[Rhodes22-list] Religion

[Herb Parsons]

No Steve, you misunderstood the question that was coming.

Were you around when the Krishna's were offering their "goods". They 
would give you something, then ask for a donation. If you didn't give 
them one, they would take it back.

The first time that happened to me at DFW Airport was the last time it 
ever happened to me. When they would put something in my hand, I would 
ask if it was mine to keep. When they said yes, I walked away. When they 
asked for (demanded) a donation, I refused, and put the book, or flower, 
or trinket, in the trash.

I've never handed out a Bible, or a pamphlet, or anything else, 
asserting that it was free, then asking for a donation.

You provide the morals to the stories you tell. I'll provide the morals 
to mine, thank you very much.


Steven Alm wrote:
> Herb,
>
> You said, "The moral of the story is,
> don't offer something to someone pretending it's "free", if you're
> expecting something in return."
>
> I really don't think that's the moral at all.  It has little to do with
> exchanging goods for money and more to do with ideology.  You knew this
> question was coming:  If you handed me a bible and I looked you right in the
> eye and threw it into the trash, how would you feel?
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>wrote:
>
>   
>> Which isn't a bad thing, if you don't like flies.
>>
>> Actually, the comparison doesn't really hold. The moral of the story is,
>> don't offer something to someone pretending it's "free", if you're
>> expecting something in return. I've given my share of handouts for
>> causes I believe in, fully realizing that many of them were going in the
>> trash. I figured it was part of the price to pay. In other words, you
>> win some, you lose some.
>>
>> I looked at the Hare Krishna's much the way I looked at junk mail
>> senders before, and spammers today. I don't want what they're doing
>> regulated, but I love finding a way to defeat them within the rules.
>>
>> Did you hear about the "spam king" (Alan Ralsky) who was faced
>> retaliation by irate recipients? They submitted (as part of a campaign)
>> his name to thousands of catalog companies, and basically buried his
>> "real mail" under piles of junk mail. Poetic justice, to say the least.
>>
>> http://www.spam-site.com/spammer-alan-ralsky.shtml
>>
>> Robert Skinner wrote:
>>     
>>> Sounds a little like tearing the wings off flies...
>>>
>>> /Robert
>>>
>>> Herb Parsons wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Some folks may not believe this, but I was offended, and protested
>>>> loudly, when Hare Krishna's were banned from DFW Airport. I suspected
>>>> that you banned one fundraiser, you banned them all.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, I also had my own little "counter fundraiser" going on.
>>>> They'd hand me their book. I'd ask if it was mine to keep (they couldn't
>>>> sell it or demand a donation, that would require a tax certificate that
>>>> they didn't want to get), so of course they would say yes. I'd walk away
>>>> without giving anything, and throw the book away within sight of them.
>>>>
>>>> I know, I know, it's not much, but it made me feel better.
>>>>
>>>>         
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