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Offline Titan

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Pushing beliefs?
« on: October 31, 2004, 04:35:31 PM »
I was working at register yesterday at work and I rang this older woman up. She handed me the money and said "and heres a pocket calender with a word from God to you". I was really offended, being athiest. I really don\'t appreciate people pushing their beliefs on me or anyone else. I would have said that I was offended and athiest but I really didn\'t feel like getting into a fight with an old woman in the middle of a drug store with my manager right there, so I just said a more sarcastic thanks and threw it under my register until she left. The calender was 2004 and my manager was making fun of her after she left because there are only two months left. I just threw it out. What do you think? What would some of you have done (question more for the athiests/agnostics)? It really did put me in a kind of bad mood last night. I got over it a couple hours later of coarse :)
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« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2004, 04:41:47 PM »
just tell her that thinking of Jesus\'s abs gives you a half chub....wanna see?
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« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2004, 05:15:02 PM »
Um, why not just say thank you and move on. Not that big of a deal in my opinion.
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« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2004, 06:17:42 PM »
I wouldn\'t call that pushing her beliefs on you and I\'m sure she meant no ill will to you.  Now if you said I\'m athiest and she started telling you that you must convert to save your soul, well maybe you have a case.  However, she didn\'t, and I wouldn\'t even give a second thought to it.
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« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2004, 07:13:09 PM »
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Um, why not just say thank you and move on. Not that big of a deal in my opinion.



Exactly, seems like the mature thing to do.
He is young though
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« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2004, 07:31:16 PM »
Or those people that bother you when you take your little brother trick o treating?!?

WTF?

"This isn\'t the way to Jesus you know"
"you should be in church rather than spreading satan\'s evil"

STFU!

Damn, five year old kids don\'t need to know all of your apocalypse bullshit for god\'s sake!
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« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2004, 07:33:47 PM »
I would have said thanks...and moved on. I have this happen to me all the time...I just get used to it. No use making a big deal out of it. You did fine.
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« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2004, 07:34:09 PM »
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Exactly, seems like the mature thing to do.
He is young though


It is definatly the mature thing to do. And it upsets me that you took it that way. Look at it as a nice gesture from a woman that could have told you to eat a d!ck if she felt like it, she wasn\'t pushing aything on you, if she said that if your not a christian you go to hell, I would consider that pushing beliefes.
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« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2004, 07:40:52 PM »
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Um, why not just say thank you and move on. Not that big of a deal in my opinion.


Thats what I did. Said thanks, threw it a bit under the register, talked about it with a couple kids and got kind of a laugh out of it. I did get over it easily though but at the time I was offended. I would have said I was athiest but I realized she would have thrown a hissy fit. One kid at work wore black bracelets with this symbol on it. One woman said he\'s "a bad kid and needs to find Jesus". I guess this happens when you work in retail.

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It is definatly the mature thing to do. And it upsets me that you took it that way. Look at it as a nice gesture from a woman that could have told you to eat a d!ck if she felt like it, she wasn\'t pushing aything on you, if she said that if your not a christian you go to hell, I would consider that pushing beliefes.


I guess you are right. I did think it was a nice gesture from one point of view but one day she will probably offend someone and he/she will speak out.

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I would have said thanks...and moved on. I have this happen to me all the time...I just get used to it. No use making a big deal out of it. You did fine.


Wasn\'t really making a big deal about it. Just posted it wondering what others did/would have done about a situation like this Told a couple kids at work and we joked about it. Now, Jahova\'s Witnesses are notorious ;)
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« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2004, 07:45:29 PM »
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Thats what I did. Said thanks, threw it a bit under the register, talked about it with a couple kids and got kind of a laugh out of it. I did get over it easily though but at the time I was offended. I would have said I was athiest but I realized she would have thrown a hissy fit. One kid at work wore black bracelets with this symbol on it. One woman said he\'s "a bad kid and needs to find Jesus".
 


where do you live dude? the south?

I\'ve got the gauged ears, spiked hair, tattos & basically look like a skater. I\'ve worked at different retail stores for the past 5 years and haven\'t had an experience like that.
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« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2004, 07:48:19 PM »
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where do you live dude? the south?

I\'ve got the gauged ears, spiked hair, tattos & basically look like a skater. I\'ve worked at different retail stores for the past 5 years and haven\'t had an experience like that.


Central Jersey. Good mix of people as well as nut jobs.
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« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2004, 08:14:13 PM »
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Central Jersey. Good mix of people as well as nut jobs.


fair enough :)
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« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2004, 08:47:26 PM »
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Um, why not just say thank you and move on. Not that big of a deal in my opinion.


Exactly.

The poor lady just gave you a flimsy pamphlet. I think I got at least twenty when I bagged groceries. Don\'t blow it out of context.
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« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2004, 02:36:28 AM »
Well, I guess I\'ll side with Titan on this one. It has happened to me as well (though with the Watchtower) - and I just said thanks and wasn\'t offended - but I can see why Titan didn\'t want her to give him something that SHE believes in, but he DOES NOT.

How would she like it, if he handed her a satanic bible? Then I bet you byatches would cry about it as well.
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« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2004, 03:00:58 AM »
If someone handed me a satanic bible I\'d just say thanks.  And I go to church every Sunday.
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