Do you ever feel like the world has gone completely mad?
Here was my weekend:
Friday night my married daughter drops by and all she can talk about is her ward, church calling, friends leaving on missions, etc. I quietly nod my head and say yes. Inside I feel nauseous.
Saturday morning I come home from working out and the JWs have taken over my neighborhood. They are everywhere. There are two women knocking on my door when I pull in my driveway. Aargh. No escape! They leave me with some stupid literature that is on about a 6th grade level. They all look so brainwashed. A lot like Mormons.
I check my mail, DW has magazines sent to her from BYU and Ricks Big Churchy High School. Barf. The Ensign with the conference addresses are sitting out. Icky. More propaganda. I quickly get rid of the magazines.
Sunday the bishop shows up on my doorstep unannounced, wanting to talk to me. I haven't been to church in a couple of years. He needs to talk to me. I don't want to talk but do anyway.
Sunday night I get on the internet to watch internet TV. What is the most watched station? Saudi Arabian TV doing live coverage of Hajj. That is all that they are talking about for hours and hours, the Prophet Muhammad, The Qur'an, The Hajj, Salat, etc.
There is more but I won't bore you. Have you ever felt like the world has gone completely mad? Everywhere I turn there is someone who wants to suck me in to their religion.
I forgot to mention after the Bishop left my mom called wondering if I had been to church, told me about her ward etc. OMG I can't get away from this religion virus.
I also can't believe my mom still thinks I go to church, hehehe, I have been pretty crafty about leading her astray on that one.
Some days I just feel like heading out the door and finding a remote part of the planet to live in without people. The last time I was in Siberia an old man living in a log cabin told me it was better to be alive in Siberia than dead in Moscow. He said his life changed little from Communist times to the current times. He was so off the beaten path nobody cared about him. He seemed happy.
Meanwhile I sit here with a diminished 401K trying to keep a business going with everyone getting in my way. You can't even work in this country anymore without convincing the government you have the right to work. It all reminds me of the church. Smothering control freaks basically.
Re the JW encounter, for future reference - If you take the magazines that is a guaranteed call-back for them. Say anything you have to, firmly, about your eternal disinterest and DO NOT take any literature from them. It gives them an in to return and inquire about your thoughts on the material they previously left with you.
Just keep saying no. And don't take any literature! They will still return but it won't be as often, and not with a lead-in line due to you having accepted magazines or pamphlets from them in the past. To them, that is an expression of interest and a reason to come back, no matter what your lips are uttering at the time.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2010 01:24PM by Nightingale.
At every turn, I had to show my I.D. or be searched. I even have to show a government issued I.D. if I want to take out a library card. What has happened to the land of the free, with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Most humans are both poor and superstitious. This is why many follow this or that religious leader instead of trying to figure out their own way. Thankfully, a former Mormon missionary tried to convert me just once (the LDS woman I considered dating three-and-a-half years ago). I feigned falling asleep, and she never tried again.
On 60 Minutes last night a story on Hati showed over 3,000 people living on a concrete median strip on a very busy highway. Horrible poverty.
In the same region you have Richard Branson' Necker Island that rents for $47,000.00 a night. That buys you:
• All meals and drinks (both alcoholic and other) • Return launch transfer from Virgin Gorda or Beef Island airports • A team of approximately 50 fabulous staff • Two freshwater pools and two Jacuzzis • Beach pool • Two floodlit tennis courts • Windsurfing and kite surfing equipment • Fully equipped gymnasium • Sailing and speed boats • Kayaks, Water-skiing equipment, Snorkelling equipment, Inflatable banana etc • Fishing equipment (not deep sea) • Local calypso band for one party evening • Extensive video, book and music libraries, and board games • Full sized snooker table • Laundry facility (dry cleaning not available) • Business facilities, wireless internet • Phones available throughout the island
Meanwhile, next door in Hati the people are trying not to get cholera.
To me that is as mad as any religion. Total madness and insanity. I want to move to another world. This one is hopeless.