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| | | Recruiting < on 2/11/2011 4:18 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | TL;DR: Experiences with people trying to recruit you into their religion So I was at Barnes & Noble yesterday reading a Michio Kaku book and enjoying my tea. Next thing I know an incredibly friendly woman and her friend ask what I'm reading. We have a friendly chat about science which somehow ends up leading to religion. She shows me a picture that was supposedly taken by the hubble that she thought was a picture of the kingdom of heaven. I suggest that it's photoshopped, but she seemed entirely convinced it wasn't. Anyways, the conversation eventually leads to how the two women were "theological students". Interesting. The talkative one goes on about how she was raised Catholic, but wasn't into it until someone showed her interesting things in the Bible. The main thing she talked about was how the 6th seal was supposedly WWII. How stars falling from the sky represented jews and so on. She showed me all sorts of passages in the Bible to go along with it. Toward the end of the conversation, (which she gracefully leaded to) she talked about how true Christians are supposed to follow Passover because Jesus said so. Again, she showed me the passage. By doing that, we would receive the "seal" and be one of the 144,000 that were supposed to be saved when the 7th seal opens and all hell breaks loose. She mentioned when the next passover would be (apparently it used to go by the lunar calendar so the date is always different) but I forgot what it was. She asked if I would keep the passover so I said sure. Here's where the conversation got really odd. She said that something could happen (like WWIII breaking out) before then so unless I had received the seal NOW, I'd more or less be fucked. She said I would be able to receive the seal as long as I was baptized - but apparently christians have been doing it wrong because "Father, son, and holy spirit" is wrong. Instead, it needs to be in their actual names (Jehova, Jesus, and whatever she said the name of the holy spirit was). So she said I could fix that by getting baptized NOW. At 11pm. At some random church with some random people I've never met. I said no thanks.
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| MutantMandias Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA Gender: Male Total Likes: 268 likes
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| | | | Re: Recruiting < Reply # 2 on 2/11/2011 4:43 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Oryx TL;DR: Experiences with people trying to recruit you into their religion So I was at Barnes & Noble yesterday reading a Michio Kaku book and enjoying my tea. Next thing I know an incredibly friendly woman and her friend ask what I'm reading. We have a friendly chat about science which somehow ends up leading to religion. She shows me a picture that was supposedly taken by the hubble that she thought was a picture of the kingdom of heaven. I suggest that it's photoshopped, but she seemed entirely convinced it wasn't. Anyways, the conversation eventually leads to how the two women were "theological students". Interesting. The talkative one goes on about how she was raised Catholic, but wasn't into it until someone showed her interesting things in the Bible. The main thing she talked about was how the 6th seal was supposedly WWII. How stars falling from the sky represented jews and so on. She showed me all sorts of passages in the Bible to go along with it. Toward the end of the conversation, (which she gracefully leaded to) she talked about how true Christians are supposed to follow Passover because Jesus said so. Again, she showed me the passage. By doing that, we would receive the "seal" and be one of the 144,000 that were supposed to be saved when the 7th seal opens and all hell breaks loose. She mentioned when the next passover would be (apparently it used to go by the lunar calendar so the date is always different) but I forgot what it was. She asked if I would keep the passover so I said sure. Here's where the conversation got really odd. She said that something could happen (like WWIII breaking out) before then so unless I had received the seal NOW, I'd more or less be fucked. She said I would be able to receive the seal as long as I was baptized - but apparently christians have been doing it wrong because "Father, son, and holy spirit" is wrong. Instead, it needs to be in their actual names (Jehova, Jesus, and whatever she said the name of the holy spirit was). So she said I could fix that by getting baptized NOW. At 11pm. At some random church with some random people I've never met. I said no thanks.
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1902 likes
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| | | Re: Recruiting < Reply # 4 on 2/11/2011 9:03 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Oryx TL;DR: Experiences with people trying to recruit you into their religion So I was at Barnes & Noble yesterday reading a Michio Kaku book and enjoying my tea. Next thing I know an incredibly friendly woman and her friend ask what I'm reading. We have a friendly chat about science which somehow ends up leading to religion. She shows me a picture that was supposedly taken by the hubble that she thought was a picture of the kingdom of heaven. I suggest that it's photoshopped, but she seemed entirely convinced it wasn't. Anyways, the conversation eventually leads to how the two women were "theological students". Interesting. The talkative one goes on about how she was raised Catholic, but wasn't into it until someone showed her interesting things in the Bible. The main thing she talked about was how the 6th seal was supposedly WWII. How stars falling from the sky represented jews and so on. She showed me all sorts of passages in the Bible to go along with it. Toward the end of the conversation, (which she gracefully leaded to) she talked about how true Christians are supposed to follow Passover because Jesus said so. Again, she showed me the passage. By doing that, we would receive the "seal" and be one of the 144,000 that were supposed to be saved when the 7th seal opens and all hell breaks loose. She mentioned when the next passover would be (apparently it used to go by the lunar calendar so the date is always different) but I forgot what it was. She asked if I would keep the passover so I said sure. Here's where the conversation got really odd. She said that something could happen (like WWIII breaking out) before then so unless I had received the seal NOW, I'd more or less be fucked. She said I would be able to receive the seal as long as I was baptized - but apparently christians have been doing it wrong because "Father, son, and holy spirit" is wrong. Instead, it needs to be in their actual names (Jehova, Jesus, and whatever she said the name of the holy spirit was). So she said I could fix that by getting baptized NOW. At 11pm. At some random church with some random people I've never met. I said no thanks.
| i don't like it when people just randomly start talking to me... i would've just got up and left.
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| Oryx
Location: Who knows Gender: Neither Total Likes: 41 likes
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| | | Re: Recruiting < Reply # 5 on 2/11/2011 11:19 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Livingstone Nice enough people, just not my worldview, don't think I'll make either cut but I don't look good in pastels anyway.
| They were both exceedingly friendly and I really did enjoy talking to them. The girl who did most of the talking did a great job making it seem like she had just learned everything and how cool and mind blowing it was. The first thing that tipped me off was how she immediately knew exactly which places in the Bible to look to show me each of the excerpts. If she just learned this, either she has a photographic memory, or this has been something she has spoken about quite a lot. I was also impressed with how she went from subject to subject without immediately coming across as crazy. She was incredibly more graceful and eloquent than most people who have tried to shove this down my throat. Posted by MutantMandias Were they hot?
| The one who did the talking was pretty, yes Posted by KublahKahn Also: the Photoshop comment was awesome.
| Haha here's the picture she showed me: http://weeklyworld...new-hubble-images/I asked her when the picture was supposedly taken and she said recently. "A couple of months ago". This says 1994. Another: http://www.uctaa.n.../med13/med256.html Posted by Samurai i don't like it when people just randomly start talking to me... i would've just got up and left.
| I have almost no social life, so the fact that someone actually spoke to me was almost flattering. She also mentioned early that she went to Columbia, the school I want to go to. She definitely had a grasp of what key words to use to get people's attention. Now a few months ago when I was at Barnes, another young woman approached me about this. There was no introduction or friendly chit chat though. She walked up from behind me and randomly asked, "Have you thought about the heavenly father??" or something. That time I responded, "Oh shiiiittt" and ran.
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