Post your Best/Latest Accomplishment - In RL

[Raydeus]

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I wonder if people would actually want to know Febaman's true identity.

[Taskmage]

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made a joke about Steve Jobs dying

Was it the one about Obama being a Jobs killer?

[Mhurron]

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also realize how painfully obvious it would be for anyone else with access to Taskmage's friend list to figure out Feba's real identity

That would require people to care.

[Feba]

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Was it the one about Obama being a Jobs killer?

It was along the lines of 'So Steve Jobs vowed to kill Android. Final score: Android 1, Steve Jobs 0'

So not even funny.

[Raydeus]

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I like it.

[Feba]

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I like it.

thanks for the confirmation

[Taskmage]

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Spent five or ten minutes chatting with a Jehovah's Witness on my doorstep. I think I was starting to get through to him, but eventually he excused himself and moved on.

[cidbahamut]

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I hear nothing but terrible things about those guys. Are they as screwed up as people say they are?

[Taskmage]

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They can be. Their particular creed has some tenets in it that more mainstream Christians cock an eyebrow at, and since they're often home-schooled and grow up isolated from "normal" children some of them can be pretty strange to converse with. Mostly, though, they're disliked because people don't appreciate having someone knock on their door and challenge their beliefs.

[Armando]

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Mostly, though, they're disliked because people don't appreciate having someone knock on their door and challenge their beliefs.

This, plus the implicit arrogance of anyone who assumes their religion is THE religion and having a different ideology means you're wrong, misguided, or not living a fulfilling life.

[Feba]

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dad's side of the family is all JW.

It would be more lulzy if I didn't have to watch how much it's fucked up a lot of lives.

[Yygdrasil]

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I bought a door knocker for my house once... still have it somewhere. I used it to ward them off. Its the shape of a naked man. You use the penis as the knocker. If I knew they were in my street I slapped it on and posted a sticky note on my doorbell that read "doorbell broken, please use the knocker".

The one time I got it done in time, I watched from my second story window as they contemplated what to do for over 5 minutes. Well worth the investment. Thank you Spencer's Gifts.

[Taskmage]

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This, plus the implicit arrogance of anyone who assumes their religion is THE religion and having a different ideology means you're wrong, misguided, or not living a fulfilling life.

This is my dad. He once expressed confusion that I would choose to live a "loveless ideology," as if love could literally not exist for someone without an acceptance of Christ. I didn't share his faith, ergo I was living a life of despair. I couldn't have been more insulted. We jousted over it a couple of times to no progress, and it hasn't come up in a long time. I think he's given up on "saving" me, but it comes across more as a "I hope your path works out for you" rather than an "I've come to terms with the fact that you're going to hell" so .. it's an acceptable resolution to me.

dad's side of the family is all JW.

It would be more lulzy if I didn't have to watch how much it's fucked up a lot of lives.

I knew two JW families in high school. Both were dysfunctional. One with terrible alcoholism and child beating, the other was merely emotionally abusive. The latter produced my best friend, who is a great guy, though no longer a Witness. There are a wide range of outcomes.

[Feba]

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The thing I will say about JWs is that in a lot of ways, the ones I've met are trying really goddamn hard to be good people, they really want to be good people.


And then they go to Kingdom Hall and get their head full of crap. I've been told it's improved, but when I was an infant the church elders would blame wives for beatings-- clearly they weren't pleasing their husbands. I've seen sham marriages arranged by the church to politically link elders ; even if that means forcing a homosexual to act straight. Their persecution complex drives them to take any criticism as an attack, so it's impossible to do anything but fully comply or be the enemy. Church elders regularly use excommunication (which then leads to shunning, etc.) as a threat against any sort of dissent or non-compliance.

This reminds me, I need to go buy Christmas cards for all of them.

[Icemage]

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They can be. Their particular creed has some tenets in it that more mainstream Christians cock an eyebrow at, and since they're often home-schooled and grow up isolated from "normal" children some of them can be pretty strange to converse with. Mostly, though, they're disliked because people don't appreciate having someone knock on their door and challenge their beliefs.

Replace "some" with "most".

All of the pushy proselytizing groups are beneath my notice. I don't care if you believe in God, Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The moment someone starts thinking they can prove that their beliefs are more correct than mine (when the fundamental element of belief - as opposed to reasonable certainty - is the absence of proof) is the moment I categorize them in the group of people too stupid to salvage.


Icemage