Nothing against Mormons, but I really enjoyed this:
http://www.break.com/index/door_to_door_atheists_bother_mormons.html
:bravo:
Ha ha ha!
Readings from XTC! Superb!
:bravo:
HG
too funny.
Heās got a right to complain about being bothered early in the morning on Saturday (although he exaggerated when he said 8am, since Mormon missionaries donāt leave their residence before 9:30am).
However, there is a critical difference between what this guy did and what Mormons and other evangelical denominations do:
Missionaries from whatever church believe their message is essential to your happiness. If they donāt share it with you, youāll have less happiness or maybe youāll be damned to hell. (Depends on what church is doing the preaching.)
If it were something like a bomb that would kill everyone and someone went around door to door warning everyone, it would be perfectly fine. And if twenty different people knocked on your door and told you about it, you still wouldnāt be too upset with them.
But this guy was a hypocritical prick. He explicitly said he didnāt care what people believe, so he wasnāt out to help any poor misled Mormons. He was just out to bother people and to make his āpointā.
His sarcasm was funny, but his actions show he cares about other people a lot less than those Mormons who knocked on his door before lunch time.
The series that this was taken from āJohn Safran vs Godā is actually very entertaining TV
In the last episode he travels to the USA and goes through an exorcismā¦
It got a lot of press when it first aired on Aussie TV
This is wonderful!
I didnāt appreciate the way he talked about Benji movies like they were bad or something. :fume:
Normally I donāt like being accosted on the MRT by people who are curious about foreigners, but once or twice Iāve been asked by a group of students if they could interview me for an English assignment. I donāt blame the students for thisāit was their idiot teacher who told them to go out and find a foreigner to talk to. Theyāre just doing what theyāre told to do.
If youāre looking to blame someone for missionaries knocking on your door, blame the church organization that sends these boys out and requires them to harass strangers all day. Like most people in sales, cold calling aināt exactly their favorite activity. A simple āThanks, Iām not interestedā will do. No need to get the royal underpants into a bunch.
[quote=āR. Daneel Olivawā]But this guy was a hypocritical prick. He explicitly said he didnāt care what people believe, so he wasnāt out to help any poor misled Mormons. He was just out to bother people and to make his āpointā.
His sarcasm was funny, but his actions show he cares about other people a lot less than those Mormons who knocked on his door before lunch time.[/quote]
Donāt take it too seriously, now!!! 
That sounds like John Safran alright. 
Funny though! In another episode of that TV series, he actually went to the UK Shariah court to get a Muslim cleric to put a fatwa (like a curse) on a rival Australian TV show host. 
At least heās not discriminating against any one religion or anything - everyone got a serve in that series.
Heās obviously never been to Taiwan ā¦ here they start bashing drums and blowing flutes at 6.30 ā¦ but the Mormons never banged on my door that early ā¦
Funny, and we should go all to Salt Lake City and spread the word of Darwin ā¦
[quote=ābelgian pieā]Heās obviously never been to Taiwan ā¦ here they start bashing drums and blowing flutes at 6.30 [/quote]5.30am here this morning, anything I can do about these daoist terrorists ?
Silly me, this is Taiwan.
Umā¦ Iām I the only one who remembers Darwinās true message? He really and truly believed in God. He never believed that his work as the opposite or counter to Godās, he thought them to be one and the same. He delayed publishing his books and cut them from many volumes to the one we know today because he was afraid people would wrongly use it as a weapon against God. Good to know he was right 
Then god must have been chinese ā¦ the universe is actually one big firecracker ā¦ 
[quote=āChickenā]Umā¦ Iām I the only one who remembers Darwinās true message? He really and truly believed in God. He never believed that his work as the opposite or counter to Godās, he thought them to be one and the same. He delayed publishing his books and cut them from many volumes to the one we know today because he was afraid people would wrongly use it as a weapon against God. Good to know he was right [/quote] Youāre right, of course, though I wasnāt sure what this comment was doing in this thread until I went back to the previous page and saw this by Belgian Pie:[quote=ābelgian pieā]Funny, and we should go all to Salt Lake City and spread the word of Darwin ā¦[/quote]Since Darwinās time, various very intelligent scientists and theologians have argued against the science/Christianity split. But it does seem that quite a few people on both sides arenāt listening!
However, this is nothing to do with Mormons, of whom I know very little. The Mormon missionaries seem generally friendly and not overly pushy to me. As Tomas says,[quote=āTomasā]A simple āThanks, Iām not interestedā will do.[/quote]
And, though Iām not keen on the idea of mission work in general, R. Daneelās quite right:[quote=āR. Daneel Olivawā]Missionaries from whatever church believe their message is essential to your happiness.[/quote]
If any of these prank missionary activities are to take place, perhaps they would be better played on the advertising agencies who constantly bombard us with their cynical exhortations to look after number one and find happiness in commercial rubbish.
I was just commenting on what he said in the video ā¦ being sarcastic, but thatās something that not all people understand ā¦
Great video. Love the idea.
I actually thought the bit before he went door to door was funnier than the actual Salt Lake City footage though.
Being a ādescendent of Cainā tends to keep the Mormons away. In a country where the vast majority of Taiwanese people gawk at me, itās nice to be almost violently ignored by Mormons.
sounds cool, where do i sign up?
sounds cool, where do i sign up?[/quote]
I might be wrong, but I think the cut-off for membership is at conception.
Iām destined for eternal damnation in Mormon hell*, but at least I got a natural ability to dance and grow an afro out of the deal.
*(Provided that, in the great religious free-for-all boxing match of eternal salvation, they turn out to be the winners.)
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Iām destined for eternal damnation in Mormon hell*, but at least I got a natural ability to dance and grow an afro out of the deal.
*(Provided that, in the great religious free-for-all boxing match of eternal salvation, they turn out to be the winners.)[/quote]
i think you got the better end of the deal.