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I overslept again - must get back into a sleeping pattern that plays well with others - and woke just fifteen minutes before I was due to be at TAFE so I threw on some not-pyjama clothes, told the Jehovah's Witness I was in a hurry, answered the phone and told my mother the same when she asked why I was there to answer it, and made my way over without hurrying because when you are driving that is illegal.
It took me a while to find the room I was meant to be in. The building turned out to be at the far end of the grounds and there was a missing digit on the printout I had which directed me first to a janitor's closet. However, there was no drama and everything appears to be in order, although there was a display of eerie librarian powers when the teachers all seemed to know my name by sight without me ever mentioning it.
Then back home to repair the bathroom doorknob which I am proud say is now sturdy again. According to my sister Monroe is becoming easier to provoke into life, although she still needs hoisting to her feet to get started.
And here we are.
It took me a while to find the room I was meant to be in. The building turned out to be at the far end of the grounds and there was a missing digit on the printout I had which directed me first to a janitor's closet. However, there was no drama and everything appears to be in order, although there was a display of eerie librarian powers when the teachers all seemed to know my name by sight without me ever mentioning it.
Then back home to repair the bathroom doorknob which I am proud say is now sturdy again. According to my sister Monroe is becoming easier to provoke into life, although she still needs hoisting to her feet to get started.
And here we are.
They did come to the door this morning, then were chased off again before I had much chance to chat with them (I grow only slowly bored with the religious so long as the exchange is courteous - as all mine have been to date). I did manage to snag their literature before the door was closed on them, though (Watchtower and Awake!, both for January 2007). Should keep me amused for a while. I mean to post my thoughts on those piece by bloody piece until they are done. ^_^
Jehovah's Emissaries started with a biblical quote supposedly prophecying the end of sickness, then showed a page from their issue of Awake! illustrating some illnesses not yet cured by Science! [when argued against by the antiscientific (creationists, homeopaths, The Postmodernist and other mythical beasts which frolic freely in the Fields of Fancy) it must always be referred to as Science! and pronounced, just so], apparently in an attempt to undermine Science! by pointing out past failures and prepping me for accepting an unevidenced conclusion. This would have been a good time to mention smallpox and polio but at this point I was expecting to have them for play for a while yet. Plus honesty compels me to admit my doubt that science (not when it is part of my argument, oh no you don't) will eliminate sickness. I try not to underestimate the power of evolution. Sickness will end in the future, mind, I just do not think it will be Science! that does it. So instead I asked why I should take that seriously.
They said it was a good question. Flattering tactic, praise the other person, make them feel good about themself, think you respect them and their points are sophisticated and they will be more likely to listen to you. That's folk psychology btw, show it is untrue and I will try to drop that belief.
But I was saying. They asked if I was interested in the Bible and believed in God. My answer was yes and no, respectively, which took him a little thought to process. Oh yes, far's I can remember the woman (there was one of each [N.B. if I said 'the cat' and 'the dog' and there was one of each it would not mean there are no other animals to potentially choose from] did not speak. I don't like that, may mean nothing though.
Next question I think he was probing for some angle to get to grips with me on and asked why I don't think there is any such thing as a 'God' - was it perhaps because of all the suffering in the world? Of course not. God may after all be evil, and I said as much. I did not laugh in their faces (nor do I recall being tempted to do so, but the absurdity of this conversation as recounted does suggest I might have), instead adding that in fact I never had any good reason to think so. He started asking about my upbringing then, I suppose he might have thought perhaps I had been raised antitheist or some such thing but there the conversation and this post end.
Hypothetical Indexation of Romps Through JW Literature Here
P.S. Speaking of puzzling beliefs, yesterday in the city I came across Deepak Chopra's name a couple of times. I think the universe wants me to have an aneurysm.
P.P.S. Lyricafication for Appropriatude:
A glorious hallelujah
The distant flutter of angels
They're all too far, too far to reach for you
In my sweet serenity
Hoping you will ever find me in any place
I will call it solitude when all my songs fade in vain
In
my voice, far away to eternity
Jehovah's Emissaries started with a biblical quote supposedly prophecying the end of sickness, then showed a page from their issue of Awake! illustrating some illnesses not yet cured by Science! [when argued against by the antiscientific (creationists, homeopaths, The Postmodernist and other mythical beasts which frolic freely in the Fields of Fancy) it must always be referred to as Science! and pronounced, just so], apparently in an attempt to undermine Science! by pointing out past failures and prepping me for accepting an unevidenced conclusion. This would have been a good time to mention smallpox and polio but at this point I was expecting to have them for play for a while yet. Plus honesty compels me to admit my doubt that science (not when it is part of my argument, oh no you don't) will eliminate sickness. I try not to underestimate the power of evolution. Sickness will end in the future, mind, I just do not think it will be Science! that does it. So instead I asked why I should take that seriously.
They said it was a good question. Flattering tactic, praise the other person, make them feel good about themself, think you respect them and their points are sophisticated and they will be more likely to listen to you. That's folk psychology btw, show it is untrue and I will try to drop that belief.
But I was saying. They asked if I was interested in the Bible and believed in God. My answer was yes and no, respectively, which took him a little thought to process. Oh yes, far's I can remember the woman (there was one of each [N.B. if I said 'the cat' and 'the dog' and there was one of each it would not mean there are no other animals to potentially choose from] did not speak. I don't like that, may mean nothing though.
Next question I think he was probing for some angle to get to grips with me on and asked why I don't think there is any such thing as a 'God' - was it perhaps because of all the suffering in the world? Of course not. God may after all be evil, and I said as much. I did not laugh in their faces (nor do I recall being tempted to do so, but the absurdity of this conversation as recounted does suggest I might have), instead adding that in fact I never had any good reason to think so. He started asking about my upbringing then, I suppose he might have thought perhaps I had been raised antitheist or some such thing but there the conversation and this post end.
Hypothetical Indexation of Romps Through JW Literature Here
P.S. Speaking of puzzling beliefs, yesterday in the city I came across Deepak Chopra's name a couple of times. I think the universe wants me to have an aneurysm.
P.P.S. Lyricafication for Appropriatude:
You are here alone again
In your sweet insanity
All too calm, you hide yourself from reality
Do you call it solitude? Do you call it liberty?
When all the world turns away to leave you lonely
The fields are filled with desires
All voices crying for freedom
But all in vain they will fade away
There's only you to answer you, forever
A glorious hallelujah
The distant flutter of angels
They're all too far, too far to reach for you
In my sweet serenity
Hoping you will ever find me in any place
I will call it solitude when all my songs fade in vain
In
my voice, far away to eternity
