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One of the things I was looking forward to after moving from an apartment to a house with a front door is door knockers. Weird, I know, but that’s me. Particularly religious door knockers, because I know they’re never gonna convert me, and I like the idea of just politely wasting their time.
Well, I’ve only been here for like 2 weeks now, but it’s already happened. Just got back from the door with a JW. I asked him his view on the Nicene Creed and why he thinks JWs reject it. Disappointingly, I’m not sure he even knew what the Nicene Creed was, as he just started going on about being peaceful and not doing harm and other entirely unrelated religious banalities. When I pressed the issue, he got a little closer to the mark, saying “oh, different people believe different things”, but still nothing that actually addressed the question itself.
I’m an atheist, but I find religion fascinating today in the same way I found Greek and Egyptian mythology fascinating when I was young. It’s an interesting part of human culture. My take on Christianity is that you should never take seriously any Christian preacher who cannot explain to you the basic tenets of the Nicene Creed. You don’t have to know it to be Christian, but you do if you want to preach it, and not knowing it shows to me that you clearly do not know enough about the theology behind your own religion to be preaching. It’d be like a high school maths teacher who can’t explain to you what Sohcahtoa is.
All I can say Zag is that it’s a good job I’m neither a preacher or a maths teacher then.
The Nicene Creed says a few things, but the important bit is basically defining the Holy Trinity. The idea that God is the father, and is the son, and is the holy ghost. JWs and Mormons (among a few other fringe Christian groups) don’t believe this. It’s interesting theocratic theory, if you’re interested in the study of religions. But mainly it’s a convenient way to tie up the door knockers’ time so they’re bothering me and not someone else.
I used to be a choirboy in a 100 year old Church of England, in England. Was top of my class in religious studies as an 11 year old too. I haven’t cared about it all since I was about 12 though. I played King Herod in the nativity play in that church too. My only claim to acting fame.
Sounds like getting in to a debate about Harry Potter, or Star Wars lore to be honest.
I mean, Christianity is where the word “canon” comes from. We use it for a reason!
Is it Friday yet ? I might be starting to work Saturdays in a week or three. The extra money would be welcome but even now just having two off and five on seems offensive and unnecessary. I do value my time away from work even if I don’t do a great deal at the weekend.
Sometimes I think of something half interesting that I could post here the next day, then that next day comes and I forget. I swear I’ve got lots of super interesting things to post but they’re locked away in the bowls of my once active brain.
Is it Friday yet ?
I’m sick of working tbh. I’d love to do 3 on, 4 off or something. Enough to keep your mind active and body moving, but more free time to do stuff you actually want to do. Also sick of wasting an hour of my life in each direction to/from work because everyone does everything at the same time. Staggered work days would be amazing. Why do we all work the same hours? It makes it literally impossible to do adult tasks like banking, or go to specialty stores you want to visit, or have qualified people do qualified things at your home without taking time off.
I’d love staggered work days… Some businesses doing like 6am to 2pm, some do 11am to 7pm or something. Get a nice overlap where you can actually do stuff. Supermarkets could do 24 hours in 3 x 8 hour shifts, none of which would have to be 100% night shift. I dunno. Just had enough of samesamesame.
I’m 100% in agreement with you on all of this. A few years ago I got a nine to five job only for two months thankfully. Damn it was far too hard to get anything done.
