• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Right, please tell me. Is this just a meme thing or do people actually knock on other people’s doors to try to convert them to their religion?

    And does this only happen, bizarrely, in the country with the highest number of gun-owning cowards?

    It just seems such an odd combination

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      3 months ago

      Jehovas witnesses knocking on doors is an absolutely known thing in Germany.

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          3 months ago

          Though they usually just send letters these days, I was taken aback when an in-the-flesh god-botherer knocked on the other day

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      3 months ago

      Ever heard of Jehovah’s witnesses? Or Mormons going on their mission? They aren’t constant here, but they are definitely a thing in the Netherlands.

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      3 months ago

      It does. It got to the point I explained the concept of trial by combat to them, and said if they really believed, they would fight me-me armed them not.

      Never worked.

      So I got a grab bag of cheap sex toys to keep by the door the moment I got my first place (was homeless when I turned 18) and ‘would you like to talk about Jesus’ became ‘trick or treat’.

      That worked.

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wouldnt happen. Scientists are too in love with the possibility they are wrong. Little room for evangelism

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    3 months ago

    I’ve found the fastest ways to get religious folk that knock on my door to scurry in a hurry is:

    1. offer to listen as long as they like but only after they roast a bowl with you
    2. tell them to pay their fucking taxes

    Now if science folk came knockin that would be great over a roasted bowl as well

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    3 months ago

    “Is life on Venus coming to kill us?”

    “Oh, no, these are microorganis-”

    Shuts door

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    3 months ago

    Yeah, uhh, come in, how’d you know I was a space nerd? Would you also like to scope out my house to rob it later? That’s fine too, as long as you tell me about this cool space fact.

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    3 months ago

    I’d have so many questions. In a good way. They wouldn’t have time to visit anyone else that day.

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    3 months ago

    I would do that… but a bit of linux evangelism would slip in as well 😹

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    3 months ago

    YouTube already does this in a less invasive way. “Here’s this random video on theory crafting how we can put life on Mars that we just thought you might like.”