Fundi Says the Darndest Thing

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I heard one of the dumbest things ever from a fundi on Thursday. I was on the job at MS selling mostly secular stuff in the shop, a fundi walks in, looks around, sees the box of "mood rings" also called "promise rings" on the site of the company who makes them (kerusso.com) and calls them "demonic". Needless to say I was taken aback, he then proceded to explain "That just because they have Christian symbols on them doesn't make them ok.". He told me to "throw them away", why I'm not sure. By "demonic" I wonder if he believed by being "mood rings" they were witchcraft or something. That's the best I can come up with. Anyway, I told him they didn't belong to me so I couldn't throw them away. He said "Buy them, then throw them away." This is where it gets really funny. Each ring costs $5, there are 60 rings per box. This equals $300! Even if I were still a Christian I'm not going to pay $300 and then toss it in the trash. Buying a box of them won't get rid of them. Another box will replace it within days, and another when that one is bought. I'd loose money faster than I could make it on my job! Not only that, it'd fuel production of them. They're making money on these things after all. This is as "sane" as buying Ouija Boards
and tossing them in the trash to dispose of them.

Then after he told me to buy them he said "God will remember the good thing you did." Not in those exact words, but close enough for quote marks.

Idiot!

Man, if I would have thought of it at the time, I would have suggested he buy them. I mean if "God will remember..." why doesn't he want God to remember he did it?

Lastly, can you guess how old this person is? Between ten and fourteen years old from his looks I'd guess. I feel sick.....

[Yahweh]

My reaction:

"Dude, they're heat-activated. Even Jesus believes in thermodynamics."

[triadboy]

...and look! Mine turned Red - that means I'm agnostic.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Originally posted by Yahweh
My reaction:

"Dude, they're heat-activated. Even Jesus believes in thermodynamics."


I told him they're like those pens and pencils that change color from the heat of your hand. Either he didn't understand what I was talking about or they're witchcraft to him also. Possibly both.....

[Santa666]

My mood ring just disappeared. Maybe because I am just a myth.

HO HO HO

Got another one for you. I am waiting in line at a gas station (no, I do not take the reindeer everywhere) and a lady buys a pick 3 lotto ticket and has the numbers randomly generated for her. Surprise surprise, what are her 3 numbers.....666.....she threw a fit. She demanded that her ticket be destroyed and a new one printed (at no charge to her) because that "damn" clerk gave her an evil ticket. She could apparently hear my laughter at this behaviour, thusly, I received the "stay out of my business" glare. I offered to buy her EVIL ticket from her, just to shut her up, but she actually wanted the the ticket "destroyed".

I guess the lottery is EVIL, if and only if, one finds demonic influence in your numbers. How silly. For people like this, there is no hope, so I just reach into my magic sack of goodies, hand them a jesus bobble-head, and bid them good day (and of course a hearty MERRY CHRISTMAS)

Santa (hates it when they dont have a chimney) Clause

[Just thinking]

Originally posted by Santa666
I am waiting in line at a gas station (no, I do not take the reindeer everywhere) and a lady buys a pick 3 lotto ticket and has the numbers randomly generated for her. Surprise surprise, what are her 3 numbers.....666.....she threw a fit. She demanded that her ticket be destroyed and a new one printed (at no charge to her) because that "damn" clerk gave her an evil ticket.

Oh man --- would I love to have seen her face if somehow that particular lotto came out as 666 and paid several tens of thousands of dollars. And when the picture of the winner was announced on TV it turned out to be her local catholic priest -- smiling all the way to the bank saying how some people think numbers like this can be evil!

[Yahweh]

Originally posted by Santa666
[B]Got another one for you. I am waiting in line at a gas station (no, I do not take the reindeer everywhere) and a lady buys a pick 3 lotto ticket and has the numbers randomly generated for her. Surprise surprise, what are her 3 numbers.....666.....she threw a fit. She demanded that her ticket be destroyed and a new one printed (at no charge to her) because that "damn" clerk gave her an evil ticket.
Reminds me of this news story from a while ago, CNN.com - Woman's ticket to Passion of the Christ marked with 666 (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/01/offbeat.passion.ap/):
ROME, Georgia (AP) -- Tickets at one movie theater screening Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" are being deemed decidedly unholy.

The number 666, which many Christians recognize as the "mark of the beast," is appearing on movie tickets for Gibson's film at a Georgia theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers.

The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film, said Gary Smith, owner of the Movies at Berry Square in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that are listed below the name of the movie, the date, time and price.

"It's from our computer and it's absolutely a coincidence," Smith said. "It has nothing to do with the film company or any vendor. It's completely in our computer."

...Several patrons have made comments about the numbers, and one person who was uncomfortable having 666 on her ticket asked for a pass to be substituted for a ticket.
Superstious sillyness.

Oh, and when searched this story on Google, I found this bizarre interpretation (http://www.biblenews1.com/history4/20040301.htm) from BibleNews1.com:
Theater goers in Rome, Georgia said they were shocked to discover the number 666 on their tickets to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."

...First, the number, 666, does not mean the mark of the beast. It is the number for monetary reversionism. The number, 666, was also the number of talents of gold that Solomon received in a year and the number of sons of Adonikam who returned from Babylon. Now, money is the coin of the realm in the devil's world. People in the Tribulation will not be able to buy or sell without the number, 666.

Second, the number, 666 came up in Rome, Georgia. The Roman government sent the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross. And the Roman emperors were evil kings, who were empowered by Satan and worshipped as gods. The whole number on the sample ticket was 666780221, which means: monetary reversionism (666), sexual abuse (78), and the cursing of going into the valley of the shadow (221). The combination of sexual abuse with the love of money refers to the Prostitute of Babylon, who seduces the world and represents the apostasy of the church. Ecumenical religion was behind the Passion movie. In other words, the Prostitute of Babylon (66678) sponsored the movie about Jesus Christ going into the valley of the shadow of death. Another number on the ticket was A380310, which means: dying in the wilderness (38), and an evil king (31). Pontius Pilate was the equivalent of the evil king, who sent Christ to the cross. And apostate Christians who flocked to the movie are dying in the wilderness.

Third, the numbers on the ticket in Rome, Georgia were generated from the Sovereign Design of God. Everyone wanted to know, "What did God think of the move?" Well God gave His answer, and it was not very complimentary for those with the doctrine to understand it.
:dl:

[TragicMonkey]

Now, money is the coin of the realm in the devil's world.

Yeah, I so hate places that use money for money. It's demonic.

I assume Heaven operates on the barter system?

[triadboy]

Originally posted by TragicMonkey
Yeah, I so hate places that use money for money. It's demonic.

I assume Heaven operates on the barter system?

If I'm not mistaken, in Heaven - there is a brisk business in harp trading.

[TragicMonkey]

Originally posted by triadboy
If I'm not mistaken, in Heaven - there is a brisk business in harp trading.

I was thinking more along the lines of "Hey, baby, want a date with an angel?"

[Temporal Renegade]

The lottery's only evil, when you don't win it. Believe me, I know!:D

It still cracks me up when Fundies go overboard like this; what's next? Boycotting the colour red because devils are always depicted wearing red?

[jjramsey]

Originally posted by triadboy
If I'm not mistaken, in Heaven - there is a brisk business in harp trading.

But all their transactions come with strings attached. :D

[Brahe]

Originally posted by Santa666
Got another one for you. I am waiting in line at a gas station (no, I do not take the reindeer everywhere) and a lady buys a pick 3 lotto ticket and has the numbers randomly generated for her. Surprise surprise, what are her 3 numbers.....666.....she threw a fit.
It's even more hilarious when these guys go nuts over numbers which happen to contain three sixes in a row, like 1666, 2666, 16664899, 66.6, 0.666, and so on. Instead of there being just a number of the beast, it seems the beast has leased an infinitely large set of numbers! Interestingly, I've never run into one who goes crazy over hexadecimal 29A, octal 1232, or even binary 1010011010, so it's unclear whether it's the number 'six hundred sixty-six' or if it's just the digits '666' that are evil.

[bluess]

Flying from DC to Nashville, seated next to a large guy and a teenage boy. Obviously the boy's first time on a plane, and the man was just being WAAAY too cool to respond. So I answer his questions about where what and how. One question he asks his guardian - why can't I see heaven from here? And a question he asks me - why is it dark in the sky (really, I'm not making this up). Near as I can figure, he believes that it only becomes night on the ground, and up in the sky it is always light cause that's where heaven is. None of this is clarified by the adult jerk flying with him.

Mood rings are really fun is you have cold hands. According to my mood ring, I'm dead.