Odd Man Out: Living in a World of the Religiously Insane

by cameo-d 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  Twitch

  I have encountered the occassional Jesus Freak through the years. I never paid them any attention--still don't. But it just seems to be more prevalent now than what I have seen in the past. Does anyone else notice this?

  Perhaps a bit more prevalent, due to an increased media presence especially in music and TV. At the same time, I don't think people as a whole are as "traditional" in beliefs as they used to be. So perhaps it depends on where you live.

  The Jesus Freaks are annoying but they don't bother me anymore. I just laugh them off or if I choose to engage them, I make a point of dismissing them as they would do to any unrepentant sinner such as myself, sometimes to the point of being obnoxious. It's quite fun sometimes actually. Dumbasses.

  But your mileage may vary.
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  ziddina

  Huh! I used to work for a company - and I'm going to NAME NAMES - "Hatch's Distributors" here in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.....

  The entire family were 'fundies' - following some special preacher with no specific denomination that I could determine...

  Plaques with religious sayings and bible quotes all over the office. The owners almost NEVER paid their bills - I worked in the accounts payables department, and [with their primitive bookeeping system] they had two SHOEBOXES full of checks - that's standing UPRIGHT in the boxes, lengthwise, btw... Totalling around $700,000 worth of MONEY THEY OWED OTHER PEOPLE which they hadn't yet mailed...

  Some of the checks were almost a year old... I joked with my non-Christian co-worker that I wanted to put up a plaque - one that simply said, "Romans 13: 8" and see how long it took them to get the hint... ["Do not be owing anybody anything...."]

  One time some nutcase from their church [that they had working for them] cornered me in the lunchroom, shouting, "Have you ACCEPTED GEEE-ZUZ!!!" I said something like 'yes' [i was still a beaten JW at that point] and skiddled out of there...

  On reflection that night, I wished I'd replied something like, "No, I'm a Hare Krishna!" and danced out of the lunch room, shouting "Woo! Wooo!" all the way... See! I was a 'devil', even when I was a JW! Zid