|
» GC Stats |
Members: 329,759
Threads: 115,670
Posts: 2,205,205
|
| Welcome to our newest member, zryanusasd8848 |
|
 |
|
09-08-2005, 11:48 AM
|
|
Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Crescent City
Posts: 10,051
|
|
I saw these people all the time when I was in college. I very quickly learned that if I saw a pair of well-dressed young people walking around campus, I should avoid them.  Usually they'd accept a polite "no, I'm not interested" but some of them could get quite pushy. I once had to give a fake phone number - I wish I'd known about those "rejection" numbers you can give to guys at bars when you don't want to see them again. 
Haven't been bothered recently, though.
These people believe it is their job to go around talking to people and trying to save their souls. I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem when they won't take no for an answer.
__________________
AEΦ ... Multa Corda, Una Causa ... Celebrating Over 100 Years of Sisterhood
Have no place I can be since I found Serenity, but you can't take the sky from me...
Only those who risk going too far, find out how far they can go.
|
09-08-2005, 11:56 AM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 2,377
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by aephi alum
I wish I'd known about those "rejection" numbers you can give to guys at bars when you don't want to see them again.
|
Wait, what is this?
Complete hijack:
My cell phone has a different area code from the city I live in, so if a guy I'm not interested in asks for my number, I just give it to him without the area code. Can I help it if they just ASSUME that the area code is 512?
Ok, end hijack, thank you for your time. 
|
09-08-2005, 12:39 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 9,971
|
|
|
My boyfriend's dad is a pastor in a veeeeeeeeeeeery conservative Lutheran synod. The Jehovah's Witnesses are at their house ALL THE TIME because they get more "points" for converting a pastor. It's hilarious and he always jokes he's going to tell them his oldest son is dating a Catholic and see if they have any "cures" for it.
|
09-08-2005, 12:48 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary, Alberta - Canada
Posts: 3,190
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by ADqtPiMel
Jehovah's Witnesses used to come to our door all the time when I was younger. My mom would just tell them that we are Catholic and they would leave with a quickness.
|
Telling them I'm Catholic only seems to add fuel to the fire so to speak...
You can show them the Crucifix above the door, you can show them the photo of you being blessed by the Pope, you can show them the photo of your great uncle the Dominican Friar, and you can even show them the Latin Vulgate Bible in the front room - but still some of these folks will ask me if I've read the "Christian Bible" 
__________________
Λ Χ Α
University of Toronto Alum
EE755
"Cave ab homine unius libri"
|
09-08-2005, 01:01 PM
|
|
Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Crescent City
Posts: 10,051
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Lindz928
Wait, what is this?
Complete hijack:
My cell phone has a different area code from the city I live in, so if a guy I'm not interested in asks for my number, I just give it to him without the area code. Can I help it if they just ASSUME that the area code is 512?
Ok, end hijack, thank you for your time.
|
They're phone numbers that you can give out to people you don't want to see again. If/when they try to call you, they get a prerecorded rejection message. There are a few services.
ETA: Oddly enough, this thread in the Zeta Phi Beta forum, about the rejection numbers, just got bumped...
</hijack>
__________________
AEΦ ... Multa Corda, Una Causa ... Celebrating Over 100 Years of Sisterhood
Have no place I can be since I found Serenity, but you can't take the sky from me...
Only those who risk going too far, find out how far they can go.
Last edited by aephi alum; 09-08-2005 at 01:03 PM.
|
09-08-2005, 01:26 PM
|
 |
Super Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Counting my blessings!
Posts: 31,422
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Here we go again.... Yet another let's gripe and spread miss-information about Christianity thread.
Peace..... SMH 
|
The dreaded "cosign"!
Btw, you'd just love my street! The Mormon Mission House is 3 blocks away to the north, and the Jehovah Witness' Temple is about a half mile to the southwest! Having grown up with friends who are both, I usually invite them in for stimulating conversation. They usually can't wait to leave! 
Knowing your scriptures is the best way to handle them!
__________________
~ *~"ADPi"~*~
♥Proud to be a Macon Magnolia ♥
"He who is not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
|
09-08-2005, 01:44 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 2,377
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by aephi alum
They're phone numbers that you can give out to people you don't want to see again. If/when they try to call you, they get a prerecorded rejection message. There are a few services.
ETA: Oddly enough, this thread in the Zeta Phi Beta forum, about the rejection numbers, just got bumped...
</hijack>
|
Wow, I so need some of those numbers lol. Thanks!
|
09-08-2005, 03:16 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Who you calling "boy"? The name's Hand Banana . . .
Posts: 6,984
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Here we go again.... Yet another let's gripe and spread miss-information about Christianity thread.
Peace..... SMH
|
Honeykiss, no one's spreading misinformation . . . we're spreading factual information, about assholes that go door-to-door to insult my intelligence and question my faith. What's so 'misinformed' about discussing these douche bags?
|
09-08-2005, 04:14 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 5,718
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by valkyrie
Why does anybody think it's okay to try to "convert" someone else to his or her religion? I think it's incredibly disrespectful.
|
What Valkyrie said. I usually just tell the people to leave my property immediately and that they are not to return, or I will ask the police to come and arrest them for trespassing.
Sure, it's a tad heavy-handed, but it must have worked because they haven't come back either.
|
09-08-2005, 07:00 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: On your nearest moniter waiting to be called a b*tch
Posts: 609
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Here we go again.... Yet another let's gripe and spread miss-information about Christianity thread.
Peace..... SMH
|
Now you know how Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Wiccans, and others feel.
Imperial1
__________________
I ain't here often. Eff a siggy.
|
09-08-2005, 10:11 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: In the deep south (and there's no place I'd rather be)
Posts: 433
|
|
|
My freshman year at Clemson we would have a guy (not sure what his affliation was) who would stand out in Cox Plaza with a microphone and talk about how all girls that attended Clemson were whores and sluts because of the way we dressed and then he'd talk about how bad alcohol was and how basically everyone at the university was going to Hell. He would even talk about certain people he saw walking by.
The Frat quad was right near Cox plaza so my exbf (who is a Phi Tau) and his brothers would get drunk and go down there and egg the guy on. It was a riot.
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
