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Old 07-18-2018, 08:21 AM
 
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They are a cult of mentally ill people that have been brainwashed, they don't listen to reason/logic.
Sounds like my employer.
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Old 07-18-2018, 10:48 AM
 
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They are a cult of mentally ill people that have been brainwashed, they don't listen to reason/logic.
I'm certain this is precisely what they think about you and is the reason why they keep coming to your house.
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Old 07-18-2018, 10:54 AM
 
Location: Salt Lake City
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Mormons are having a tough time with their suits in this heat, on the bicycles.
I don't know where you live, but I'm surprised that if it's that hot, they are being expected to wear suits. Most mission presidents would not insist upon that.
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Old 07-18-2018, 01:39 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Great advice, but it's not that easy. They do not like to take "no" for an answer. Maybe you could just put a sign out on your door when you know they are in the neighborhood. Back here on the east coast, they usually park their car and a couple of them get out and start walking door to door.
I think the worst proselytizers are Suburu drivers.
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Old 07-18-2018, 04:44 PM
 
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Trump Derangement Syndrome...everywhere you look.
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Old 08-23-2018, 11:18 PM
 
Location: my Mind Palace
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I usually engage with them to tell them why their religion is wrong. It's fun for me.
Ugh. That's not being respectful of free choice, either. If you expect to be treated with respect, you should expect to give it. Their believing what they do doesn't bother me. I don't know why it bothers you. Or why you feel this overwhelming need to tell them they're wrong. Obviously you don't like being told you are wrong so that makes you a hypocrite and no better than the thing you're complaining about.

I don't mind religious people in my neighborhood even if they're not the same religion/denomination as me.
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Old 08-23-2018, 11:21 PM
 
Location: my Mind Palace
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I just tell them that I'm part of the only church sanctioned by Jesus Christ himself, the rock upon which Peter built the early church. They don't like it, but then I can tell them thousands of years of history and actually tell them how there church was founded and why it sidestepped some fundamental concepts in the bible.
I guess then you also have to mention why so much has changed and why Vatican II pretty much got rid of the Latin Mass and head coverings, why Holy Days of obligation were changed to accommodate people's modern schedules and why maybe so many Catholics don't know any novenas or even what a Scapular is but please go ahead and boast about how you follow the True Church and how all of them are wrong.

The love seems to be missing.
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Old 08-23-2018, 11:27 PM
 
Location: my Mind Palace
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They are a cult of mentally ill people that have been brainwashed, they don't listen to reason/logic.
We've all been brainwashed, though. Take a look at what you believe and where it all came from. It didn't come from the ether, it came from other people and their influences and beliefs. Just because you pick and choose your master doesn't mean you aren't brainwashed. We are constantly exposed to advertising that intrusively demands we eat this or buy that. We believe a "diamond is forever" and the size of it is directly proportional to the love between spouses or integrity of the marriage. (You can thank DeBeers for that one.) We believe having a Rolex means you're worth something more than someone who doesn't. We judge each other constantly based on criteria we have bought into. It's all fed to us and we go right along with it and when someone doesn't, we attack them and call them an idiot or a loser for being different.

Everything in your life, every decision you make is influenced by another person.
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Old 08-24-2018, 09:20 AM
 
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It bothers me because they waste MY Time knocking on my door to spread their mental illness.
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Old 08-24-2018, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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I guess then you also have to mention why so much has changed and why Vatican II pretty much got rid of the Latin Mass and head coverings, why Holy Days of obligation were changed to accommodate people's modern schedules and why maybe so many Catholics don't know any novenas or even what a Scapular is but please go ahead and boast about how you follow the True Church and how all of them are wrong.
All you have to understand is that the Pope has God’s power of attorney.
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