lodgebo said this in post #13 : Well no but USMC Sniper said survive every situation and that is a belief that could be dangerous in an engagement.
There was more to that sentence. If you read the whole thing you would have noticed it says,"My training has allowed me to survive in every situation i have come across YET." I never said I could survive anything. I am not that arrogant. A certain amount of confidence is required in a combat situation. you must have the mindset that you are better than your opponent or you will be killed. You have to believe in yourself and your skills if you are going to make it out alive.
Ooh-rah
4 years as a scout sniper in the USMC.
21 months in Iraq in two tours.
Best job in the world. (Sitting around with an M40A3)
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother
Holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying
Why, oh why?
'cause I need to watch things die
From a distance
So back to the door-to-door pushing of beliefs thing-
It was an interesting experiment. But I don't like that they were pushing Darwin as their parallel to God and On The Origin of Species as their parallel to the Bible. It doesn't help the general public's image of evolution in the slightest (in the US at least, don't know how bad it is elsewhere). Science doesn't equal atheism (apples and oranges) and most people that don't accept the theory of evolution reject it solely on the basis that they think it goes against their religious beliefs.
As far as the video goes, I wonder if the people who were offended are the same ones who go door-to-door? Or if they, as individuals, don't take part in it. There is that one little variable that's unconsidered...
'Round here it's Jehovah's Witnesses that go door-to-door. My elementary school teacher's husband is a devout Catholic and he's managed to turn things around on them. They believe that only so many people will get into heaven and (from what I've heard) that the ones who convert the most people are the ones who will get in. He invites them in and goes so far as to offer them drinks and aptly listen to what they're saying. Eventually he guides the conversation around to that particular belief and he lets them talk about it, then asks them "But aren't you afraid I'll take your place?" Most times he manages to convert them.
"You're disturbing...yet intriguing. Like couscous. I'm gonna call you Couscous from now on."
My elementary school teacher's husband is a devout Catholic and he's managed to turn things around on them. They believe that only so many people will get into heaven and (from what I've heard) that the ones who convert the most people are the ones who will get in. He invites them in and goes so far as to offer them drinks and aptly listen to what they're saying. Eventually he guides the conversation around to that particular belief and he lets them talk about it, then asks them "But aren't you afraid I'll take your place?" Most times he manages to convert them.
It sounds like your friend told you this rather than your own personal experience.
I know Jehovah's Witnesses teachings. They teach that 144,000 will go to heaven and they are hand picked by God himself, the rest of mankind will live on a paradise Earth. If a new person becomes a Witness, someone doesn't get bumped out of line. They don't view this as being 'left out'.
I doubt your friend was able to convert many, those Witnesses know the bible
Never said it was my personal experience. That's just what my old teacher told me.
Unless they don't think their status as Witnesses has any bearing on God's hand-picking, it's still an increase in their numbers which makes them less likely to be picked.
And he knows his Bible pretty darn well too. If he wasn't able to defend his beliefs against others devout in their own, he wouldn't bother debating with them.
"You're disturbing...yet intriguing. Like couscous. I'm gonna call you Couscous from now on."
04-27-2007 04:04 PM
