 pm

I was raised christian (of some sort) but didn't buy it for a minute
if God was real-and was as loving as everyone claims
he wouldn't be a he and sure as hell wouldn't let good people suffer

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14 Aug 2008, 7:15 pm

It's true. The God of old goes against biology.
God shoulda, woulda, coulda been Goddess.
And no I don't listen to Ani Difranco.

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14 Aug 2008, 7:19 pm

yeah I just never bought the idea God snapped his finger and here we are
or he is a giant man living in the clowds

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