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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 122 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'd be more suspicious of a person coming to my door purely just to educate me on cool science things. I wouldn't be able to shake the feeling that he's trying to sell me something.

At least with religion I know their game and I know I'm not interested but science that's interesting.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They spend an hour talking about the possibility of life on Venus then they whip out the vacuum cleaner

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Better than a set of steak knives. Because that conversation goes very differently.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

listen, you know you want that encyclopedia. imgaine how good it would look. women will swoon at your big books. you know what big books mean.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A man who has big books... has a big... bookshelf.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

and big brains, thats right.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They sing a song about the vastness of space and then they start harvesting your organs.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Did somebody say...organs...

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how vampires get in the door. Don’t fall for it.

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[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be more suspicious of them telling me life exists on Venus, specifically. Last I heard it was a hot-ass gaseous atmosphere made of acid. My money is still on Europa.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Boy, have I got news for you!


/j

[–] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'd be hella suspicious untill he left while not selling me anything

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you found the scientific method.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think so, but let's test it just to be sure.

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certainty I can’t help you with, but statistical confidence let’s go.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Good observation - I'll include that in my notes and come back later with a finer-tuned hypothesis!

[–] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No thanks I follow the jeebus.

[–] livus@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I ever win a lottery I'm legit going to pay someone to do this.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Man you don't need to win the lottery. I'll do it for a moderate fee.

[–] livus@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great! But I need to win the lottery in order to be able to pay your moderate fee.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Thats why this would never happen. The religious people do it for free or they even pay their organisation.

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends, how moderate we talking?

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Also an option

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

"Is life on Venus coming to kill us?"

"Oh, no, these are microorganis-"

Shuts door

[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldnt happen. Scientists are too in love with the possibility they are wrong. Little room for evangelism

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only because they often are... which is what makes science so great. If everything was thought to be correct, what good would testing and new discovery be? The fact that scientists have historically been wrong drives scientists to prove other scientists wrong.

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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They call it “true love,” if I’m not mistaken.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Right, please tell me. Is this just a meme thing or do people actually knock on other people's doors to try to convert them to their religion?

And does this only happen, bizarrely, in the country with the highest number of gun-owning cowards?

It just seems such an odd combination

[–] gigachad@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jehovas witnesses knocking on doors is an absolutely known thing in Germany.

[–] Deepus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And in Sweden.

Fun fact, their meeting places, "Kingdom hall"s are translated "Rikets Sal". On more than one occasion the letters in their signs have been rearranged over night to "skitarsle", roughly "poopybutt" :D

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

And Japan. Also Mormons.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Though they usually just send letters these days, I was taken aback when an in-the-flesh god-botherer knocked on the other day

[–] speeding_slug@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

Ever heard of Jehovah's witnesses? Or Mormons going on their mission? They aren't constant here, but they are definitely a thing in the Netherlands.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does. It got to the point I explained the concept of trial by combat to them, and said if they really believed, they would fight me-me armed them not.

Never worked.

So I got a grab bag of cheap sex toys to keep by the door the moment I got my first place (was homeless when I turned 18) and 'would you like to talk about Jesus' became 'trick or treat'.

That worked.

[–] AceTKen@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Nope. I'm in Canada and it happens here too.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’ve found the fastest ways to get religious folk that knock on my door to scurry in a hurry is:

  1. offer to listen as long as they like but only after they roast a bowl with you
  2. tell them to pay their fucking taxes

Now if science folk came knockin that would be great over a roasted bowl as well

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/aug/24/spaceexploration

"I [Carl Sagan] can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidities of racism in terms of gaussian distribution curves," wrote the former Cornell University professor. "I wrote the curves in soap on the shower wall, and went to write the idea down."

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Yes. Yes I would, come in, come in!

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, uhh, come in, how'd you know I was a space nerd? Would you also like to scope out my house to rob it later? That's fine too, as long as you tell me about this cool space fact.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 11 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, we now have door to door scientologists instead

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

This idea made my pp hard

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'd have so many questions. In a good way. They wouldn't have time to visit anyone else that day.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago

Phosphine

"No thanks. I don't believe in Greek goddesses."

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i wonder what has happened that enabled or hindered science to not become evangelical

[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What do you think it would it look like if it did?

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would do that... but a bit of linux evangelism would slip in as well 😹

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

"please, just leave me alone"

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