quote: feel beholden to explain the Skittles. During the fifth discussion, the missionaries talk about tithing, which is 10% of all increase - the interpretation of that being between you and the Lord. There are lots of scriptures about the "windows of heaven opening and pouring out a blessing" when you pay tithing, which is true. To illustrate this, you take a big bag of skittles or M&Ms or whatever, and place 10 in the person's hand. "Okay, now pay tithing." They give back one, and (theoretically), in one smooth movement, the missionary pours out the bag into their hand. It's great - vivid, and you get candy. Best done at a table. To avoid the candy all over the floor phenomomon. Unless the vacuum cleaner is lonely and wants to work to distract itself because the toaster left for college.
And this works?
I mean, people actually join a group that would waste M&Ms or Skittles so wontonly?
Is NOTHING sacred?
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What it IS is fun, and since it comes at the end of the discussion, it's okay to break the mood a little, and since it's the fifth discussion, you know them really well. By the fifth, they have a baptism date too, or you rarely get that far. So, you're friends, and it's memorable.
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I think it's Jupiter BY WAY OF Mars. That's your confusion. Mars is right on the way. Easy stopover.
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Congratulations Mack--I've been so busy lately I haven't had a chance to read everything here. I am truly very happy for you. If you ever get out to AZ I'd love to meet you in person. Posts: 1132 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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You know, I was waiting for the bus today and was perusing the flyers that littered the area when a prominant religious one caught my eye. Apparently all illnesses can be be cured naturally and painlessly by the Allmighty Creator. Things like AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc. can be cured with a healthy dose of prayer.
But the one that really caught my eye was bolded and in a larger font size than the other ailments. Apparently God can make my penis bigger. I don't know what the hail mary to dong length ratio is (the flyer didn't say) but it's nice to know that a small dingle is just a test of faith. I guess this isn't a religion where men of cloth are supposed to be celibate, why waste a good tallywhacker? It'd seem ironic to give a man a good sized slip 'n slide and then not let him use it.
Sadly it seems God can't do anything for breasts. If you've got small bazoombas that's just the way God made you.
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Wow! I banish myself and then I come back and find out hell froze over! I want you to know, there were only four threads I read in my too temporary reprieve, and this was one of them. And I'm stunned! And happy for you.
Congratulations and I hope it is everything and more for you that it has been for me.
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quote: You already know, Katie, that I'm not exactly thrilled about your Hatrack mission work.
Tom, what did you mean by this? That you don't like kat doing missionary work on the board itself? Are the threads in which people ask questions about LDS theology getting too numerous, you mean? (Those aren't started by kat, though.) Or you don't like her doing missionary work among hatrackers, people she met through hatrack? If that's what it means then may I ask why not? Are you thinking that people are being coerced in some way by kat's missionary work? Or are they making their own minds up? Making their own free choices? Is it people making their own minds up that you object to? That doesn't seem like you. Maybe this is just a jesting comment in passing and I am not seeing the joke or making more of it than it means. But this really puzzled me when I read it, and now a few days later it still does. Any thoughts?
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"Are you thinking that people are being coerced in some way by kat's missionary work?"
That would be a big, fat "yes." I'm sorry if it offends, but I think a forum situation like this one offers an excellent opportunity for effective but slightly coercive recruitment for ANY cause.
Edit: But, Anne Kate, you and I have a slightly different definition of "coercion" in this case, anyway. Arm-twisting and fingernail-prying are not in fact essential elements.
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How on earth do you define coercive in such a way as to include any of Kat's posts to this forum (at least since I got here)?
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Hey, there's no conspiracy theory involved. I'm just not a huge fan of Mormon evangelism, if only because it tends to be pervasive.
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What, no-one else was bothered by the fact that Katharina was actually telling Mack's missionaries the best way to approach her during their teaching sessions?
That's totally unfair cheating!
And I am just kidding, btw. At least mostly.
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quote: That said, we can drop it now; there is absolutely no way I can elaborate further without offending people I care about.
Tom, if you feel this subject is inappropriate for open Hatrack discussion, perhaps you shouldn't have brought it up in the first place. Posts: 7050 | Registered: Feb 2004
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BtL I didn't want to hurt your ego by not taking offense. I mean it took you a long time to type that and no one can talk about anything except something Tom wrote pages back.
Would you please corroborate for me that it was a general comment on religious promotion and not "brought to you by the Mormons"?
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Just a general comment on religious promotions, mormons seem very uninterested in my slub a dub. No worries.
I should really check what church they were promoting, I'll have to make sure I beat the bus (mind out of the gutter thanks) today so I can look a little more closely.
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Well, FWIW, Tom 'coerced' me into reading Tad Williams, Terry Pratchett, Steven Donaldson and George R.R. Martin.
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Quarter: 25 cents. Shrink appointment: more than you'd ever like to pay for. Making your shrink burst out laughing: priceless.
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speaking for myself, JB needs to stop being so uptight about what phrase is modifying which noun.
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Ah, I think I understand a little better now, Tom, thanks! I'm still a bit surprised that you have so little faith in Dave's and Mac's (and mine and Hobbes' and Yozhik's) own choices, and in their ability to decide to whom they want to talk and about what, and whether they really want to join any given church or not. I can't speak for the others, but I feel I am pretty stubborn and not easily coerced. Just ask my mom. I would venture to guess that about the rest of us as well.
If they have been coerced, then what about you? Were you a little bit brainwashed into believing as you do? Should we be concerned for you? <grins>
Of course, if they gave them Godiva chocolates, then no wonder! In that case I have only one question: Where are my chocolates?
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It totally wasn't me. I'm quite shocked by the laxity of missionaries in general concerning the candy payouts. I think we need some hearings into the matter.
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