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Whats the biggest dick move you've pulled that you were able to completely justify? (retrolemmy.com)
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I have a big no soliciting sign on my door, when sales people knock anyway I make it a point to waste as much of their time as I can and not buy anything.

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[–] 24 points 6 days ago (13 children)

I got visited by Jehovas Witnesses. I had just learned enough about their playbook and how to deal with it (I wrote a paper about this topic just a few days before that). When they left (fled), the woman witness was crying.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Please elaborate

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    I knew the key arguments they typically used, and had some counters from that. Having actually read the bible helped pointing some passages in the book to them that they probably never heard from in their church.

    But that was in school, 40 years ago, the paper I had written that made me collect the knowledge was a typical school paper. Written, graded, forgotten about.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 days ago

    OP has a point, if a cult shows up at your door selling their beliefs, you can take the opportunity to do some deprogramming. A few of the basics:

    • Dont flat out deny interest, feign insterest and try and draw out their selling points.
    • Be polite, they need to not view you as a threat, offer them tea or something.
    • Attempt to address all questions or as much of the conversation to the younger of the pair (JW travel in pairs).

    The point is to show that dispite being antithetical to their beliefs and not interested (your friendly neightborhood atheist) your not out to villify their group. They are trying to show the younger person that the world is out to get them, by doing the opposite, you break the illusion a little bit and are likely never going to see them again as they will not want to revisit the house talking about Kierkegaard.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    Do you have a link to this paper, by any chance?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (4 children)

    I have a really simple question about your pronouns and I swear I'm not trying to be rude, but why do you prefer she/them instead of she/her or they/them?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I've a professional interest in cults would you mind elaborating?

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