August 04, 2003

I made a moonie cry

It seems someone who linked from this site [Jargonese] likes my site a lot. According to Site Meter, they have now spent 137 minute 14 seconds and viewed 19 pages on this blog. I might have another fan! I am blogrolled on that other site, so I repaid the favor and found this interesting post on Scientology. I hope Chris does a less emulation of the grand style of InstaPundit, however. I will have to visit again. However, all of this brought to mind a strange incident that occurred when I was in college:

Now, I did a four year stint in the Army before I started college, so I never went that dormitory route. I had my own apartment. I was sitting there, most likely watching TV instead of studying, when I heard a knock on the door. Of course, expecting some beautiful lady who wanted to make passionate love to me,* I was somewhat surprised to see this round faced young man standing there. "Hi, I am a disciple of the Rev. Moon. May I have a moment of your time?" Cool, I think, knowing probably that there are not going to be any lonely horny women come around today anyway. It is a lovely day and they are all probably down by the pool.

I opened the door wide and said, "Won't you come on in? Would you like something to drink, I have some orange juice."

I think he was somewhat surprised at my actions, and stated that he would like a glass of orange juice. Now remember, this is summer, and in Texas, and in Texas in the summer, it gets hot. It is quite possible that was the summer of 1980, when we had like what 100 straight days of 100+ weather? It had only been decent to offer him something to drink. I returned to find him sitting and handed him the juice.

As he took it, I said, "Now I don't know what you are wanting here, but I am not really all that interested in joining up with the Communists or giving any money to the Communists."

"But, but, he stammered, we are not Communists."

"Oh really, I think you are Communists. Tell me this, if you collect money, does it not all, every bit, go to the church?"

"Yes."

"And does not the church provide you with everything you need?"

"Yes."

"Then that's it, you are all Communists."

He actually began to cry. I had pity on him and let him finish his orange juice before I led him back to the door, crestfallen. I felt a little bad for being so rough on him. I really surprises me how people can just fall into line behind any old claptrap in the name of religion.

*All young twenty-something young men have such fantasies, don't they?

Posted by Tiger at August 4, 2003 09:59 PM
Comments

oo that must be me..i always use multiple windows and just leave em open so....

but hey i've enjoyed the site (i think i said that in some other comment here somewhere)

btw how can you get such detailed info about your page??

t.

Posted by: kerplunked at August 4, 2003 10:22 PM

Could you repeat that last question? I didn't seem to hear it right.

Posted by: Tiger at August 4, 2003 10:50 PM

well you knew how long i'd been on your site and how many pages i'd accessed etc.

So i was wondering how you get all that info? My sitemeter just gives the basics like referalls et al

t.

Posted by: kerplunked at August 4, 2003 10:57 PM

Hmm, actually there is a link down the right column of mine that says Recent Visitors with a link under that for Details. I am not always sure how to read them, because I get a lot that say "0:00" time on the blog, but it shows they had visited. That does not compute.

Posted by: Tiger at August 4, 2003 11:10 PM

ahh you must be using a different meter than i am...

thanks though

t.

Posted by: kerplunked at August 4, 2003 11:29 PM

Tiger, if people come to your blog and then close the window, Sitemeter has no idea what happened and can't say how long they were there. It's only if they click on an archive, or reload the main page that Sitemeter sees another hit from the same person and knows they're still reading.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 5, 2003 09:51 AM

I actually assumed as much, Pixy. That was only logical. I assume if there is no time listed that all of those visitors read all the way to the bottom of the current entries. ;)

Posted by: Tiger at August 5, 2003 02:28 PM