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Topic: Some asshole knocked on my door this morning.
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago#86,487
It is always somebody from a hispanic church of latter day saints. It happens fairly frequently here. I usually open and tell them I worship Satan, but I was trying to sleep today. Assholes.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 13 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^][v]#990,713
@990,707 (C)
You never get visited by Latter Day Saints?
Anonymous C replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 24 minutes after the original post[^][v]#990,715
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Not since I made an example of the last one.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 16 seconds later, 24 minutes after the original post[^][v]#990,716
OP
Buy a large jar of vaseline at 99 cent store and keep by your door. Open door when LDS arrives and tell them you are a registered sex offender and pick up the jar and invite them all in.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 6 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^][v]#990,717
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 7 years ago, 53 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,774
@990,725 (Svet !jzYkdX7lIw)
Yeah. They stopped coming.
I think it's the nicest thing you can do, actually. This saves them time so they have more time for people who are either interested or at least not actively hostile to their religion.
Note carefully it must specifically say "no Jehovah's witnesses". "No soliciting" signs (which I also have) don't work because the JW's think their proselytizing is not "soliciting".
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Anonymous D replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,776
You think "No religious callers" will work? We get Mormons here too.
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 7 years ago, 6 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,778
@previous (A)
Maybe. But you run the risk of JW's disregarding it because they think it means "no callers from false religions".
I'd put up either two signs - one for JW's and one for Mormons or one sign that says "no visits from Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons". I'd definitely specifically name the religion(s) you don't want to be proselytized by.
The only reason I haven't put up a Mormon sign is because I have not yet seen any in the 'hood.
Anonymous D replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,779
The technical term would be apatheist. I just don't care much about god either way. I don't believe there is one but I don't, like, go full Dawkins and set out to disprove it or argue with religious people or anything. If people want to believe, I'm happy for them but just leave me out of it.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,791
@990,778 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
You don't say Mormons because I don't think that they call themselves that
Killer Lettuce? !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 20 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,792
@990,780 (Meta !Sober//iZs)
I think it's a shame that "atheist" has become such a loaded term. Many people seem to associate it with uptight, militant atheists, but it simply means that a person isn't a theist or agnostic. There shouldn't be any need for terms like "apatheist".
Christians don't have this problem. We have the very neutral word "Christian" to describe the basic belief system, and then we can attach terms like "born again" to describe specific types of it. The word "atheist" should be the same, tbh.
Anonymous C replied with this 7 years ago, 37 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,795
@990,760 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
You're too acquiescent.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,796
@previous (C)
What is the point in arguing something so stupid?
Anonymous C replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,797
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Why are you arguing something so stupid?
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 7 years ago, 20 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^][v]#990,799
> You don't say Mormons because I don't think that they call themselves that
I dunno. They kinda go back and forth on it. They embraced "Mormon" and ran an advertising campaign a few years ago called "I'm a Mormon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_a_Mormon
They also wanted people to stop calling them "The LDS church". I do try to respect people's desire to be called what they want, but "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" is just too fucking long. I guess "No visits from Latter Day Saints" would be acceptable for a sign on the door?
> I think it's a shame that "atheist" has become such a loaded term. Many people seem to associate it with uptight, militant atheists, but it simply means that a person isn't a theist or agnostic. There shouldn't be any need for terms like "apatheist".
I don't like it either. I think "atheist" has become too associated with tearing down religion, which I really don't want to be associated with. If people are religious, I am genuinely happy for them. As far as "apatheism", I would like to simultaneously convey three things when someone asks me about my religious beliefs: 1. I don't believe there is a god. 2. I really don't care if you do or don't believe there is one. 3. I'm not interested in debating the existence or nonexistence of god.
I think it's helpful to specify why you don't believe in god(s). "Apatheist" signals that while I'm not religious, I'm also not interested in debating the existence of god as I don't think it's interesting or relevant or helpful in any way. Though Dawkins and I come to the same conclusion about god, we've come at it from entirely different directions with different motivations for our disbelief.
> Christians don't have this problem. We have the very neutral word "Christian" to describe the basic belief system, and then we can attach terms like "born again" to describe specific types of it. The word "atheist" should be the same, tbh.
I think you do see this with different types of Christianity. If I ask what religion someone is and they say "I'm a Baptist", the Christian part is implicit. I know they believe the Nicene Creed plus all the stuff that sets Baptists apart from other forms of Christianity. Christianity is common enough in America that this works and you can say you're a Baptist/Methodist/Catholic/Episcopalian/etc without specifying you're a Christian, because those terms just mean different flavors of Christianity.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 7 years ago, 36 minutes later, 4 days after the original post[^][v]#991,554
@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
Is have it say no LDS
Ben Johnson joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 13 hours later, 5 days after the original post[^][v]#991,642