Hare Krishnas

This is a simple topic. I'm curious as to how many others in this forum have been approached by Hare Krishnas. As a bonus, please say whatever other cults have tried to recruit you.
Also, state your age and the place where you were approached.
My first encounter with Hare Krishnas was in a subway terminal in Boston. I was 13. In the same terminal, a group of strange people in dark robes calling themselves "The Sions of Golgotha" also asked me to join their ranks.

 

The Jehova's Witness come to my house all the time. It's a hobby of mine to find new and exciting ways to traumatize them. You would never imagine how fun it is to light up a Gotti while talking to some nutcase about Jesus.

 

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I tend to scream, " Get that fucking virgin back in her cage, we need her for the sacrifice! " whenever the religious gangs come to my door.

Am I the only one that finds it strange that baptists, and other christian recruiters travel in a single car that has five guys in suits?

It's like watching a scene from a mob movie when they get out of their car.

 

You lit that dude on fire? Wicked :deadly:

 

The only sect of Christianity that irks me is the Mormons. I think they're a cult.

 

Any group that tries to add to the bible is occultic. This includes Mormons, Jehovah's Whitnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and a whole slew of other little known spin-offs of Christianity.

 

The mormons are just an easily visible example of pretty much all modern christian beliefs. Since Catholicism was established by us Romans and only four of the gospels (the four most instrumental to their intentions) were decided to be the new testament Christianity as we know it has been formed by men, many of whom (like the Romans) were after repressing or misleading the people and not the true religion. This is not considering the idea of synchretism, where ideas are adopted to make the religion easier to accept by converts (look at the "greatest piece of western art" the Book of Kells - a beautiful thing but greatly woven with pagan and celtic imagery). I am baptised and confirmed by a bishop in the Roman Catholic church and attend mass weekly, but I do so knowing that this is not a true religion but one picked and chosen over the past 2000 years much like the mullahs and many middle eastern leaders molest their Islam for political agenda

 

Yes, but Mormonism is only about 200 years old. I find it hard to believe that all of the "real" Native Americans were white, that anyone darker than a white person has some form of taint in their soul, and that Jesus was resurrected in America. Wow! I forgot about Scientology! What a bastardization of religion that is.
Also, Archea47, if you take that point of view, there is no real religion existing today. Every religion has been refined in one way or another to better suit the needs of the people or the ones who teach it. All of what is written as the word of the Lord is said to be open to interpretation. However, sometimes the refinements are made due to an inability to follow the scriptures exactly. For example, if one reads the bible literally, it clearly states that taking a dump is a sin.

 

I've been to at least 5 mormon bible study sessions, as a way to get free parking back when I was in school. What is the difference between the letters of mormons and the letters in the new testament following the gospels? Both are after Jesus' time and each's merit is under the same worth of scrutiny. Hurts to say it sometimes but bam, kick it up a notch. That guacamole I made tonight was the BOMB :thumbup:

 

Yeah, most of what I said about Mormonism is my bitterness towards them. It's actually a prejudice. Most of the mormons I've met are the kindest people I have ever met, but their views of other races are so...wrong. They're taught these things as a religion, so they don't know it's really racism. It kills me to listen to them talk about the ones "Touched by God's taint."

 

foolish damned chile of the angel of light

 

The Creationists that think the world is only like ten thousand years old don't bother you?

 

I had some encounters with scientologists and jehovah's witnesses. And once I saw some cult singing about jesus with such a hard goa trance background music with full bass at the subway station... Heh...

And when I was at hospital when I was 12, some parent (?) gave a lecture about jesus' suffering and such to children. This is one of the most disgusting things I can image, fooling sick children with religion. Oh, and she was christian.

 

The New Testament was written by those who knew Jesus personally while he was here on Earth, or in the case of Luke, one knew the apostles and interviewed only eye witnesses of the events he wrote about.

The Book of Mormon is based on the teachings of Joseph Smith, who claimed to have been led by an angel to a burried set of golden plates on which the religious records of the original white inhabitants of America were inscribed in ancient glyphs. Need I go on?

 

Blinky, Japes, Vorak and I are to be stoned for saying Jehova.*

I live in a Jewish neighbourhood constantly visited by Jehova's Witnesses. "Recruit" is a fine word for what they do; I've been given lots of books by those neat people (because they're really clean, at least over here).

*We can stone back.

 

I think Blinky is more stoned from lighting up a Gotti...

 

A friend of mine had a little Jehova's Witness encounter once. Just as he was feeding his dog an ox-heart. Oh, what I would give to see their faces.

 

I meet Gouranga monks at least twice a week. I really don't mind most of them because they try to share a philosophy, not force a god upon you. It wasn't until after I met my first one years ago and googled "Gouranga" that I even knew they were Krishnas. Not once did the guy mention Krishna, he just talked about a philosophy of happiness and asked me to shout "Gouranga! Be happy!", which I did. And do you know what? It made me happy.

We have Jehova's Witnesses maybe once a year (probably more but the house is empty all day, 5 days a week). It's usually women (perhaps the same one every year?), not wearing a suit and carrying lots of interesting leaflets about how we are all going to hell. My usual response is "We're atheists" and if she tries to say anything further, which she always does, I just shut the door.

EDIT: I forgot one. A crazy old man with a sandwich board who stood outside of university preaching. I'd see him maybe once a month.
His main 2 topics were: Contraception is evil, abstinence is holy.
The world is going to end at any moment so repent while you can.
He had a big straggly grey beard and was really thin. If a movie was looking for a crazy preacher they really couldn't do any better than this guy.

 

My favorites are the Mormons. They used to ride up a steep
hill to my house on their bikes wearing the helmets and ties,
and then I'd invite them in, offer them coffee and cigarettes
(both of which they've got some unholy phobia of) and talk
about the benifits of paganism and equality for women.

Did they go away? No! They started coming back every
week trying to save me! >>>Beware Panarii on bikes<<<

BAH,I say! All organized religeons poison the mind and distort
the truth about 'god' or whatever you call it.