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Jan. 11th, 2003 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeke_hubrisA nice lady just came to our door and presented me with a lovely pamphlet entitled 'Electronic Games: Is There A Dark Side?'.
So, I would just like to say a big thankyou to the Jehovah's Witnesses for delivering free entertainment to my doorstep.
Apparently she will return in a week to discuss the pamphlet with me. I can hardly wait.
So, I would just like to say a big thankyou to the Jehovah's Witnesses for delivering free entertainment to my doorstep.
Apparently she will return in a week to discuss the pamphlet with me. I can hardly wait.
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Date: 2003-01-11 03:55 am (UTC)That is highly unlikely in my experience, I assume it is from the Jehovah's Witnesses, it sounds like their style (BTW they are not Christians, really). If you really want some fun, start questioning her on what it is that they object to about Video Games, and which ones she knows anything about... I think you will find she doesn't know anything she is saying what she's been told. It's also fun to question them about their beliefs... most of them don't know what they believe in, they just go along with the crowd like sheep.
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Date: 2003-01-11 04:45 am (UTC)I really hope she does come back, I'm looking forward to a full and frank discussion of the subject. I'm especially looking forward to finding out what my 10+ years of computer gaming has done to my poor soul.
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Date: 2003-01-11 06:07 am (UTC)Back when I lived in Hemel hempstead, there was one particular JW who seemed to have made it her life's work to try and convert me. It was quite amusing, given that I used to teach bible studies to Christadelphians....so I could challenge everything she said using Scripture. Quite often we'd be discussing a certain topic, and she'd lend me a JW book on the subject. I'd politely accept it, read it that week, and the following Saturday verbally rip it to shreds and demolish it with logic!
She started bringing others with her after a while; I think I was viewed as a test of faith for new converts! But despite the fact she came around every Saturday for nearly 5 years without fail, not once did she ever get to set foot in my flat.
I sometimes wonder what happened to her - one Saturday a different lady turned up who couldn't stand up to my debate, and I never saw another JW again as long as I stayed in Hemel. I still have one of their books gathering dust on my bookshelf. It amuses me to keep it next to the Crowley and the LaVeys....
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Date: 2003-01-11 07:13 am (UTC)Let's re-assemble the old cast of Grange Hill and they could do us a song and a video.
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Date: 2003-01-11 07:20 am (UTC)Thing is the poor schmucks they send round really don't know much about thier own ecumenical standpoints let alone anyones elses. Sure, they're reasonably genned up on whatever scandalous shocker they've been sent out to warn the gentiles about and the basic tenants of thier sect, but ask them about anything deeper and they look confused, go away and then return with a 'senior' member of the church/cult/whatever.
The mormons foiled me once (and once only) when a pair of sisters turned up and one of them was a very attractive young american lass, Sister Bernadette if i remember correctly.. (and belive me, i do..) Really threw my politely pressing theological banter, that did.. :)
Must have been blackballed or something, as it's years since i've seen them around here. Perhaps Lancaster is too far gone..
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Date: 2003-01-19 07:44 am (UTC)Here is the cover of the book in question. Searching on the title gives hits like this. Haven't found any good hits on the way the book bends one's sexuality, but the locked entry tells some wacky tales.