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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| McGenghis wrote: |
| This is usually done with Mormons, but apparently asking them how magnets work is a pretty good system. |
Okay, I'm game. Why would this boggle Mormons? Brigham Young University is kind of highly ranked, including for scientific research.
Perhaps you're confusing them for another group? |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| They target apartment buildings that are for singles, which the vast majority of foreigners here teaching English are in. I used to be harassed regularly by a variety of religious door-knockers. I moved elsewhere and they disappeared. |
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McGenghis
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Gangneung
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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CentralCali: I am not confusing the Mormons with another group. Also, I am not accusing them of being in the dark with regards to the basic laws of physics.
I am simply a denizen of the internet. Also, I own a horse. |
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computermichael
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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I'd love to meet some Mormon ICP fans.
I do agree with the person who said that Watchtower is good to read. I always take their magazines even though I am a complete jerk to them. I like the articles that are always about some person who was a total badass cool dude, living on the edge of society and the law, but became a JW and found the way. Most of the articles wouldn't even strike me as overtly religious if I weren't reading them in the context of being in the JW magazine.
The thing that strikes me about JWs more than anything and really makes them cross the threshold of brainwashed creepiness is their opposition to blood transfusions and other wild inventions of medical science. A lot of my family are JWs, so maybe I am biased, but two of my aunts kids died as children because she wouldn't let them get blood transfusions. Good old Pennsylvania even took one into its custody for awhile when my aunt was about to make a hat trick.
Most of them are as normal as anybody else and even friendlier. I've even been to their Kingdom Hall and grew up with a disproportionate number of them, but then there are these times that scarcely come when I believe that there is an evolved reptilian entity controlling them all through telepathy. It wouldn't surprise me if they all go Heavan's Gate someday because I think a lot of them would be willing to kill themselves if they'll let their children die, but I don't know if they're that far along. |
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Italy37612
Joined: 25 Jan 2010
Location: Somewhere
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| Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| McGenghis wrote: |
| Also, I own a horse. |
Disconnect |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| I worked up a good loathing for them in high school when a friend of mine was having a major life crisis because she wanted to go to university and her family's religion (JW) was against it. What kind of jerk religion opposes women getting a post-secondary education? |
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jrwhite82
Joined: 22 May 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| What kind of jerk religion opposes women getting a post-secondary education? |
Probably pretty much all of them at some point in time have. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| I have seen some in Dongdaemun and they asked me specifically where other foreigners lived. Personally I thought this to be very rude since most foreigners would not disclose whether others live. I just said "no" and walked away. |
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dongjak
Joined: 30 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| Ask Mormons about marshmallowing. |
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computermichael
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| dongjak wrote: |
| Ask Mormons about marshmallowing. |
I searched for "Mormon marshmallowing" on google and read that it's a game that Mormon bachelorettes play wherein they see how many marshmallows they can shove in their mouths while saying funny words like "chubby bunny" or "horny Mormon." Then I tried urbandictionary.com, which said that it's what I've come to know as "motor boating," but I don't think that definition has anything to do with Mormons.
I don't think their religion is any more messed up than mainstream Christianity. They've just done all of the things that mainstream Christianity is criticized for in the span of a couple hundred years. I find their history to be very interesting and full of intrepid pioneers who lived lives fraught with high adventure and disregard for the government and mainstream society. I've always dreamed of leading a band of pioneers into the desert, where I could have my own nation-state with as many wives as I wanted, beholden to nobody.
Anyway, when comparing Mormons to mainstream Christians, I don't find any of their beliefs to be any more or less ridiculous. Of course, there are some people who broke away to keep their wives, but that's a small minority. JWs are way crazier in comparison. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:04 am Post subject: |
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Yes.
They figure if you can be talked into coming to Korea to live and work...  |
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