About a year ago, when I awoke from the abyss of my faith, I was slightly bitter, and would often quote the songHeresyby Nine Inch Nails ("If there is a hell, I'll see you there.") when people pulled this stunt. Since then, I've mellowed quite a bit, and instead hand them a printout I save for these occasions:Dear Believer. It often elicits two reactions: 1)They leave me alone for the duration of their stunt, or 2)They faint.
Alright, I'll admit I'm being hyperbolic. But it does usually work. If there is a "true believer", though, I just throw their tracts in the bin where they can see, and ignore them.
Quite cool letter, although nothing new TBH.
I think the next time I have a bill shoved in my face I'll just say "Is that counterfeit!?" loudly enough for everyone around to hear.
I've always wanted to try to sit one of these guys down for a serious talk. They used to come to my door at my old apartment all the time. I was always too angry to do anything but cuss at them and slam the door in their faces, though. I recognize that this is a problem.
Actually, there were some Christian types who came to the door a few months ago, to say that the bible gave good economic advice. Rym said "I'm sorry, but everyone in this house is an atheist." The woman said "That's such a shame. How can you think that way where you see the beautiful day around you!" At which point I came happily around the corner with a cookie and was joyfully like "That doesn't mean we don't enjoy the beautiful world!"
I think they left at this point because happy humanist atheists with cookies are truly a lost cause.
It depends on the cookie. I won't just convert for any old cookie, but if a religious group had really awesome oatmeal raisin cookies available at their services, I think I could go through the motions.
It depends on the cookie. I won't just convert for any old cookie, but if a religious group had really awesome oatmeal raisin cookies available at their services, I think I could go through the motions.
Blasphemer! Oatmeal raisin cookies are a breakfast food, not a true dessert! Chocolate Chip is the Odin of cookies. Oatmeal cookies are not even in the pantheon.
Blasphemer! Oatmeal raisin cookies are a breakfast food, not a true dessert! Chocolate Chip is the Odin of cookies. Oatmeal cookies are not even in the pantheon.
Bull and shit. Give me a chewy Chocolate Chunk Cranberry Oatmeal cookie loaded with brown sugar over a boring old Chocolate Chip any day of the week and any time of day.
This calls for separate cookie denominations. I wonder if people that actually like Chocolate Chip better will stay with the Oatmeal denomination just because their families have been in the Oatmeal denomination for the past couple of generations. Hmmmm...
Blasphemer! Oatmeal raisin cookies are a breakfast food, not a true dessert! Chocolate Chip is the Odin of cookies. Oatmeal cookies are not even in the pantheon.
Oatmeal raisin cookies are more like Mjollnir. The baker that wields them with prowess is unto Thor, a mighty champion of the common man, sating hunger with but a single cookie. One stroke of their mighty confections can render a man full for an hour. That's a fucking cookie.
If we're making denominations, I refuse to sit in a chapel with those raisin heathens. Raisins are like little bits of poop, but they're made of fruit. They're like fruit poop.
While I was still in personal-beliefs-limbo, the Atheists around me never shoved their opinions down my throat. I liked that. Now that I'm some sort of weird Atheist-ish person that views Jesus as an admirable social revolutionary, I still don't get grief for it.
The dollars are stupid, tacky, and obnoxious ways of shoving a religion in somebody's face. It's part of what turned me off from organized religion. Let's not even think about copying it.
I much prefer your idea about yelling, "Aren't these counterfeit?" =D
I much prefer when you read the thread rather than putting words in my mouth =D
I'm talking about handing them to people when they're trying to give me the dollars, not walking around trying to indoctrinate people. This is for parody's sake, making fun of the people who are doing this, not for shoving beliefs.
[Edit] I'm sorry for the rudeness. It's just that people have falsely assumed what you assumed several times before in this thread and it is kind of annoying.
Wow, touchy! Giving other dollars back is still shoving something at them. There's no reason to ever mimic that kind of stupidity. If somebody walked up, spit in their hand and then rubbed it on you, would you be cool to do it back?
Maybe we just think differently. Chill out.
Edit: Thanks, but I still hold what I said. Even if you only mean it as a parody, it's not quite working out that way. "Taste of your own medicine" parodies tend to come off as more than just a parody.
That's not what she was saying to you. No one was putting words into your mouth, Mary-Jane. Try to fully grasp a post before opening your oh-so-snarky can of bitch on it.
And if you were really sorry for the sarcastic bullshit, maybe you should change the post. Or wait, maybe try and take back your assumption, the very thing you so righteously leapt upon Nillia for.
I view Jesus as a non-existent zombie, but you know, that's just me.
Which is fine. The general Christian understanding of Jesus is fictional, in my opinion. I think he's historical, but mortal and long dead. I think that the stories about him stretched into miracles over time.
That's not what she was saying to you. No one was putting words into your mouth, Mary-Jane. Try to fully grasp a post before opening your oh-so-snarky can of bitch on it.
And if you were really sorry for the sarcastic bullshit, maybe you should change the post. Or wait, maybe try and take back your assumption, the very thing you so righteously leapt upon Nillia for.
Thank you for defending me, but I'm pretty used to being pounced upon for many of things I say on the internet. It's fine.
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I think they left at this point because happy humanist atheists with cookies are truly a lost cause.
Also, what kind of cookies?
I wonder if people that actually like Chocolate Chip better will stay with the Oatmeal denomination just because their families have been in the Oatmeal denomination for the past couple of generations. Hmmmm...
Please don't kill me, Either of the Macross clan.
The dollars are stupid, tacky, and obnoxious ways of shoving a religion in somebody's face. It's part of what turned me off from organized religion. Let's not even think about copying it.
I much prefer your idea about yelling, "Aren't these counterfeit?" =D
I'm talking about handing them to people when they're trying to give me the dollars, not walking around trying to indoctrinate people. This is for parody's sake, making fun of the people who are doing this, not for shoving beliefs.
[Edit] I'm sorry for the rudeness. It's just that people have falsely assumed what you assumed several times before in this thread and it is kind of annoying.
Giving other dollars back is still shoving something at them. There's no reason to ever mimic that kind of stupidity. If somebody walked up, spit in their hand and then rubbed it on you, would you be cool to do it back?
Maybe we just think differently. Chill out.
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Thanks, but I still hold what I said. Even if you only mean it as a parody, it's not quite working out that way. "Taste of your own medicine" parodies tend to come off as more than just a parody.
And if you were really sorry for the sarcastic bullshit, maybe you should change the post. Or wait, maybe try and take back your assumption, the very thing you so righteously leapt upon Nillia for.
I think he's historical, but mortal and long dead. I think that the stories about him stretched into miracles over time. Thank you for defending me, but I'm pretty used to being pounced upon for many of things I say on the internet. It's fine.