I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
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@mayonnaise @Ruth_Mottram
Probably JWs, the Mormons seem to occasionally care about climate issues due to their center in a precarious environment, but then mostly forget about it because of their ties to business lobbyist and the GOP.@forpeterssake@mastodon.xyz @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org i was raised Mormon (ex-Mormon now) so you would figure i know these things to a decent extent
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
A few years ago some nice witnesses stopped by, and we bad a nice conversation. They gave up shortly after I picked up a pebble, dropped it and started talking about general relativity. And how gloriously, inexpressibly grand our universe is...
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
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@briankrebs @Ruth_Mottram Back in the ‘70s a car pulled up to my parent’s acreage. They were greeted by our barking German Shepherd. Two children got out of the car and knocked on the door. The dog kept barking at the car. They were Mormons and said their parents would like to talk to me. I said, “Sure, please have them come to the door.” The kids went back to the car, got in, and they drove away. Brave enough to send their kids to face the dog, but not themselves.
@Tom @briankrebs @Ruth_Mottram
In the ‘70s I was living in East Oakland at 15th and 11th. Christian missionaries were canvassing my street. I think they were Seventh Day Adventists. They knocked my door three Saturdays in a row. I never let them in. I’d open the door the length of its chain, ask what they wanted and then slam it in their face. Even though they were always different individuals, they always wanted the same thing, a moment of my time to discuss “our lord and savior” Jesus Christ. Slam! Good riddance.
But they kept coming back. I figured that if they couldn’t take a hint, maybe they’d respond to some psychological warfare. I had a German Shepard. My partner at the time had a dog that was half Doberman and half Great Dane. On the fourth Saturday I could see them coming up the street. I took off all my clothes. When I answered the door I opened it wide so they have a good view. There I was, buck naked except for my wrap around shades, and holding a large, snarling dog by the collar with each hand. Black Sabbath was playing on the stereo. Incense hung in the air.
“In this house we worship Satan,” I said.
They never came back.
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
@Ruth_Mottram At my last place, I had some Jehova’s knock on the door. I told them I was an anti-theist, and offered them the opportunity to leave and try their chances on the next house. The woman said “I was an atheist too!” And I had to clarify that I thought religion was a terrible idea that caused untold suffering in the world, far more than any good it has ever done.
She hadn’t heard the term before, but persisted. I listened for a while and when the opportunity presented itself, went on a rant about what kind of all-powerful, all-knowing, all-seeing and all-compassionate deity gives kids cancer - and invited them to see their god’s work at the local pediatric cancer ward. I suggested that she should be raising money to cure the cancer her god gave those children, and not asking people to worship that same god.
Unsurprisingly, I was at that address for nearly 15 years… and they never came back.
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
An honest gay friend of mine who has never had many filters told me about a Sunday visit to see his mother at a nursing home where she lived many years ago. At the time, gay persons were unwelcome at nearly all churches. A religious service was wrapping up at the nursing home that Sunday and an elderly resident, nearly deaf, leaned over and asked my friend what type of church he attended. “I’m a heathen,” my friend said. “Oh, that’s nice,” the nearly deaf man replied.
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
@Ruth_Mottram
I hope you invited them in for coffee.
Maybe a beer for the road. -
I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
@Ruth_Mottram Did they hiss and retreat at the “s” word? They did for me when I was in college and I told them I studied geology.
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
@Ruth_Mottram when I lived way in the country with cats sheep and my toddler daughter, 2 just knocked in the door at the moment I was cooing the last 54 pounds of tomatoes to can. Aspirin doing red, large cleaver in hand i opened the door. They stared and asked if I'd heard the good news. I looked behind me and looked back at them and said "I'm not done with the kids, can you come back in an hour?"
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@Ruth_Mottram In a former neighborhood, Scientologists often would come up to me on the street and ask if I'd like to take a personality test. I replied, "no thanks, I already have one."
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@Ruth_Mottram I had a couple of Mormons come to my door. I said "I'm really glad to see you, I just finished reading your book (I really had) and I have some questions. Wait here, I'll go grab it." At which point they looked at me in shock, and begged off saying they would put me in touch with an elder. Never saw or heard from them again.
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@outview_and_inview They were a little taken a back, but we wished each other a pleasant weekend..
@Ruth_Mottram @outview_and_inview yes, they don’t really do science.
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
@Ruth_Mottram Kinda funny when you think about how many times JW tried to predict the future and failed miserably
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I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."
@Ruth_Mottram Next time, just stream some Death Metal loud and they're be gone before you know it.
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