sylviaviridian ([info]sylviaviridian) wrote,
@ 2007-10-24 17:20:00
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Current mood: geeky

Asking for advice and a truism
I've never had Mormons come to the door before. When a pair of them came knocking today, I was caught flat-footed, and hadn't prepared any ways of messing with them. So I'm asking for help here: when Mormons come to the door, how do you suggest I screw with their heads? If they're too pushy, I'll try to convert them, but that's a little mean, and I don't want to do that if they're just friendly like these ones were.

Also, a livejournal truism: No one cares how off-topic your comment was, if it was in praise of their icon.


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[info]liltigre
2007-10-25 01:09 am UTC (link)
Speaking as an ex-Mormon (did you know you can ex-communicate yourself? 8D I did!), ask them to explain why men get to go to the highest levels of heaven scot-free, but women MUST be married to go near God. That part never made sense to me. >/

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[info]sylviaviridian
2007-10-25 02:14 am UTC (link)
Hee, thanks, good idea.

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[info]vyctori
2007-10-25 01:33 am UTC (link)
I don't know about you, but my dream is to do this if ever confronted by pushy evangelists. Followed by this, if I'm lucky. >D

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[info]sylviaviridian
2007-10-25 02:15 am UTC (link)
XD I love you now. That is awesome. I've certainly considered trying to convert them to Discordianism.

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[info]pukingtoreador
2007-10-25 04:21 am UTC (link)
I like the Calvin and Hobbes reference in the first one XD

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[info]konton_kami
2007-10-25 07:40 am UTC (link)
I don't think I know you and i doubt you know me but thank you for bringing this to my attention. Yay

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[info]pretentioustfu
2007-10-25 04:57 am UTC (link)
Me, I'd just ignore them, but if they were really pushy, I'd do something like vyctori suggested. Now that would be cool.

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[info]goldenfur
2007-10-25 01:59 pm UTC (link)
You know, I realize this isn't really an option, but this is what happened to me a year or two ago.

I had just come from the sauna and didn't realize I was inside alone (my mother and sister were in the backyard). The doorbell rang and at first I didn't react. When it dawned on me that I would have to go open the door in my bathrobe, I didn't think much of it, assuming that it would be my sister's boyfriend. So, I go up to the door, clothed only in a shortish bathrobe, and fling the door open... to reveal two utterly horrified Mormons in suits. You could read it on their faces that they instantly assumed I had been having sex when they came by. XD When they recovered enough to meekly ask if they could talk to me about their religion, I said, "I don't think anyone in this house is really interested, sorry." I could barely keep a straight face, their expressions were so priceless. They... seemed to be in a hurry when they left. ;)

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[info]sylviaviridian
2007-10-25 04:12 pm UTC (link)
XD I actually was in my bathrobe when they came to the door, but it was a long one and they just assumed I'd been asleep. (I wasn't, I just have a tendency to hang around the house in my underwear.)

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[info]megami_tsuki
2007-10-26 12:42 am UTC (link)
XD Mormons came to my door last year. I'm in Japan...there's no escaping them.

It's was funny. I didn't even need to fuck with them.

So I open the door and see the token mormon duo. one of them starts doing his mormon spiel...In perfectly flawless Japanses. I'm for one am super impressed. It takes him a good 20 secs for him to relize I don't understand Japanese. He's like
"Do you Speak English?" and I'm like "Ya I'm from America."

Apperently I was like the first English speaking person that he'd come across on this little mission here and was starved for English conversation. forgot all about doing his Mormon spiel and talked to me about tips on teaching English (caues the mormons offer free english lessons and he hates teaching XD) I told him all about reading the Ouran High School Host Club manga with my Japanese tutor...having to explane to him what a Host Club is first XD it was good fun. we chated for a good 20mins about nothing concering Mormonism

But usualy I say "I'm Pagan, you know the religon that respected nautre and women before the christans came and demoinzed their gods, burned women at the stake accusing them of worshiping a Devil they don't even belive exisits, and burned the Library of Alexandria throwing the all of Euroupe into the Dark Ages. Gotta go before my eye of newt boils over. Have a nice day *Smile, slam door*

Or I tell them some trivia "Hey! did you know that in Chinese Mormon means 'The Gate's of Hell?' So, when your Moroming in China now a days you have to use the term 'Latter Day Sanits' so some peseant farmer doesn't mistake you for some Messenger from Hell and beat you to death with his Hoe."

Or a combination of the two I ask them "How do you ceabrate Christmas? with a tree that you decorate with red and green...do you excange presents and stuff too? Well if so, did you know that you're really Practicing an achient Pagan Sabbath known as Yule? The Sabbath Colors are Red, Green and White, the Sacred Animal of the Sabbath is the Stag or Reindeer. It's Celebrated by bringing in an evergreen tree and decorating it. Gifts are also exchanged by friend and family."

They might cover the whole we give gifts because the wise men gave gifts to Jesus and stuff, but they can never explain the Tree and the deer and why the colors are Red and Green

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-28 05:00 pm UTC (link)
Bad Sylvia, bad! Don't go fucking with people's heads just because they have different beliefs then you.

I actually personally love hearing about different religions (didn't know about the christmas tree one, that's awesome,) and disrespecting someone else because of their beliefs...does that make you any different than the same people you mock?

Know what that make you? A hypocrite. Doesn't matter if the church or whatever started it, you don't end stupidity with stupidity.

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[info]sylviaviridian
2007-10-28 10:20 pm UTC (link)
I don't go fucking with people's heads because they have different beliefs than me. I go fucking with their heads because they interrupt my life and knock on my door to *tell* me about their different beliefs. If I wanted to know, I'd look it up in a less-biased source.

Honestly, though, I probably wouldn't actually be able to do more than mildly confuse them before taking pity, even if I sometimes want to. I'm too polite, especially to strangers.

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-01 09:07 am UTC (link)
It's a part of their religion to spread their word. According to their bible they have to.

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