A message of thanks to sciforums

I have just been going about my day, and was accosted by a couple of religious nutters from the mormon church. But thanks to sciforums, now armed with the contents of the religion forum, i utterly and totally destroyed there attemps to brainwash me. So many thanks to everybody who has posted here.

Has anybody else had a situation where sciforums really did come to their aid? :m:

 

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Nope.

 

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Last night on the shitter- this place is a stool softener.

 

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What did you say? I am rather interested.

 

I sometimes need [like, you know, so, duh] to learn new English words -- and here's a place I can ask people.

 

I was bored out of my mind befor I found this place, and now I can talk to people without them asking what I said.

 

yea

 

I am generally an uneducated home-grown creep. Sciforums helped me to look into the world.

It's a quick way to learn the basics and details on any subject in an entertaining manner.

 

Site Feedback? Did the mod actually read this thread before moving it? Shit, I don't know. Maybe it fits.

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:m:

 

I kinda does.

P.S., out of curiosity, did any of my posts help, in particular?

 

I hope my posts were of some miserable use to someone.
I have my favorite posters, who inform the most and bring some reason to this nuthouse.... Won't name any....

 

They seemed intent on recuiting me too their cult. I just remembered some of the withering, witty, and eloquent threads in the religon forum. They were creationist, but after a while one of them had to agree that the case for evoloution was so much more rational than their creationist stance. At one stage my girlfriend told me there were a few people standing and listening with some amusement at the sight of these two poor sods being verbally battered by me.
The conversation ended when i suggested they should really be in a pub drinking beer, smoking grass, and getting laid and then coming with me too my covern of the " hedonists for satan" meeting where we drop loads of acid on a monday night just to start the week off nicely, instead of accosting people in the streets wearing a suit and sporting very nice side parted haircuts talking bollox. ( why do mormons all have the same haircut?)

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Sciforums helped me, because it got me through lots of boring moments at work, and also the finns are not exactly known for their desire to communicate extensively. I got part of my daily need here.

that is it basically

 

work,

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i wish i had a job

 

No worries. I am out of a job in september. Then we are equal.

 

Ah, Mormons. a housemate of mine (ex Catholic) got accosted by a couple of mormons way back when. He enjoyed debating them so much he brought his prey back to the lair for us cubs to play with. I should mention, he had a PhD in Physics, so did the other guy I shared with, I did a degree in it, and was their lab/IT tech, so these poor suckers were in for a really hard time.

After we wore one out (her 'Mission' was up and she had to go home) we got another who was clearly confused about the whole thing but believed it anyway. After a few months, we got a visit from a Mormon elder, who's arguments we tore to shreds. The missionaries then stopped coming, I guess the elder thought we were a lost cause. And he was right!

It was always fun offering them a coffee when they arrived.

I still have a copy of 'The Book of Mormon' that they gave us, in a box somewhere. It's a crap read.

 

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i have sunken to the level of spuriousmonkey

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actually, hes sinking to his level, due to the fact that you dont have a job before him. thus, you are lower than the monkey. sorry.

 

And I don't feel bad about not having a job in september. It is actually planned. I could have a job.

I'm going on an extended holiday. Several months or so.

 

I'll keep it short since it's a story I've probably littered all over the place around here.

Once upon a time, I was rumbling with ... well, an idiot who claimed to be Christian. He was the kind of poster that makes you wish for a God to exist so you could be there when the guy stood for Judgment in order to take perverse pleasure at the look on his face when he discovered that his life of faith was for naught.

I went out to the porch for a smoke when two Jehovah's Witnesses showed up. Irony abounded. Since I had been arguing something vaguely related to transubstantiation I mentioned it in some context of a reply to their inquiries about my standing with the Lord. The older guy, the one obviously in charge, got this look on his face.

Long story short: the guy in charge was a former Catholic from Germany, and he basically understood from the word "transubstantiation" that he would serve the Lord better by walking on to the next house, and essentially sought to terminate the conversation without rushing out unpleasantly. His courtesy was remarkable, to say the least. His younger cohort couldn't quite pronounce the word, or maybe that's just me mythicizing the tale. I do recall, though, that as they went away, he was asking the older something that essentially amounted to, "Why are we leaving before making the pitch?"

I had been neck-deep in my own research, so unfortunately I can't hand that episode to anyone else. But of anything I could have been researching for a Sciforums discussion, I can't imagine what would have been more effective than transubstantiation.

(As a side note to anyone who's read that tale before in my posts ... I haven't even gone back to see how much it's changed with each telling. But if you ever want to see the manufacture of a myth in progress, perhaps we should go back someday and dig up all the versions of the story I've told around here. Someday I intend to film the scene, but it will be mutated even more in pursuit of an essentialist adaptation. And at that point, the sense of myth will be at least concretized.