bcspace wrote:My companion and I, fresh off the relevant chapter in Jesus the Christ, almost dusted our feet off against a man who was verbally abusing us. Our hands reached the level of our knees, we looked at each other and said "better not", we straightened up and walked away tracting down the street.
On our way back up the other side of the street, an ambulance pulled up and the same man was wheeled out of the house with an oxygen mask on. Coincidence or....?
or...perfect example of confirmation bias?
"...The official doctrine of the LDS Church is a Global Flood" - BCSpace
"...What many people call sin is not sin." - Joseph Smith
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" - Phillip K. Dick
“The meaning of life is that it ends" - Franz Kafka
bcspace wrote:My companion and I, fresh off the relevant chapter in Jesus the Christ, almost dusted our feet off against a man who was verbally abusing us. Our hands reached the level of our knees, we looked at each other and said "better not", we straightened up and walked away tracting down the street.
On our way back up the other side of the street, an ambulance pulled up and the same man was wheeled out of the house with an oxygen mask on. Coincidence or....?
Or what? God is a petty piece of crap? You honestly think he gave that man a heart attack because you were offended? That man probably had a wife and kids...
On my mission I saw many missionaries sent home from injury caused by malicious parties. One broken jaw, one cracked skull, one broken leg and two from hypodermic needle injections.
My MIL passed away 6 months into her mission from a heart attack.
M.
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who - is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. - Milton Berle
In May of 89, the Argentine winter was hitting and I was in this incredibly drafty, unheated house. With the humidity, it was almost unbearable. My companion and I went to a hardware looking for a heating solution. Our idea was to buy a couple of these gas radiator units we saw, hang them on opposite sides of the room, and connect them with rubber hoses to a propone gas tank in the middle of the room. Our plan was to turn on the gas before bed, and leave this thing on all night.
We had to wait until June 1 to get our allowances to afford to purchase this setup. Five days before we got paid, two sisters in the neighboring mission were found dead in their beds from asphyxiation from a similar heating system.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
However, a guy that was trained by me for 10 days before I headed home finished up 3 months later. Two weeks after going home, his parents found that he had successfully hanged himself from a rafter in an unfinished part of their basement. He was dressed in the temple garb, head to apron to toe.
Not technically while on his mission, but that's a pretty damn bad LDS mission hangover he was suffering from.
I attended a missionary funeral while serving in Anaheim. He was serving in Argentina and he and his companion died in their sleep because the gas stove was left on all night. Makes you wonder why God didn't warn them of that during their bedtime prayer.
I was in France. Part way through my mission the rumor was a missionary in a German mission had committed suicide, and because of that the leaders were being instructed to be more sensitive to signs of depression. Of course, most of us were depressed.
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
