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Being stopped in the street to talk about "Jesus Christ".

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    #32
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I'm really not in the humour for dancing a pointless merryless dance with you.

    What about a slow dance instead?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2ICtCO8TCw


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    #33
    mstan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭mstan


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Em, no.

    Why not? You have an issue about religion that you want to discuss. Boards has a Religion Forum. Maybe you should try to use the correct f***ing forums from time to time.

    I cant believe that the Mods are doing so little while After Hours basically turns into the Religion subforum


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    #34
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Boxoffrogs wrote: »
    Normally I'm not amused when they approach but had to admire the balls on them.

    Tight jeans?


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    #35
    starbelgrade
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    landsleaving wrote: »
    What about a slow dance instead?

    OK. But no touching below the waist.


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    #36
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    mstan wrote: »
    Why not? You have an issue about religion that you want to discuss. Boards has a Religion Forum. Maybe you should try to use the correct f***ing forums from time to time.

    I cant believe that the Mods are doing so little while After Hours basically turns into the Religion subforum

    "God has no place within these (virtual) walls!"


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    #37
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    mstan wrote: »
    Why not? You have an issue about religion that you want to discuss. Boards has a Religion Forum. Maybe you should try to use the correct f***ing forums from time to time.

    I cant believe that the Mods are doing so little while After Hours basically turns into the Religion subforum


    This is AH, I choose to post here, so I can if I like. I wanted the opinions of people getting stopped be religious people, not the opinions of people in a religion based forum. It's a choice that I am entitled to make. What part of this do you not comprehend?


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    #38
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    mstan wrote: »
    Why not? You have an issue about religion that you want to discuss. Boards has a Religion Forum. Maybe you should try to use the correct f***ing forums from time to time.

    I cant believe that the Mods are doing so little while After Hours basically turns into the Religion subforum

    Alternately, if you see a thread in AH with a title you don't like....don't read it???


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    #39
    Cakes.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭Cakes.


    It's born again christians that stop me usually, a priest has never stopped me, it's usually some hipster scene kid.


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    #40
    Boxoffrogs
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    stimpson wrote: »
    Tight jeans?

    Unfortunately not, no


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    #41
    starbelgrade
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    I'm a born again virgin.


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    #42
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Cakesofrice wrote: »
    It's born again christians that stop you usually, a priest has never stopped me, it's usually some hipster scene kid.

    Hipster Jesus?


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    #43
    mstan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭mstan


    Sacramento wrote: »
    I wanted the opinions of people getting stopped be religious people, not the opinions of people in a religion based forum.

    Why not? These are obviously the people you have a problem with. Why not man up and face them with your grievance rather than b!tching behind their backs over in After Hours.


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    #44
    KittyeeTrix
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    mstan wrote: »
    Why not? These are obviously the people you have a problem with. Why not man up and face them with your grievance rather than b!tching behind their backs over in After Hours.

    Here we can have a laugh and a joke about it e.g talk about them wearing tight jeans and showing their balls...............Can't imagine that going down well in the SERIOUS religion forums....:)


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    #45
    Sonics2k
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    evercloserunion wrote: »
    I somehow doubt that. People who have the faith and conviction to go around preaching to people about God are not the kind of people who will change their minds on the subject after a five minute conversation with some randomer.

    Yet they expect people to do the same.

    Interesting.


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    #46
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    mstan wrote: »
    Why not? These are obviously the people you have a problem with.

    No, they aren't. If you read my posts, it's the people who stop me in the street and knock on my door that I have a problem with. Unless you're making some sort of assumption that the people in the religion forum do this.
    mstan wrote: »
    Why not man up and face them with your grievance rather than b!tching behind their backs over in After Hours.

    What is this I don't even...

    Ok that's it, I have no more troll food pall.


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    #47
    Sonics2k
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    mstan wrote: »
    Why not? You have an issue about religion that you want to discuss. Boards has a Religion Forum. Maybe you should try to use the correct f***ing forums from time to time.

    I cant believe that the Mods are doing so little while After Hours basically turns into the Religion subforum

    The issue was not about Religion directly, more about the people who stop you in the street to talk about.

    Oh and chill the hell out.


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    #48
    mstan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 286 ✭✭mstan


    fluffyorganic1 wrote: »
    Here we can have a laugh and a joke about it e.g talk about them wearing tight jeans and showing their balls...............Can't imagine that going down well in the SERIOUS religion forums....:)

    Yeah if it was a whimsical thread it would fit right into AH. But the OP has an issue and he/she wanted to "vent". But they took the coward approach of posting in After Hours rather than actually debating it with the people he is against in the Religion forum


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    #49
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    mstan wrote: »
    Yeah if it was a whimsical thread it would fit right into AH. But the OP has an issue and he/she wanted to "vent". But they took the coward approach of posting in After Hours rather than actually debating it with the people he is against in the Religion forum

    Well I'm shy, my sex has yet to be determined.


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    #50
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    mstan wrote: »
    Yeah if it was a whimsical thread it would fit right into AH. But the OP has an issue and he/she wanted to "vent". But they took the coward approach of posting in After Hours rather than actually debating it with the people he is against in the Religion forum

    And now you're venting back.

    So the circle of life is complete.


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    #51
    Mammanabammana
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    Sacramento wrote: »
    I know this will upset or annoy some people, but I have to vent somewhere...

    Why didn't you vent at them?


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    #52
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    It's funny how you never see atheists stopping people on the street to talk about the non-existence of God.

    That's cos they all do their evangelising in After Hours.


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    #53
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Mammanabammana wrote: »
    Why didn't you vent at them?

    Turning the other cheek was the Christian thing to do.


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    #54
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    Mammanabammana wrote: »
    Why didn't you vent at them?

    I did before but it was like talking to a smiling ignorant wall.


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    #55
    KittyeeTrix
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    Mammanabammana wrote: »
    Why didn't you vent at them?

    Some people I suppose just don't like to be rude or whatever to people........
    I'd be desperate bad trying to get off the phone with cold callers. My husband does laugh at me. Now I just say in a sing songy voice "No, but thank you for calling" before hanging up quickly when they ask me if I'd be interested in buying whatever they are selling.

    I'd be useless on the street with these "jesus guys":D


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    #56
    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    Sacramento wrote: »
    I did before but it was like talking to a smiling ignorant wall.

    Actually, yeah, that makes sense...I've had some experience of that patronising attitude that they have where they stand there treating you like a little child that hasn't been enlightened yet to the great knowledge they have. What I'VE found is that you can't win with them. Even if you agree with everything they say they just keep pushing and pushing their own point of view - "Did you go to mass today? Are you carrying a bible now?" etc...Jesus himself would probably not meet their standards.


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    #57
    kerash
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    A woman on henry street tried to give me weird dried flowers wrapped in tinfoil I dont know if it was a religious thing - but she got shoulder to shoulder with me and i felt she might try to rob me!
    So I told her rather loudly that I dont like to be harassed on the street, then she told me it was bad to refuse good luck...


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    #58
    Mammanabammana
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Mammanabammana


    fluffyorganic1 wrote: »
    Some people I suppose just don't like to be rude or whatever to people........
    I'd be desperate bad trying to get off the phone with cold callers. My husband does laugh at me. Now I just say in a sing songy voice "No, but thank you for calling" before hanging up quickly when they ask me if I'd be interested in buying whatever they are selling.

    I'd be useless on the street with these "jesus guys":D

    You don't have to be rude, just be firm. I've had the same experience of people hassling me and hassling me until I eventually stop being polite. As Calvin's mom (as in 'and Hobbes', not the preacher) said, this world would be a much better place if people didn't take being polite as an invitation to walk all over you!


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    #59
    jeepers101
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    Mark200 wrote: »
    As a (usually outspoken) atheist I have to say that I'm also getting tired of this religion topics. Nothing personal to the person who started this topic, but can we just talk about something else please? :)

    The thread title is "Being stopped in the street to talk about Jesus Christ". See where I'm going with this?


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    #60
    Knight who says Meh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Knight who says Meh


    Its a funny auld thing.
    Here on AH there are threads on TV, food, politics, sports, sexual matters, fashion etc. All of these topics have other fora and threads in which they could be discussed in particular.
    So why is it that the slightest sniff of religion in a topic immediately results in poster demanding special treatment in having these posts moved to Catholicism or Atheism?


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    #61
    philologos
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    It's funny how you never see atheists stopping people on the street to talk about the non-existence of God.

    I would take a punt and say that is probably because atheists don't think that atheism really has any profound significance in terms of ones circumstances. Christians think that Christianity changes everything. This becomes manifest in numerous ways.

    I personally don't see all that much of a problem with the people in the OP. They are merely taking advantage of their legal right. Personally I find evangelism is more natural when the Gospel comes up in personal relationships I have with friends, or new friendships that arise. If Christianity is that important to you you can't hide it, it's a part of who you are, and it is something you want to share with everyone. The difference is that I find that most people ask me about Christianity first rather than the other way around.


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