Posts by John Doe

What is it with these people? I left my apartment a few minutes ago to go pick up my check, you know, on a mission. These two spiffy suited young pricks spot me from 200 feet away, and nearly trip over themselves running up to me.

"Hi! How you doing?!"

Me, I don't make eye contact, I check my mail and pretty much ignore them, muttering back "I'm fine."

I have my Tony Stewart Home Depot cap on, and they say "Are you a Nascar fan?"

"Nah, not really" I say, hoping to shut them up. I walk to my car, and the taller dude physically jumps in front of me and sticks his hand out, which I grudgingly shake.

Now, at this point, I felt I'd given every indication I can without actually saying it to leave me the hell alone. But this only seems to make them stronger in their sales pitch. They say "We represent the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, and we're missionaries sharing with people how they can blah blah blah. Blah blah blah."

I give him 20 seconds or so as I wait for a pause to say I'm not interested. I'm meanwhile unlocking my car door. When I realize he's not going to shut up for the forseeable future, I say "Look, I'm not interested." In any dialect of English, that means buzz off, right?

Well, the other one pipes up and says "Oh, are you familiar with our church? Who else have you talked to? What do you think of our church?"

I said "I'm really not interested." Twice. That should be enough, right? Forget it. They then start in on their spiel again. And I cut him off and say "LOOK, I AM NOT INTERESTED!"

Game, set, match, right? Wrong. "Ok, that's understandable, would you direct us to someone else we can help?"

Ahggggg. I'm wanting to pull my freaking hair out. "No, I really can't recommend you to anyone. I don't believe in what you're doing." as I get in my car, shut the door, and leave before they can say anything else. They leave, meekly looking down like I'd just dumped wet water on them.

Now, I ask, why do we allow these people to go so far beyond the realm of politeness? These guys had me steaming by not respecting what I was unmistakeably telling them, and butting in where they were not invited. What would you have done?

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The two stories of "The Flood"

by Doug Mason in

in genesis, the two stories of "the flood" have been combined into one.. each story was created by separate groups for their own theological purpose, and with very different attitudes towards god.. i have provided a scan from a book that untangles these two accounts.

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=160b02654b38df6311d38f4932294874.

you need to wait for 20 seconds before the "download" button appears.. doug.

John Doe

The whole of Scripture is Jewish and if we fail to read the Bible through Jewish eyes, we fail to understand Scripture.

And what a loss that would be.

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Funniest bad movies

by glenster in

http://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2009/07/10-movies-so-bad-theyre-funny-is-troll-2-really-the-best-worst-movie.html.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3lkg20ifs1i24.

"plan 9 from outer space," 1959, in hd.

John Doe

Tremors has got to be the best "bad" movie ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_6H617Fcs

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Are JWs attracting more and more off-center people?

by undercover in

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this thread is prompted by the thread about a jw woman who disprupted a funeral.

i don't know the details as i can't view youtube from work, but it did get me to thinking.... over the last couple of decades, at least, i've noticed that more and more 'fringe personalities', for a lack of a better term, have infiltrated the ranks of the everyday jws.

true, jws are themselves a fringe element to normal society, but even within their own communities, there used to be a sense of normalcy, or at least seemed to be.. has the cultic message of the wt society started attracting people with different thought processes over this time period?