Do you have any extremely religious people at your place of employment?

Zysoclaplem

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We have a pair, brother and sister. We call them the High Priestess and Priest of their respected fields. I think it's funny. Helps pass time to make jokes about it with other co-workers.
They have these cult-like religious get togethers on their property, and have invited my boss and I a few times. They are very strange.
 

Ryan

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I have one who's some Pentecostal variant. He's really into it, but also has said that his wife has the gift of prophecy, and they both experience glossolalia (speaking in tongues). ******' nutcase.
 

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What is your definition of "religious". I , depending on what time I go to work, pray there - but I try to do it in one of the rooms that is generally empty (yes I got my boss's approval first ;) ) and aside from that I don't do anything out of the ordinary...except maybe being productive :D

One of the German ladies loves to say Jesus a lot...especially when she is mad ;)
 

djheater

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A couple of evangelicals.
For lack of a better description I them them I'm a unitarian universalist, and I honestly think it makes them more uncomfortable than if I were a straight out atheist.
 

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There was a group of ramprats here that were insanely religious... they're all Samoan and I don't know WHAT religion they follow, but they ended up wanting to take almost every day off every week for "religious reasons". We fired them for attendance issues. Otherwise, religion never rears its ugly head here anymore.


 

Zysoclaplem

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Originally posted by: djheater
A couple of evangelicals.
For lack of a better description I them them I'm a unitarian universalist, and I honestly think it makes them more uncomfortable than if I were a straight out atheist.

Your large words confuse them.
 

Ryan

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Originally posted by: djheater
A couple of evangelicals.
For lack of a better description I them them I'm a unitarian universalist, and I honestly think it makes them more uncomfortable than if I were a straight out atheist.

lol
 

Jfrag Teh Foul

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Y'know... before the religion bash-fest gets going too quickly, I would like to input one ideal.

You don't believe, fine. That's your decision to make. Please, just respect other people's right to make decisions of their own... and then respect that decision.

Neither side gains from willfull, more often spiteful, indignation that is all too common.

Sure, you think they are morons for what they believe, but what is accomplished by complete disrespect?
 

djheater

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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
There's this one girl in Accounting who keeps spinning her head around and spraying pea soup everywhere ... :p

- M4H

I believe that's the flu, and at least there's a vaccine for that disease.
 

Grabo

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It's funny, but the only mormons I ever met were sisters 'Whitaker' and 'Sermon' in a back-alley town in northern Sweden. (They were from the U.S) They told of 6-month exchange trips or so their organisation did, to be able to spread the word in a different part of the world, or some such. They were..missionaries, I believe it's called. My friend who I was travelling with felt like discussing with them, (I didn't, there's a certain kind of stare that I like to avoid) but props for their even moods anyway.

As for my workplace, none that I know of, but this being Ireland the quick cross-motion-over-heart can be seen every day on the bus.