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Post by Maryland Bear on May 28, 2009 7:48:39 GMT -5
True story, I swear...
A friend was once getting ready for a Live-Action Role-Playing Game based on 1930's and 40's movie melodramas. He was playing a German officer, and had rented the appropriate uniform.
He wss wearing the uniform to show to some other gamers who were visiting, and was expecting more gamer friends, so when there was a knock at the door, he marched up to it, flung it open and barked out, "Good evening!"
And instead of the friends he expected, the nicely dressed young gentlemen at the door said "We'd like to talk to you about God..."
My friend responded, "I don't think this is a good time."
And the nicely dressed young gentlemen responded "we don't think this is a good time, either" and went on about their way.
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Post by booley on Jun 14, 2009 12:16:10 GMT -5
... Gay missionaries would be awesome. Thought we already had those. They're called Mormons. Unfortunately I never get the cute mormon guys so obviously in the closet. I get the middle aged JW housewives.
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Post by id82 on Jun 14, 2009 13:01:26 GMT -5
I only had one experience with missionaries back in college.
During spring break I went down to Florida with my college track team to run a meet. One day when we had a day off we drove out to Panama City to check out the beach. It was kind of a cloudy day so there were not too many people hanging out on the beach that day. As we were walking along we saw this really hot blonde girl standing alone looking out at the ocean and a group of some other kids about 500 ft away from her. She wasn't wearing typical beach affair and was actually fully clothed. But the guys I was walking with were like "Damn we should go over and talk to her!" So as we approached her she came off as too freindly immeadtialy, and as we all got to talking she brought the question: "So have you guys found Jesus Christ." As this question was brought up the other group of people about 500 feet away approached us. They used the damn hot girl as bait and they had us hook line and sinker! It took a good thirty minutes to get away from their bombarded questions about why we didn't believe in what they believe in and why we should find Jesus. It was pretty damn annoying and the only one laughing hysterically was me as we walked away. The other guys looked a little shocked.
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Post by lonelocust on Jun 15, 2009 0:11:10 GMT -5
Unlike everyone else on the face of the earth, I always wanted JWs and Mormons to come visit me. But I feel that ordering them from the internet (which you can do) would be cheating. Finally a few years ago I was accosted at the bus stop by JWs. I was so excited. I love to ask people why they believe what they do. However, like everyone had told me I would be, it was very disappointing. When I asked them why they specifically believed the Bible as opposed to any other religious text, the answer was "because it's the Word of God" and when asked how they knew that the answer was "because it's in the Bible", ad infinitum, the basic circular argument. When I told them no, I didn't believe the Bible, they left and wouldn't consider the conversation. Various people raised JW have told me that either they don't try to convert anyone who's not already a Christian or that possibly I would have been able to have more of a conversation if I was male, as the extreme misogyny of the JWs makes male missionaries (this was two men) not enter into in-deapth conversations with females. I don't *really* expect better, but I always think just maybe I can get some real insight into what makes people belive what they do. On a more positive note for anyone who hasn't seen it (I bet it's been posted here somewhere before), God Gave me Cookies
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Post by lonelocust on Jun 15, 2009 0:13:00 GMT -5
... Gay missionaries would be awesome. Thought we already had those. They're called Mormons. Unfortunately I never get the cute mormon guys so obviously in the closet. I get the middle aged JW housewives. A friend of mine managed to have sex with a hot Mormon missionary. For this I give him all of the epic applause possible.
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Post by stormwarden on Jun 15, 2009 1:01:20 GMT -5
I had to deal with Creationist Mormons recently. I had to help teach the equivalent of a fifth-grade science class to these guys, because the swallowed the creationist line hook, line, and sinker.
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Post by Maryland Bear on Jun 15, 2009 6:02:26 GMT -5
A friend of mine managed to have sex with a hot Mormon missionary. For this I give him all of the epic applause possible. Like the plot of Latter Days?
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Post by Vypernight on Jun 15, 2009 6:15:59 GMT -5
I'm enjoying these stories. Keep 'em coming!
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Post by secularskeptic on Jun 15, 2009 12:13:37 GMT -5
It's kind of strange. I have a Kingdom Hall right down the street form me and I have never once in my 4 years living here (Southwestern US) had them or anyone else knock on my door to try to convert me. I must have an anti-missionary force shield around me.
Come to think of it....I grew p in the south and rarely, and I mean RARELY, did anyone ever come around proselytizing there either. That must be some force shield!
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Post by ironbite on Jun 16, 2009 0:16:54 GMT -5
Or cause you're from the south they assume your baptist and leave you alone.
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