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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Well, if a stranger at the DMV tried to tell me I should do something, no matter how well-intentioned, I probably wouldn't react well either. Though instead of arguing I would probably just nod & uh-huh until I could leave....
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The last strangers I got into an argument over a book with was an elderly couple when I was on a Greyhound bus trip near the end of the 1970s. They felt I was wasting my time when I started another science fiction book and that my time would be better spent reading the word of God. The argument really started when I asked which version of the Bible was the word of God given the number of textual differences between the various translations. It didn't help when I quoted from the Book of Mormon, (2 Nepthi, 29 which I had to look up
): "A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible." though I must admit to having gotten that quote from a story I had recently read and not from the original source.