Has anyone tried the "total ignorance" approach?

[Thinking Aloud]

Something I've always wondered about trying, if approached by street or door-to-door woo distributors, is a "total ignorance" approach to what they're trying to sell. Feigning a complete lack of understanding about their "god" or "Jesus" and asking them to explain what it is they're trying to sell me from first principles, pointing out any common-knowledge contradictions as they go, and being generally incredulous...

Has anyone ever done this, and how did they react? I've always imagined that having to explain the whole concept from first principles might just make them think a little... (I'm probably wrong on that score!)

[Feck]

Sounds like fun TA, you try it I don't think it would work at my place ......

[Pappa]

TA, I think it would be an excellent idea, if done cleverly and with questions aimed at picking holes in their ideas by getting them to explain it all themselves, but I think it would take a very good actor to keep a straight face. I could never manage it without pissing myself.

[Thinking Aloud]

I'd love to follow through one of their "Jesus can save you" statements with "from what?" and see where it leads...

[Pappa]

I'd love to follow through one of their "Jesus can save you" statements with "from what?" and see where it leads...

From hell.

[Thinking Aloud]

I'd love to follow through one of their "Jesus can save you" statements with "from what?" and see where it leads...

From hell.

And then ask what hell is ... and where ... and how one survives being dead to go there ... and what part of one's body continues to function ... and if one has no body ... and hang on, who did you say created this "hell" ... and isn't that the same guy that ... hang on ... this isn't making any sense ... can you explain again about this Yewoh fella?

[klr]

Time to post this old favourite:

[Pappa]

I'd love to follow through one of their "Jesus can save you" statements with "from what?" and see where it leads...

From hell.

And then ask what hell is ... and where ... and how one survives being dead to go there ... and what part of one's body continues to function ... and if one has no body ... and hang on, who did you say created this "hell" ... and isn't that the same guy that ... hang on ... this isn't making any sense ... can you explain again about this Yewoh fella?

How long before they twigged, do you think?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pretend to get their god all mixed up with the others. "So, your god was killed by his son and then his mother resurrected him and fucked him and gave birth to his son who then killed him?" "You god is the one that ate all his children and they lived inside his body until they burst forth from his forehead?" "Jesus, he's the one with eight arms, right?"

[Feck]

Pretend to get their god all mixed up with the others. "So, your god was killed by his son and then his mother resurrected him and fucked him and gave birth to his son who then killed him?" "You god is the one that ate all his children and they lived inside his body until they burst forth from his forehead?" "Jesus, he's the one with eight arms, right?"

No 'Zilla Jesus was the one with a crocodile face I think he was a furry cos I heard he was shagging the sexy one in the cat costume

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pretend to get their god all mixed up with the others. "So, your god was killed by his son and then his mother resurrected him and fucked him and gave birth to his son who then killed him?" "You god is the one that ate all his children and they lived inside his body until they burst forth from his forehead?" "Jesus, he's the one with eight arms, right?"

No 'Zilla Jesus was the one with a crocodile face I think he was a furry cos I heard he was shagging the sexy one in the cat costume

Then he fought the Ice Giants and wound up in Vahalla doing a heavy metal gig with some Viking trannies and a wolf the size of an Abrams tank?

[Clinton Huxley]

I want to sign up for Zilla and Feck's religion, it sounds great! Do you have any commandments?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I want to sign up for Zilla and Feck's religion, it sounds great! Do you have any commandments?

"Get high."

[Clinton Huxley]

I want to sign up for Zilla and Feck's religion, it sounds great! Do you have any commandments?

"Get high."

I took that as read.....

Neither of the fruit of the boar nor of the soil shalt thou partake, cleaving to the juice of the cow only.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I want to sign up for Zilla and Feck's religion, it sounds great! Do you have any commandments?

"Get high."

I took that as read.....

Neither of the fruit of the boar nor of the soil shalt thou partake, cleaving to the juice of the cow only.

We do have a commandment against farming.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Thou shall not till.