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Siegfried
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quote:
As for why we won't stay somewhere else: we like you too much.
Well, I guess this explains why I have been getting asked to join a campus bible study group so often lately. Like really often. Like three times a day the past four class days.

It's a little annoying running across campus in a huff because you have to be in class in five minutes and someone stops you to drone on and on and on about loving Je-ZUS!* and joining their group which meets five times a day every weekday except on the first Monday of each month unless that month has an occurence of a full moon or lunar eclipse.

*Yes, two of the groups that stopped actually pronounced it like that. I'm not Christian, but that even made me whince.

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The philosopher's stone. Those who possess it are no longer bound by the laws of equivalent exchange in alchemy. They gain without sacrifice and create without equal exchange. We searched for it, and we found it.

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Malnurtured Snay
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Tell them you're glad they love you, but you really do have to run, and you'll talk to them later.

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Siegfried
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I try to be as polite as possible all the time. The most I do is try to hurry the conversations along. This usually entails me saying I'll try to come if I have the time free.

I used to tell them that I wasn't interested because I was agnostic. The three people soliciting me that time immediately began praying for my soul. That was kinda creepy, especially since they kinda had me surrounded. One was before me, and the other two were flanking me.

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Antagonist
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quote:
Originally posted by Siegfried:
I used to tell them that I wasn't interested because I was agnostic. The three people soliciting me that time immediately began praying for my soul.

If all they did was start praying for your soul, then just imagine what would have happened if you said you were an atheist. Or worse, an orthodoxy christian. [Smile]

Probably they would have beat you over the head with an iron-bound bible, or suddenly proclaimed themselves Knights Templar and stabbed you repeatedly with a sword, then cut off your head and fling it into a lecture hall of "infedels" to scare them into proclaiming themselves Christians that have found Je-ZUS's love.

Ahhh. I love catholics. They're so.... eager to bend the rules for their cause.

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The Talented Mr. Gurgeh
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quote:
I used to tell them that I wasn't interested because I was agnostic. The three people soliciting me that time immediately began praying for my soul. That was kinda creepy, especially since they kinda had me surrounded. One was before me, and the other two were flanking me.
Couldn't that legally be considered as some sort of abuse? I know I wouldn't tolerate that.

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Shik
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I prefer the paradigm-popping approach: "Awww...isn't that cute? By the way, my gods don't like your god because the last time they were over at your god's place for tea, his dog pissed on their coats. Just passing along the message. Hey, are those plans for a Crusade?"

My problem isn't with Christians, my problem is with proselytizing Christians who refuse to accept anything works but what they think. This is a major problem across the board with most things in the world. The friends I have who are Christian are cool because they know that I don't share their beleifs & they're open to that, & in turn I respect theirs. 'S all 'bout tha luv, people...'s all 'bout tha luv.

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Cartman
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Must. Resist. Urge.

Oh, dammit, I cannot.

"Proselytizing Christians", unfortunately, form a majority (in my experience).

And I'll reserve my "luv" for those who actually deserve it.

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Siegfried
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::shrug:: I try to just let these encounters go. As long as they are not physically assaulting me, I figure I can just live with it. Life's too short to make a stink about something we won't know the truth about until we die.

Many, if not most, of my friends are some flavor of Christian. My family is Roman Catholic. In general, they leave me alone about it. In turn, I leave them alone about it. Sometimes I'll get into a philosophical debate about it, but it rarely turns nasty. I do have a couple of friends who are trying "covert conversion." They figure that sending me emails (I got the one in the OP two years ago, by the way) and a non-stop stream of invitations to church and church social activities is the way to accomplish their goals. So far, it isn't working very well.

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The philosopher's stone. Those who possess it are no longer bound by the laws of equivalent exchange in alchemy. They gain without sacrifice and create without equal exchange. We searched for it, and we found it.

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First of Two
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quote:
someone stops you to drone on and on and on about loving Je-ZUS!* and joining their group which meets five times a day
Addicts do stuff like that.

Me, I like to drop my voice into a lower register and growl in my most gravelly voice: "Rob isn't in here anymore. Go away or I will eat your soullllllll..."

Well, okay, I've never done that. But I want to.

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Free ThoughtCrime America
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I don't remember this very well, so it probably won't be interesting, but when I was a kid we went to a Baptist encampment...slept there a few nights, with mom and pop. It was fun, as far as psuedo-camping is fun, hey I was five.

One night we went to one of the sermons held by the preacher, and at some point half the people there started speaking in tongues. It was loud the way rock concerts are loud, with people overcome with the "majestic power of the all seeing all being Tetragrammaton" filling them.

It scared me quite badly. My dad too. He pulled us out of there, and we left that night.
I've asked him about that a few times, since I was but a wee boy at the time, but he refuses to talk about it...It was shortly after that that we stopped going to church, so, who knows...

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Da_bang80
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Truth is we don't KNOW if there REALLY is a "GOD". There are people trying to prove there is a god, and people trying to prove there isn't a god. If I had a choice of being baptized, i woulda said "ta hell with all this hokey theological crap. I just want Christmas!"

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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept.
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

Remember when your parents told you it's dangerous to play in traffic?

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Da_bang80
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quote:
Originally posted by Antagonist:
Yes, spam is annoying. Yes, spam is most often useless. Yes, spam is probably the most insufferable garbage of the internet, rivaling in frustration with pop-up ad windows.

I've recently come across a nice little program called pop-up stopper. it stops them dead in thier tracks. only problem are, if you use the "open in new window" command it won't work. you have to use a shortcut key like ctrl and shift. and you can't start a web browser while it's running. again you need to click ctrl and shift, while clicking on the .exe

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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept.
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

Remember when your parents told you it's dangerous to play in traffic?

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Omega
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And further, they only seem to work with IE...

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"This is why you people think I'm so unknowable. You don't listen!"
- God, "God, the Devil and Bob"

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Da_bang80
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True, but it's really worth getting, specially for pop-up heavy sites like cheatplanet or megagames.

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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept.
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

Remember when your parents told you it's dangerous to play in traffic?

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The_Tom
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Sounds like something that would make surfing porn considerably less interactive. No need to frantically thrash Ctrl-W and all... [Big Grin]

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