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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
 Posted - 06/24/2001 : 22:05:00
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For those of you who don't know....PAX TV is a xian TV station off shoot of (I think) ABC.
Anyway, they run this horrid TV show called Mysteries of the Unexplained. Tonights show, Roswell and Area 51. They used that horrid Alien Autopsy as *proof* that greys were recovered from the *UFO crash* site.
In addition, they run shows on *Bermuda Triangle*, *Shroud of Turin* and *Cydonia Face*. Of course they pull the typical with the debunkers...get the ones who are offensive and call believers idiots or get the ones who come off looking like idiots.
They are worse than Fox, simply because they run this every week!
He's YOUR god, they're YOUR rules, YOU burn in hell!
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Mespo_man
Skeptic Friend
USA
312 Posts |
 Posted - 06/25/2001 : 08:16:25 [Permalink]
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Anyway, they run this horrid TV show called Mysteries of the Unexplained. Tonights show, Roswell and Area 51. They used that horrid Alien Autopsy as *proof* that greys were recovered from the *UFO crash* site.
Hi Trish,
So what's a Xtian TV station's take on the "greys". Spawn of Satan?
Remember that scene in "War of the Worlds" when the minister walks toward the alien ship with his Crucifix raised, mumbling the 23rd Psalm? Heck somebody walks toward me with a raised "weapon" and I'd open fire too.
(:raig
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Bozola
Skeptic Friend
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2001 : 08:24:56 [Permalink]
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Remember that scene in "War of the Worlds" when the minister walks toward the alien ship with his Crucifix raised, mumbling the 23rd Psalm? Heck somebody walks toward me with a raised "weapon" and I'd open fire too.
I can relate to the Martians. When I moved into my house, it was no more than a couple of hours before I had religious wackjobs pounding on my door, too. If only I had a DeathRay(tm).
Bozola
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2001 : 09:39:36 [Permalink]
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Anway, they run this horrid TV show called Mysteries of the Unexplained. Tonights show, Roswell and Area 51. They used that horrid Alien Autopsy as *proof* that greys were recovered from the *UFO crash* site.
In addition, they run shows on *Bermuda Triangle*, *Shroud of Turin* and *Cydonia Face*. Of course they pull the typical with the debunkers...get the ones who are offensive and call believers idiots or get the ones who come off looking like idiots.
This is just a guess. It all comes down to advertising dollars. By showing this crap, they can draw in the non-paxer HB's and conspirawhackos. Every segment you mentioned has been so completely debunked that they're in the "non-issue" file. The only people who still believe are the HB's. Pax can't show 700 club or whatever 24 hours a day if it wants to stay on the air. If it doesn't get those rating numbers from somewhere, anywhere, advertisers will pull out, and hello bankruptsy court. Sick and sad, but probably true. The lowest common denominator always seems to sell. ::sigh::
Lisa
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Greg
Skeptic Friend
USA
281 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2001 : 11:13:48 [Permalink]
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I can relate to the Martians. When I moved into my house, it was no more than a couple of hours before I had religious wackjobs pounding on my door, too.
Where in the hell do you live? Do these people sit around waiting for a new face in the neighborhood? I have to be honest, I have never been approached by a religious whacKo except for Mormons who have to do it door to door. I just tell them I'm not interested and they leave me alone never to return. Religious proslytisers never walk up to me on the street and have never bothered me at work. Compared to some of the stories on this board, I've had a pretty easy time of it.
Greg.
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Bozola
Skeptic Friend
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2001 : 11:24:57 [Permalink]
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Where in the hell do you live?
In the land of coffee, Bill Gates, and Paul Allen. Seattle, home to the stupidest drivers in the US. There's a Seventh Day Adventists Church up one street, and I suspect, a Jehovah's Witnesses meeting place near by. That I have no problem telling them all to "Piss off and don't come back" means that I haven't been bothered in a long time.
Bozola
- Practicing skeet for the Rapture.
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2001 : 00:55:58 [Permalink]
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Bozola - your JWs are better than mine, who have deemed it their sacred xian duty to save my non-existant immortal soul from the firey depths of hell.
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Where in the hell do you live?
Colorado, where usually the rule is, Let me live in peace and I'll let you live... These two gals are completely impervious to most of my attempts, tho they haven't shown their faces the past couple weeks. I guess I shoulda tried swearing the first time instead of science for their end of the world ditty.
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It all comes down to advertising dollars. By showing this crap, they can draw in the non-paxer HB's and conspirawhackos.
Yes, and those sappy shows *It's a Miracle* my dog barked when the house was on fire...well no snit Sherlock, he wanted out of the frickin' burnin' house! And endless reruns of *Touched by an Angel*, *Highway to Heaven* and many others... Oh and for the ladies (their line...) on Sunday evenings the three hankie movie. Isn't that just putrid?
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bestonnet_00
Skeptic Friend
Australia
358 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2001 : 04:54:32 [Permalink]
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I thought JW's didn't believe in hell, instead they just believe that those who do not accept their beliefs will be excluded from gods love.
Actually sounds pretty good.
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James
SFN Regular
USA
754 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2001 : 07:54:13 [Permalink]
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...they just believe that those who do not accept their beliefs will be excluded from gods love.
Well, in that case, screw gud. I'll get myself some lovin' down here, if ya know what I mean.  
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2001 : 22:56:26 [Permalink]
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I thought JW's didn't believe in hell, instead they just believe that those who do not accept their beliefs will be excluded from gods love.
True, I just won't ascend to heaven as one of the 144,000 chosen. My catholic/southern baptist background coming through. They still wouldn't leave me alone for trying to save my immortal soul or some such. Anyway, it's been the same two gals for the past two or more months...
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bestonnet_00
Skeptic Friend
Australia
358 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2001 : 04:34:30 [Permalink]
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Best way to deal with JWs is to play along, then at the last moment act like you have converted and then say your going off to kill some heaterns while waving a gun in the air.
That might scare them.
As for killing them, whilst it wouldnt' be a big loss and I don't think they would be all that missed the god fearing government would probably punish you.
Better to just scare those same two gals (answering the door with an AK-47 and saying "Praise Allah" might do).
Just make sure whatever you do is legal or that if it isn't you can get away with it.
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2001 : 11:36:35 [Permalink]
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Our neighborhood got rid of the door-to-door fundies. We have our own little "phone book" that only has the numbers for the 4 roads on the mountain. Instead of alphabetical order, it's in spacial order. When the nuts hit the first house on the street, she calls her next door neighbor and the one across the street. Takes less than 5 minutes to cover the whole neighborhood. Guess the fundies avoid neighborhoods where no one is ever *home*. It's legal, and we don't have to waste ammo. 
Lisa
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2001 : 11:38:14 [Permalink]
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Now if someone could please tell me how to get rid of telemarketers. I was out of the country for 11 years. My, was this a shock when I got back! I'm seriously thinking of getting an unlisted number.
Lisa
Chaos...Confusion...Destruction...My Work Here Is Done |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2001 : 12:07:35 [Permalink]
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Lisa, I worked in the telemarketing industry for a bit. You can tell them to remove your name from their calling list. They have 24 hours to comply. Or, most phone companies offer the service to tell them to remove you and you never get the call. There are lists you can register with to have your name removed from the calling lists that are sold. However, everytime you order something, make sure you have the option not to have your information sold.
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James
SFN Regular
USA
754 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2001 : 12:07:39 [Permalink]
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Now if someone could please tell me how to get rid of telemarketers. I was out of the country for 11 years. My, was this a shock when I got back! I'm seriously thinking of getting an unlisted number.
What works for me is if they call and cannot either pronounce my last name or my grandma's first name, hang up. Works every time. You could also threaten them...
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Probity
New Member
USA
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Posted - 07/02/2001 : 14:20:37 [Permalink]
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Where in the hell do you live? Do these people sit around waiting for a new face in the neighborhood?
I just bought a home as well. The day I moved in a congregation of Hispanic ladies knocked on my door. When I answered they proceeded to shove religious pamphlets in my face and tell me that this was a "Christian neighborhood" and they wanted to be sure I would attend the local church. I informed them that this was a "homosexual home" and they were barking up the wrong tree with their little mission. I then proceeded to hang a rainbow flag from the front porch. Two days later the three lesbian couples in the neighborhood brought me a housewarming basket and welcomed me to the area. I must say I prefer baskets full of fruit and wine to pamphlets proclaiming "The End is Near!!”
I rather like the way radio host Tom Leykis deals with door-to-door religion. He says that when he first moved into his neighborhood he was awaken at 6am by pamphlet toting fundies. When he explained that he was an atheist the resolve of the proselytizing duo only became more resolved. Somehow the conversation turned to abortion and the couple began calling Tom a “murderer” for supporting a women's right to choose. The exchange became heated when one of the women cried out: "Don't you care about God's little babies?!?! Don't you want to save the babies?!?" To which Tom replied "Ma'am, I have babies for breakfast!" Tom then slammed the door and has never heard from the couple again. Tom suggests that if his approach is a little to brash for you then try answering the door completely naked. Tom said he has used that one before and it works every time. Tom now lives in peace in his southern California home.
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