Street Preachers

NamelessFaceless · **#21** by **NamelessFaceless** » Nov 17, 2016 3:50 pm

Tents! Your guys use tents? Pfft.

My street preachers are more hard-core than your street preachers. :smug:

They're out there in the Florida sun, with temps in summer reaching 38C. No shade. Long sleeve shirts. And it's freakin hot. And the ones that usually stand on the street corners don't sit either.

We used to have a guy that dressed as Jesus and held up a huge cross all day long. He stood at the entrance to a bridge in the sun and no shade. But he died. :tongue:

Not from street-preaching, or cross-bearing or anything. Just normal natural causes.

Here's a vid of a Pensacola street preacher:

NamelessFaceless · **#22** by **NamelessFaceless** » Nov 17, 2016 3:54 pm

And here's a vid of a guy preaching at a bunch of spring breakers at the beach. :roll:

solazy · **#23** by **solazy** » Nov 17, 2016 4:22 pm

Wow! You've found the very place I was talking about in the shopping centre of Birmingham. I have to walk close by to get between train stations. There is a big bookstore within yards, which puts me off going there too often. On one occasion a lone woman evangelist and the Muslims were trying to drown each other out. In the image it looks like the beards are being told to tone it down a touch.
At this time of the year it's going to get even worse because the German Christmas market has just opened and the area becomes a magnet for street preachers.

Alan B · **#24** by **Alan B** » Nov 17, 2016 6:45 pm

I travel around Birmingham centre reasonably often. One time (last year?) there was a bloke walking around tied to a cross with a couple of other geezers dressed as Roman soldiers. Wankers.

Ah! Waterstones bookshop! Difficult to walk past...

The Serpent · **#25** by **The Serpent** » Nov 17, 2016 8:10 pm

We had one set up in a local park a few weeks back. Had a loudhailer. Didn't have the necessary permit from the local council and simply ignored the ranger's instructions to desist.

The council greenkeeper turned on the inground sprinklers. Hillarity ensued.

The_Metatron · **#26** by **The_Metatron** » Nov 17, 2016 8:30 pm

The Serpent wrote:We had one set up in a local park a few weeks back. Had a loudhailer. Didn't have the necessary permit from the local council and simply ignored the ranger's instructions to desist.

The council greenkeeper turned on the inground sprinklers. Hillarity ensued.

Well played.

Blackadder · **#27** by **Blackadder** » Nov 18, 2016 1:21 am

solazy wrote: I am talking about the centre of Birmingham. This is the hotspot of religion in the UK. It is not unusual to find Christian evangelists and Muslims yelling out at passers by and only yards away from each other. It's like a fevered sales pitch.

The_Piper · **#28** by **The_Piper** » Nov 18, 2016 6:09 am

^^Hey it's Tim the Enchonta! :lol:

No street preachers or demonstrators of any kind up here. We have people ringing bells for the Salvation Army. That's as hardcore as it gets. :mrgreen:

I've encountered street preachers when living in Boston though, and there's always one or three...dozen in NYC when I visit. I usually just ignore or say as little as possible until they leave me alone.

Blackadder · **#29** by **Blackadder** » Nov 18, 2016 10:29 am

We have a couple of Bible waving nutjobs who shout at passers by in the shopping precinct. Everybody ignores them except for the occasional tramp who will stop to yell drunken insults back at them. At weekends there is also sometimes a couple of local Ahmadiyya muslims peacefully standing by a table of pamphlets. They don't bother anyone but wait for people to approach them. By the station you have the JW's politely offering Watchtower copies. All in all, reasonably civilised. I just side step them all. I don't have the time or patience to argue with that type.

I'm With Stupid · **#30** by **I'm With Stupid** » Nov 18, 2016 2:03 pm

Hmm, I've never seen any of these people. A lot of people trying to sell other shit though.

don't get me started · **#31** by **don't get me started** » Nov 20, 2016 11:30 pm

Japan doesn't really do public religion. Occasionally you'll see some kind of Christian group standing outside a station with a flag or poster or something, but the acolytes usually just stand there holding a copy of the book that they are pushing, waiting to be approached.
By contrast, I was in Korea a few weeks back and I went out in Itaewon in Seoul. It's a very bustling nightlife district with bars, clubs, restaurants of every variety and the red light district that used to cater to the soldiers form the nearby American base. (Now closed I believe.)

A Korean man, toting a bible, was walking among the crowds of Friday night hedonists bellowing, in English, about lakes of fire, burning torture for eternity, repent, all the rest of it. Real hell fire and brimstone stuff, at a deafening volume and in a pretty aggressive tone.

The blank faced entitlement to bellow vile threats to people in the street that this fellow projected was just symptomatic of the corrosive effects of true faith on both the reasoning and social skills of individuals thus ensnared.

Completely ignored by the throngs of revelers.

surreptitious57 · **#32** by **surreptitious57** » Nov 21, 2016 3:33 am

solazy wrote:
Wow! You ve found the very place I was talking about in the shopping centre of Birmingham. I have to walk close by
to get between train stations. There is a big bookstore within yards which puts me off going there too often. On one
occasion a lone woman evangelist and the Muslims were trying to drown each other out. In the image it looks like the
beards are being told to tone it down a touch

All that area is completely pedestrianised which makes it ideal for street preachers. But they generally
will not engage you unless you do first unlike the chuggers who have to because they want your money

The_Piper · **#33** by **The_Piper** » Nov 21, 2016 3:44 am

What's a chugger? I thought a chugger was someone who guzzled their beer.

surreptitious57 · **#34** by **surreptitious57** » Nov 21, 2016 7:11 am

It is an acronym for charity muggers. These are people working for charities that try to
entice the public to join them by making small direct debit monthly payments to them

The_Piper · **#35** by **The_Piper** » Nov 21, 2016 7:18 am

Ok, thanks.

Thomas Eshuis · **#36** by **Thomas Eshuis** » Nov 21, 2016 8:18 am

T'here's a regular Watchtower stand* near Uni, but that's about it for street preachers in my area.

*They hand out flyers, asking if you've heard about Jesus/End of Days, etc, but don't actively preach once you've made it clear you're not interested.

solazy · **#37** by **solazy** » Nov 25, 2016 11:42 am

surreptitious57 wrote:
solazy wrote:
Wow! You ve found the very place I was talking about in the shopping centre of Birmingham. I have to walk close by
to get between train stations. There is a big bookstore within yards which puts me off going there too often. On one
occasion a lone woman evangelist and the Muslims were trying to drown each other out. In the image it looks like the
beards are being told to tone it down a touch

All that area is completely pedestrianised which makes it ideal for street preachers. But they generally
will not engage you unless you do first unlike the chuggers who have to because they want your money

Yes, that place also used to be a chugging hotspot and I remember getting involved in a heated argument with one of them once. Remember that the preachers are also after your money, but not in the direct debit sense. Nobody should ever divulge their bank account or telephone details, but vulnerable people do so unfortunately. I guess any part of a major city is a nightmare. While Birmingham is a great city that corner of New Street and High Street is to be avoided.
While walking through a pedestrianized zone in another town I was told I would burn in hell if I did not believe in God. I reported that incident to the council but It probably fell on deaf ears. This begs the question as to what is burning in hell? Is it my body, after cremation? Shouldn't be. Is it my soul? But that isn't combustible.
So what are they talking about?

Alan B · **#38** by **Alan B** » Nov 25, 2016 12:23 pm

It's the 'Everlasting Life' crap they are on about. First they prey on the gullible's fear of dying, then once they've convinced them of the nonsense that you can live forever, then they hit them with Heaven & Hell rubbish (but we can make it all better if you give us money).

:priest:

or

£$

Clive Durdle · **#39** by **Clive Durdle** » Dec 02, 2016 6:38 pm

The local elim is out a lot where I live. Two bright young women approached me and offered to pray for my leg to be healed. Problem, no probs with my legs, I have issues elsewhere that cause limping as a symptom.

I was quite polite, they were cheerful and smiling, but it made me think, they are not thinking about what they are doing and why something may look as it does.

Are street preachers misunderstanding reality and trying to impose faulty myths?

Clive Durdle · **#40** by **Clive Durdle** » Dec 02, 2016 6:44 pm

The jw current marketing ploy is around deafness. Bit sad as the isolation deafness causes does lead to higher rates of psychiatric illness.

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