There are two things I do that I wonder if I'm the only one in the world who does these.
1. In a store, getting my stuff rang up and it comes out to $6.66, I always ask if they can change the price...most do it, either a penny up or down.
2. If I have a Bible set on a desk, I never put my wallet on top of it...well anything else either, because I feel that doing that might be a message that I value those items more than the Word.
Anyone else have any odd quirks??
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That's called superstition, and your God takes a dim view of it. (Either that, or religiously-triggered OCD.)
The thing that bothers me about fundamentalist Christianity is this: it's dualist. It's very dualist, but the damn fundies will never admit it, will go out of their way to condemn dualism. But it's quite evident that the fundy YHWH is only slightly more powerful than Satan, which is complete nonsense based on what's in the Bible.
Thing being, none of this would be necessary if God had truly vanquished evil. But fundies will say it but not seem to believe it.
Lol, when I was a cashier (I live in the bible belt by the way) I would ring up a $6.66 about once every two weeks and 75% of the time the customer would buy a pack of gum or candy to change the total.
It's like their afraid that their going to be struck by lightning as soon as they leave the store.
Why just a penny, I'd be happy to add a whole dollar, just for you. ;-)
Is it a leather-bound Bible with Gold Leaf edging of the pages, or just a paperback $3.99 copy?
Or do you value style over substance?
Closer to OCD with religious obsessions than fundie.
Although, I think to myself: I would love to trap Frank in a room as I slowly tore each page out of a babble. Then I wonder if that makes me a bad person...
I suspect that asking that question on that board is kind of like asking if water is wet.
Nope. It looks like even there, they look at him funny. Never mind my previous sentence then.
When my stuff gets rang up and it totals $6.66, I make fun of the Fundies who cower at a rather unspectacular number.
If I have a Bible set on a desk, the Universe would implode due to the paradox of me actually owning a Bible. If I did somehow acquire one, I would prolly give it away.
$6.66. Well if you asked me to change the price I'd say a round $10, please. I have to charge for the inconvenience you are causing. Besides, such a mindset is irreligious and superstitious! So you deserve to be charged for people having to humour you.
As to not putting something on top of your book, again this is nothing but superstition.
Yes but you're not going to like it.
During the recording of Iron Maiden's album "The Number of the Beast" their producer Martin Birch was in a fender bender. The repair bill to his car came to exactly 666 Pounds and he refused to pay that amount and insisted they add a Pound to the total.
There, feel better?
"2. If I have a Bible set on a desk, I never put my wallet on top of it...well anything else either, because I feel that doing that might be a message that I value those items more than the Word.
Anyone else have any odd quirks??"
Yeah, muslim terrorists do this with the koran. Interesting company you keep.
@ Brian X
some people see Satan as more along the lines of a crown prosecutor, who works for god. (based on the book of job.) others see him as a much less powerful enemy who god allows to exist in order to test us, thus serving the same function, but unintentionally. it's really only the morons who think of Satan as being just as powerful and ready at any moment to tear the world to pieces unless they personally prevent him.
Yeah, when someone utters a certain sequence of words in my presence, I jump up and stab them. It's OK though, I take my meds every day.
I worked as a cashier at Target a few years back! It happened once, that a lady got $6.66 back and she seriously said, she'd add a pack of gum to her shopping, so she didn't get the devil number back!
I thought she was nuts.
Now I see, there are more idiots like this aound!
Didn't somebody came up with 616 as the number of the beast?
I wear a tin foil hat, just in case God is real, and then I can't hear him talking to me, because I know there are fundies praying for me, and he hears them, so he might just start talking to me.... Oh God, no....it's the Bat-shit effect!
"Anyone else have any odd quirks??"
Well, for starters, all fundy fucktards who believe in anything as ridiculous as the rapture.
Jon - "When I'm alone at my house, I sometimes sit around in my underwear. I'm sure I'm not the only one, though."
Why? Who else is sitting around in your underwear?
This really isn't that weird, or fundy. Most people have some kind of reaction to their total being 6.66$, and at least comment on it, though demanding not to pay it is a little extreme. And the Bible is like the flag, you're not supposed to put anything on top of it, or put it on the floor, or burn it, blahblah. All that is is taking the rules about a book you're supposed to revere seriously.
Gee, whodathunk someone at RR would be superstitious?
Tell the truth, you're afraid someone will steal your wallet off your desk, but who's gonna steal your Bible?PS I once had a credit card company ask me if I wished to change a gas card number that contained 666 in the number sequence. I had held the card for ten years, used it on a weekly basis, and never noticed! Still have it!
Quirks? Sure, I have my share. I tend to step over cracks/lines instead of on them (preferably with the right foot first, or alternating 50-50 if they're close enough together). I also have a predilection for symmetry, so if I have an itch and scratch it, I almost always briefly scratch that same point on the other side of my body, too. But this is just mild OCD behavior, not religious in any way. Ironically, in my opinion, that means that my quirks make more sense than yours.
~David D.G.
Anyone else have any odd quirks?
Why yes, I believe that Chewbacca knows the Colonel's secret recipe and I always put a blindfold on my statue of the pope before I use Windex. I've gotten $6.66 in change before, and I immediately draw a pentagram on the floor, and lie in a fetal position, emitting low moans. But that's not odd, if it comes from God.
Ah, the Number Of The Beast discount. I remember one time when i was little shopping with my dad, the price came to $6.66 and he commented on it. (He just like to say things like that.) And they actually changed the price. We thought it was pretty funny.
A couple of years ago, on October 31st, I had my lunch ring up to exactly $6.66. I had a great laugh over it and I've kept the receipt ever since.
As to the Bible, if I had one in the house, I'd keep it with the rest of my fantasy fiction, under "A" for Anonymous.
"I worked as a cashier at Target a few years back! It happened once, that a lady got $6.66 back and she seriously said, she'd add a pack of gum to her shopping, so she didn't get the devil number back!
I thought she was nuts.
Now I see, there are more idiots like this aound!"
At least she had the decency to buy something. This guy wants the price changed! Does he have any idea how hard that is at some places? My job, I'd need to call the manager, have her talk to the dude, put her key in, type in two passwords and enter the amount.
Fuck you Frank Be Me.
Funny.
1) If I'm in a store, and my stuff rings up $6.65, I ask them if they can raise the price a penny.
2) If I have a bible anywhere near me, I don't put my kindling on top of it. Under works much better.
Funny, I have a bible sitting on my desk right now (I was bored, it's lulzy), it has a pair of headphones, a 2gb SD card, a pen, some note paper, and a layer of dust on it. Also it's lying face down. I suppose all those things are more important to me. Strange, I haven't gotten struck by lightning yet.
>> Anyone else have any odd quirks?? <<
Well, hell yes, Frank; everybody on your side of the crazy line.
Anyone else have any odd quirks??
Well, I've seen people who
- refuse to check in hotel rooms with the number 13.
- think that a marriage gets unlucky when the husband sees his bride in her bridal dress before the day of the wedding.
- think it brings bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same match.
- think that breaking a mirror brings 7 years of bad luck.
And a lot more. There is a common term for these "quirks": Superstitions.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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