I was evangelized in the parking lot!
- Thread starter RoJoHen
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Yep, this has happened to me more than a few times. I'm really just getting tired of it.
When I was still working I had some Jehovah Witnesses knock on my door at 9am one Saturday morning. I was still in bed, trying to enjoy a sleep-in after a hard week. I was really annoyed with them. I told them that I had been in bed and added 'At least the bloody Mormons wait until the afternoon before they start annoying people".
^ This may not mean anything to you, RoJo and Miss, but people who get that pushy annoy me as well. It gives us a bad name. People think we're all like that, and that's sad.
I once had the Mormons come to my house and I would only talk about African Wild Dogs to them. No matter how much they tried to talk about religion I just kept ranting on about AWDs.
EDITED TO ADD - The day they came I had read an article in a wildlife magazine about African Wild Dogs and then I did a little bit of research on them. The topic was therefore fresh in my mind and that is why I choose it.
EDITED TO FURTHER ADD - When the Mormons start to look at their watches I know I have won.
EDITED TO ADD - The day they came I had read an article in a wildlife magazine about African Wild Dogs and then I did a little bit of research on them. The topic was therefore fresh in my mind and that is why I choose it.
EDITED TO FURTHER ADD - When the Mormons start to look at their watches I know I have won.
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I think that the next time they come I might talk about Doctor Who.
Last October we started to get Mormons ringing the bell every evening. I was nonplussed -- why all of the sudden were they trying so diligently to convert me (in English and Spanish). I found out later that it was because my roommate had ordered a couple of Books of Mormon for his Sexy Mormon Missionary Halloween costume! 
That might backfire. My parents are both into esoterics and spiritual texts and my Mum often goes into lengthy monologues starting from something I told her about a Sci-Fi show, Doctor Who included. The Mormons aren't nearly as spiritually inclusive as my Mum's belief system but they might get some inspiration from what you say.
So you were evangelized in the parking lot? Back in grade school, I had an epiphany on the school playground. But then the janitor came along and cleaned it up. 
Seriously, the next time one of those holy rollers asks me, "Have you found Jesus?", I'll say, "I didn't know he was lost. Why don't you try putting his picture on a milk carton?"
Seriously, the next time one of those holy rollers asks me, "Have you found Jesus?", I'll say, "I didn't know he was lost. Why don't you try putting his picture on a milk carton?"
I liked them more than the people who walk up to you pretending to be your friend, then hand you a flier that talks about how you and your friends are DOOMED FOR ALL ETERNITY. Those assholes really piss me off.
The idiots with the signs are occasionally fun to laugh at. We get some real winners in Berkeley.
Thanks for the tip. Maybe I will talk about exercising on my Wii instead (I am sure that will bore them).
I was evangelized in line at Starbucks once.
Long line, guy come sin behind me and says something like, "Gee this is a long line, isn't it?"
Me, with a shrug: "Yeah."
"All these people you'd think God was waiting to serve them their coffee."
Me: ....
He then goes on talking about Bible verses, The Word of God, and this "really great" Church he goes to around the corner. He gives me a pamphlet for the church and invites me to the following Sunday's services.
"Uhhh. I have to work."
"Well then, son, you need to tell your boss to not make you work on God's day."
"Yeah..."
He then says he hopes to see me there, wishes me a good day and then leaves the store. Having never bought a cup of coffee.
Long line, guy come sin behind me and says something like, "Gee this is a long line, isn't it?"
Me, with a shrug: "Yeah."
"All these people you'd think God was waiting to serve them their coffee."
Me: ....
He then goes on talking about Bible verses, The Word of God, and this "really great" Church he goes to around the corner. He gives me a pamphlet for the church and invites me to the following Sunday's services.
"Uhhh. I have to work."
"Well then, son, you need to tell your boss to not make you work on God's day."
"Yeah..."
He then says he hopes to see me there, wishes me a good day and then leaves the store. Having never bought a cup of coffee.
Some people there are okay; I mean you and I went there.
Oddly enough, I was never bothered by any religious people on campus. I did have fun conversations with communists.
Don't mess with a guy studying political science who knows more than you do on communism.
Freudian typo?
Interesting point. I've never proselytized myself except, I guess, talking in private with a couple of cousins of mine over the years where I spontaneously came to the conclusion, "you seem miserable, maybe you should try religion"
As far as "if you truly believe there is a hell, it's hateful not to warn people", I guess I must've never truly believed in hell. Especially now, as I subscribe to a universalist doctrine.
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