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Apr 07, 2017, 11:36 PM
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Dear Literary Lark, I'll try to write in bold in the post you sent. Thanks for sending it!
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Originally Posted by LiteraryLark
Reading the first post, I thought "So what? People knock on my door all the effing time, most of them are for religious purposes." But then A) it woke you up, and let me tell you I've been woken up from telemarketers on my PHONE and that makes me more aggravated then people who knock on the door I found this wonderful device online calle "The trick" -- I plug it into the phone wire, and I can switch the bell on or off! I costs less than $10. Also there is nomorobo -- it prevents robocalls. It's free for a landline, and is available for iphone, but not androids yet. and B) I read your last post and I can understand that the religious people are triggering. Actually, religious people are not triggering. Many best friends over the years have been very religious. I have at least four very good friends now, too, who are religious. One is an evangelical Christian, extremely active with good works and teaching in her church. But she does not proselytize me. She talks about the wonderful things her church does -- like going as a group at night, under bridges where homeless people sleep, and giving them shoes. Personally, I do have a relationship with God and don't mind other people who do. In high school I attended two clubs: the Christian club and the Gay Straight Alliance club. There was no conflict between the two clubs or with my personal views, but there are no opinions I'd like to share regarding the current stances of religion.
My advice is to just say "thank you" and toss whatever they handed you without a second glance and get on with your day.
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What I do get triggered by is deception. The woman was deceiving me. I did not know what the invitation was for and she didn't tell me, leaving me to believe it was a memorial service for a neighbor who had died. Plus, in a large building like the one where I live, but most of us here know the unwritten agreement that nobody knocks on someone's door whom they do not know. Everyone values their privacy. Plus, there are a few dangerous people who live here. We don't[ know who most of them are, but it's not entirely safe to live here. It's common courtesy to leave a note on someone's door if you want to contact them. A very, very few of my neighbors and I have agreements not to knock. We exchange phone numbers.
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