# quick question: what is "witnessing."
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626
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**Created:** [October 26, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626 "2003-10-26T06:10:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Irishlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishlove)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/1 "2003-10-26T06:10:47Z")
I’m new to the boards, can someone quickly answer this for me:
The Great Debates forum is:
“also the place for religious debates and (if you feel you must) witnessing.”
what exactly is witnessing?
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/2 "2003-10-26T07:06:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> 2 : to bear witness to one’s religious convictions
(from [here](http://m-w.com)) 🙂
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/3 "2003-10-26T07:07:49Z")
10-26-2003 01:10 AM…Irishlove’s posting time
10-26-2003 01:06 AM…My posting time… :eek:
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/4 "2003-10-26T14:17:26Z")
It’s that tricky change from Daylight Savings time…
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/5 "2003-10-27T07:37:29Z")
It’s a SIGN, brothers and sisters!
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/6 "2003-10-27T12:51:56Z")
Time tripping again, Billy?
I mean, **Joe K**?
Or maybe it IS a sign. A sign for all of you to repent. REPENT! And subscribe to my particular brand of religious revisionism! Or you will all suffer the wrath of Khan!
I mean, God! Or G\_d. Or the Great Arkleseizure. Or Og. or whatever…
What was the question?
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/7 "2003-10-28T00:37:32Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \*
> \*\*What was the question? \*\*
Does it matter, really? Because Jesus is the answer.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/8 "2003-10-28T03:49:43Z")
You’re stealing my lines! 😛
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/9 "2003-10-28T04:12:47Z")
I thought the answer was 42. Or 23…whatever…
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/10 "2003-10-28T04:18:46Z")
Do you want God’s phone number?
It was in a recent movie.
Aaaaaallllllllllllllllll- mighty then!
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/11 "2003-10-28T05:10:02Z")
No, but I have the Pope’s…
VAT69 (Ask for a double)
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### Author:  [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-question-what-is-witnessing/209626/12 "2003-10-28T05:59:36Z")
Witnessing? It’s having a chance to witness Game 4 of the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals when the Devils win the championship.
What?
Witnessing Devils is evil? You can’t be serious. . .
Does it help that I had tickets, but didn’t make it to the game? Doesn’t the guilt enough make up for my penetance?
No? Aw crap. Never mind then.
Tripler
Now you know the power of ‘witnessing’ something great (albeit ironically evil).