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Peter Jackson · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

I saw the other thread about annoying Christians but decided to start a new thread.

This is because I'm not really sure if the Church of God people can even be classified as Christians...

I happened to meet some woman at a bus terminal near my home. I am usually quite friendly to Koreans and am always interested in meeting new people. She seemed nice enough and she didn't mention anything about Jesus. If she had, the conversation would have ended there. I was raised in a Christian tradition, no longer practice, and have come to have some problems with the things I was taught. I am still open to religion but the idea of people trying to convert anyone to anything really irks me...especially cornering folks at bus terminals as often the "victims" become a captive audience as they can't really leave the area when they're waiting for a bus.

We talked for awhile, exchanged numbers, and I was on my way. Her English was poor, my Korean even more so, but I figured it might even turn into a language exchange or whatever...

I got a few texts over the next few days so I thought I would invite her to lunch. She agreed and we set up at time and a meeting place.

When I went to meet her, she was unfashionably late. I called to see if she was going to turn up and she said she would be there in about 5 minutes. She shows up about 20 minutes later with a bunch of her girlfriends. Alright, but I'm hoping were "going Dutch".

We hop in her car and head off somewhere. I started to get suspicious when we stopped at what looked like to be a private house. As we're walking up the stairs I was thinking, " I hope they aren't from the freaking Church of God!!" (I had met some before in another city several years ago).

Sure enough we go to the "upper room" where a bunch of sheep are milling around, pointing, smiling at the captive white guy. No one looks particularly friendly.

The meal consisted of side dishes and rice, not my favorite, and I was really regretting being there. Then the clincher: after lunch (we had to rush!) there would be a video. Oh no there won't!

I said I had to go back in 30 minutes for a meeting with my principal. They all insisted I stay. Not a chance. The woman even offered to call my boss to let him know. Good luck...

What bugged me about it was the sneakiness of it. I guess they have so little confidence to just up and say what they're about that they feel the need to be so underhanded. I had invited HER to lunch and now I'm making excuses to get out of a place I had no desire to be!!

Since then several others have approached me with BS smiles. Now I refuse to talk to any Korean in the area. "Oh but we have a survey....blah, blah, blah!" "Survey this!", I want to say, popping the bird.

A friend was also roped in by the same clowns. In her case one of her students invited her "somewhere" so she could get a present! Using your kid to lie to a teacher to drag them to a cult: pretty low.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

^ Is it, by any chance, a sex cult? Very Happy

kermo · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject:

I live in the same area, and I can testify-- these women are tireless! I was approached four times in three days, and often followed, whacked on the arm, or latched onto while waiting for someone. I don't know why they attack the foreigners particularly, given that most of them have less English than I have Korean.
I'm sorry about your spoiled friendship/date, PJ. That's just low.

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

You've been 'love bombed'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing

kermo · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:48 pm Post subject:

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

kermo · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

Nope. Just a hippie. I get a kick out of random acts of kindness.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Nah, that wasn't love bombing--it was flirty fishing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirty_Fishing

kermo · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject:

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

hahahahahahah Laughing

reconhottie · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

LOL
My husband and I were at the Immigration today, waiting for our turn. This lady sitting next to us introduces herself and pulls out a white envelope. i thought she was going to invite us to her wedding or something.
And then she opens the thing and there was an Invitation to the Church of God.
First thing that came out of my mouth was" ma'am we are orthodox, sorry" and then hubby told her we are going to the orthodox church. She backed out, really upset and moved to another chair Laughing

They can get really annoying when they come to your door. I told my hubby next time "his friends" show up, I'll go to the door holding a knife, maybe that'll get through to them Twisted Evil

Hollywoodaction · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

Thumbnail Postermonkey · Joined: 24 Jul 2006

AIGO....it sure does happen! Those that tell you otherwise are filthy carpetbagger liars and freaks.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

A friend, this guy she saw a couple times, the third date he invited her over for dinner. Third date, nudge nudge. She figured it would be an intimate romantic dinner.

She got there as he was setting up a whiteboard with the whole Amway spiel written on it...

Another time a software developer I worked with invited me over to his place to talk about a "business opportunity." Lots of software developers have side businesses going and if they need a writer, I'm usually the first one they call. Anyway, the "business opportunity" line instead of "side job" kind of set off a couple warning bells but he was Russian and maybe not 100% with the language.

Anyway, him and his wife laid out a nice dinner. No mention about the job over dinner. I wondered if this wasn't some way to lure me into a three way. The wife was cute. I'd not have refused.

Anyway, after dinner, he whips out the "kit"... some stupid multi level marketing thing for some Amway like products. Fah. I'm too polite to enjoy a nice steak dinner to just walk out...

I couldn't even figure out why this guy was into this crap. Him and his wife were senior software developers, pulling down large coin. And then they made out like bandits in the dot.com boom with their stock options. Did they really need to harass coworkers and friends to eek out an extra $500 a month?

flakfizer · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:05 am Post subject:

I appreciate the OP's feeling that it might not be fair to include this group in the thread about Christians. We have had some "church of god" ladies come to our apartment many times until my wife flatly told them to stop coming. Anyway, some of their basic beliefs fall well outside mainstream Christianity. They told my wife that she must worship on Saturdays rather then Sundays and that she has to observe the Passover. Not very New Testament. I looked them up and they have a website: http://english.watv.org/who/index.html I couldn't copy and paste from this site, but scroll down to section C, part 2 and you will read the following: