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I am not a religious person. I stopped dealing with religions when I was 16 years old. I found too many annoying or hypocritical things that dealt with the religions. Last night as I left work to go to my car a couple of people from the Mormons came and approached me. These people told me that the "path" I was on was going to take me straight to "hell", and I should come join the Mormons. These people also told me some other stuff such as "The Mormons are the way to go" and "We take care of one another", and some other stuff that I didn't pay that much attention to. I told these people right off the bat that I was not interested in whatever it is that they are selling, however they decided to continue on with their ramblings. When they started up with saying that they are part of a religion and would like to say a few things about it, I mentioned to them that I was not interested and would like to leave in my car. For some reason they decided since they were blocking my car from me, that they can do their ramblings and I would be forced to listen, so that is exactly what this person did.
I can honestly say that when a person like that is around, it is really hard not to say the phrase "get the f--- away from me", and where I had a couple of them it was really hard not saying that phrase. I understand the fact that most people believe that having more and more people with their religion makes their religion more powerful in their eyes compared to others, however there should be a limit to how far the person is allowed to go for the religion. The thing that happened to me last night shouldn't have happened, when a person says "NO" the people should just leave after that and not make a nuisance of themselves as the person is trying to leave them. I have nothing against the religion or any of the religions that are out there; I just have a problem with these specific people that couldn't take "NO" as an answer right off the bat. It is disturbing to me that there are people like that out in the world, and seem not to care that they are making enemies from people that say "NO" and the people still continue with their ramblings.
I think that when a religion decides to send people out to recruit other people to join the religion that the people being sent out aren't like the ones I dealt with yesterday. I can honestly say that it took a lot for me not to reply in a nasty way towards them, however in a place like Halifax there is a good chance that these people could have been replied with violence. The reason I can say this is the simple fact that I have talk with a couple of friends about it, and they have all said that they would have gotten violent with the people if they would have hassled them the same way. My friends have said that after the 2nd time of saying "NO" to those people if they hadn't left my friends alone, that my friends would have taken a couple of swings at them, and if that didn't work that they would have gotten more violent until they were set free from them. I believe that the people that approached may have thought that as long as they were able to say their speech about their religion that their job has been completed, however in fact what they did is cause someone like myself to dislike religion a little bit more. So in fact they did worse to all religions towards me by not leaving me alone in the first place about their own religion.
I also believe that the dream I had last night was due to the experience I had yesterday too. I had dreamt that a cult had kidnapped my sister and had her believing in everything that they had purposed as a religion, but it also dealt with committing suicide when you were a certain age. Some how I had found out about it and went in after her. The leader of the cult was doing mind-games with me once I entered the building that they were holding the cult into. Some of the mind-games involved me being thrown from one room to another room, or phasing from one floor to another floor. I also saw in my dream that the leader was using the fears of the person against them, just by saying that the belief of them was to go against whatever the person's fears were. Such as if the person were fearful of being beaten to death, the leader would say that there would be no beatings whatsoever.
At the near end of the dream the leader person tried his trick of using a person's fears against them to cause them to go with his cult, however it didn't work the way it had on other people. My sister's fears are snakes & bears & wild life, so the leader person said that there will none of them in the building. When the leader person went to look into my mind to see my fears he saw that snakes & the thoughts of how I was going to die; were my fears, however he didn't look close enough to the fears to do his trick right, the leader believed that the two things were like everyone else's fears. The leader person said that I would never see any snakes whatsoever if I joined the cult, and that I would never see my horrible death again; but only if I joined the cult. I said NO to the proposal. I explained that I fear snakes because I like toads (snakes eat toads), if I never saw a snake again I couldn't free another toad from its grasp. I also explained that the thoughts of my death is connected to my sister, I believe that my death will be of protecting my sister from a bear attack (I have no fear of bears, however my sister has a really bad fear of them). So both things are fears, however are of honorable type in a way. After I said "NO", it sounded like the alarm for the building was going off. Then I woke up with my alarm going off.
I can honestly say that with the experience that I had after work yesterday can be the only thing that could have triggered this dream. All I did yesterday otherwise was sort email then go to bed.
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