I apologize if it has been addressed…but I understand that you, dougie, have gone door to door and witnessed. How many time have you been successful, and made a convert? Just as a ballpark figure. How many people have been receptive to your message, and that you feel wanted you to come to their door? I don’t mean people who weren’t rude, or threatening, but actually welcomed you with sincerity?
<knock knock>
<a door opens>
“Hello, we’re calling today to tell you what the Bible really says about Je…”
<interrupting>“Didn’t you read the sign on the door that says 'No Solici…”
<interrupting>“DICTIONARY!”
No idea what that is referring to, as I cheerfully acknowledge that I tell untruths, half-truths, lies and outright whoppers continuously. It is part of a process I call “humor,” although my results are still inconsistent.
Well, then you, good doctor, are welcome at my door.
“Hello, ma’m, we’d like to tell you a few hilarious jokes today.”
“Well, do come in. Would you like a beer?”
As a wise man once said: “Lighten up, Francis”.
Being Jewish, and I hope you’ll agree we get to claim historic persecution, one thing we have learned over the ages is to take ourselves with some humor. All religions appear wacky from the outside looking in. And many of us Jews distance ourselves and renounce the unacceptable behavior of our most orthodox adherents, while still enjoying being part of the religion. You’d be wise to learn to include some of these traits yourselves.
To Trinopus (re “Quiznos”):
You deserve the palm for the most boorish remark.
To Simster
Quote:
If dougie_monty actually reads them - I doubt he does it with anything other than disdain, and since his history on this board and in this thread shows his reading comprehension to be that of about a 3rd grader*, it’s doubtful he even knows what that means.
*I won’t waste my time on libelous statements—if you get my drift.
Nobody tells me what to read.
To Trinopus, again: If I should care to ‘know what evolution’ is, I would refer to what I consider the most authoritative source, the Oxford English Dictionary.
To Simster again: You quote sources? (Post number or date, please.) Disfellowshiping offense? I don’t know what your motive is, but I will take the chance.
To Raventhief: No, I never succeeded at that. I have a long history of social failure. Others who have gone door-to-door with me have been successful; I have not. If some of the people posting in this thread are as smart as they act, they would consider my personal situation, which has included severe disruptions—including schizophrenia (diagnosed by at least four psychiatrists over a period of more than twenty years).
To Mangetout: Somehow, from what you posted, it seems to me that interruption is taken for granted as a medium of conversation these days. As a child, I was taught not to do this. Never mind your snide quip about a dictionary. :rolleyes:
To DrFidelius: Humor: You’d have to hold up a big sign, else how would your reader/listener know? (Acknowledgment to Richard J. Anobile, foreword, Why a Duck?)
To IvoryTower Denizen: Benjamin Franklin once said that worship should be with a “kind of smiling.” That’s good enough for me. 
General reply -
‘Libelous’ - you’re an idiot - its an insult - its not libel. Get a fucking clue already.
As for my sources, etc - its in this very thread - if you had any reading comprehension, you’d know it already - you avoided it when I posted it before, I’m not bothering with you on it again.
You’re not serious.
If you were insulting me you would say so to me directly, or write me a letter or an e-mail. Instead, you referred to me in the third person in a public forum. If you should ever bother to read a treatise on libel law you will know the distinction.
As for your sources, I will refer back to your earlier posts and write down your citations; I am not too high and mighty to do that. But if you think you are going to convince me not to do any research (and why would you do that?), you are very much mistaken.
Don’t tell me what I’m not serious about. When it comes to an issue such as this one, I want a main tern such as “evolution” strictly defined before I commit myself to any discussion. The other person might have a very different understanding of the term; hence the use of a dictionary–and a most eminent one at that.
and again, you show your true colors - where have I ever suggested that you should not do your own research? where have I attempted to convince you otherwise.
Quite the opposite really - I have been encouraging you to DO SOME RESEARCH.
I reffered to an anonymous poster in a public forum in the third person - not libel in any sense of the word… You’re still an idiot. (and yes - that is a directed insult).
But not a scientific one.
You are serious?!
All right, smart-aleck, you trot out your scientific dictionary and post its definition of “evoltion.” Meanwhile, I will post the equivalent definition from the OED; in the United States, after all, scientists speak the same English as the rest of us.
Shoving the insults aside (and such puerile insults they are), I can say, NOW YOU’RE TALKING!! 
I do research with all kinds of sources, and I was doing so long before there was the Internet. I’ve spent hours on end in libraries, including law libraries.
I will be glad to scan this thread for the references you mention, wherever they may be in the thread. I only regret you did not give me post number or date. But that’s no skin off my nose.
Oh, a directed insult. I see. That is the kind which, if you said it to me in person, would likely inspire me to punch you in the jaw. I understand.
Seriously? You’re not having a genteel conversation over tea and cake. You’re posting on a message board on the internet.
I make a distinction between genteel and civil. Which one are you?
Oh, please, not the dictionary again!
Seriously, lighten up.
Bored with you.