NationStates Jolt Archive

"All teenagers are dogmatists; a teenager with a Bible is simply a more intense teenager. I relished being a prophet without honor in my own homeroom. Not long after I was saved, I took an old sweatshirt and wrote "Property of Jesus" on it with permanent Magic Marker and wore it to class. I then asked a friend to make me a large leather cross, which I wore around my neck every day, just so people knew where I stood. I prowled the school halls with a leatherbound Scofield Reference Bible tucked under my arm, looking for victims. I even took on teachers, whose skepticism struck me as a sign of spiritual degeneracy. I disarmed them with a little Scripture, skewered them with the sharpened tip of my logical modus ponens, shaking their foundations and preparing them for salvation. I was doing them a favor." - Mark Lilla

"A small mind is a tidy mind"
"The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal"
"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
"Innocence proves nothing"

All from 40K. They're so cool.

LOL! The words of a teenaged zealot... Pretty funny.

One of my favorites has been...

"Yes, I would be honored to run over your cat."

You must be one of those people who stop me on the street and try to get me to "take Jesus into my heart". I must say that I find these self-appointed missionaries to be annoying to the extreme but the good person will grit their teeth and try not to do something rash. Those people are worse than panhandlers.

"i may be schizophrenic, but at least i have each other!"


the english kid

You must be one of those people who stop me on the street and try to get me to "take Jesus into my heart". I must say that I find these self-appointed missionaries to be annoying to the extreme but the good person will grit their teeth and try not to do something rash. Those people are worse than panhandlers.

'Self -appointed missionaries'? As opposed to what? Christians by definition should be missionaries (The Great Commission), so what's wrong with Christians on the street trying to get you to accept Jesus? It annoys you? I think a little time spent talking with them may be worth the salvation you'd be missing out on.

"There is pleasure, sure, in being mad, which none but madmen know." -John Dryden

You must be one of those people who stop me on the street and try to get me to "take Jesus into my heart". I must say that I find these self-appointed missionaries to be annoying to the extreme but the good person will grit their teeth and try not to do something rash. Those people are worse than panhandlers.

I find the reply, "I'm a Satanist." usually gets rid of them pretty quick.

BTW - not actually a Satanist, but have a healthy respect for their religion. Especially above sanctimonious holier-than-thou type Christianity.

I never get into a battle of wits with an unarmed man! -Groucho Marx

so what's wrong with Christians on the street trying to get you to accept Jesus? It annoys you? I think a little time spent talking with them may be worth the salvation you'd be missing out on.

But I am not missing out on salvation, I am continuing my cycle of rebirth.
The fact that they have to get out there and try to convert people and force their beliefs on others shows that their religion sees itself as superior, so in essence its saying that you are worse than them because you don't believe that religion. From this intolerance, much suffering continues.

But I am not missing out on salvation, I am continuing my cycle of rebirth.
The fact that they have to get out there and try to convert people and force their beliefs on others shows that their religion sees itself as superior, so in essence its saying that you are worse than them because you don't believe that religion. From this intolerance, much suffering continues.

Go to hell, preachy. :D

But I am not missing out on salvation, I am continuing my cycle of rebirth.
The fact that they have to get out there and try to convert people and force their beliefs on others shows that their religion sees itself as superior, so in essence its saying that you are worse than them because you don't believe that religion. From this intolerance, much suffering continues.

Well, everyone sees their religion as superior which is why they follow it!

"If it weren't for pick-pockets, I'd have no sex life at all"

I dunno who said it but it's funny!

The fact that they have to get out there and try to convert people and force their beliefs on others shows that their religion sees itself as superior, so in essence its saying that you are worse than them because you don't believe that religion.
No, they don't consider themselves superior, though they obviously consider their religion as the true religion (Who doesn't consider their own religion true?)
They are trying to "force their beliefs" because they believe that you will go to a place of torture if you don't believe. All they are doing is trying to help, not telling everyone how superior they are.

No, they don't consider themselves superior, though they obviously consider their religion as the true religion (Who doesn't consider their own religion true?)
They are trying to "force their beliefs" because they believe that you will go to a place of torture if you don't believe. All they are doing is trying to help, not telling everyone how superior they are.Read through it again. They may not be flaunting their superiority consciously, but in the end, their arguement is that the non-believer is wrong because they don't agree that what the believer read in a book written by people long dead is the truth. They may not say it, but they sure are implying that they are superior, and they're usually so convinced that they don't notice.

I find the reply, "I'm a Satanist." usually gets rid of them pretty quick.
I usually start singing 'Hare Hare Krishna'. That gets rid of 'em as well.

"Sic Vis Pacem Para Bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war"
- The Punisher

"Frank, you could never be "The Ugly American" - you're overqualified!"
- Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda), M.A.S.H.

"If it weren't for pick-pockets, I'd have no sex life at all"

I dunno who said it but it's funny!


Along similar lines

"The closest I ever got to doing it was when that bus conductor sneezed on me!
Talk about the green line!"
- Richard Richard (Rik Mayall), "Smells", from the TV series "Bottom"

"When I was a kid, our family was so poor. We were so poor that, when it was Christmas time, my dad asked me what I want for Christmas, and I said "Something to play with and something to wear", so he bought me a pair of trousers and cut some holes in the pockets"
- the late Maori comedian Billy T. James

"Cogit ergo doleo"
-I think, therefore I am depressed

"All teenagers are dogmatists; a teenager with a Bible is simply a more intense teenager. I relished being a prophet without honor in my own homeroom. Not long after I was saved, I took an old sweatshirt and wrote "Property of Jesus" on it with permanent Magic Marker and wore it to class. I then asked a friend to make me a large leather cross, which I wore around my neck every day, just so people knew where I stood. I prowled the school halls with a leatherbound Scofield Reference Bible tucked under my arm, looking for victims. I even took on teachers, whose skepticism struck me as a sign of spiritual degeneracy. I disarmed them with a little Scripture, skewered them with the sharpened tip of my logical modus ponens, shaking their foundations and preparing them for salvation. I was doing them a favor." - Mark Lilla


hahahaha

I've nothing that insporational, someone once said to me
Death comes when hope dies' a bit sappy but I like it!

I think a little time spent talking with them may be worth the salvation you'd be missing out on.


There is no possible manner to argue with a Christian in a "little" amount of time. I could spend days, maybe weeks, trying to explain the true concept of a theory and still get: "Dude, evolution is only a theory"

In the end no one wins and we only end up more bitter than before.

:mp5: :sniper: :sniper:

Bush is the Antichirst.

And so are you, Eutrusca!

:mp5: :mp5:

"Life. Don't talk to me about life."
-- Marvin, Paranoid Android.

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.

H.P. Lovecraft

"Life sucks."
"Compared to what?"

-- My reply to a friend. He didn't have a good answer.

"Doubt was the beginning of wisdom. Fear of God is the end of it."
--W. Somerset Maugham

"If you understood what I said, you'd be me."
--Miles Davis

"Disassemble: that means 'to lie'."
--Smilin' George Bush

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."

--P. T. Barnum

"You can fool some of the people some of the time and jerk the rest off."

--Robin Williams

"The CIA has a plan to deal with Osama bin Laden -- the problem is that they're having a hard time convincing him to fly to Dallas."

--Bill Hicks (paraphrased/updated -- original subject was Saddam Hussein)

"Its so simple to be wise- just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it"-- Sam Levenson

'A green thought in a green shade' - Andrew Marvell

"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
-Dr. Latimer before his and Dr. Ridley's deaths. Foxe's Book of Martyrs
-Fahreinheit 451, Ray Bradbury*

*-I love that book... :)

"I grew up a poor black child in the ghetto..." Steve Martin

"A small mind is a tidy mind"
"The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal"
"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
"Innocence proves nothing"

All from 40K. They're so cool.
Seconded all the 40K thoughts for the day are cool.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -Bill.

"Woman was God’s second mistake."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."

"If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent - that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."

-Nietzsche

I always get those jesus people as I call them on the street it's so fucking annoying most of the time I try to be civilised and say I have no time for this and if they're pushy I either tell them to fuck off or stick there "salvation" up there ass.but sometimes I have time and sit down and listen to them then when they're done I explain the merits of satanism,boy do those jesus people squirm