crazy much???
First of, Jess is sooooooooo mean. I’ll let her tell you the evil story and her evil side of it. :-)
Ok, sorry I haven’t blogged in a while but I’ve been super busy with school. Finals are here. woo :0( I took two already and have two more to go. Ok so I did not want to blog about school…even though I should be studying right now!
Tomorrow (December 14th) is my birthday. I’m no longer a teenager. I’m going to be 20-freakin-years old. Yes, a part of me is excited but I can’t help but feel that I have done nothing with my time. Oh well….time well wasted
Anyway, I have a VERY interesting story that I kinda don’t know how to deal with. The best way I know how to tell it is like I did with the Chicago incident.
Ok, a while ago, I went apple picking with these friends that I met through another friend. They are part of this group at my university which is basically uber religious. I didn’t care, because they are really nice people and they haven’t *directly* tried to convert me. Anywho, on this trip some other people went that I didn’t know. More specifically this guy who was about 50 or so. I came to learn that he lives not too far from me.
Well, around Thanksgiving I get a call from one of the friends that I know and I didn’t save her number because I forgot (i forget A LOT). She asked me if that guy (Scott) called and invited me to this dinner thingy that was going on. Well about 2 seconds later, I get a call from another number and it is Scott who is inviting me. Well I go, and later find out it is at a church. Who cares, it’s free food!
Well I should have saved that friend’s number. And I’ll tell you why. Last weekend I get a text message and this is how the short convo goes:
313-###-##53- hey Ali, lets have lunch
me (thinking it’s my friend)-sure, but it has to be later this week b/c i have finals
313-###-##53-oh of course. talk to you soon!
simple…right? oy
well on Wednesday I get another text:
313-###-##53-hey Al, how about lunch tomorrow?
Me: sure, I have work in the morning but get off early
313-###-##53-sweet. Let’s meet up on seven
me: 7? where is that
313-###-##53-seventh floor of the student center. There is a really cool cafe there
me: sounds like a plan! see you then!
On wednesday night, I was on facebook and saw that friend on so I said “I can’t wait for lunch!” This is how that convo went:
her-lunch? ok i had my finals already so when and where?
me-ummmm didn’t we already determine this?
her-parle vous anglais…?
me-wait, what is your sister’s number?
her-the same thing as mine but……..
me-umm what is scott’s?
her-oh its 313-###-##53
me (in my head)-HOLY SHOES!
The next day I was at work and i was telling the people that I work with the situation and one girl said “Scott C…? I know him. he got into a fight with my dad because he tried to convert us and all of our neighbors. be careful. he tries to be sweet and nice then he tells you that you are going to hell. Oh and he gets mad when people mention Christmas or Easter because he believes that the other Christians are wrong.”
I’m freaking out at this point. I have no idea what to do. Then I calm down and say “I know this is strange but he asked me out to lunch and I can’t jump to conclusions.”
I go to the student center and take the elevator up to the 7th floor and turn the corner. Then I see a sign that reads “CAFE ON 7″. I look in and there is Scott.
I walk in and immediately look around there are like 7 or 8 people in their 70’s sitting with a group of Chinese students who can’t speak a word of english. I listen in on what they are saying and they are reading passages from the bible and telling them all about Catholicism. The students of course, have no idea what they are saying.
Scott comes up to me and after the formalities, and food, he starts to talk about finding his purpose in life…blah blah blah…I zone out and look around the room. All I see are signs everywhere saying “come to Jesus”, “drink coffee with Jesus”, “Jesus is our Lord”, “I [heart] Jesus”….what did I get myself into?
Well after trying to avoid any religious talk, I say “Oh I have to get going”. Scott jumps up and says “Here. I wanted to give this to you.” he hands me a pamphlet and says “read it later”. I say “ok” and I start to walk out. As I am walking out, extremely happy that I am out of there Scott comes up behind me and says “hey what do you have planned for the break?”
I say I don’t know yet and he suggests that we “start seeing each other more, and hang out”. Mind you, this guy is 50. I have a lot of older friends but I know them through work or something. This guy got my number from someone he knows. Weirdo? pretty much.
Anyway I get home and read the pamphlet. It talks about “knowing” and the “truth” so I assume he gave it to me because of all of my philosophical questions. I go down to the bottom and see “embracethetruth.org”. I go on the site and WTFFF????? I’ll let the website speak for itself.
I don’t know if I am offending anyone but I was EXTREMELY offended because he is using a “game plan” to convert me. Speaking about your beliefs causes me to listen, forcing them through deceit causes me to rebel.
The website is nuts, in my opinion.
I’m going to have a long talk with Scott.
ew….. I absolutely have no time or patience for people like that. And as far as I’m concerned, they’re fake Christians. It’s a made up religion, just like Scientology, and several other religions that I won’t mention b/c I don’t want to offend anybody. And even though I am Catholic, I have a lot of issues with what the Church teaches, that’s why lately I just believe what I want to believe, and try not to associate myself with any religion. I just despise how pushy people can be. I’m all for being INFORMED of other religions, but to try and convert people is just wrong. If they’re interested after the info session, they’ll come back. No need to reel them in. I try to be accepting of all religions and beliefs as long as they’re accepting of mine. Uggh… sorry you had to go through that. Just remember… Catholics usually don’t go around preaching and converting, so if they were calling themselves Catholic, they were lying. We support the practice of informing, but we don’t go around holding lunches and dinners and handing out pamphlets and Bibles and knocking on doors. Basically, if someone asks about us, we’ll tell them, but that’s usually as far as it goes. Granted, we do have missionaries that go into third-world countries to “spread the good news”, but even that I don’t agree with. I think we should help the poor people get out of their situations by giving them clean water and food, not Bibles and rosaries.
Geez! Blog much? It looks like you wrote a story!
JK!
lovely site .. Cute layout
Okay sorry LOL but
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALI AYOUB~*~*
HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAYYYYYYY WOOHOO.
Mkay and um, yeah freako. Im Muslim and it’s like my school is Islamic and all that but they’re like trying to convert all the Christians. its so “ROFLMAO”-funny. they like force them into our islamic class and stuff. it’s hilarious.
mkay again happy birfdai! c: you’re about the same age as my cousin. O:
i just turned 19
cant wait till i turn 20
Oh gosh, I HATE the stuff that christians like that do.
I’m a christian myself, but I don’t go around trying to switch people’s beliefs, unless they actually tell me to tell them about Jesus.
In fact I try not to boast around that I am christian. Mostly because I’d rather not be judged by it.
I know my views are probably a LOT different then other’s, but yeah.
Claire……
YOU DO NOT WANT TO TURN 20! hold on to your youth as long as you can lmao.
embrace it!
hahahaha, i feel so bad for you. but then again i would end up doing the same thing. i remember in the summer some christian church women came and rang our doorbell at 8 in the morning! I was like ‘WTF!It’s 8am and in the summer!!” but anyways they gave me phamlets and stuff and then they turn around and with them is this guy who is like 40 years old reading a bible. i’m like “okay whatever” and then they ask me “what religion am i?” i’m like i”m muslim” and grin. she like “okay i think you should read those phamlets and write down your thoughts about it.” im like “okay, why though? it’s not like you guys are going to come back or anything.” she’s like “oh of course we are, after we finish the neighborhood we’ll come back to get people’s thoughts.” im like wtf??!?!?!? i aint gonna convert woman! and then she leaves and comes again after two days. i check out the window and see her and don’t open the door. =]
haha, I’m so glad you like the book! And the card
Ooh, now I’m excited for my gift!!! To be perfectly honest, I’m surprised the book got there so fast, I was expecting it to get there later b/c of all of the holiday shipping. Well, happy birthday 
Amazing Website!
Cute story, will you do me a huge favour Ali? Basically, we are haing a big contest at school and we have to get the most hits on our videos before THIS Friday! Please help, there is a link when you click my name, or search on Youtube “ICTfaculty” and click on the one saying “a RANDOM day WORST MOVIE EVER” It will make you laugh!
Thankyou so much!
that was interesting?? Umm what song is that? It’s interesting
I thinks it’s a song from Finland, we got it from: http://www.leekspin.info
That is sooo weird. I mean, I was born Christian and all but I never tried to convert anyone, I really don’t want to. I like the diversity. What he did was just creepy.
Anyway hope he leaves you alone. You seem like a really cool guy.
Keep us updated.
Toodles.
And happy birthday!! OMG. You’re 20? That is so cool.
“Aletheia International exists to offer Jews, Muslims, cult members and skeptics the value of embracing the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ”
Excuse me?
That’s just scary.
MKAY ANWYAYS AGAIN HAPPY BIRFDAII
woah…met a guy like that on the bus. He said “walk with Jesus, and thou shalt reach salvation” >.<
Anyways…HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOMIE!!!!
Like I would’ve totally given you a shout earlier except my facebook account got deleted. Cut a long story short, I blame Federer’s amazing(ness)
Lol. Man, I am nutters. Good luck with that dude!