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SubjectRe: OT:Christianity
FromJohn McCafferty
Date2002-06-01 16:32 (2002-06-01 09:32)
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<pmhilton@mfx.net>wrote in message news:3CDB8A59.596549C5@mfx.net...

pmhilton@mfx.net
"T.T. Arvind" wrote::

?jevind L?ng
Stare at them and say you are a Buddhist.

T.T. Arvind
I have found giving long discourses on Vedantic ontology to be quite effective as well. .... Of course, having once been a practising

lawyer, I can

usually manage to outtalk anyone.

Cheers,

Meneldil

pmhilton@mfx.net
I assume you mean the door-to-door "salvation" types. I tell them I'm a

Zen Druid.

If that doesn't phaze them, I turn into a Devout Agnostic. Usually works.

Yours in the north Maine woods, Pete Hilton aka The Ent

-- The best things in life are not things. anon.

I am polite to people from what I consider to be "legitimate" churches, tell them I am doing ok with my own beliefs, and things are usually all right. I may even tell them that if they leave a church schedule, I'll give it to anybody I meet up with who might be interested. HOWEVER!!!! One of these days, when some missionary from one of these nut cults (again, from whatever I myself see fit to call a "nut cult") approaches me .... (if anybody has already done this, let me know how well it worked). I am going to make various hand movements that can be interpreted as warding signs or conjuration passes, while saying something like ; "Aye, an ye devine the future by the numbers in ye text of yond holy writ? THEN HAIL TO YE, SORCERER!! Have ye got the sign? Aye sorcerer, and heed the prophesy of Alhazrad too! Know ye that the day draws nigh when Great Cthulhu shal rise from ye sunken city of R'yleth, and be ye ready! Have ye got the sign? For Yog-Sothoth shall bring his globes, as Nyarlathotep howls forth from ye darkness wherin he abides. Have ye got the sign, sorcerer?" and so on, in this tone .... (Lovecraft seemed a bit more suited to this sort of thing than Tolkien). Unfortunately, while this may disturb these door-to-door people, I don't think it will disturb the sacreligious brainwash artists that have programmed them and sent them out.

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